Life comes at you fast, links come at you faster. Once again, I've arrived at Saturday with a giant backlog of links I didn't fit in this week, so it's time for a #linkdump, the 14th in the series:
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It's #linkdump time! Saturday has arrived and I once again find myself with a zillion tabs' worth of things that I couldn't squeeze into this week's newsletters. This is lucky linkdump number 13 - here's the previous dozen installments:
It's #linkdump time! Saturday has arrived and I once again find myself with a zillion tabs' worth of things that I couldn't squeeze into this week's newsletters. This is lucky linkdump number 13 - here's the previous dozen installments:
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This is my dozenth #linkdump! The world comes at you fast, and even though I'm writing 4-5 essays a week for this newsletter, many's the week that ends with more stray links than will fit in that format. Here's the previous ones:
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Once again, I greet the weekend with more assorted links than I can fit into my nearly-daily newsletter, so it's time for another #linkdump. This is my eleventh such assortment; here are the previous volumes:
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Happy Saturday! As is so often the case, I have finished the week with more stray links that I can fit into my blog, so it's time for a #linkdump post, in which an assorted assortment is assembled. This is my tenth such linkdump - here are the previous installments:
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Cometh the weekend, cometh the #linkdump. My daily-ish newsletter includes a section called "Hey look at this," with three short links per day, but sometimes those links get backed up and I need to clean house. Here's the eight previous installments:
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I recorded a session as the guest on the Librarians with Lattes podcast, talking about open access. The episode dropped today as part of Open Access Week.
Back when I was writing on @boingbot, I'd slam out 10-15 blog posts every day, short hits that served as signpost and public notebook, but I rarely got into longer analysis of the sort I do daily now on Pluralistic. Both modes are very useful for organizing one's thoughts, and indeed, they complement each other:
The problem is that when you write long, synthetic essays, they crowd out the quick hits. Back in May 2022, I started including three short links with each edition of Pluralistic, in a section called "Hey look at this" (thanks to @mitchw for suggesting it!):
But even with that daily #linkdump, I still manage to accumulate #LinkDebt, as interesting things pile up, not rising to the level of a long blog-post, but not so disposable as to be easy to flush. When the pile gets big enough, I put out a Saturday Linkdump:
I usually write this blog 5-6 days/week, but every now and again, I take a break, and when I do, I get massive link backlogs of stuff I want to write about, but lack the time to address in depth. When that happens, I turn my Saturday edition into a #linkdump. Today, I present the sixth in the series - here's the other five:
I was supposed to be on vacation, and while I didn't do any blogging for a month, that didn't mean that I stopped looking at my distraction rectangle and making a list of things I wanted to write about. Consequentially, the link backlog is massive, so it's time to declare bankruptcy with another #linkdump:
In 1997, Jorn Barger coined the term "web-log" to describe his website "Robot Wisdom," where he logged his journeys around this exciting new digital space called "the web." Two years later, @peterme shortened "web-blog" to "#blog":
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But I miss the linkblogging! For the past 14 months, Pluralistic has featured a little section called "Hey look at this," where I post three short links, bare-bones pointers to interesting stuff online: