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@bkryer I’m glad someone knows what this cat is thinking!

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@drwalt

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> “a polished, erudite prose that had snap, sizzle, and complexity.”

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That’s a standard worth celebrating.

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@bobdoto it’s back-and-forth for me too. My writing process oscillates between notes and drafts.

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@drwalt Isn’t it yes and no, no and yes? A car is like a horse & carriage except it isn’t. An ebook is like a book, but not. Blogging is like 17th century pamphleteering but different. Just talking in a cafe like Sartre might still be the very first step to forming ideas? What do you think?

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@chrisfoley Exactly so. I wrote a detailed content calendar once - which I’ve never looked at since.

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@chadkoh I’ve been enjoying your cherry blossom photos – especially since here in Australia the Autumn has just arrived.

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Make YouTube videos and you’ll eventually be tempted to sit in a bath of ketchup or jump into a tiny pool with a goat – but either would bring relief from the cat photos the rest of us seem compelled to post.

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How do social media platforms trap users in networks they would rather leave? | UNSW

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@bobdoto most recently and surely most reflexively ever, Eric Zimmer’s book was written this way too: How a Little Becomes a Lot.

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@cliff538 watch the classic mint cake comedy sketch — Not the Nine O’Clock News series 3 episode 3 (starts 19:56). You won’t regret it. The Archive

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On Mastodon, Harold Jarche points to the renewed relevance of Harold Innes, the mid-20th century Canadian scholar who called out US media imperialism for what it was.

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💬 “We can only survive by taking persistent action at strategic points against American imperialism in all its attractive guises.”

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I’ve written about Innes’s lost notes but his warnings about the distorting power of the media are very appropriate now.

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I’m reading about the traditional Japanese porch, the engawa, seen here at the Shugakuin Imperial Villa.

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But right now I’m sitting on the typically Australian version, the verandah, an idea the colonialists took from India.

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In each case, inside and outside connect quite elegantly.

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Jorge Arango’s book, Duly Noted: Extend your mind through connected notes, has its own Flickr page, with a set of photos, images and screenshots — illustrations that inform the book’s text. I like this idea and am saving it here in case it’s useful in future — whether for me or for someone else.

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@chrisfoley I’m keen on Doctorow’s idea of finding ‘subjects of interest’ from the bottom up, by writing and publishing, rather than by determining them in advance. Has that been your experience?

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@drwalt good example. The illusion of integrated thought is a problem, which is why I don’t publish absolutely everything just to see what sticks. Thoreau is an inspiration. He gradually honed his writing, so the ‘best’ version was in his books. For me, book writing and blogging are separate.

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Thoughts on ‘The Memex Method’: writingslowly.com

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Writing is still about thinking: writingslowly.com

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@eclecticpassions your entire website is fantastic - thanks for letting me know about it. This is a prime example of why the indieweb is so great

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Game of Likes: writingslowly.com

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@eclecticpassions it is impressive and I can take exactly zero credit for a fabulous micro.blog plugin by Amit

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The Writing Slowly stats page has been given a natty makeover. As a result I’ve learned it will take 18 hours to read this whole site. Good luck!

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#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #DataViz #SlowLiving

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Beginner’s mind: Flea turns to the trumpet: writingslowly.com

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AI is changing how we think. Many people now swap deep reading for building with agents. Is the Zettelkasten just a nostalgic relic of a Twentieth Century academic process? This article explores why “efficient” tech might actually fail our cognition.

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💬 It’s intriguing that despite incredible, relentless waves of innovation stretching right back at least to Gutenberg, the age-old question of how best to write and publish for an audience is still not completely settled.

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Will the last Zettelkasten practitioner please turn off the lights?

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#Zettelkasten #AI #PKM #Philosophy

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Will the last Zettelkasten practitioner please turn off the lights? writingslowly.com

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@nielsk and the real mural featured in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, which is very meta and amused us no end

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@amit This upgrade is fantastic! Thanks.

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@tibz Totally agree. Can’t stop listening to it.

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Updating this site to Hugo 0.158 has caused the Search function to break. Normal service will shortly resume. 🤞

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An update to the update: rolling back to Hugo 0.91 until plugins are updated. Search is back in action.

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@manton Thanks - my site loads way faster now. But it seems to have broken the Search Space plug-in.

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A mind like a skittish and unbroken horse: writingslowly.com

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@fromjason ‘reducing’, not ‘eliminating’?

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@numericcitizen
\n> “It’s hard to imagine the web without JavaScript, only as a collection of static, linked documents served by essentially passive file servers.”

\n

Isn’t client-side scripting the issue, not server-side? I’ve enjoyed using the Gemini Protocol via its Lagrange client (works with other simple protocols too e.g. Gopher). Maybe it’s too simple, but it’s also quite elegant. Excluding client-side scripting kills the benefits — but also some of the problems. Still, it’s hard to evangelise for these protocols. It’s like saying “Try this, it’s worse.” You either like it or you don’t.

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This video of Kurama-dera, a Buddhist temple outside Kyoto, is quite lovely. And the snowy scenery makes the place look completely different from when I visited it in late Summer.

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Kottke.org

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Summer:

\n\"The\n

Winter:

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📷 From time to time the world offers you an extraordinary, fleeting gift.

\n

#photography #clouds

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@tinyroofnail Thanks - great Ruskin quotes!

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💬 “You don’t begin with the correct tool and work sensibly within its constraints until you organically graduate to a more capable one. That is not how obsession works. Obsession works by taking whatever is available and pressing on it until it either breaks or reveals something.” - Sam Henri-Gold

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Are you accumulating notes or actually creating something?

\n

Semyon Vengerov gathered two million filing cards but never finished his dictionaries. What lessons does this Russian scholar offer for modern personal knowledge management?

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writingslowly.com

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#PKM #Zettelkasten #Writing #History #Notes

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Two Million Notes and No Dictionary: Learning from Semyon Vengerov's Cautionary Tale: writingslowly.com

","summary":"Russian bibliographer Semyon Vengerov (1855-1920) spent his life accumulating two million filing cards, but he died before he finished the dictionaries and bibliographies he set out to create.\n\nHis definitive account of Russian books from 1788 to 1893 was supposed to extend to 25 volumes, of which h...","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/03/16/two-million-notes-and-no.html","date_published":"2026-03-15T21:49:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-15 21:49","date_timestamp":1773611345,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116235399808028650","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mh4wgajmvd2w"]}},{"id":"86175726","content_html":"

@uk-news.bsky.social And it’s only taken ten years to notice.

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Artists Books at the NSW State Library: writingslowly.com

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@cogdog well OK, but that’s a very impressive pile of bones you have there! This is giving me a lot of ideas

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Why I wrote the book on Shuhari and what’s in it for you \"The : writingslowly.com

","summary":"Well, a book doesn’t just write itself, but why should I be the one to write it? What made me decide to write an introduction to the Japanese concept of Shuhari? There were several reasons and here are five of them.\n\nThe well is poisoned now with AI slop, but even years ago when I was looking online...","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/03/13/why-i-wrote-the-book.html","date_published":"2026-03-13T05:01:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-13 05:01","date_timestamp":1773378104,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116220114231269290","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mgw576fkfj2m"]}},{"id":"86094595","content_html":"

@writingslowly HT: John Philpin

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ROOTS - Return Old Online Things to your own Site.
\nThat’s what Lisa Charlotte Muth is doing at her website. And that’s what I’m doing with posts like Some urgent note-making questions find answers - bringing scattered material back together.

\n

#IndieWeb #PKM #Blogging #NoteTaking #DigitalSovereignty

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@richardcarter H’m. There’s not clearly a single ‘best’ solution for this.

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@brandoncarey this is a very interesting process. I’m a piler not a filer. I try to give the pile just enough structure to be useful - the Zettelkasten concepts help. Like you, I feel the best ‘system’ is the one that works for me. But there’s always room for improvement!

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Podcast listening overtakes radio? The New Publishing Standard.

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Congratulations are due to Dave Winer for an amazing achievement. Micro.blog has a great discovery tool for interesting podcasts. RSS FTW!

\n

The name might be archaic, but at least they didn’t call it downloadable radio.

\n

#podcasts #radio

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Some urgent notemaking questions find answers \"Five : writingslowly.com

","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/03/09/some-urgent-notemaking-questions-find.html","date_published":"2026-03-08T19:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-08 19:00","date_timestamp":1772996400,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116195099750273374","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mgkzpziggq24"]}},{"id":"85751052","content_html":"

The Digital Humanities Now website has come out of hibernation and kicked back into gear. OK, so it took me a whole year to notice this, but better late than never to spot a very interesting resource.

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#DigitalHumanities #AcademicWriting #AcademicResources #ResearchTools

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@llbbl Chord Compass is fun - thanks! I used to have a PDF that did a similar thing. It was a lot less interactive though, putting it mildly

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AI isn’t making us obsolete: we already were, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. Promethean shame in an age of technological change.

\n\"Three\n

#Philosophy #PrometheanShame #AI #FutureOfWork #ethics #GüntherAnders

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