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I didn’t mean that was your intention, just if that was the point of the setting. I think there are other blogs in my feed which do run ads and I think this is their intent.

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Could well be - also if you care about the number of site visits, etc. vOv

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Fixed, thanks for the heads up!

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Hello world, thanks to this community and @disquiet now I am officially back to blogging.
https://mheton.de/
My posts will cover music, sound, images and text about music theory.
If you want to have a look go ahead

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That is super. The blogverse is richer for it, and the internet all the more so.

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Just wanted to thank everyone for sharing, all the RSS feeds are going straight into my reader. Feels like 2004 again in the best way. (Also thanks @disquiet!)

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Due to several (totally valid, I should add) reasons I’ve been the only person posting on Horizontalpitch for some time now. I noticed that – likely because of this – it was becoming more and more kind of my personal blog.
Due to this fact, my overall wearyness with corporate social media, the discussion happeneing in this thread (thanks @disquiet for starting this and bringing the matter to our attention!) I decided to start treating the blog more as my personal writing outlet for all things related to music. Not that longer articles like in the past will not happen anymore, but I’ll hopefully also start posting shorter (and more frequent) updates.
More about this in the latest article if you want:
http://www.horizontalpitch.com/2019/11/a-look-back-and-a-look-forward/

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i’ve taken some time yesterday and today to finally get set up with some basic blogging infrastructure that I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time.

as such, https://rkn.la now has a link to the “blog” at https://rkn.la/b/ (…deep, that )

there’s not much there yet, and I haven’t yet sorted out an RSS feed, but I’m planning to use this more like a journal than anything else, to publish writings, photos, thoughts, project investigations, etc. Eventually planning to indie-web-sync things to twooter, and possibly also instagram. as i’ve deleted facebook, this is somewhat intended to be a replacement for that.

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Ok, time to share.

I spent most of last year in a depth year in order to get me to focus more on creation that acquisition. Well, that didn’t work for me at all. Not getting new stuff was easy, but it didn’t translate into actually making more art. A few months ago I finally started listening to @dani_derks wonderful sound+process series and the tipping point came with @ioflow mentioning that he had done a creative one-a-day and it had been so transformative. I had read (and re-read) @marcus_fischer’s amazing dust breeding, but always thought “I could never do that.” Well – time to try.

Post by post starts here: http://www.matthewgavette.com/noticing/2019/11/27/000-noticing
Or you can see all posts (newest first) on a single page here: http://www.matthewgavette.com/noticing

Huge thanks to everyone here for the constant inspiration.

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http://www.lothlorien.com — http://kf6gpe.org goes right to the blog. Some music stuff, some ham radio stuff, some older now-weird programming things.

This is a great post!

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Do personal wikis and mind maps count? I’ve developed a wiki for myself at https://pbat.ch/wiki. It works a lot better for my brain than a traditional blog.

As an experiment, I’ve also started up my HTMLized twtxt feed again, with some new tricks. twtxt is a dead simple decentralized microblogging platform which is kind of reminiscent of RSS. My twtxt feed has a few special things added to it that allow it to better integrate with my wiki (render markup, run inline code, dynamically generate references, etc). It’s all an ongoing experiment, but I think the granularity of a timestamped microblogging platform combined with the non-linear depth of a wiki seems like a powerful combination.

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thanks for alerting me to twtxt— super interesting!

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Isn’tses blog, currently posting the first development/inspiration documentation on our forthcoming noise synth circuit we are working on! http://isntses.co.uk/blog

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Apropos nothing in particular except that it’s Sunday and I’m writing up some recent favorite listens to post at disquiet.com, I wanted to mention how my website/blog is one of the key things keeping me sane during this pandemic (others: family time, exercise, guitar and synth learning, offline journal, long-term writing projects). Having a place to write a bit, to reflect on things, to share in a not-engineered-toward-feedback and yet open-to-reply space is a good space to have. Metaphorically, it’s more like keeping the garage door open while fiddling at the workbench than like, say, hanging in a public park. I’ve managed, for the first time in the blog’s (nearly) 24 years of existence, to write at least once every day this year, sometimes a short thing, sometimes something more substantial. In addition, more than ever, I’ve found myself just pulling up the website in a browser tab in the middle of the day to take look, as one might open a window to the backyard or pick up a family photo. Flip back a few days, see what’s been on my mind, sometimes to plot what to write next, but mostly just to spent time in a place where I enjoy spending time.

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It was really useful for some of my MI builds and especially the flashing part:)

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Tags are great for organizing my blog, particularly as it has aged a bit. I’ve been posting weekly since I quit fb/twitter. I link to articles I bump into, what I’m listening to, notes on art events I visit and more recently electronic projects I’m working on. I tag people I refer to and spaces I visit. Its been surprising to discover that many times a tag already exists for a person or site I’m writing about.

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In the earlier days of home isolation (especially when the kids’ daycare was closed), I used my blog in a similar way, kind of like a personal journal. I updated more frequently, though with briefer posts. It definitely helped get through the rougher patches of feeling like I was failing left and right. This also had the double-benefit of reaching my annual goal of writing more blog posts than the previous year. I passed that mark this year in May, I think. I’ve slowed down a bit recently, but I want to pick up the posting pace again. If only to update with my recent experiments with music (noise) making. Soon, I also hope to be updating with posts about an online class or two that I plan to take.

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After many years trying to get started, i finally created mine.
Not great but i believe in time i will get better at writing stuff.

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I just wrote something about my approach to composing an imaginary soundtrack for Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian”:

I hope it contains something of interest for anyone who has read McCarthy’s great - if terrifying - novel.

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