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I haven’t come up with a style guide for my site or this page yet, but I do have a philosophical approach. I only link to sites that can be viewed on a web browser. I also try to avoid certain kinds of platforms. I think paywalls are mostly fine. I mean like, if someone creates something and that thing took time and effort and had costs to create and if they want to paywall it, of course they should do that...

But some of these platforms and things, the cost is so insidious. Instagram and Facebook for instance, you have to sign up for it and log into it to see what's on there. So, people write stuff on there and then there's this network effect, so more people join it and for what? So Mark Zuckerberg can have more money so he can continue to wake up every day trying to figure out ways to further ruin the world? The whole situation is bad for the consumer and it's bad for the creators as well. I don't know who it's worse for, because then the creators are conditioned to create things based on the specific dynamics of those spaces.

Look, before the above rant becomes pages and pages long, I'll just say I only link to sites that can be viewed on a web browser and as far as things posted to closed platforms go, it's on a case-by-case basis.

Below, you’ll find links that are interesting to me. Mostly blogs.

This page was last updated on January 24, 2026.

Waxy

The Electric Typewriter

J. L. Yocum

Pluralistic

Zena Metal

Note To Self

Matt Melnick

Metrono.me

Alex Gendler’s blog on Substack

Stonekettle Station

Freddie deBoer’s blog on Substack

Robert Christgau

Citation Needed

Vlog Brothers on Youtube

Ill Doctrine on Youtube

Folding Ideas on Youtube

WFMU

American Archive of Public Broadcasting

NPR

The Audacity Of Despair

Skull Practitioners on Bandcamp

Oh My Rockness

Daring Fireball

Charles Petzold

Zeeshan Aleem at MSNBC

In Effect

No Echo

The City NYC

City & State New York

neal.fun

Anil Dash

Our World In Data

Mr. Sincerity

Taylor Sesselman Photography

Matthew Sheahan

Edward Grant’s music on Soundcloud

Michael Indemaio