I’m considering blackballing certain blogs/newsletters/whatever that have most of their content behind a paywall. The trick is always deciding where the dividing line between commercial and non-commercial is and figuring that out can be difficult at times because a lot of websit … | Continue reading
Bookmark: GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet | Cybercultural. Nice history of early GeoCities. Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. Source | Continue reading
Bookmark: What if Trump Tries Censoring US Blogs? Where to go. | Brad Enslen Wherein I look at several blog hosts located outside of United States jurisdiction and why. Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. Source | Continue reading
February 28, 2025 Over 2,000 URL’s in Directory. Whee! Somehow I missed the exact date we crossed the 2,000 link mark. 2,029 links in 19 categories, with 100,538 clicks. Directory last updated Feb 28, 2025. So yea! Maps Added In case you are upset with Google and Bin … | Continue reading
Blogs With a Difference I just added these two blogs today. I think they are good examples of specialized use for a blog. Project Blogs Here is a blog about a project that might take many months to complete: the encycloReadia project. Blogger Molly Tov started a separate bl … | Continue reading
Popular Blog Hosts I’m seeing lots of blogs hosted on either Pika or Bear Blog these days with Bear leading the way. Both look real nice but neither supports native comments which I think is a real limitation. (Tip: Mataroa, is one of the few newish blogging hosts that has comm … | Continue reading
Bookmark: i wish more of you would add ways to contact you! | Ava’s Space. Every time I really want to contact someone to discuss a post, I can’t. No Letterbird, no e-mail, no comments section, or the stuff throws up errors. Please! I understand being hesitant, I used to have n … | Continue reading
I updated both of our website promotion guides: Website Promotion Guide for Static Personal Sites – Website Promotion Guide for Personal Blogs – I added some search engines and directories where appropriate. These are intended for webmasters with a new site to get that site adde … | Continue reading
I wanted to see if a little blog I launched a few months ago had been indexed by the different search engines. So I did a search using a variant of the blog’s name to see what kind of results I got. I only looked at the first 2 – 3 pages of SERP’s, so […] Source | Continue reading
Slo-Web News Friend Xandra is planning a slo-web magazine which sound pretty cool. She reveals her planning here, and you can sign up to be notified of launch here. New Linkblog Okay it’s a new to me linkblog. The Micro Blog linkblog is quite well done and worth checking out. … | Continue reading
This is pretty cool: my friend Joe Jenett has launched a new webring, named “sidecar” for non-commercial sites. He’s actively looking for signups so go check it out. (Also, I love the logo/photo on the ring page.) Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. Source | Continue reading
1. English Language only – We only list sites that have substantial English language content. Sorry, I can’t screen what I can’t read. I’ve gotten a couple of non-English submissions recently and the sites looked neat but no can list. A site could be bilingual and I would lis … | Continue reading
Bookmarked: Making space for a handmade web | Figma.com I like this whole article. In particular I like the idea of making websites that are hard, but not impossible, to find, on purpose. Almost like a web treasure hunt. I also like the idea of websites that close down for h … | Continue reading
What is a blog stream? I’m defining a blog stream as a feed of newly updated blog posts, usually but not always from a blog hosting company. Most are moderated to some degree. (Note: I may have made up the term blog stream.) Blog streams are a good way to find interesting blo … | Continue reading
Bookmark: Indiewebify Your Blogger Site | Guide, by Sdavidprince. A step by step guide for Blogger users: 1. getting started in the Indieweb, 2. configuring Microformats2, 3. Setting up Webmentions support. If this works, it strikes me as important for bloggers, especially those … | Continue reading
Bookmark: ONCE – Writebook. Writebook is a free software script you can put on your server and it let’s you easily publish a book on the Web. I really like the idea of this. Imagine: 1. Publishing the rule manual to your own pen and paper RPG game, 2. Republish old blog essays as … | Continue reading
Bookmark: Open Web Search Project | Openwebsearch.eu 14 renowned European research and computing centers have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The initiative will be contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open … | Continue reading
Allegedly guestbook host, 123Guestbook, is closing down on July 1st, 2024. I can’t confirm this on the 123Guestbook website, but if it is true and you currently use them you will want a replacement. Just today I found out about a new free hosted guestbook service: The Personal We … | Continue reading
Currently, I have been adding about 2 fresh-brand-new website listings every day to the directory. When I get submissions, I add them in addition to those 2 sites, within 24 hours. This keeps a steady flow of new-goodness on the site. Did you know we have a RSS feed of only new l … | Continue reading
Roaming the Web, as I do, I’ve started noticing more linkblogs of late. For the purposes of this post I’m defining a linkblog as a blog dedicated to passing along URL links, as opposed to a normal blog which would have a mixture of content posts and link posts. The purpose of a l … | Continue reading
I just got done reading the BBC article: Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same. If you have not read it I suggest you do and then come back here. Is it time for webmasters to block Google? I’m not going to get into the technical aspects of blockin … | Continue reading
I’m launching a new linkblog, named Link Punk, which is primarily for articles and blog posts I find interesting and that I want to share, but that I don’t really have any commentary of my own to contribute. It’s just a link to an article or blog post, which is different from the … | Continue reading
My favorite search engine www.mojeek.com has created a bunch of 88×31 buttons. If you collect buttons on your website button wall and want something unusual here they are: Retro buttons: circa mid-2000’s to the early teens. Based on old Mojeek logos from those times. Current butt … | Continue reading
The big news is that Indieseek.xyz has surpassed 1500 links! 1,501 links in 19 categories, with 65,430 clicks. Directory last updated Apr 23, 2024. These were all added manually by me or submitted by webmasters. I don’t scrape links nor do I have a crawler. I find links all over … | Continue reading
Bookmark: We Need To Rewild The Internet, essay BY MARIA FARRELL AND ROBIN BERJON. The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. It’s a long read but worth it. Also posted on IndieNews Liked this post? … | Continue reading
There has been a fair amount of small changes and additions at Indieseek.xyz. New Listings: The truth is I don’t get that many many new submissions for the directory. So most new listings are websites found by me, mainly via social networks and some through Indieweb.org. Over th … | Continue reading
We’re a human edited web directory, we don’t need no stinkin’ AI. Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. Source | Continue reading
Bookmark: Making Websites Should Be Easy | Flamedfury.com This. People who know how to code often don’t understand that many first time webmasters don’t want to learn hours of arcane markup before we build our first web page. And, to us, CSS is like staring into The Abyss. … | Continue reading
Share Your Focus | Mojeek.com Mojeek is open sourcing the templates for it’s Mojeek Focus feature. Focus lets you define what websites you specifically want to search. The templates are lists of the sites you want to search within this allows users to share these different … | Continue reading
Ideas for Your Personal Website | 32 Bit Cafe Another great list. #indieweb #doitwithhtml Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. Source | Continue reading
Bookmarked: 100 things you can do on your personal website. Stumped for something to add to your website? This may be the definitive list. #indieweb #doitwithhtml Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. Source | Continue reading
Joe Jenett, owner of iwebthings directory made a new button (below) for Indieseek.xyz! I have zero graphics skills, so it was very nice of Joe to make a new one. Unlike the old one I made you can actually read the new button. Cool. Thank you Joe! Liked this post? Follow this bl … | Continue reading
Are you looking to build more non-commercial websites? Perhaps you have created your own personal website and you’re looking for a new project? How abouut building an: expert website? I’m talking about more than just writing a blog article – an expert site is a whole website – … | Continue reading
The good folks at 32-Bit.Cafe have launched a new Discourse based forum community. If you wish to discuss personal websites (both static HTML and blogs) the non-commercial web, the web revival this is a nice friendly place to talk and ask questions. Liked this post? Follow this … | Continue reading
Busy times. Updated: Website Promotion Guide for Personal Blogs and Website Promotion Guide for Static Personal Sites, I noticed links that had gone dead plus I found several new places to submit URL’s to which look very interesting. Both are good guides for getting either your … | Continue reading
Back in 2019, I was bemoaning the loss of Technorati and other RSS search engines like Ice Rocket and I didn’t think we would see their like again. Well now it’s 2024 and there has been a renewed interest in RSS feeds and low and behold somebody launched a shiny new RSS feed sear … | Continue reading
I’m aware of the disagreement about the use of Brave Search API as a search source for the Kagi metasearch engine. I’m sympathetic to both sides in this debate but I feel the need to point out that, right now, Kagi has very limited options available to it in trying to build a goo … | Continue reading
About this update: This is an update of an article from 2022. There have been enough improvements in 2 years to warrant an update! 2024 updates are in red. Some items have not changed enough to be updated. /About this update. I started this directory in 2018. Human edited directo … | Continue reading
Just a quick note. If you want to read some good coverage of the US vs Google monopoly trial I strongly recommend: Big Tech on Trial. I think it’s better that you read that than me trying to unpack Google’s choke points on the Web because it’s not just their market share for sear … | Continue reading
It’s Time to Add a little Analog Goodness to the Directory Note Taking | Analog Zettelkasten | (Fountain) Pens & Paper | Typewriters I’ve written about adding more analog things into our lives several years ago. Now I finally got around to adding a top level category to the direc … | Continue reading
Digital Garden | Personal Knowledge | Commonplace Book | Website For a long time there have been two types of personal web pages: 1. static, old school, personal homepages, and 2. personal blogs. A digital garden is a place to keep your public notes, partially formed thoughts, id … | Continue reading
July was a busy month with lots of new features and changes. Stumblizer – In July I cobbled together a random website finder, sorta like the old StumbleUpon. This has turned out to be surprisingly popular. There must be a lot of bored people out there. I keep adding a few new web … | Continue reading
Old School Site Promotion 1998 Style To set the scene, back in the late 1990’s everybody on the web was trying to come to grips with web discovery. That is the discovery of different websites. There were search engines, lots of them large and small, and frankly none were any good … | Continue reading
Note: To do – make some 88×31 buttons. Maybe a banner. Needed for Link to Us purposes. Might need a paint program. Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. Source | Continue reading
Before we start, I am only talking about this in the context of non-commercial exchanges for equally non-commercial personal homepages. I will be talking about and listing resources for graphical banners. These are not for paid advertising but are another way to share traffic amo … | Continue reading