Simon Willison’s Weblog
I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” links where appropriate.
In April of this year I finally upgraded my link blog to support Markdown, allowing me to expand my link blog into something with a lot more room.
The way I use my link blog has evolved substantially in the eight months since then. I’m going to describe the informal set of guidelines I’ve set myself for how I link blog, in the hope that it might encourage other people to give this a try themselves.
The point of that article was to emphasize that blogging doesn’t have to be about unique insights. The value is in writing frequently and having something to show for it over time—worthwhile even if you don’t attract much of an audience (or any audience at all).
In that article I proposed two categories of content that are low stakes and high value: things I learned and descriptions of my projects.
