RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers

Last updated 6 minutes ago go read knitting the web: we need interlinkers first! or don't, i'm not your mum. i think the problem of "metablogging" isn't really a problem in itself. it depends on what the purpose of blogging is meant to be? I think a lot of people in the indie web sphere are blogging for self-expression; sure, if you want views or concerted interaction, writing that you don't know what to write is unlikely to cut it. if you're writing simply to get something out, get over perfectionism, see what writing online is like, it fits that for sure. lots of people are writing about their lives, about their thoughts and feelings about deeply personal things; they don't need ideas on how to interlink the indie web to supplement this, as it was never the point. i deeply agree that the web needs "more hands on the loom", as brennan puts it, but disagree whether every blogger does. i think a lot about loneliness as a writer/creator online, and i think whilst it's easy to see this…