Last Updated on April 18, 2017 by Dave Farquhar
I realized this week that there are people I just don’t understand, probably because I don’t know anyone like them. And I lamented that I had this great tool, the Internet, and that a lot of people were using it to record their deepest thoughts, and there’s no better way to understand people than by reading the thoughts of people, but I didn’t know a good way to find a Weblog that matched a certain criteria I was looking for.
Then this morning I ran across Why I Log, an effort to reunite the Weblogging community by collecting a bunch of short essays saying why they do it. Getting back to basics and re-answering the “Why on earth am I doing this?” question is always a good way to regroup. Plus, you immediately know something about a link before you click on it–the reason why, and the logger’s first name. That’s much better than finding a stray link to someone else’s blog on a site you already read.
And from there I found The Ageless Project, which takes another approach–grouping Weblogs by the age of the author. If I don’t understand someone, I can go try to find a Weblog written by someone roughly their age and sex and maybe cast a little light into the darkness.
Neither of these tools is anywhere near complete–Ageless lists dozens of sites, not thousands like Weblogs.com. And Why I Log currently only has about a dozen entries. But that makes it a lot easier to find what you’re looking for.
More Like This: Weblogs
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.