Explaining Myself.
Web Publishing Has to Stay a Thing
07/26/2025
Desktop web publishing should continue to be a thing. But it can't just be the publishers making it one. It has to be web visitors too. And to make them we have to curate among those left who still remember what "web surfing" in the day, was.
There has to be an appeal among those who still use desktop and laptop PCs or any device where one can comfortably surf, to change how they think about the open web and how they visit websites. How do you get people to deliberately web surf in a world where they are now expected to "go to" not "hop to" digital places, much of which by the way exists in the form of apps.
Blog and link rolls would be one way, but since it would be easy to pollute any centralized web directory with spam and dangerous links, it would have to be extraordinarily well managed in order to be trusted.
Personally curated blog lists are out there though and are intimate to each curator, something the desktop web should be. I almost forgot about my own, but too, Suzy McHale's, or Ryan Barrett's, each of which I offer up as simple examples. The individuals behind these are not professional click-gatherers, they are authentic and use the web to reflect themselves, as the initial publishing homesteaders of the 90s did.
If there were just enough of "us" - me and the rando who still randomly landed here or jumped from their dwindling personal list of active personal blogs and what not - proving all of this was still a thing, the concept might catch a big second wave.
By Dave for Personal Blog.
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