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title: "💭 A Link Blog in the Year 2024"
description: "!https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/9/a-link-blog-in-the-year-2024/"
date: 2024-06-10
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  - web
  - thought
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      <div class="embed-card-description">Kellan Elliott-McCrea has started a new link blog: Like many people I’ve been dealing with the collapses of the various systems I relied on for information over the previous decades. …</div>
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THIS! is the same reasons that I built [thoughts](https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com){.hoverlink}.  Simon has bee a big inspiration along the way.  He defintely changed the format of my posts as I watched him build out his quote posts.

> Link blogging is a pleasantly low-pressure way of writing online. Found something interesting? Post a link to it, with a sentence or two about why it's worth checking out.

Ditto! just make a post.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>