Blogroll: Sites Worth Reading
Remember when the internet was made up of actual people writing about things they cared about, rather than corporations trying to sell you something or "content creators" building personal brands?
This is a blogroll - an old-fashioned list of websites and blogs I've stumbled across and think are worth your time. No algorithms, no sponsored posts, just human recommendations. The way the web used to work before Google and social media took over.
If you run a similar site (personal blog, memoir, niche obsession, anything non-commercial and interesting), email me at paul.murphyita@gmail.com and I'll consider adding you to the list.
Transport & Niche Obsessions
- Vintage Buses - A retired bloke's deep dive into British bus history. Refreshingly informational without trying to sell you anything. Proof that niche obsessions make the best blogs.
Personal and Quirky Blogs
a smol miscellanea - A BearBlog written by a talented artist with some lovely stories about cats, hedgehogs, gaming and samples of her art and much much more. A delight.
Tadaima - One of my favourite writers on BearBlog. Wonderful writing that is often comical, yet deeply reflective. It’s a quiet, thoughtful corner of the web that always feels like coming home.
Tiramisu - A delightful mix of digital minimalism and personal musings. It is exactly like its namesake: layered, sweet, and always leaves you wanting another "slice" of life from a fellow Bear blogger.
Robert Birming - A Swedish home inspector who writes about his life, blogging, his adventures, and whatever else takes his fancy. He has also produced a large number of themes and tools for BearBlog. I use his excellent Bearming theme on this site and on my other three sites. His posts are always worth a read.
- Bubbles Town - This is a new site. It's about page explains what it does much better than I can so here it is:
Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post today. You'll probably never find it. Google won't show it to you. Social media buried it under engagement bait.
Bubbles tries to surface it. Community voting applied to thousands of personal, independent blogs, with identity and discussion routed through the Fediverse.
Worth a look if you’re tired of being told what to read.
- Herman's Blog - No blogroll would be complete without Herman Martinus's blog. He's the creator of the BearBlog platform. If you want to know what he's got planned for BearBlog this is the place to visit. He also writes some interesting posts about his life in South Africa.
My Blogs
Here's my "nice" blog, where I ramble on about my early life, my birdfeeder, cats and anything else that comes to mind.
My other blog. A less gentle place where I write about things that don’t quite add up, from serious failures to modern nonsense. Usually calm. Not always.
A field guide to the grifters, fear merchants, and pseudoscience peddlers infesting the modern web. Also known as the enshitifiers.