### (or some other kind of personal website) This is one of the [[assignments for publishing]] you can choose! Bring back the nerdy, weird, personal web! Curate your own little textual space, and share it with whoever may want or need to see it. Here are some suggestions for how, what, why, etc: - [What to blog about](https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/) (Simon Willison) > Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul! But what should you write about? - [A website to destroy all websites](https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/) > How to win the war for the soul of the internet and build the _Web We Want_. - [Getting Started — IndieWeb Camp](https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started) > The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web” - [Micro.blog](https://micro.blog/) > Easy blogging at your own domain name for short posts, full essays, photo blogs, and email newsletters, with a great community, cross-posting to other networks, and more. - [Bear](https://bearblog.dev/) > A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform. - [Mataroa blog](https://mataroa.blog/) > Get your own simple blog in 1 minute ... most features free - On the other hand, sometimes consider *not* publishing your thoughts: > ...sometimes strong opinions don’t need to be published because we’re living with the reality that prompted the opinion every day. – [Baldur Bjarnason](https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/strong-opinions-never-published/) > “A blog post doesn't have to be extraordinary. It's usually more interesting to read something extra ordinary.” – Robert Birming, “[Everything is content](https://robertbirming.com/everything-is-content/)” To use blogging as an assignment for class, I suggest choosing a theme or purpose for your blog posts, and setting up some parameters for yourself, like “a post a day for a week,” or “two posts a week for a month” or whatever, so you’ll have enough experience to be able to reflect on the process and self-assess. Contact me if you’d like help with any of the specifics, and/or we could play around with this during a live class session.