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My 7 reasons to maintain a blog or website in 2024

Social media killed blogs. Yet there are still, and maybe even new compelling reasons to maintain a blog or personal website in 2024 !...

July 5, 2024 · 6 min · François Planque

Time to get rid of the Ugly!

2014. Time to wake up, eh? First off, why have I been blogging so little in the last couple of years? Guess it's a combination of: Too much work Having a real life (which I might not have had a few years back...) Google did a great job at scaring me of…...

February 20, 2014 · 5 min · François Planque

Web evolution: make your posts shorter!

Do you remember the days where you'd carefully read through everything your RSS aggregator collected for you? Do you still do that? Do you even open your RSS aggregator? Do you even use one? Chances are you're using twitter by now. 140 characters max…...

June 14, 2009 · 2 min · François Planque

The importance of URIs

"People don’t recognize how important URIs are. The notion that you have a huge, world-scale, information space, and that everything in it has an name and they’re all just short strings that you can paint on the side of a bus; that’s a new thing and a go…

May 5, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

How to redirect www.domain.com to domain.com (or reverse)

Most sites can be reached by two different URLs. For example http://b2evolution.net/about/features.html and http://www.b2evolution.net/about/features.html . This is good for the users who can choose wether or not to type in the "www." part. However, i…...

March 21, 2007 · 4 min · François Planque

Anil Dash about blogging

I recently heard Anil Dash put it in this very simple way: "A blog is a way to connect with people you care about." And it has nothing to do with technology, feeds, etc. It's quite another approach compared to my own (alternative) definition of…...

August 5, 2006 · 1 min · François Planque

Syndirella: My favorite feature ;)

If someone updates a post a few days or even a few hours after you read it and adds a PS or whatever additionnal information, you usually never notice it... and this is why I love Syndirella: it will notice that for you and display the updated post (and…...

January 19, 2003 · 1 min · François Planque