Two blogging connections of old have recently restarted their blogs. First, all of a sudden a feed that had been long dormant in my reader showed (1), meaning a new unread post was available. It turned out to be the return to blogging of Luis Suarez after a 3 year hiatus, who has been in my feed reader since I began working in knowledge management.
Today I came across a posting by Lee Lefever on LinkedIn where he says
I recently decided to resurrect my personal website, leelefever.com, which had languished for years as a static site. The site started as a blog in 2003 and I blogged there until 2007. The good old days!
This time around, I built the site on WordPress … And of course, the new site has a blog and I am dedicated to being a blogger at leelefever.com once again.
Lee is also a longtime blogging friend, back to the BlogWalk days (2004/2005). I followed his blog, his global travel blog with his wife Sachi, and then their company’s blog. Looking forward to reading new postings from him.
Both run their sites on WordPress. So that’s an opportunity to tell them about IndieWeb for WordPress and hopefully convince them to add functionality to their sites like Webmentions.
The last 2 years have seen a small but noticable movement back to blogging. I picked up my own blogging pace late 2017, first motivated by a desire to escape the bottomless pit of Facebook. It’s good to see the ongoing trickle of the return to blogging. And of new blogging voices emerging.
I find there’s a completely new need to explain things to new groups that we’ve thought explained and broadly known. Things like the value of having your own domain and site, but also things like unconference formats, Creative Commons licenses, and how much you can do yourself outside of the silos. Having more of the earlier voices back in the chorus to help do that, and do it in our current context, is great.
I could not find an RSS feed on Lee’s site. I used to follow his blog in the old days.
There’s an RSS symbol at the bottom right of https://leelefever.com/blog/ which leads to https://leelefever.com/feed
That’s strange. I use Feedly as an aggregator and it cannot pick up the feed, even with that link.
That is indeed strange. The feed validates well enough: https://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fleelefever.com%2Ffeed. My reader (Readkit) autodiscovered it fine as well.
Works for me! I copy pasted the link.
Now this is weird. Instead of copy/pasting the link, I typed “lee lefever” and got this predictive text: “Lee LeFever dot com » Feed”. Then the subscribe link appeared below.