{"id":6580,"date":"2017-01-25T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2017-01-18T18:33:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:33:32","slug":"linked-redesigning-waxy-2016-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/linked-redesigning-waxy-2016-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3461,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/waxy.org\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/redesigning-waxy-2016-edition&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250624113636\\\/https:\\\/\\\/waxy.org\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/redesigning-waxy-2016-edition\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 04:14:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-14 03:50:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-24 03:09:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-04 19:28:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 06:54:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-29 00:51:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 19:23:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:42:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 21:05:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 13:05:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 13:05:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/2016\/11\/redesigning-waxy-2016-edition\/\">via Waxy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But there a few reasons why I\u2019m sad about the decline of independent blogging, and why I think they\u2019re still worth fighting for.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ultimately, it comes down to two things: ownership and control.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a fantastic read. I am trying to strike a balance on this blog. It\u2019s sort of where everyone on Twitter spends all day talking about Twitter and it stops becoming fun. When all of the last remaining bloggers decide to talk about blogging and how important it is, things get really boring. It\u2019s fine to be meta sometimes but I try not to bore my readers. Andy is merely saying what we already know. Owning your voice and controlling the narrative completely w\/o ads, censorship, etc is a powerful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Waxy: But there a few reasons why I\u2019m sad about the decline of independent blogging, and why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1I8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6358,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/11\/08\/linked-waxy-org-on-owning-your-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":6580,"position":0},"title":"Linked: Waxy.org on Owning your Blog","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Waxy: Here, I control my words. Nobody can shut this site down, run annoying ads on it, or sell it to a phone company. Nobody can tell me what I can or can\u2019t say, and I have complete control over the way it\u2019s displayed. Nobody except me can change\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4297,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/linked-15-lessons-from-15-years-of-blogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":6580,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;15 Lessons from 15 Years of Blogging&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via Anil Dash: But what have I learned? A lot. Some of these things may be obvious, and some may be slightly corny platitudes. But I hope a few will be useful to you. I'm far from an expert on this stuff, even after all these years, so I hope\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5501,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/linked-stephen-fry-leaves-twitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":6580,"position":2},"title":"Linked: Stephen Fry Leaves Twitter","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via StephenFry: Oh goodness, what fun twitter was in the early days, a secret bathing-pool in a magical glade in an enchanted forest. It was glorious \u2018to turn as swimmers into cleanness leaping.\u2019 We frolicked and water-bombed and sometimes, in the moonlight, skinny-dipped. We chattered and laughed and put the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6938,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/07\/25\/linked-i-want-my-old-blog-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":6580,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;I want my old blog back&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Scripting: It was great. I didn't know how good I had it at the time. When Twitter became popular it threw a monkey wrench in my blogging act. Where to put the short items? So I stopped posting small items on my blog. And everything needed a title to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4139,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/linked-r-i-p-the-blog-1997-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":6580,"position":4},"title":"Linked: R.I.P. The Blog, 1997-2013","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via Kotke: I'll be here, blogging away until 2073. I figure 100 is a good age at which to retire. If I have a point to make, I'll have made it by then. Man, I wonder what crazy YouTube videos there will be to post in 30 years? Probably Wes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4313,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/linked-short-form-blogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":6580,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Short-form blogging&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via Scribbling: I find tweets too reductionist and Medium pieces too bloviating, so I came to the same conclusion Andy did on mid-length writing. His post reminded me of a working draft I started awhile back called \u201cNew rules for blogging.\u201d Love it. More rules on blogging. 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