#digitalgardens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalgardens, aggregated by home.social.
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Been rethinking how I read, not just what I read.
Started with a professor’s curated readings → https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/
Then stumbled into personal systems like https://malcolmocean.com/myhabits/From there, it branches:
- What to read → https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/p/noticing.html
- How to interpret → The Great Gatsby essays (Atlantic / NYT revisiting it 100 years later)
- How to create → https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-make-a-book/
- And even: what blogging looks like in 10 years → https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/blogiversary-what-will-this-blog-look-like-in-10-years-part-10-of-10.htmPattern I’m seeing:
Reading isn’t consumption — it’s a system:
curation → interpretation → creation → reflection.Most people stop at step one.
#reading #learning #writing #digitalgardens #selfeducation #systemsThinking
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Been rethinking how I read, not just what I read.
Started with a professor’s curated readings → https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/
Then stumbled into personal systems like https://malcolmocean.com/myhabits/From there, it branches:
- What to read → https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/p/noticing.html
- How to interpret → The Great Gatsby essays (Atlantic / NYT revisiting it 100 years later)
- How to create → https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-make-a-book/
- And even: what blogging looks like in 10 years → https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/blogiversary-what-will-this-blog-look-like-in-10-years-part-10-of-10.htmPattern I’m seeing:
Reading isn’t consumption — it’s a system:
curation → interpretation → creation → reflection.Most people stop at step one.
#reading #learning #writing #digitalgardens #selfeducation #systemsThinking
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Been rethinking how I read, not just what I read.
Started with a professor’s curated readings → https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/
Then stumbled into personal systems like https://malcolmocean.com/myhabits/From there, it branches:
- What to read → https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/p/noticing.html
- How to interpret → The Great Gatsby essays (Atlantic / NYT revisiting it 100 years later)
- How to create → https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-make-a-book/
- And even: what blogging looks like in 10 years → https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/blogiversary-what-will-this-blog-look-like-in-10-years-part-10-of-10.htmPattern I’m seeing:
Reading isn’t consumption — it’s a system:
curation → interpretation → creation → reflection.Most people stop at step one.
#reading #learning #writing #digitalgardens #selfeducation #systemsThinking
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Been rethinking how I read, not just what I read.
Started with a professor’s curated readings → https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/
Then stumbled into personal systems like https://malcolmocean.com/myhabits/From there, it branches:
- What to read → https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/p/noticing.html
- How to interpret → The Great Gatsby essays (Atlantic / NYT revisiting it 100 years later)
- How to create → https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-make-a-book/
- And even: what blogging looks like in 10 years → https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/blogiversary-what-will-this-blog-look-like-in-10-years-part-10-of-10.htmPattern I’m seeing:
Reading isn’t consumption — it’s a system:
curation → interpretation → creation → reflection.Most people stop at step one.
#reading #learning #writing #digitalgardens #selfeducation #systemsThinking
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Been rethinking how I read, not just what I read.
Started with a professor’s curated readings → https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/
Then stumbled into personal systems like https://malcolmocean.com/myhabits/From there, it branches:
- What to read → https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/p/noticing.html
- How to interpret → The Great Gatsby essays (Atlantic / NYT revisiting it 100 years later)
- How to create → https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-make-a-book/
- And even: what blogging looks like in 10 years → https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/blogiversary-what-will-this-blog-look-like-in-10-years-part-10-of-10.htmPattern I’m seeing:
Reading isn’t consumption — it’s a system:
curation → interpretation → creation → reflection.Most people stop at step one.
#reading #learning #writing #digitalgardens #selfeducation #systemsThinking
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Stumbled into a corner of the internet that still feels like the old web — personal blogs, weird tools, zero algorithmic sludge.
Started here (Ask HN):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081Then down the rabbit hole:
https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs
https://hnpwd.github.io/Signal vs junk is real — but occasionally you find gems like susam.net (and even a clean little typing tutor tucked inside).
And if you want to go deeper:
Archive Team → https://wiki.archiveteam.org/Pattern: the good internet still exists. It just isn’t surfaced for you anymore.
#indieweb #blogging #internet #digitalgardens #curation #archives
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Stumbled into a corner of the internet that still feels like the old web — personal blogs, weird tools, zero algorithmic sludge.
Started here (Ask HN):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081Then down the rabbit hole:
https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs
https://hnpwd.github.io/Signal vs junk is real — but occasionally you find gems like susam.net (and even a clean little typing tutor tucked inside).
And if you want to go deeper:
Archive Team → https://wiki.archiveteam.org/Pattern: the good internet still exists. It just isn’t surfaced for you anymore.
#indieweb #blogging #internet #digitalgardens #curation #archives
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The Work Isn't Finished, It's Abandoned: Thoughts on WIP Pages | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-work-isnt-finished-its-abandoned-thoughts-on-wip-pages/
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The Work Isn't Finished, It's Abandoned: Thoughts on WIP Pages | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-work-isnt-finished-its-abandoned-thoughts-on-wip-pages/
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The Work Isn't Finished, It's Abandoned: Thoughts on WIP Pages | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-work-isnt-finished-its-abandoned-thoughts-on-wip-pages/
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The Work Isn't Finished, It's Abandoned: Thoughts on WIP Pages | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-work-isnt-finished-its-abandoned-thoughts-on-wip-pages/
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The Work Isn't Finished, It's Abandoned: Thoughts on WIP Pages | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-work-isnt-finished-its-abandoned-thoughts-on-wip-pages/
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Genial explicación y análisis de la nueva migración digital y salida de 'google'!
(Enshittification awareness gaining traction all over the world).
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Genial explicación y análisis de la nueva migración digital y salida de 'google'!
(Enshittification awareness gaining traction all over the world).
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Genial explicación y análisis de la nueva migración digital y salida de 'google'!
(Enshittification awareness gaining traction all over the world).
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Genial explicación y análisis de la nueva migración digital y salida de 'google'!
(Enshittification awareness gaining traction all over the world).
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Genial explicación y análisis de la nueva migración digital y salida de 'google'!
(Enshittification awareness gaining traction all over the world).
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What are people’s experiences with #digitalgardens If you have one, do you use it for your own reference often? Have you made friends through it? Does it help you write / accomplish some other task?
Looking to hear from folks who have abandoned their gardens as well please
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What are people’s experiences with #digitalgardens If you have one, do you use it for your own reference often? Have you made friends through it? Does it help you write / accomplish some other task?
Looking to hear from folks who have abandoned their gardens as well please
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What are people’s experiences with #digitalgardens If you have one, do you use it for your own reference often? Have you made friends through it? Does it help you write / accomplish some other task?
Looking to hear from folks who have abandoned their gardens as well please
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Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!
But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.
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Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!
But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.
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Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!
But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.
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Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!
But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.
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Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!
But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.
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#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !
She shared her views on:
- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon
#100DaysToOffload : 075/100
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#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !
She shared her views on:
- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon
#100DaysToOffload : 075/100
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#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !
She shared her views on:
- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon
#100DaysToOffload : 075/100
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#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !
She shared her views on:
- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon
#100DaysToOffload : 075/100
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#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !
She shared her views on:
- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon
#100DaysToOffload : 075/100
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In the process of adding a digital garden, I found a useful plugin for Eleventy (github.com/photogabble/...) that lets me use wikilinks as I would in Obsidian, making it easier to link my notes together. #WebDev #IndieWeb #DigitalGardens #DigitalGarden #Eleventy #11ty
GitHub - photogabble/eleventy-... -
In the process of adding a digital garden, I found a useful plugin for Eleventy (github.com/photogabble/...) that lets me use wikilinks as I would in Obsidian, making it easier to link my notes together. #WebDev #IndieWeb #DigitalGardens #DigitalGarden #Eleventy #11ty
GitHub - photogabble/eleventy-... -
I added a digital garden section to my site! reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-gard... I'm using it to put tutorials, research/project notes, and other things that I will return to and build on over time. #WebDev #IndieWeb #DigitalGardens #DigitalGarden #Eleventy #11ty
Digital Garden -
I added a digital garden section to my site! reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-gard... I'm using it to put tutorials, research/project notes, and other things that I will return to and build on over time. #WebDev #IndieWeb #DigitalGardens #DigitalGarden #Eleventy #11ty
Digital Garden -
The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given me, and how I've written so much more since taking this approach to writing for the web.
#Blogging #Blogs #DigitalGardening #DigitalGardens #PKM
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/13/pushback-against-digital-gardens/
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The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given me, and how I've written so much more since taking this approach to writing for the web.
#Blogging #Blogs #DigitalGardening #DigitalGardens #PKM
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/13/pushback-against-digital-gardens/
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The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given me, and how I've written so much more since taking this approach to writing for the web.
#Blogging #Blogs #DigitalGardening #DigitalGardens #PKM
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/13/pushback-against-digital-gardens/
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The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given me, and how I've written so much more since taking this approach to writing for the web.
#Blogging #Blogs #DigitalGardening #DigitalGardens #PKM
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/13/pushback-against-digital-gardens/
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The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given me, and how I've written so much more since taking this approach to writing for the web.
#Blogging #Blogs #DigitalGardening #DigitalGardens #PKM
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/13/pushback-against-digital-gardens/
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Pushback against digital gardens?
One of the most unexpected things I’ve seen is the pushback I’ve seen against digital gardens.
I wrote the blog post Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?. The intention was to demonstrate how these two ways of being on the Internet differ from each other.
My interpretation, by the way, is not something I came up with but is echoed by some digital garden practitioners such as Joel Hooks: Stop Giving af and Start Writing More.
I suspect part of the reason I resonated with his article (especially his resentment and irritation about what blogging has become), was because I was a blogger since the dawn of the Internet. I used to build my blog using raw HTML, back when blog wasn’t even called a blog.
Over the years, I’ve seen blogging morph from online diaries and eccentric websites sharing quirky things to well-polished, SEO-optimised articles promoting brands, businesses, a person’s skills and knowledge via templatised web structures.
Yes, granted that this is a generalisation of how people blog, but just search for the term “blog” or “blogging” and you’ll get recommendations on how to be a top blog on the search engines, SEO tactics, endless listicles and more.
Leaving aside those who refuse to comply to these demands*, blogging has been dominated by SEO and marketing forces for a long time.
(If you belong to this category, really, this article is not speaking about you (nor am I speaking about those who do), I’m not calling you inferior for writing content chronologically! I mean, see how dumb that sentence reads?)
Besides this article, I remember sharing Maggie Appleton’s digital garden illustration in The Dark Forest and Generative AI, and got a flurry of angry posts from it too.
People were fixated with her interpretation of the Dark Web. (I suppose describing it as a place of “decomposing morals” didn’t help. It’s nice to know that even the great Digital Gardner Maggie Appleton is not immune to pushback.)
I can’t help but chuckle about this as I feel what I’m seeing is the human instinct of being tribal and taking sides, happening here. We are all cave men in the end, driven by the instinct to protect our tribes.
I believe people can be very attached to their way of doing things, whether it be eating, living, commuting, blogging, you name it.
However, I’d like to emphasise that this post is not to attack the people giving me pushback about digital gardens. The ego may be somewhat dented (mostly because I’m annoyed that my writing wasn’t clear enough but caused misunderstanding), but this is valuable feedback. This is why I wrote the post!
The feedback made me wonder if there’s anyway to unruffle feathers and re-clarify the concept of digital gardens so that people may be less adversarial towards it.
It’s not an us vs them issue, truly
I was perhaps too quick to say that blogging is a promotional activity, though if you’ve worked in media for as long as I have (literally from the dawn of the Internet age), it sure seems like it, especially with the emphasis of using the medium to “build your brand”. Yes, I admit that I hate what blogging has become, saying:
Marketing has assimilated blogging and I hate it.
I didn’t think of adding a disclaimer to my article saying that “this is my opinion, and this doesn’t apply to all blogs” was kinda understood, but next time I’ll be sure to add it for clarity!
I concede that my article’s title, “Digital Gardens vs Blogging”, didn’t help matters, but seriously, I had zero intentions to pit blogging and digital gardening against each other.
For one, I am still blogging side by side with my digital garden! The category, Journal, is literally my blog, which I still blog about my life, chronologically. And occasionally, I commit the sin of building my personal brand with it!
My website is actually a hybrid – a digital garden and a blog.
And that’s the best thing about digital gardening is that your website can look however you want.
It’s not about which one is better
At the end of the day the difference between bloggers and digital gardeners is not whether one is better than the other, but in the way they organise and write their content.
That’s it.
Let me repeat for clarity:
From what I understand from reading the many, many articles about digital gardens, the difference between blogging and digital gardening lies in the way content is:
- organised. Blogs = chronological, digital gardens = not chronological
- written. Blogs = usually polished and SEO optimised, so that it can be promoted via social media channels. Digital gardens = unfinished copy. The gardener may return to the post/page to update it with more information later.
- niched. Not necessarily true for all blogs, of course, but it is “common wisdom” that if you want to get more eyeballs, niching is the way to go for blogs. Digital gardeners usually do not write about one topic nor do they angst about niching. Usually.
- fleeting or evergreen. Blogs, due to their chronological structure is fleeting. Old posts are often buried. Digital gardens are structured in such a way that each post can be evergreen, resurfaced again and again. Often, digital gardens are organised by categories where people can “fall into rabbit holes” where one post can lead to links to many other posts.
I think part of the problem is that there’s a lot of mystery around the term “digital gardens”. At least for now. So, it’s being promoted as some revolutionary, new-fangled thing.
Honestly, it isn’t that mysterious or even new. One way to think about digital gardens is that it is simply an individual’s curated wiki on the Internet, a knowledge base.
Both digital gardens and blogging have the same objective, sharing knowledge.
So, in conclusion:
Digital gardening is just a different way to present your thoughts on the Internet.
You can blog and digital garden at the same time and in the same space like I do.
Digital gardens give you the freedom to break free of preconceived notions or “best practices” on how to write on the Internet.
Digital gardens can be freeing. For one, it was one of the main reasons why I am writing more on my website now. Because I realise I don’t have to dance to the algorithm anymore just to be read.
I write in my digital garden because I want to learn in public.
I write in my digital garden because I want to clarify my ideas and what I’ve learned. By writing and teaching others about my ideas and learnings, I get to solidify what I’ve learned in my brain.
The feedback I get, even negative ones, help me reshape my ideas.
In the end, I write in my digital garden because it makes me happy.
#BeingAWriter #blog #blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet
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Pushback against digital gardens?
One of the most unexpected things I’ve seen is the pushback I’ve seen against digital gardens.
I wrote the blog post Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?. The intention was to demonstrate how these two ways of being on the Internet differ from each other.
My interpretation, by the way, is not something I came up with but is echoed by some digital garden practitioners such as Joel Hooks: Stop Giving af and Start Writing More.
I suspect part of the reason I resonated with his article (especially his resentment and irritation about what blogging has become), was because I was a blogger since the dawn of the Internet. I used to build my blog using raw HTML, back when blog wasn’t even called a blog.
Over the years, I’ve seen blogging morph from online diaries and eccentric websites sharing quirky things to well-polished, SEO-optimised articles promoting brands, businesses, a person’s skills and knowledge via templatised web structures.
Yes, granted that this is a generalisation of how people blog, but just search for the term “blog” or “blogging” and you’ll get recommendations on how to be a top blog on the search engines, SEO tactics, endless listicles and more.
Leaving aside those who refuse to comply to these demands*, blogging has been dominated by SEO and marketing forces for a long time.
(If you belong to this category, really, this article is not speaking about you (nor am I speaking about those who do), I’m not calling you inferior for writing content chronologically! I mean, see how dumb that sentence reads?)
Besides this article, I remember sharing Maggie Appleton’s digital garden illustration in The Dark Forest and Generative AI, and got a flurry of angry posts from it too.
People were fixated with her interpretation of the Dark Web. (I suppose describing it as a place of “decomposing morals” didn’t help. It’s nice to know that even the great Digital Gardner Maggie Appleton is not immune to pushback.)
I can’t help but chuckle about this as I feel what I’m seeing is the human instinct of being tribal and taking sides, happening here. We are all cave men in the end, driven by the instinct to protect our tribes.
I believe people can be very attached to their way of doing things, whether it be eating, living, commuting, blogging, you name it.
However, I’d like to emphasise that this post is not to attack the people giving me pushback about digital gardens. The ego may be somewhat dented (mostly because I’m annoyed that my writing wasn’t clear enough but caused misunderstanding), but this is valuable feedback. This is why I wrote the post!
The feedback made me wonder if there’s anyway to unruffle feathers and re-clarify the concept of digital gardens so that people may be less adversarial towards it.
It’s not an us vs them issue, truly
I was perhaps too quick to say that blogging is a promotional activity, though if you’ve worked in media for as long as I have (literally from the dawn of the Internet age), it sure seems like it, especially with the emphasis of using the medium to “build your brand”. Yes, I admit that I hate what blogging has become, saying:
Marketing has assimilated blogging and I hate it.
I didn’t think of adding a disclaimer to my article saying that “this is my opinion, and this doesn’t apply to all blogs” was kinda understood, but next time I’ll be sure to add it for clarity!
I concede that my article’s title, “Digital Gardens vs Blogging”, didn’t help matters, but seriously, I had zero intentions to pit blogging and digital gardening against each other.
For one, I am still blogging side by side with my digital garden! The category, Journal, is literally my blog, which I still blog about my life, chronologically. And occasionally, I commit the sin of building my personal brand with it!
My website is actually a hybrid – a digital garden and a blog.
And that’s the best thing about digital gardening is that your website can look however you want.
It’s not about which one is better
At the end of the day the difference between bloggers and digital gardeners is not whether one is better than the other, but in the way they organise and write their content.
That’s it.
Let me repeat for clarity:
From what I understand from reading the many, many articles about digital gardens, the difference between blogging and digital gardening lies in the way content is:
- organised. Blogs = chronological, digital gardens = not chronological
- written. Blogs = usually polished and SEO optimised, so that it can be promoted via social media channels. Digital gardens = unfinished copy. The gardener may return to the post/page to update it with more information later.
- niched. Not necessarily true for all blogs, of course, but it is “common wisdom” that if you want to get more eyeballs, niching is the way to go for blogs. Digital gardeners usually do not write about one topic nor do they angst about niching. Usually.
- fleeting or evergreen. Blogs, due to their chronological structure is fleeting. Old posts are often buried. Digital gardens are structured in such a way that each post can be evergreen, resurfaced again and again. Often, digital gardens are organised by categories where people can “fall into rabbit holes” where one post can lead to links to many other posts.
I think part of the problem is that there’s a lot of mystery around the term “digital gardens”. At least for now. So, it’s being promoted as some revolutionary, new-fangled thing.
Honestly, it isn’t that mysterious or even new. One way to think about digital gardens is that it is simply an individual’s curated wiki on the Internet, a knowledge base.
Both digital gardens and blogging have the same objective, sharing knowledge.
So, in conclusion:
Digital gardening is just a different way to present your thoughts on the Internet.
You can blog and digital garden at the same time and in the same space like I do.
Digital gardens give you the freedom to break free of preconceived notions or “best practices” on how to write on the Internet.
Digital gardens can be freeing. For one, it was one of the main reasons why I am writing more on my website now. Because I realise I don’t have to dance to the algorithm anymore just to be read.
I write in my digital garden because I want to learn in public.
I write in my digital garden because I want to clarify my ideas and what I’ve learned. By writing and teaching others about my ideas and learnings, I get to solidify what I’ve learned in my brain.
The feedback I get, even negative ones, help me reshape my ideas.
In the end, I write in my digital garden because it makes me happy.
#BeingAWriter #blog #blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet
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Pushback against digital gardens?
One of the most unexpected things I’ve seen is the pushback I’ve seen against digital gardens.
I wrote the blog post Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?. The intention was to demonstrate how these two ways of being on the Internet differ from each other.
My interpretation, by the way, is not something I came up with but is echoed by some digital garden practitioners such as Joel Hooks: Stop Giving af and Start Writing More.
I suspect part of the reason I resonated with his article (especially his resentment and irritation about what blogging has become), was because I was a blogger since the dawn of the Internet. I used to build my blog using raw HTML, back when blog wasn’t even called a blog.
Over the years, I’ve seen blogging morph from online diaries and eccentric websites sharing quirky things to well-polished, SEO-optimised articles promoting brands, businesses, a person’s skills and knowledge via templatised web structures.
Yes, granted that this is a generalisation of how people blog, but just search for the term “blog” or “blogging” and you’ll get recommendations on how to be a top blog on the search engines, SEO tactics, endless listicles and more.
Leaving aside those who refuse to comply to these demands*, blogging has been dominated by SEO and marketing forces for a long time.
(If you belong to this category, really, this article is not speaking about you (nor am I speaking about those who do), I’m not calling you inferior for writing content chronologically! I mean, see how dumb that sentence reads?)
Besides this article, I remember sharing Maggie Appleton’s digital garden illustration in The Dark Forest and Generative AI, and got a flurry of angry posts from it too.
People were fixated with her interpretation of the Dark Web. (I suppose describing it as a place of “decomposing morals” didn’t help. It’s nice to know that even the great Digital Gardner Maggie Appleton is not immune to pushback.)
I can’t help but chuckle about this as I feel what I’m seeing is the human instinct of being tribal and taking sides, happening here. We are all cave men in the end, driven by the instinct to protect our tribes.
I believe people can be very attached to their way of doing things, whether it be eating, living, commuting, blogging, you name it.
However, I’d like to emphasise that this post is not to attack the people giving me pushback about digital gardens. The ego may be somewhat dented (mostly because I’m annoyed that my writing wasn’t clear enough but caused misunderstanding), but this is valuable feedback. This is why I wrote the post!
The feedback made me wonder if there’s anyway to unruffle feathers and re-clarify the concept of digital gardens so that people may be less adversarial towards it.
It’s not an us vs them issue, truly
I was perhaps too quick to say that blogging is a promotional activity, though if you’ve worked in media for as long as I have (literally from the dawn of the Internet age), it sure seems like it, especially with the emphasis of using the medium to “build your brand”. Yes, I admit that I hate what blogging has become, saying:
Marketing has assimilated blogging and I hate it.
I didn’t think of adding a disclaimer to my article saying that “this is my opinion, and this doesn’t apply to all blogs” was kinda understood, but next time I’ll be sure to add it for clarity!
I concede that my article’s title, “Digital Gardens vs Blogging”, didn’t help matters, but seriously, I had zero intentions to pit blogging and digital gardening against each other.
For one, I am still blogging side by side with my digital garden! The category, Journal, is literally my blog, which I still blog about my life, chronologically. And occasionally, I commit the sin of building my personal brand with it!
My website is actually a hybrid – a digital garden and a blog.
And that’s the best thing about digital gardening is that your website can look however you want.
It’s not about which one is better
At the end of the day the difference between bloggers and digital gardeners is not whether one is better than the other, but in the way they organise and write their content.
That’s it.
Let me repeat for clarity:
From what I understand from reading the many, many articles about digital gardens, the difference between blogging and digital gardening lies in the way content is:
- organised. Blogs = chronological, digital gardens = not chronological
- written. Blogs = usually polished and SEO optimised, so that it can be promoted via social media channels. Digital gardens = unfinished copy. The gardener may return to the post/page to update it with more information later.
- niched. Not necessarily true for all blogs, of course, but it is “common wisdom” that if you want to get more eyeballs, niching is the way to go for blogs. Digital gardeners usually do not write about one topic nor do they angst about niching. Usually.
- fleeting or evergreen. Blogs, due to their chronological structure is fleeting. Old posts are often buried. Digital gardens are structured in such a way that each post can be evergreen, resurfaced again and again. Often, digital gardens are organised by categories where people can “fall into rabbit holes” where one post can lead to links to many other posts.
I think part of the problem is that there’s a lot of mystery around the term “digital gardens”. At least for now. So, it’s being promoted as some revolutionary, new-fangled thing.
Honestly, it isn’t that mysterious or even new. One way to think about digital gardens is that it is simply an individual’s curated wiki on the Internet, a knowledge base.
Both digital gardens and blogging have the same objective, sharing knowledge.
So, in conclusion:
Digital gardening is just a different way to present your thoughts on the Internet.
You can blog and digital garden at the same time and in the same space like I do.
Digital gardens give you the freedom to break free of preconceived notions or “best practices” on how to write on the Internet.
Digital gardens can be freeing. For one, it was one of the main reasons why I am writing more on my website now. Because I realise I don’t have to dance to the algorithm anymore just to be read.
I write in my digital garden because I want to learn in public.
I write in my digital garden because I want to clarify my ideas and what I’ve learned. By writing and teaching others about my ideas and learnings, I get to solidify what I’ve learned in my brain.
The feedback I get, even negative ones, help me reshape my ideas.
In the end, I write in my digital garden because it makes me happy.
#BeingAWriter #blog #blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet
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Pushback against digital gardens?
One of the most unexpected things I’ve seen is the pushback I’ve seen against digital gardens.
I wrote the blog post Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?. The intention was to demonstrate how these two ways of being on the Internet differ from each other.
My interpretation, by the way, is not something I came up with but is echoed by some digital garden practitioners such as Joel Hooks: Stop Giving af and Start Writing More.
I suspect part of the reason I resonated with his article (especially his resentment and irritation about what blogging has become), was because I was a blogger since the dawn of the Internet. I used to build my blog using raw HTML, back when blog wasn’t even called a blog.
Over the years, I’ve seen blogging morph from online diaries and eccentric websites sharing quirky things to well-polished, SEO-optimised articles promoting brands, businesses, a person’s skills and knowledge via templatised web structures.
Yes, granted that this is a generalisation of how people blog, but just search for the term “blog” or “blogging” and you’ll get recommendations on how to be a top blog on the search engines, SEO tactics, endless listicles and more.
Leaving aside those who refuse to comply to these demands*, blogging has been dominated by SEO and marketing forces for a long time.
(If you belong to this category, really, this article is not speaking about you (nor am I speaking about those who do), I’m not calling you inferior for writing content chronologically! I mean, see how dumb that sentence reads?)
Besides this article, I remember sharing Maggie Appleton’s digital garden illustration in The Dark Forest and Generative AI, and got a flurry of angry posts from it too.
People were fixated with her interpretation of the Dark Web. (I suppose describing it as a place of “decomposing morals” didn’t help. It’s nice to know that even the great Digital Gardner Maggie Appleton is not immune to pushback.)
I can’t help but chuckle about this as I feel what I’m seeing is the human instinct of being tribal and taking sides, happening here. We are all cave men in the end, driven by the instinct to protect our tribes.
I believe people can be very attached to their way of doing things, whether it be eating, living, commuting, blogging, you name it.
However, I’d like to emphasise that this post is not to attack the people giving me pushback about digital gardens. The ego may be somewhat dented (mostly because I’m annoyed that my writing wasn’t clear enough but caused misunderstanding), but this is valuable feedback. This is why I wrote the post!
The feedback made me wonder if there’s anyway to unruffle feathers and re-clarify the concept of digital gardens so that people may be less adversarial towards it.
It’s not an us vs them issue, truly
I was perhaps too quick to say that blogging is a promotional activity, though if you’ve worked in media for as long as I have (literally from the dawn of the Internet age), it sure seems like it, especially with the emphasis of using the medium to “build your brand”. Yes, I admit that I hate what blogging has become, saying:
Marketing has assimilated blogging and I hate it.
I didn’t think of adding a disclaimer to my article saying that “this is my opinion, and this doesn’t apply to all blogs” was kinda understood, but next time I’ll be sure to add it for clarity!
I concede that my article’s title, “Digital Gardens vs Blogging”, didn’t help matters, but seriously, I had zero intentions to pit blogging and digital gardening against each other.
For one, I am still blogging side by side with my digital garden! The category, Journal, is literally my blog, which I still blog about my life, chronologically. And occasionally, I commit the sin of building my personal brand with it!
My website is actually a hybrid – a digital garden and a blog.
And that’s the best thing about digital gardening is that your website can look however you want.
It’s not about which one is better
At the end of the day the difference between bloggers and digital gardeners is not whether one is better than the other, but in the way they organise and write their content.
That’s it.
Let me repeat for clarity:
From what I understand from reading the many, many articles about digital gardens, the difference between blogging and digital gardening lies in the way content is:
- organised. Blogs = chronological, digital gardens = not chronological
- written. Blogs = usually polished and SEO optimised, so that it can be promoted via social media channels. Digital gardens = unfinished copy. The gardener may return to the post/page to update it with more information later.
- niched. Not necessarily true for all blogs, of course, but it is “common wisdom” that if you want to get more eyeballs, niching is the way to go for blogs. Digital gardeners usually do not write about one topic nor do they angst about niching. Usually.
- fleeting or evergreen. Blogs, due to their chronological structure is fleeting. Old posts are often buried. Digital gardens are structured in such a way that each post can be evergreen, resurfaced again and again. Often, digital gardens are organised by categories where people can “fall into rabbit holes” where one post can lead to links to many other posts.
I think part of the problem is that there’s a lot of mystery around the term “digital gardens”. At least for now. So, it’s being promoted as some revolutionary, new-fangled thing.
Honestly, it isn’t that mysterious or even new. One way to think about digital gardens is that it is simply an individual’s curated wiki on the Internet, a knowledge base.
Both digital gardens and blogging have the same objective, sharing knowledge.
So, in conclusion:
Digital gardening is just a different way to present your thoughts on the Internet.
You can blog and digital garden at the same time and in the same space like I do.
Digital gardens give you the freedom to break free of preconceived notions or “best practices” on how to write on the Internet.
Digital gardens can be freeing. For one, it was one of the main reasons why I am writing more on my website now. Because I realise I don’t have to dance to the algorithm anymore just to be read.
I write in my digital garden because I want to learn in public.
I write in my digital garden because I want to clarify my ideas and what I’ve learned. By writing and teaching others about my ideas and learnings, I get to solidify what I’ve learned in my brain.
The feedback I get, even negative ones, help me reshape my ideas.
In the end, I write in my digital garden because it makes me happy.
#BeingAWriter #blog #blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet
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Attracting fury with my post about digital gardens was an unexpected thing lmao.
Look, I am not telling you how to #blog. The fact that this misunderstanding arose is because the person didn't read my post where I clearly said that blogging evolved over time, and it's now about performative self promotion. Sure, not everyone does this, or use blogs this way, but there's no denying with the SEO demands, the social media sharing, it's all very demanding on the post being complete and perfect.
Meanwhile I explain that digital gardens is a different way to put your thoughts on the internet. It is less performative and less sculptured. It can be very freeing.
https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Attracting fury with my post about digital gardens was an unexpected thing lmao.
Look, I am not telling you how to #blog. The fact that this misunderstanding arose is because the person didn't read my post where I clearly said that blogging evolved over time, and it's now about performative self promotion. Sure, not everyone does this, or use blogs this way, but there's no denying with the SEO demands, the social media sharing, it's all very demanding on the post being complete and perfect.
Meanwhile I explain that digital gardens is a different way to put your thoughts on the internet. It is less performative and less sculptured. It can be very freeing.
https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Attracting fury with my post about digital gardens was an unexpected thing lmao.
Look, I am not telling you how to #blog. The fact that this misunderstanding arose is because the person didn't read my post where I clearly said that blogging evolved over time, and it's now about performative self promotion. Sure, not everyone does this, or use blogs this way, but there's no denying with the SEO demands, the social media sharing, it's all very demanding on the post being complete and perfect.
Meanwhile I explain that digital gardens is a different way to put your thoughts on the internet. It is less performative and less sculptured. It can be very freeing.
https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Attracting fury with my post about digital gardens was an unexpected thing lmao.
Look, I am not telling you how to #blog. The fact that this misunderstanding arose is because the person didn't read my post where I clearly said that blogging evolved over time, and it's now about performative self promotion. Sure, not everyone does this, or use blogs this way, but there's no denying with the SEO demands, the social media sharing, it's all very demanding on the post being complete and perfect.
Meanwhile I explain that digital gardens is a different way to put your thoughts on the internet. It is less performative and less sculptured. It can be very freeing.
https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Attracting fury with my post about digital gardens was an unexpected thing lmao.
Look, I am not telling you how to #blog. The fact that this misunderstanding arose is because the person didn't read my post where I clearly said that blogging evolved over time, and it's now about performative self promotion. Sure, not everyone does this, or use blogs this way, but there's no denying with the SEO demands, the social media sharing, it's all very demanding on the post being complete and perfect.
Meanwhile I explain that digital gardens is a different way to put your thoughts on the internet. It is less performative and less sculptured. It can be very freeing.
https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to "brand yourself". Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to "brand yourself". Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to "brand yourself". Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to "brand yourself". Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to "brand yourself". Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/
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Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
If people want to know what’s the difference between digital gardening and blogging, I’ll just direct them to this quote from the blog post, Stop giving af and start writing more by Joel Hooks:
The idea of a “blog” needs to get over itself. Everybody is treating writing as a “content marketing strategy” and using it to “build a personal brand” which leads to the fundamental flawed idea that everything you post has to be polished to perfection and ready to be consumed.
I started blogging in the early 2000s, back when “weblogs” are not about marketing thyself but about recording your life, your quirky thoughts and weird hobbies.
Now, marketing has invaded blogging, that’s all you see, and I hated what blogging has become.
Last year or so, I discovered digital gardening, and it’s like having a light bulb go off in a path shrouded by mists. I’ve had this idea to write on the web this way, but I just didn’t know what to call it. Once I got a solidified concept, I grew extremely excited!
I wrote being an imperfect digital gardener, about daring to put out grammar-addled, spelling-imperfect, half formed thoughts into the void of the Internet. I wrote about the joy of putting the idea “branding myself” to rest, and finally writing without dancing to the algorithm, not caring about SEO-fying my posts, just sharing my wild garden of thoughts and ideas to the world.
So, my thoughts about how digital gardens differ from blogs:
Blogs are chronological, often are “niched’ to align to a polished image you want to present to the world, and is about marketing the personality behind the writer. Blogs are tools to show you in the best light; a personal branding tool. Blog posts the most polished and complete version of your thoughts you want to show to the world. The posts that give people the best impression of you. Yet, they are ephemeral and rush past you like leaves on a fast-flowing river. Older posts are often buried and ignored.
Digital gardens are not chronological, the topics are often not confined to a topic but are a wild mix. The real star of the show is the knowledge being tended in the digital garden. Personal branding is more of an afterglow of the digital garden, a side effect rather than the sole purpose of a digital garden. Digital garden content are often incomplete, works-in-progress, not always polished or even well-written. However, they are like flowers in a garden, inviting you to linger and explore more through a series of posts, links and connections. Older content are resurfaced in newer essays and linked to newer ones. As a result, one can easily get lost in a rabbit hole of thoughts, exploring curiosities in unexpected ways.
Where to build your garden
Just recently, I decided to do the wild thing (at least by digital garden standards) to build my digital garden on wordpress.com. Many digital gardeners like to build theirs on static websites because they want to be free of the chronological format imposed by most blog content management systems, but I’m of the ilk who prefer not to spend endless hours building CMSes when there’s a perfectly good one I’m using.
But will there be a chance I move this website to a static website one day? I have no doubt, but the enterprise will be a humongous one.
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Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
If people want to know what’s the difference between digital gardening and blogging, I’ll just direct them to this quote from the blog post, Stop giving af and start writing more by Joel Hooks:
The idea of a “blog” needs to get over itself. Everybody is treating writing as a “content marketing strategy” and using it to “build a personal brand” which leads to the fundamental flawed idea that everything you post has to be polished to perfection and ready to be consumed.
I started blogging in the early 2000s, back when “weblogs” are not about marketing thyself but about recording your life, your quirky thoughts and weird hobbies.
Now, marketing has invaded blogging, that’s all you see, and I hated what blogging has become.
Last year or so, I discovered digital gardening, and it’s like having a light bulb go off in a path shrouded by mists. I’ve had this idea to write on the web this way, but I just didn’t know what to call it. Once I got a solidified concept, I grew extremely excited!
I wrote being an imperfect digital gardener, about daring to put out grammar-addled, spelling-imperfect, half formed thoughts into the void of the Internet. I wrote about the joy of putting the idea “branding myself” to rest, and finally writing without dancing to the algorithm, not caring about SEO-fying my posts, just sharing my wild garden of thoughts and ideas to the world.
So, my thoughts about how digital gardens differ from blogs:
Blogs are chronological, often are “niched’ to align to a polished image you want to present to the world, and is about marketing the personality behind the writer. Blogs are tools to show you in the best light; a personal branding tool. Blog posts the most polished and complete version of your thoughts you want to show to the world. The posts that give people the best impression of you. Yet, they are ephemeral and rush past you like leaves on a fast-flowing river. Older posts are often buried and ignored.
Digital gardens are not chronological, the topics are often not confined to a topic but are a wild mix. The real star of the show is the knowledge being tended in the digital garden. Personal branding is more of an afterglow of the digital garden, a side effect rather than the sole purpose of a digital garden. Digital garden content are often incomplete, works-in-progress, not always polished or even well-written. However, they are like flowers in a garden, inviting you to linger and explore more through a series of posts, links and connections. Older content are resurfaced in newer essays and linked to newer ones. As a result, one can easily get lost in a rabbit hole of thoughts, exploring curiosities in unexpected ways.
Where to build your garden
Just recently, I decided to do the wild thing (at least by digital garden standards) to build my digital garden on wordpress.com. Many digital gardeners like to build theirs on static websites because they want to be free of the chronological format imposed by most blog content management systems, but I’m of the ilk who prefer not to spend endless hours building CMSes when there’s a perfectly good one I’m using.
But will there be a chance I move this website to a static website one day? I have no doubt, but the enterprise will be a humongous one.
-
Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
If people want to know what’s the difference between digital gardening and blogging, I’ll just direct them to this quote from the blog post, Stop giving af and start writing more by Joel Hooks:
The idea of a “blog” needs to get over itself. Everybody is treating writing as a “content marketing strategy” and using it to “build a personal brand” which leads to the fundamental flawed idea that everything you post has to be polished to perfection and ready to be consumed.
I started blogging in the early 2000s, back when “weblogs” are not about marketing thyself but about recording your life, your quirky thoughts and weird hobbies.
Now, marketing has invaded blogging, that’s all you see, and I hated what blogging has become.
Last year or so, I discovered digital gardening, and it’s like having a light bulb go off in a path shrouded by mists. I’ve had this idea to write on the web this way, but I just didn’t know what to call it. Once I got a solidified concept, I grew extremely excited!
I wrote being an imperfect digital gardener, about daring to put out grammar-addled, spelling-imperfect, half formed thoughts into the void of the Internet. I wrote about the joy of putting the idea “branding myself” to rest, and finally writing without dancing to the algorithm, not caring about SEO-fying my posts, just sharing my wild garden of thoughts and ideas to the world.
So, my thoughts about how digital gardens differ from blogs:
Blogs are chronological, often are “niched’ to align to a polished image you want to present to the world, and is about marketing the personality behind the writer. Blogs are tools to show you in the best light; a personal branding tool. Blog posts the most polished and complete version of your thoughts you want to show to the world. The posts that give people the best impression of you. Yet, they are ephemeral and rush past you like leaves on a fast-flowing river. Older posts are often buried and ignored.
Digital gardens are not chronological, the topics are often not confined to a topic but are a wild mix. The real star of the show is the knowledge being tended in the digital garden. Personal branding is more of an afterglow of the digital garden, a side effect rather than the sole purpose of a digital garden. Digital garden content are often incomplete, works-in-progress, not always polished or even well-written. However, they are like flowers in a garden, inviting you to linger and explore more through a series of posts, links and connections. Older content are resurfaced in newer essays and linked to newer ones. As a result, one can easily get lost in a rabbit hole of thoughts, exploring curiosities in unexpected ways.
Where to build your garden
Just recently, I decided to do the wild thing (at least by digital garden standards) to build my digital garden on wordpress.com. Many digital gardeners like to build theirs on static websites because they want to be free of the chronological format imposed by most blog content management systems, but I’m of the ilk who prefer not to spend endless hours building CMSes when there’s a perfectly good one I’m using.
But will there be a chance I move this website to a static website one day? I have no doubt, but the enterprise will be a humongous one.
-
Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
If people want to know what’s the difference between digital gardening and blogging, I’ll just direct them to this quote from the blog post, Stop giving af and start writing more by Joel Hooks:
The idea of a “blog” needs to get over itself. Everybody is treating writing as a “content marketing strategy” and using it to “build a personal brand” which leads to the fundamental flawed idea that everything you post has to be polished to perfection and ready to be consumed.
I started blogging in the early 2000s, back when “weblogs” are not about marketing thyself but about recording your life, your quirky thoughts and weird hobbies.
Now, marketing has invaded blogging, that’s all you see, and I hated what blogging has become.
Last year or so, I discovered digital gardening, and it’s like having a light bulb go off in a path shrouded by mists. I’ve had this idea to write on the web this way, but I just didn’t know what to call it. Once I got a solidified concept, I grew extremely excited!
I wrote being an imperfect digital gardener, about daring to put out grammar-addled, spelling-imperfect, half formed thoughts into the void of the Internet. I wrote about the joy of putting the idea “branding myself” to rest, and finally writing without dancing to the algorithm, not caring about SEO-fying my posts, just sharing my wild garden of thoughts and ideas to the world.
So, my thoughts about how digital gardens differ from blogs:
Blogs are chronological, often are “niched’ to align to a polished image you want to present to the world, and is about marketing the personality behind the writer. Blogs are tools to show you in the best light; a personal branding tool. Blog posts the most polished and complete version of your thoughts you want to show to the world. The posts that give people the best impression of you. Yet, they are ephemeral and rush past you like leaves on a fast-flowing river. Older posts are often buried and ignored.
Digital gardens are not chronological, the topics are often not confined to a topic but are a wild mix. The real star of the show is the knowledge being tended in the digital garden. Personal branding is more of an afterglow of the digital garden, a side effect rather than the sole purpose of a digital garden. Digital garden content are often incomplete, works-in-progress, not always polished or even well-written. However, they are like flowers in a garden, inviting you to linger and explore more through a series of posts, links and connections. Older content are resurfaced in newer essays and linked to newer ones. As a result, one can easily get lost in a rabbit hole of thoughts, exploring curiosities in unexpected ways.
Where to build your garden
Just recently, I decided to do the wild thing (at least by digital garden standards) to build my digital garden on wordpress.com. Many digital gardeners like to build theirs on static websites because they want to be free of the chronological format imposed by most blog content management systems, but I’m of the ilk who prefer not to spend endless hours building CMSes when there’s a perfectly good one I’m using.
But will there be a chance I move this website to a static website one day? I have no doubt, but the enterprise will be a humongous one.
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@ben at the end of a recent post about online note publishing I pointed to a few lists of #digitalgardens. I hope you find it helpful.
https://writingslowly.com/2025/04/15/why-not-publish-all-your.html
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@ben at the end of a recent post about online note publishing I pointed to a few lists of #digitalgardens. I hope you find it helpful.
https://writingslowly.com/2025/04/15/why-not-publish-all-your.html
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@ben at the end of a recent post about online note publishing I pointed to a few lists of #digitalgardens. I hope you find it helpful.
https://writingslowly.com/2025/04/15/why-not-publish-all-your.html