Start a linkblog
2025-06-01 12:37:47 +01:00 by Mark Smith
There seems to be a bit of a backlash against AI doomerism, both in online print journalism and in podcasts. At its core people are worried about the jobs market, which is sure to be impacted, but it’s so unclear how that’s going to pan out. Some people are saying that it’s entry level jobs that will be most affected, others are saying that it’s management jobs that are sure to be the first to be wiped out.
I started blogging in the early 2000s and managed to keep my site going for a few years. I found it difficult to keep writing posts often, and eventually that first blog of mine was abandonned. Around that time, Twitter was taking off, and I was finding that I was posting a lot on Twitter. I decided around then to start a linkblog. That was much easier than a blog since posts were much shorter, and most of what I was doing was reading other sites anyway. I was learning so much about the web and the technologies that were being used. I’m glad I did start the linkblog, because now I have a big corpus of data chronicling my journey. I’ve managed to integrate the linkblog with my blog quite effectively, and now I write blog posts much more regularly and continue to linkblog, and I also write smaller bitesize titleless notes.
It can seem a bit daunting at first, but linkblogging is a great way to start. Before you know it, you will have amased a big personal dataset that you can feed the AIs that you will no doubt in the future be building to help improve your life. The last 20 years were all about the technology wave related to the build out of the web, and it seems the next 20 years will be about the technology wave related to the build out of whatever the AI revolution turns into.
Start with something simple, document it as you go, and build it into something bigger. #