The Slow Web?
blog March 19th, 2026
This blog post regarding the “Slow Web” struck a chord with me. It’s from 2014 (and I think I modeled my WordPress template after this site!), The notion of a Slow Web as a more mindful web reminded me of how the web used to be — instead of rapid dopamine hits of half-truths.
The Slow Web would be more like a book, retaining many of the elements of the Popular Web, but unhurried, re-considered, additive. Research would no longer be restricted to rapid responders. Conclusions would be intentionally postponed until sufficiently noodled-with. Writers could budget sufficient dream-time before setting pixel to page. Fresh thinking would no longer have to happen in real time.
I’ve been reading up on the “smol web” movement for some time – authors going back to self-publishing blogs, syndicating by choice, and choosing to post to independent sites. I’ve run this blog since 2001, and it’s taken on several incarnations – a daily blog a la LiveJournal, a photoblog, a landing page for my consulting business, and a place for me to store information I thought might fall off the web.
I started a mostly-text blog on my tilde using Blosxom, a blogging platform I’d played with back in the 2000s. While it’s an interesting exercise, it mostly serves as an echo of what my LiveJournal was.
I’m thinking of streamlining this blog, sorting out the technical blog entries into their own blog and making this more personal, more writing-focused.