Personally, I have consumed information through blogs and RSS feeds for more than a decade now. I have been on Google Reader and later on Feedly to aggregate interesting sources and build my reading list. Then, many years ago, Twitter became a “content sharing and discussion platform” in my little tech bubble. Many colleagues and friends in the ecosystem shared their content, companies started to produce high-quality blog posts and everyone linked to content of others – and shared pictures of events and happenings. It’s been a really interesting ride.
Over the past few years, there was an even broader growth in information EVERYWHERE. The mainstream adoption of podcasting, “online events” during COVID, live streaming, continuous growth of Youtube and other video platforms. Also, LinkedIn became a more prominent place for content sharing but also content creation. All while core social media constructs were evolving based on open standards. Fediverse and Mastodon are building on a distributed platform approach for social media. Same applies to Bluesky’s AT protocol. And all of these new platforms allow cross-platform integration through good-old-standards like RSS.
If you followed this blog before, you probably noticed there hasn’t been much activity lately. That’s most likely going to change. And I won’t just focus on professional and datacenter related topics – there is so much interesting stuff going on these days. Over the past few months, I came across many smaller blogs that are maintained by passionate folks that shared their experience in a specific area. And I learned a lot from that. Personally, I want to get back to blogging to contribute, share my experience & personal thoughts. So thanks for reading and see you around soon!