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The New Leaf Journal is a small and independent online writing magazine. While I hope that every visitor becomes a regular visitor to this magazine, I thought that it would be interesting to provide a list of other interesting projects from around the web. Below, you will find two lists.
The first list covers blogrolls, web rings, and small web search engines from around the internet. These resources will help you find many interesting websites that are not easy to find with regular web searches.
Second, you will find a running list of interesting websites, blogs, and links curated by The New Leaf Journal. One rule for inclusion is that the site must include an RSS or Atom feed, which I cover here. You can find all of The New Leaf Journal feeds here. We will update the list semi-regularly with new content and make sure that the content that we previously included is still live. If you have a suggestion or proposed link exchange, you can send a message.
Please note that the list is very much a work in progress. It will be regularly updated. All entries are added by me (N.A. Ferrell) unless otherwise expressly stated.
Blogrolls and Small Web Search Engines
| Website/Link | Resource Type | Description |
| BlogDB | Blogroll | A collection of user-submitted blogs from around the intrnet. |
| Blog Surf | Blog Directory/Search | A curated list of blogs with a search engine for individual posts. |
| Marginalia Search | Search Engine | An independent search engine for non-commercial content. |
| RSS Discovery Engine | RSS/Atom Search Engine | Enter a web page and the RSS Discovery Engine will find web feeds in links on the page. |
| Search My Site | Blog Search Engine | A search engine for user-submitted blogs. |
| Teclis | Search Engine | An independent non-commercial search engine for finding interesting content on clean websites. |
| The Big List of Personal Websites | Blog Directory | As advertised by the title. Note that the website does not have an https version. |
| Wiby | Search Engine | An independent search engine for the classic web. |
| Ye Olde Blogroll | Blogroll | Curated blogroll organized by category and with most-recent posts. |
New Leaf Journal Blogroll
| Webste/Link | Feed | Categories | Description |
| Ambient Irony | Atom | Tech, News, Anime | Tech blog with daily links from around the web. Also covers news and culture. |
| Beneath the Tangles | RSS | Anime, Christianity | A unique anime blog/website that “focus[es] on the unexpected convergence of Christianity and anime.” |
| David Perell | RSS | Writing | Interesting writing blog that covers a variety of subjects. |
| Gurbo & Caserta Soundcloud | RSS | Music, Recordings, VVG | Official Soundcloud for collaborations between Victor V. Gurbo and Mark Caserta. |
| DistroTube | RSS | Linux, FOSS, Tech | YouTube channel for Derek Taylor (“DT”). He covers Linux and free software. |
| Jrose11 (YouTube) | RSS | Videos, Video-Games | Channel featuring single-Pokémon speed runs from the original Red and Blue with illuminating commentary. |
| Gregor Santner | Atom | Tech, Android, Linux | Personal website of Gregor Santer, the developer behind the Markor text editor for Android. |
| It’s FOSS | RSS | Linux, FOSS | A regularly updated website about free and open source souftware – strong focus on Linux. |
| Larry Sanger | RSS | Tech, Knowledge, Knowledge | Interesting blog by Larry Sanger – covers knowledge, digital ownership, big tech, education, and more. |
| Laszlo (Pixelfed) | Atom | Photography, Birds | Many beautiful bird and nature photographs. |
| m15o | Atom | Tech, Gemini, Small Web | Developer of smol.pub, where I have an account. Interesting posts on Gemini and projects. |
| Marginalia Memex | Atom | Tech, Blog | Interesting and minimal blog by the creator of the of the Marginalia small-web search engine. |
| Mark Caserta Vimeo | RSS | Music, Videos, VVG | Vimeo channel for Brooklyn musician Mark Caserta. Includes some collaborations with Victor V. Gurbo. |
| Mojeek Blog | Atom | Tech, Search-Engines | Official blog of the independent Mojeek search engine. Covers Mojeek and other tech issues. |
| NAF Musings | Atom | Blogging, NAF | Small blog run by N.A. Ferrell. See here for information abouit Gemini and Gopher versions. |
| nafnlj Mastodon | RSS | Microblogging, Social, NAF | Mastodon account for N.A. Ferrell. Regulary links to older NLJ posts. |
| nafnlj Pixelfed | Atom | Photography, Social, NAF | N.A. Ferrell’s Pixelfed profile with HQ versions of NLJ photos. |
| Perishable Press | RSS | Tech, WordPress | Official blog of WordPress guru Jeff Starr. Mostly posts on WordPress, but also covers other interesting topics. |
| Project Gutenberg | RSS | Ebooks | A daily feed of new ebooks is something like a blog, I suppose. You may get a preview of future NLJ content. |
| shumplations | RSS | Video Games | Translations of interviews with Japanese game developers – mostly from the 1980s and 90s. |
| Standard Ebooks | RSS | Ebooks | Feed of new ebooks released by Standard Ebooks. |
| SoraNews24 | RSS | Japan | News site with interesting and humorous stories straight from Japan. |
| The Emu Café Club (NAF) | RSS | Microblogging, NAF | N.A. Ferrell’s Hubzilla profile. Mostly microblog-type posts. |
| Tokyo Camera Club | Atom | Photography | A Mastodon stream of editors choice photos from Tokyo Camera Club – quite impressive. |
| The New Leaf Journal | Feeds | Writing, NAF, VVG | Wow! This perennially virid online magazine looks amazing. |
| Victor V. Gurbo YouTube | RSS | Music, Videos, VVG | Victor V. Gurbo’s YouTube music channel. |
