For many years I’ve sporadically published weekly updates on this blog (starting with this one in 2009), usually with a plugin that collated my Tweets and social bookmarks for the week, and automatically posted them here.
I stopped with the automated posts in 2012 because I felt like the automated nature of the posts was a bit like spamming readers, and left the idea alone for 9 years!
I started a weekly digest habit again in 2021 with the idea of curating links with short commentary that I thought others might appreciate. I managed to keep this up for about 3 months; it was too time-consuming to track what I wanted to share and manually create the posts.
But I loved the idea of manual curation and after a couple of years, tried picking it up again in April 2023. I had made some changes to how I manage my reading, annotation, and writing process, and had thought I’d done enough to reduce the overhead of curating the links. But again, I only managed to keep it up for about 3 months. The process of finding links to share, reviewing annotations, and writing commentary still felt arduous. But looking back on these posts, I feel like they capture a nice collection of interesting ideas and I kept returning to the idea of weekly digests.
I’ve recently made more changes to my reading, writing, and sharing process and think I’ve found a good balance between the automation of collecting what I read into one place, in a format that makes it easy for me to create a weekly digest post of what I’ve recently found.
So I’m going to make another attempt at publishing a curated weekly collection of artifacts that readers of this blog might find useful. The content will almost always have something to do with higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI.
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