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Travel Feature

The Quiet Return of the Personal Website

A few hundred people, a borrowed domain, and no algorithm in sight.

By Vijay Singh 6 min read Journal Shorts

A laptop closed on a desk beside a window and a large potted plant.
Demo image · Unsplash

The personal website never went away, but for about a decade it stopped being the obvious place to put anything.

What changed

Not the technology, which was always available and always cheap. What changed is that the alternative stopped being reliable: accounts closed without appeal, reach adjusted without notice, archives made unsearchable.

A site with eleven pages on it and a domain you pay for annually is worse at distribution and better at persistence. For a growing number of people that is now the correct trade.

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Vijay Singh

Staff Writer, Technology

Writes about civic technology, data infrastructure, and the gap between publishing something and making it usable.

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Discussion 6 comments

Shobha Rangappa Pinned 3 hours ago

Nineteen public consultations and counting. The treatment-plant utilisation number is the one nobody publishes, and it is the only one that would tell you whether any of this works.

Vijay Singh Author 2 hours ago

They published it at 4:15pm. I've added it to the piece as an update rather than a correction, since nothing in the original was wrong; it was simply unanswered.

Vasanthi Kumar 5 hours ago

The cascade point deserves more attention than it usually gets. Restoring a lake in isolation is a real improvement to that lake and almost nothing to the system.

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A. Menon 6 hours ago

Even so, the diversion drains are doing something; they buy time while the plants get built.

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