Blogosphere sightings: handwritten content, ceaseless curiosity, and a niche blog
29 November 2025
I started writing about newer blogs and personal websites earlier this year, and then somehow stopped. A busy year at work has been getting in the way of things as ever. Let’s try and get this going again, since there can’t be enough sharing of links within the blogosphere.
Having said my focus was to feature newer websites, I’m opening with one that’s been online since 2015. Ratika Deshpande’s website, Chavanni Class, is inspired by her great grandfather, whom she never met. He died quite sometime before her birth, but he was a teacher whose work, and life, was driven by a seemingly ceaseless curiosity.
Jan Sandstrom has been writing on his “blog style notebook” about life since leaving his job in 2024, to spend more time composing music, writing, creating comics, and painting. Some content is handwritten on paper but is posted with text captions, while posts and newsletters are only published from time to time, on this “quite slow blog”. And why not, what’s the rush anyway?
I don’t know much about the writer behind Iterative Wonders, but the about page tells us they’re “a tech and AI enthusiast, [who’s] brain often feels like a browser with way too many fascinating tabs open.” I’m right there with all the open browser tabs. Only a few posts have been published so far, but there’s still plenty to digest.
And to close, here’s a newer niche style blog. Sam Clemente’s publication, The Digital Renaissance, which explores “the new intersection between technology and liberal arts”, has been online for about a year. Subjects including technology, the social web, and business, are covered. Yes, there are older blogs focused on these topics, but it’s good to see newer outlets coming through.
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