Everything to do with Arbroath
February 5, 2017 9:40 AM Subscribe
Everything to do with Arbroath Kev, the blogger behind the site Nothing To Do With Arbroath has died.
Kev, the blogger behind the site Nothing To Do With Arbroath, had been struggling with health problems lately. As announced in the comments section of his last post, Kev died while in care at hospital sometime over the last few days. The site itself, an aggregator, had been something I'd seen linked to for years and I only began checking it daily a couple of years ago after I realized that it was the source of a lot fun, good, interesting things I'd been seeing around the web for so long. One of my top five, go-to morning bookmarks, it was one of the last vestiges of the old school aggregator blog. Quirky, personal, image and link based, with short descriptions. When sites still posted blogrolls in the sidebar this was one of those I saw most often.
I'm so sad to see this go, and saddened by the circumstances surrounding his death (isolated and alone). I have been thinking a lot lately about the sense of community present in the heydays of the big web. How through anonymity we could connect. For me this fellows' death is emblematic of the loss of that promise as it seems that now we're seeing atomization and the proliferation of trolls, rather than community on the web.
Please pay his blog a visit in salute to the care and time it takes to do what he did. The archives are still active and if anyone can step in to repair any link rot it could go on living in memoriam to someone who I think might not have had many other interactions with the greater world.
Kev, the blogger behind the site Nothing To Do With Arbroath, had been struggling with health problems lately. As announced in the comments section of his last post, Kev died while in care at hospital sometime over the last few days. The site itself, an aggregator, had been something I'd seen linked to for years and I only began checking it daily a couple of years ago after I realized that it was the source of a lot fun, good, interesting things I'd been seeing around the web for so long. One of my top five, go-to morning bookmarks, it was one of the last vestiges of the old school aggregator blog. Quirky, personal, image and link based, with short descriptions. When sites still posted blogrolls in the sidebar this was one of those I saw most often.
I'm so sad to see this go, and saddened by the circumstances surrounding his death (isolated and alone). I have been thinking a lot lately about the sense of community present in the heydays of the big web. How through anonymity we could connect. For me this fellows' death is emblematic of the loss of that promise as it seems that now we're seeing atomization and the proliferation of trolls, rather than community on the web.
Please pay his blog a visit in salute to the care and time it takes to do what he did. The archives are still active and if anyone can step in to repair any link rot it could go on living in memoriam to someone who I think might not have had many other interactions with the greater world.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, I think this is really kind in its motivation but as a post this is far too much like a personal "here's my thoughts" blog entry to make sense for the front page. -- cortex
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