Sept. 30, 2026

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This week’s tabs: Personal blogs are making a comeback with young women and CoStar is launching a dating app for book lovers.

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💻 0:00 - The personal blog is back. Young women are reviving the early-2000s personal blog as a customizable alternative to social media. We’re unpacking creator fatigue, algorithm exhaustion, and why people are craving their own little corners of the internet.

* Custom cursors, GIFs and hand-coded widgets: The personal blog is back, NBC News

📚 18:21 - CoStar is making a dating app for book lovers. ReadMe matches people based on their reading habits, communication styles, beliefs, and more. But can your taste in books actually predict romantic compatibility? We’re digging into the rise of BookTok, niche dating apps, and what people really want from online dating.

* I tried Co-star’s Readme, the dating app for readers. It’s fine., Mashable

* Dating Apps Are Dying, Time

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