The New Leaf Journal
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The New Leaf Journal is a self-hosted WordPress-powered online writing magazine. I launched the site on April 27, 2020. I created the project to host my own writing and that of my friends, which (as of this date) includes Victor V. Gurbo.
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I came across an interesting passage in THEM Anime’s review of a 2023 anime series titled The Dreaming Boy is a Realist. The line and the review were authored by Allen Moody, who I quoted once previously in a New Leaf Journal article on review systems. I emboldened the key point of the quote: Kei sits behind Wataru...
Back on March 30, 2021, I published an article titled On Oscar De La Hoya’s Comeback From Retirement. At the time, Oscar De La Hoya, one of the best boxers of the 1990s and 2000s, was planning to make a comeback at age 48, more than 12 years after he had retired after suffering a one-sided loss to Manny Pacquiao,...
I recently discovered a site called RSS Amplifier which syndicated 19 articles in full from my full-text ATOM feed to its own site and under its own banner without permission. While it did so with attribution and a link back, syndicating, or effectively publicly re-publishing entire articles without my consent is...
What is This? I publish a weekly newsletter called The Newsletter Leaf Journal (learn more on our Newsletter Page). The newsletter is hosted with Buttondown. On rare occasions, I syndicate issues of The Newsletter Leaf Journal here. Because I have not published many NLJ articles of late, I decided to syndicate issue...
On March 21, 2023, I published an article titled Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading. My project there was to provide an account of how a good collection of RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds can serve as a discovery mechanism for interesting articles and resources from around the web that are not direct feed subscriptions....
I have learned many things through reading articles and resources on the internet collected through my feed subscriptions and articles linked from articles in my feed collection. I have also learned things through conducting research for my New Leaf Journal article projects. But in what will surely come as breaking...
The Nintendo 64, Nintendo’s 5th generation home console, just celebrated the 30-year anniversary of its June 23, 1996 launch in Japan (it made it to the United States on September 29 of the same year). Nintendo Life commemorated the occasion with a collection of Nintendo 64 memories in “All-Consuming, Joyous,...
Robert Birming, an independent blogger, invited bloggers from around the web to participate in community blogging events in June and July. In June he hosted Junited, which encouraged bloggers to share blog posts they enjoy from around the web. July brought JulyReply, which encouraged bloggers to reply to posts they...
I regularly report on interesting examples of “free stuff” left out for the taking on the sidewalks of Brooklyn. On an evening walk on August 11, 2026, I happened upon a free white HP printer in Brooklyn Heights. It is not uncommon to see free printers, but this one caught my attention thanks to a note. I...
On August 10, 2026, the New York Post published an article titled High school football player practiced for an hour with a snake in helmet — until coaches ‘shock’ discovery. How could I not open such an exciting headline? The article, which also links to the original local news report from KARK.com, explains that a...
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