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Why I still blog after 15 years

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Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by 8bitsrule »

maxvt wrote: post #179
ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> content creation I seriously hate the term "content" used for "creative output". It is a terrible, derogatory word, that makes me sad. Content is only there to have something to sell, to fill the blank space around ads, the actual content of the content doesn't matter. That people refer to themselves as "content creators" is a sign that they see the value of their creative output only to make money.

We got a great new word for it now: "slop" (as in, "AI-generated slop"). It can be human generated as well, and the key point is exactly as you wrote it -- it only exists to sell ads around it and has minimal or even negative (wrong or outdated information, poor reasoning, etc.) nutritional value.

So, it's a lot like newstand (or grocery aisle) popular magazines did back then, back in the Elvis days.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by 8bitsrule »

cloverich wrote: post #132
doctorwho42 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to the hyper capitalist world that has been created over the past 60 years. This is the result of always needed growth in your economic system.

Can you elaborate on your selection of 60 for the inception point?

That's about the time teen magazines emerged, isn't it. And the subsequent explosion of trends and rumors mags.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by 8bitsrule »

xenodium wrote: post #59

If you have stopped blogging, been meaning to get back on it, or simply want to start, but been put off by the popular platform options, I'm working on a blogging platform myself that sheds the crummy modern bits of the web: https://lmno.lol . Here's my own blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro (about 10 years worth of posts). You can read the blogs on your phone, your desktop, your terminal. No JS needed. Coincidentally the…

When I saw I could use HTML I was interested. Then I saw:

"Note: style attributes are currently blocked via Content-Security-Policy."

That's probably not for me. Restrictions on HTML are a stopper.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by funcDropShadow »

shafoshaf wrote: post #148
alexyz12 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

seems very relevant to me. Isn't it capitalism that reduces our value to $s? And thus our art is only valuable as content?

I think this is a common misconception of the comparison between "capitalism" and other forms of economic distribution. It's not capitalism that equates everything to dollars, it is how the universe works. This was the beauty of Karl Marx's thinking. He postulated that the best way to measure value is in the amount of human labor that goes into the output. However, once you have a medium to equate the value of a new…

> This was the beauty of Karl Marx's thinking. He postulated that the best way to measure value is in the amount of human labor that goes into the output.

This is indeed the most beautiful insight of Karl Marx that I ever read. This predicts perfectly why all socialist/communist economies collapse. They value inefficiency. The more work is needed to build a product, the more valuable it is --- according to Marx. That is one of the most fundamental error in his theories.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by helentoomik »

_bramses wrote: post #9

If your blog provider supports it, adding a “Open a Random Post” button on your blog makes the experience much more fulfilling in the long term, as you (and others) can revisit different posts from different eras. Websites don’t have physical form that readers can navigate, so we can take advantage of that by adding serendipity manually.

For my own personal, non-technical blog that I have kept going since 2006, I added an "on this day" feature that shows posts for today's date (or closest matching) for past years. Collapsed version shows posts from 1, 3, 5 and 10 years ago; expanded version shows all 18 years. It's like a little time machine that gives me little gifts of past posts.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by rambambram »

ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #48
JohnMakin wrote: post #36

> "I keep this blog for me to write, not necessarily for others to read." This is now to me the "old school" internet creator attitude (that I still possess). I don't blog as much any more but do create content elsewhere - a lot of it is for my own enjoyment and creative outlet, to blow off steam, whatever - the fact that other people may want to watch it is secondary. I do try to do things people want, but only if I…

> content creation I seriously hate the term "content" used for "creative output". It is a terrible, derogatory word, that makes me sad. Content is only there to have something to sell, to fill the blank space around ads, the actual content of the content doesn't matter. That people refer to themselves as "content creators" is a sign that they see the value of their creative output only to make money.

This museum definitely has some nice content, even better than the content at the library!

I think the use of the word 'content' stems from the times when all this technological innovation had more emphasis on programming and design and people were busy to find ideas/applications for all the newfound possibilities. Content was an afterthought.

I remember being busy with building a website - around 1998 or so - and only afterwards asking myself what I should use it for. I already got my high from finishing the programming/coding, now I had to fill it up with content.

Some years later, throw some marketeers and MBA type people in the mix, mix it with SEO and ads, and a legitimate need for 'content' arises. Doesn't matter what content, just content. Google is going to decide whether it's good content ('good' of course meaning 'monetizable').

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by chiefalchemist »

JohnMakin wrote: post #36

> "I keep this blog for me to write, not necessarily for others to read." This is now to me the "old school" internet creator attitude (that I still possess). I don't blog as much any more but do create content elsewhere - a lot of it is for my own enjoyment and creative outlet, to blow off steam, whatever - the fact that other people may want to watch it is secondary. I do try to do things people want, but only if I…

Something has gone wrong when we use and accept uning "content" as a euphemism for what is actually advertising.

We're not longer citizens, mearly consumers.

Re: Why I still blog after 15 years

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Post by xenodium »

8bitsrule wrote: post #203
xenodium wrote: post #59

If you have stopped blogging, been meaning to get back on it, or simply want to start, but been put off by the popular platform options, I'm working on a blogging platform myself that sheds the crummy modern bits of the web: https://lmno.lol . Here's my own blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro (about 10 years worth of posts). You can read the blogs on your phone, your desktop, your terminal. No JS needed. Coincidentally the…

When I saw I could use HTML I was interested. Then I saw: "Note: style attributes are currently blocked via Content-Security-Policy." That's probably not for me. Restrictions on HTML are a stopper.

The end-goal isn't to restrict, but rather safeguard readers (avoid injecting questionable JS that's everywhere on the web). Is styling what you're after? Something else? Happy to consider different scenarios and open those up.
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