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Audio is just easier to multitask with than reading.
Audio may feel easier to multitask with, but how much do you actually retain?
If I'm sitting down to read, my body thinks I'm trying to take a nap.
blogging was like a diary, mostly authentic with people just primarily focused on sharing. some with banner ads on the site to get pocket change. then with substack, social media monetisation, etc everything became income focus. writers got taken over by influencers and content became focused on grabbing attention. didn' take long for readers to leave after that.
In fact, Playboy is famous for having excellent authors write articles or do serials. This is my favorite example of "you can be 'good' at two wildly different disciplines"
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I think it is very good and healthy to not care too much about readership numbers, but you seem pretty high on your pedestal here - you still publish it to the public, you still seek an audience. If you’re doing it just for you, then why are you hosting a blog For the world to see? Surely there is some part of you that wants people to read it, otherwise you wouldn’t, right?
Just knowing that people could read my blog is forcing me to take better care of my writing. This is the most important reason. And only my friends and family know the address, it is not indexed :-D
I consider blogging to be similar to the music industry. To me if AI fully takes over the music industry, I don't see it as a bad thing because I don't think there is a shortage of music in the first place. You could literally listen to a different song from a different artist for the rest of your life. The industry is saturated. In 2020, I was getting an insane amount of visitors from Google on my blog. Today, Googl…
Nope, sorry. As someone who cares about music, there may be a superabundance of adequate, filler-level stuff which AI can adequately substitute for. But for any given mood, moment or taste, there's only a finite amount of A-grade stuff. There's only one Stevie Wonder, and only a handful of great albums of his. There have been similarly valuable talents since, across different styles and genres. The industry is satura…
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Just knowing that people could read my blog is forcing me to take better care of my writing. This is the most important reason. And only my friends and family know the address, it is not indexed :-D
Loïc d'Anterroches (often referred to as Loic) runs the blog/news section on his company's site: https://www.ceondo.com/ecte/ .
Note: Interestingly, seeing my full name here is not something I expected.
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Result of ai will be that there will be no blogs. No one will find blogs and if someone writes one, search chatbot will just copy it. So, eventually no one will write them.
Millions of people have signed up to receive blog posts by email with Substack. HCR alone has 3M subscribers. While AI replaces "here's common knowledge repackaged" blogs, people still care what the authors they trust think. Now maybe sometime soon AI replaces that too, but I think by that point we're talking about "automation of the majority of human intellectual labor" and are well beyond blogs in particular.
The fact that now only substack blogs survived is result of the exact process I am talking about - search engine not returning smaller platforms and those blogs dying.
AI is just another step in that process.
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Result of ai will be that there will be no blogs. No one will find blogs and if someone writes one, search chatbot will just copy it. So, eventually no one will write them.
Blogs will still exist. They will be more difficult to find, just as everything not LLM generated will be more difficult to find, and people will just have to accept that everything they put online will be added to the training data of countless LLMs. But that's already the case and it hasn't stopped people from creating things, including blogs, in spite of LLMs. It may be the case that they mostly wind up on federat…
People are way less likely tondo pointless thing.
> People will still express themselves the way they always have because people want to do that.
People were not always writing blogs. Blogs existed when search engines returned personal long for writings. They were not a thing before and the culture atarted to die after google enshittified engine.
cohost was great for this. you could see the creator of tcrf just postin out there having a basic day. and the next post could either be an elaborate shitpost or a long read on the inner workings of the nes
ive checked out bubbles town and bearblog but it feels just like a worse doomscroll than social media and the people there are kinda lame.
You know what? I cannot care less if people are not reading blogs anymore. I reactivated my blog because it is a lot of fun to write, a lot of fun to take the time to put down my ideas, try to correctly formulate them, fighting with my crappy English or German (and the loss of my French). So, you can move on, you can go fully away from the blogosphere (it was a word, 20 years ago), this will not change that I am happ…