What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
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Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#2Scale may be a problem for blogging, but Andrew Sullivan's exit says nothing about it. He simply wants to devote time to other things in his life.
Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#3Ah, nothing?
Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#4The emergence of blogging allowed individual voices outside of control of the larger media to reach their own audiences.
Because of this 10 years ago noone wanted to have AOL as their walled garden. Everyone wanted to search and discover themselves. Google brought an algorithm that allowed voices to emerge, but it also spawned the SEO industry to manipulate that distribution channel and make it more difficult.
Today most people never leave Facebook and FB's new feed rules will make sure that you have to pay to be heard.
So maybe Facebook has become like AOL, has become like the print magnates even prior to that. Time for disruption again?
Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#5I like Sully and read the Dish daily but I'm glad I won't have to watch the next 2-10 years of him trying to justify his Hillary Derangement Syndrome when her policy positions basically mirror Obama's, whom he reliably supports.
Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#6That he won't be doing much of it. Other than that not a whole lot.
Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#7Given the style of blogging, I'm not surprised. High output, fast thinking...it seems more like one of many types of blogging, rather than blogging itself. And it seems like the type of thing that could easily imbalance your life, which may explain the need to make an exit. Hope he finds what he's looking for. Personally more blogging is in my future but several posts a day is probably out of the question.
Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#8Nothing at all.
I don't see comments on his blog. That's not really blogging.
Bloggers, who take comments, actually entertaining community dialog are doing just fine. Sullivan will have no impact as that just isn't what he does.
Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#9I'm not Sullivan's biggest fan, but... if Sullivan can't make it as a blogger, who can?
Sullivan has a wealthy, educated audience that should be catnip to advertisers -- particularly with his particularly distinct influence among gay and politically liberal niches. He's possibly the most well-known blogger today and his Dish audience piggybacks from his previous work with The Atlantic. And while it's not easy to run a website, the capital required is minimal compared to virtually any other form of publication.
If he can't make it, can anyone? Much less a publication with heavier administrative and staff costs like virtually every newspaper or magazine.
Re: What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging
#10Nothing at all. I don't see comments on his blog. That's not really blogging. Bloggers, who take comments, actually entertaining community dialog are doing just fine. Sullivan will have no impact as that just isn't what he does.
Is Kottke.org not a blog? Daring Fireball? You're just injecting a nonsense definition to satisfy your own biases. High profile blog comments are typically nothing more than trash... flamewars, spam and, whenever politics is involved, astroturf. Sullivan has the FB page where readers are free to comment and features curated reader responses in the blog daily.