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Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by devit »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #53

Blogging isn't dead but blog discovery basically is. Fifteen years ago (through about 2009, I would say -- about the time Facebook demonstrably took over MySpace), there were tons of services and startups built around blog discovery. And even into the early 2010s, Tumblr was still a thriving community that paid host to many different different subcultures and demographics (whereas today, Tumblr is largely fandom). Bu…

Blog discovery is now done on social networks, i.e. you publish an article on your blog (often hosted on Medium), then share it on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HN and then people find it there and can possibly follow you and get new articles either from the social network or from the blog itself.

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by erikbye »

ghaff wrote: post #39
munchbunny wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any examples of good cooking and baking blogs? I've been looking, but as you say, SEO is a problem for organic discovery for me.

There are tons. Food52 SpruceEats Tiny Urban Kitchen Serious Eats A lot depends on your food and style preferences.

As mentioned, not by me, elsewere in this thread, people seem to have trouble separating businesses from the kinds of blogs that are sorely missed. They were not the kind that tried to sell you anything.

I only checked two of these, Food52 and Serious Eats, these are businesses, not personal, quirky blogs. I am 100% sure that these are not the kind author of "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs" miss. And if the author of "Blogging Is Not Dead," think so, he too, has misunderstood.

I guess many, especially the younger crowd, is now just so inundated by these types of websites that they have no idea what we are talking about.

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by erikbye »

foob wrote: post #14

If you want to see more high quality blog posts, then I highly recommend taking actions to help promote and encourage them. Sign up for a mailing list or subscribe to an RSS feed when you find a blog that consistently produces quality material. Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter, and other communities where you think they would be a good fit. Upvote and retweet quality content that you…

> Sign up for a mailing list

Which mailing lists? I subscribe to some dev stuff (LKML, etc.) and various OSS lists, but the rest, the ones I see referred to here and elsewhere, typically started by some no-code-wanna-be-entrepreneur trying to monetize and turn mailing lists into a business. Garbage. They are no different from the SEO-optimized ad farm websites polluting the web.

> Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter,

Are you joking? Reddit and Twitter are the embodiment of almost everything wrong with the modern web. This is not where you look for quality content.

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by Zhyl »

PakG1 wrote: post #79
foob wrote: post #14

If you want to see more high quality blog posts, then I highly recommend taking actions to help promote and encourage them. Sign up for a mailing list or subscribe to an RSS feed when you find a blog that consistently produces quality material. Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter, and other communities where you think they would be a good fit. Upvote and retweet quality content that you…

What do you recommend as a good RSS reader these days? Can't say that I found one I like.

Newsboat :)

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by mhb »

PakG1 wrote: post #79
foob wrote: post #14

If you want to see more high quality blog posts, then I highly recommend taking actions to help promote and encourage them. Sign up for a mailing list or subscribe to an RSS feed when you find a blog that consistently produces quality material. Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter, and other communities where you think they would be a good fit. Upvote and retweet quality content that you…

What do you recommend as a good RSS reader these days? Can't say that I found one I like.

BazQux: https://bazqux.com/

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by lazarous »

I'd welcome some feedback. I'm hoping to start a blog based around my hobby and findings. It won't be anything ground breaking but I'd like somewhere to put my thoughts and feelings. I feel people may enjoy the content and pictures.

Do you think its worth me creating a blog like this, hoping that one day I could build up an organic following and potentially monetise it?

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by taejo »

redis_mlc wrote: post #101
coding123 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, thanks for pointing this out. I am amazed by the quality of writing! Nice random nugget: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/05/herd-stupidity/ > This isn’t a situation where you should look to the masses for guidance. When you see idiotic behavior, don’t let the fact that everyone else seems fine with it persuade you that it’s probably okay. Stupid behavior that’s popular is still stupid. A bar full of idio…

Prophetic ... applies to the corona lockdown perfectly.

It's correct, but since it's from last week it's hardly prophetic.

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by mikro2nd »

Hoasi wrote: post #19

Blogging is not dead. It is just unevenly discoverable. And that creates an interesting problem that is still waiting for a solution.

Every kind of discoverability in the internet is horrible and uneven, and unevenly favoured by present-day discovery engines (the GRAFT). I blogged about this some months ago: https://one.mikro2nd.net/2020/01/discoverability/

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by taejo »

hn_check wrote: post #22
crazygringo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it changed at all. It's not like the old bloggers became marketing bloggers. They didn't change. The marketing blogs just became a new thing, a separate thing. I don't think I've ever been confused between the two, despite them both being called blogs. It's pretty obvious that a personal blog is one thing, and a company blog is another. They're both "weblogs", neither has a greater right to the name.

"I don't think it changed at all. It's not like the old bloggers became marketing bloggers" The old bloggers all just moved on. Or at least the vast majority of them did. The number of terrible blogs are legion. Everyone has a motivation for the things they do, and a lot of the time the motivation for a blog is professional credibility/development, and for the self-employed, more directly in "leads" and good business…

> The old bloggers all just moved on. Or at least the vast majority of them did.

Did they? Or do they just make up a decreasing fraction of blogs? I've got 95 blogs in my feed reader. My guess is that I've been subscribed to most of them for more than five years, but still about 80% of them posted within the last year (an arbitrary cut-off point, but I don't think it's fair to call something dead if it only ever showed signs of life a couple times a year in its prime).

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