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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by unsungNovelty »

I wrote about it when I started as well:

Why do I host a website? - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/11/2019/why-do-i-host-a-...

And state of blogging: https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-b...

I started this journey from scratch. Despite not pushing for numbers and regular schedule, my website still have 20k viewers since I added analytics (didn't have analytics for 2 years in the beginning). That might be a small number for most, but it means that there are people who want to read what I write. That is all that matters. Atleast to me.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by ghaff »

simonw wrote: post #88

Here are some reasons to start a personal blog: 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value. 2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they co…

Sites like this one really emphasize monetization. Natural I suppose since it's startup-focused. But people used to be fine with blogs not having a monetary element at all.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by topato »

usrbinenv wrote: post #102
simonw wrote: post #88

Here are some reasons to start a personal blog: 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value. 2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they co…

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That's a pretty hefty accusation to level at one of the most prolific Ai/LLM bloggers on HN lol

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by cosmicgadget »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #92

There are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs. HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones. Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time. I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.

Marginalia is great. Also take a look at https://outerweb.org/explore

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by Larrikin »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #18
ricardobeat wrote: post #2

> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation. Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?

The content will be discovered just fine. It'll get embedded in the LLMs on the next round of training. Won't be attributed to your blog of course, but an approximation to the information will still get out there.

Will an LLM purposefully change facts to incorrect information without fighting you the entire way? Seems like a blog platform could offer a feature where every posts has 3 or 4 factually wrong posts that would only be found by scrapers.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by ngcc_hk »

simonw wrote: post #88

Here are some reasons to start a personal blog: 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value. 2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they co…

Struggle quite a bit to share hobby interest via anything including instagram. Might try this. Back to date of html 1.0 and gopher …

I still sad about my favorite go to photography blog was gone dark because of the vendor is sort of gone I guess. Might be we have to live with Buddha worldview - nothing is permanent.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by cosmicgadget »

ilamont wrote: post #3

I have been blogging for decades, personal and work. I look at traffic patterns and see all the comments coming through. I don't think personal blogs are back.

I've been indexing blogs and while I can't definitively say they are back, there are a lot of active bloggers. More than that, there are a lot of people wanting to have blogs to read since everything else has gone to shit.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by postalcoder »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #92

There are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs. HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones. Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time. I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.

Try hcker.news' small web filter[0], which uses Kagi's small web list[1] to show a hacker news timeline that consists only of personal blogs.

It works really well if you're looking for a cozier timeline.

0: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true

1: https://kagi.com/smallweb

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by emschwartz »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #92

There are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs. HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones. Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time. I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.

I built Scour to help me sift through noisy sources like HN Newest. For each article in my Scour feed, I can click the Show Feeds button to find what other sources that post shows up in. I’ve found that to be quite a nice way of discovering people’s blogs that I wouldn’t have found otherwise.

You can also scour all 14,000+ sources for posts that match your interests.

https://scour.ing

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