What happened to blogs
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What happened to blogs
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Re: What happened to blogs
#2GOogle happened and seo-garbage, like you say.
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#3Blogs are still here, we just can't hear them over the megaphone on social media. Social media saturates the collective internet's attention so fully, that blogs never really have a chance to peculate up to most. Just look around HN, and you'll see plenty of blogs. If you want to search for blogs written by normal people, head over to kagi and search the "small internet".
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#4Browsers dropped RSS support, Google killed Reader and social networks are easier to use.
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#5Another possibility to find, instead of Google, see if any blog that is not using HTML/CSS/JS at all, and perhaps also does not use email at all. (Some examples might be plain text (with any protocol), and use of protocols other than HTTP(S), such as Gopher etc. Although such things are less common than HTML and HTTP(S) and Google, the quality may be higher because they are not trying to sell you stuff and are not trying to SEO etc.)
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#6Blogs are still here, we just can't hear them over the megaphone on social media. Social media saturates the collective internet's attention so fully, that blogs never really have a chance to peculate up to most. Just look around HN, and you'll see plenty of blogs. If you want to search for blogs written by normal people, head over to kagi and search the "small internet".
Or try marginalia.nu! It's a search engine designed to prioritize those sorts of small websites and show you stuff that might get buried by engines like Google, though it does include some larger, typically nonprofit, ones (e.g. Wikipedia). I especially like browsing the random button to get a taste of the websites it has, including random people's websites.
As a search engine, it's not the best. A search for "dogs" has Stack Exchange forums, Wikiquote, Wikisource, someone's GeoCities website on dog trivia, and RationalWiki as the top five results. But I don't think I'd ever have known about small websites like caps.wiki (top five for "technology"), or a website called "blogs of war" (the top link for both Moldova and AI), and so on.
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#7Musicians and audio freaks have a similar ritual lament on how music
went to shit; electric killed the blues, digital murdered analogue,
nobody knows how to mix/master any more... Amidst such an old-man's
cloud-jeering session someone said to me "You know they make more
vinyl than ever, and it's better than it's ever been". So I checked,
and they were right. I bet there's more great blogs than there's ever
been. Discovering them? Sure.
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#8Browsers dropped RSS support, Google killed Reader and social networks are easier to use.
I really think that's the answer. Blog traffic fell off when Reader was killed and a lot of bloggers stopped blogging and moved to Twitter.
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#9Blogs are still here, we just can't hear them over the megaphone on social media. Social media saturates the collective internet's attention so fully, that blogs never really have a chance to peculate up to most. Just look around HN, and you'll see plenty of blogs. If you want to search for blogs written by normal people, head over to kagi and search the "small internet".
But there really was a time when famous researchers had blogs and updated them regularly with lengthy posts. Yes, there are a few people like Terence Tao who still keep it up, but the movement away from blogs a decade or so ago in favor of Twitter and the like is real, unfortunately.
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#10Most high-quality blogs (in my observation) are/were written by people who grew up when reading an actual newspaper (or two) was an everyday part of life. You didn't have to be a professional journalist to understand how to write a good "article," since you've read thousands of them, and it was natural that is what you'd emulate in your own writing. That's simply not the default model in younger people's heads anymore.