I also wish there were more blogs like back during the blogging era, although for the usual reasons I think they'd be better for authors if not described as blogs: http://tttthis.com/edit/blog/if-i-could-bring-one-thing-back-to-the-internet-it-would-be-blogs … I wonder why we mostly lost this bit of social technology while actual technology improved.
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I think there really was a massive career/impact/etc upgrade available to one particular form factor of writing on the Internet, and that upgrade got taken advantage of by many people, and it didn't so much vanish as "succeeded wildly."
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And I still think there are massive career/impact/etc upgrades available to writing on the Internet, but I would tell you to probably not frame yourself as a "blogger" to go after them these days. (That probably wasn't advantageous back in the day, either.)
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It was terrible ROI on the effort for those 10.000 unsuccessful bloggers. I really did it only for my own SEO when I was a freelancer, and coming up with and researching and writing entries was just such hard work--to just disappear.
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Also, because Google acquired Feedburner specifically to kill it, thus disintermediating content once again and pushing tolls back to G search.
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I recently noted that Almost Every blogger I followed stopped writing, and judging from their later content, they largely seemed to have realized they were repeating themselves and they didn’t have much left to say
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