Previously people used to declare blogging dead, but I’m now noticing a not so subtle shift where people talk like it’s already been dead for a while. I think this is actually true in a sense...
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The challenge for the magazine-blogs is the same as old media: sustainable business. For the vertically integrated blogs, it’s a harvesting endgame while individuals try to reach financial escape velocity and turn into lifestyle businesses. Both want to become non-blog-like
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Elder blogs are different in that they want any reinvention of themselves to retain a certain blogs essence. A conversational-stream memeplex elan vital. The ones that succeed will be exemplars of “the blog is dead, long live the blog!” resurrection/regeneration
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The ones that fail or don’t try will age into digital museums of varying levels of archival quality/decrepitude depending on preservation investment as underlying tech ages.
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Aside: I don’t consider company blogs, product blogs or disciplinary academic blogs to be true blogs, since they are dependent on, and ancillary to, other primary activities that sustain them
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Really true, but there have been a slew of new blogs in the data-science internet: 1. new tools (hugo/blogdown) have it easier to make good looking blogs to share portfolios / code 2. helps careers / binding self to 1. Was V1 blogging the same but for journalism?
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I don’t think of disciplinary blogs or product/company blogs as blogs. They are ancillaries to other things.
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