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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...new blogs are very hard to establish now and the core of new outlet formation has shifted to other media (podcasts, video, twitch, email newsletters, Twitter, instagram...)...
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...old established blogs have either “matured” into magazine like outlets, turned into vertically integrated community businesses with events/closed forums, or entered an “elder blog” phase like ribbonfarm...
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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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Or... ancient blogs will become scriptural, communally interpreted by new generations of readers:https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastpsychiatrist/ …
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True enough, but I also wonder to the extent that a blog becomes a "living document" like the Torah vs a "decaying" document.
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I think that depends on the extent to which the original blogger wrote in an esoteric style and can sustain a Straussian derivative culture. Very few I think.
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