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...
That linkage still exists, except it’s mediated by reader community forums rather than direct. I’d argue the new form is actually a much stronger kind of linking that blogrolls and direct links.
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And it is newer blogs that can't recreate this dynamic?
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I think so. It was a sort of one-time land-grab phenomenon. Newer blogs have to conform to the gravity fields created by reader communities around older blogs.
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