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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I don’t think of disciplinary blogs or product/company blogs as blogs. They are ancillaries to other things.
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Sure to latter but former feels revisionist: were academic, economics, amateur journalism, politics, international relations, law blogs not disciplinary, or central heyday blogs? How is is the relationship from 538 : an average python or R blogger different than Wapo : Yglesias?
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A fuzzy boundary certainly. Test might be whether they sparked independently interesting discourses rather than just capturing value from runoff. Matt Yglesias is a true. Daniel Lemire is more of an academic who provides a blogging window into his academic work.
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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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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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