The medium is the message. A thread on the future of blogging as a creative medium from the perspective of the evolution of the technology that drives it. Ie future as foreseeable via forcing function effects of the 800lb gorilla that is Wordpress.
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Awesome thread! Personally, I'd prefer more of the community/aggregator features on WordPress.com, Medium has it much more developed. OTOH WP.com is still mostly about individual sites, with their unique design, branding, widgets, etc.
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Also, the WP.com aggregator only features the posts that have some tags assigned, so it's opt-in for each post individually. I've only started using tags and seeing people arriving on my blog this way a few months ago. Indie bloggers can certainly do the same.
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Speaking of indie operations-I don't think these were ever both easy and cheap. You either had to get your hands dirty, or pay an agency to build a custom solution. But yeah, the balance between ease of use and flexibility is a hard one, and there's still a lot to improve here.
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But they were easy enough that non-software engineers could sort of wing it with some effort. Now the very act/fact of making the effort to master the tech means you're too techie to make writing a priority. You might become a tech blogger etc.
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Yeah, I see what you mean now. The tech is easier than it used to be, but our expectations of how things should work have changed a lot. Even myself, out of all the people in the world I should be capable of running a self-hosted WordPress, but I chose not to.

