That would be a mistake :(
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Replying to @tomcritchlow
Sometimes it feels like ribbonfarm and slatestarcodex are the last regular longform blogs still doing their thing... everybody else has moved on to newsletters and medium etc
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But I agree, in some big ways it would be a mistake. I'd have to give up experiments like blogchaining etc
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Maybe you need to launch a new site to experiment with new models / tech. I feel like WP becomes barnacle crusted after a long period
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I might be done with hands-on experimentation with new models and piggyback on stuff like Roam and Substack. We'll see. It does feel to me like blogging as such is over, and wordpress has become more a high-end CMS for businesses and things
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I think it's gonna evolve. "over" feels like too strong a statement to me. Maybe this era of blogging is over. If you kill ribbonfarm you could become the hero of the next era
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I think substack and roam are two poles of the shift to the next thing... solid serialized content vs. solid hypertextual content... barbell. WP is caught in the middle as not great at either.
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Yeah I see that - but equally roam and substack are very single purpose so hard to compare them with WP. Maybe the truth is blogging is fragmenting (obviously true) to the point that "blogging" is meaningless. Future could be as much about language as about tech/product
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Replying to @tomcritchlow
Yeah, and my response is increasingly a sort of portfolio play
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Maybe the future is something similar-ish to contentful - a single db publishing platform that allows a writer to maintain multiple modes of distribution and presentation - pushing to substack, blog etc Maybe.
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that's what gatsby etc. are betting on I actually have a whole "future of text" post waiting to post on all this
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Replying to @tomcritchlow
hmm might just clean up a bit and flush out today
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