Since then, popular blogs have been commercialized; added comment sections and video; migrated to social media platforms; and been subsumed by large media companies. The growth of social media in particular has wiped out a particular kind of blogging that I sometimes miss: a text-based dialogue between bloggers that required more thought and care than dashing off 180 or 240 characters and calling it a day. In order to participate in the dialogue, you had to invest some effort in what media professionals now call “building an audience” and you couldn’t do that simply by shitposting or responding in facile ways to real arguments… More here.

Excellent article above which took me back to a time when everything felt like it was growing and improving every week.

There were no comments on my original sites and everything had to be done manually, but it was fun because so much of the tech world had not been developed. Problems and things we could not do were continually resolved and it is only recently where it feels as if the evolution has stagnated a little.

If I had to guess I believe I have posted more than 25,000 separate articles since the year 2000 and I dread to think how much time that has taken. But here I am, clinging on to what is left of me and the online world as we know it.

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