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Every single part of the entire current digital media landscape was envisioned as part of what was called “blogs” at the start. Tweets, Instagram, reels, sharing your morning run with someone, knowing whether your crush had looked at your story, control over sharing to a community — all of it.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Blogs so didn't suck at scale that they, arguably and defensibly, ate the news environment and publishing. We are still living in the age of the blogger, present company included. To be clear. Your influencer/independent journo/networked politico etc etc -- blogging.

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Scott Rosenberg

@wordyard.com

11 Sept

So true. When I wrote "Say Everything" in 2007-8 I thought I was capturing all that for a tech/media world plunging into the social era. Like, "Here's a decadeful of lessons! Have at it!" But there was little interest. It's so much easier to keep saying "Everything is new! It's Year 0! Let's build!"

Anil Dash

@anildash.com

11 Sept

Exactly! You were one of the cohort of folks who were documenting practices that so many could have learned from.

Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise

@soren-lorenson.bsky.social

10 Sept

It also doesn't make any sense to say "blogs" are or aren't anything in particular. "Blog" is not a brand or platform or company, it's equivalent to "email" or "spreadsheet". Or "podcast!" Like, would anyone ever say "radio, as a general category, is slop"?

Anil Dash

@anildash.com

10 Sept

I talked to the head of digital at CNN when he said they “would never have blogs” and took this photo of the first time the word “blog” appeared on their screen a few months later. By the next year, they had a whole blog section of their site. It ate their entire publishing process.