In August 2009, I wrote an article questioning if blogs were losing their influence. In conversations over the last two weeks, I had reason to go back to it because I thought they were important things I’d said then which I need to check if they were still valid; if so, I thought they were worth repeating. I found the old article quite hard to read, although at the time, I thought this was a good thing. I felt people needed to work hard to understand my writing, that it would do them good. I don’t feel this way any more, I hope this is simpler.
In August 2009, I wrote an article questioning if blogs were losing their influence. In conversations over the last two weeks, I had reason to go back to it because I thought they were important things I’d said then which I need to check if they were still valid; if so, I thought they were worth repeating. I found the old article quite hard to read, although at the time, I thought this was a good thing. I felt people needed to work hard to understand my writing, that it would do them good. I don’t feel this way any more, I hope this is simpler.
The thrust of the article was an attempt to understand if the advent of micro-blogging was undermining the popularity of blog content. Today, we have multiple micro blog content streams often in rich formats, such as Instagram, and TikTok. The original article was written in a different time…
