QOTD: Blogging is Dead

I’m wondering if the age of blogging is at an end. 12 years ago blogs were the way to express ideas to a wider audience. Twitter and most of the social media we take for granted today was around, but it was certainly less endemic as it is now. Hell, even YouTube was still privately owned back then. If you wanted to build an online media brand you had to really believe in what you were doing to make the effort worthwhile. Blogging has always been a labor of love. That’s especially true today because everyone on social media today is their own Brand of Me. If all you do it curate an Instagram account with no other function than to show off how great a life you live, congratulations, you are your brand. It’s second nature to us now, but it used to take a lot more effort to relate your digital consciousness to an audience. That was what you used to blog for.

-Rollo Tomassi in 2020

Source: Exit Dalrock

3 responses to “QOTD: Blogging is Dead

  1. The traffic is a lot lower, but I still search for information, find blog entries, and read them.

  2. You are much more interesting to read than any Twit account I have ever seen.

  3. Many factual comments are often blocked by websites.