15 years on, journalists are still talking nonsense about blogs
This person has no idea what they are talking about:
The reason no one talks about “blogging” anymore is that, for what blogs were good at — sending your personal views on the news (or some other topic) to a dedicated audience — other tools offered simpler, more effective tools for doing just that, most notably social networks. Why go through the trouble of setting up your own blog and slogging through a cumbersome back-end CMS when you can just create an account on Twitter and start sharing hot takes in a couple of minutes?
Well, here’s an hack who clearly has it paid any attention to what’s happening in blogging right now.
Plenty of people talk about blogs and blogging. Just not in politics and news journalism. Go and have a look at fashion, and it’s a different story.
It makes it hard for me to take the rest of the story seriously, though.
