A decade ago, blogging seemed more powerful, more revolutionary, more disruptive… more like the way we wanted the web to be, as opposed to how the corporations wanted it to be.
But like I said, it was hard work. You had to write a lot, every day. And you had to be a good writer with something to say. Or else it would wither on the vine.
In other words, the barriers to entry were high, in terms of both talent and energy required.
So clever, talented people everywhere started inventing tools that made Web 2.0 much easier for ordinary people: Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare etc. That was a good thing.
But I think something was lost in the process. Suddenly it got a lot easier for the bloggers to be lazy.
And so people DID become lazy. In HUGE numbers.
Not that there aren’t any good blogs still out there- of course they are- but in the last five years or so, something magical was lost, or at least, diluted.
I think now is a good time to remind people why we all got into blogging in the first place, all those years ago.

—“Reclaim Blogging”: Why I’m giving up Twitter and Facebook. | gapingvoid

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