Saw an interesting post on Hacker News today, which asserts that the personal blog has made a comeback. I, for one, could not be more thrilled. As someone who has maintained this blog for about 25 years, I thought it was a tragedy to watch the Internet lose its innocence and move on to the crowd-source social media sites. Blogs lost their way when MySpace and Facebook took over. Microblogging on Twitter and Instagram helped seal the fate of the lonesome, personal, WordPress website.
As we’ve watched journalists and people with important things to say pour their words into for-profit sinkholes that support Nazis (ahem, Substack) over the last few years, I have always hoped that someday we’d see a resurgence of the personal blog.
Has that day finally come?