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- Note taken on [2024-10-11 Fri 15:47]

Reading about [[https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/10/10/ribbonfarm-is-retiring/][Ribbon Farm]] closing up shop prompted a lot of thoughts that I
  wasn't expecting this morning. First off, I never spent much time following
  the blog during it's hayday. I really only began reading it over the past
  year. But more than that, I hadn't thought much about the changing internet
  landscape from the perspective of someone who HAD NOT participated in the
  early blog days.

Blogging only really blew up in the mid to late 2000s, though if I had been
  asked to guess this morning I would have said the 90s, but that's me
  misremembering things again.

No, there was a golden age of people posting things on non-paywalled sites and
  building up enough of a following that bloggers became the source of what was
  new. Perhaps some of that has shifted to [[id:9fc3b58e-4d58-44fa-97bf-ee4a619846da][Youtubers]] , but it's hard to
  overstate how much blogging shifted the landscape of media and news coverage.
  Of course, the story is complicated by the rise of walled gardens like
  Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Twitter. But the fact remains, blogging used
  to be important.

These days, as Ribbon Farm closing demonstrates, it is much less important.
  "Influences" have entered the zeitgeist and more and more the question is not
  the information richness of a person's communication channel, but the
  monetization of it. Of course, the children of newspaper magnates could
  probably make a compelling argument that not that much has changed. And yet, I
  don't find videos as compelling as written words, and the individual blogger
  is a big part of what made them compelling.