Even though he seldom posts Emacs videos anymore, I still faithfully follow Mike Zamansky’s blog. His latest post tells us that he’s rebooting his blog. That’s because he got a new tablet and thought that he might be able to use it as a lightweight laptop when traveling. The problem was that his blog was running a old version of Hugo that didn’t fit in with the new scheme so he had to upgrade. It’s a slightly different theme but basically the same as before.
None of this is particularly newsworthy except for an offhand comment toward the end of his post. He says that as far as his blog is concerned, he’ll probably keep on keeping on even though blogging seems to be dying.
I have, of late, been taking comfort in the notion that blogging and the RSS ecosystem are enjoying a renaissance as people become increasingly fed up with the rapacious social media platforms that care only about harvesting our data and presume to tell us what we should and should not see. Of course, I’m just a guy sitting in my corner writing blog posts and perhaps I don’t have a good grip on what’s really happening.
Zamansky, on the other hand, seems more deeply embedded in the contemporary computing milieu and I’m inclined to trust his intuition on these matters. What do you think? Is blogging really dying or is it, in fact, rising, phoenix like, from the ashes?
All I know for sure is that we here at the Irreal bunker will never be on those walled garden, curated social media sites. Being adults, we’re more than able to decide for ourselves what to read and the best way of doing that that I’m aware of is reading blogs and following my RSS feed.