{"id":2893,"date":"2022-04-02T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T09:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:36:38","slug":"blogging-is-dead-and-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2022\/04\/blogging-is-dead-and-alive","title":{"rendered":"Blogging is dead and alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is dead, apparently. But blogging is also alive. <\/p>\n<p>Both statements can be true at the same time without it being some weird sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat&#038;oldid=1036927339\">Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat<\/a> situation. <\/p>\n<p>Blogging as a social activity, as the thing that the cool kids did to hang out together, seems to be mostly dead. I know a few people who maintain their blogs as a way to stay in touch with their fan base \u2014 they could have switched to a forum or a Discord, and some have (Jeff Minter seems to want to maintain all three), but why switch to the next fashionable technology when the previous one still works?<\/p>\n<p>But blogging these days is also very much alive, because blogging allows you to write in a manner that the search engines for some reason automatically label &#8216;organic&#8217;. Your posts need to be linked in order for the machines to consider them &#8216;high quality&#8217;, but other than that, you are good to go.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, and as an exercise in search engine optimisation, corporate websites are the place where you find a lot of actively maintained blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is dead, apparently. But blogging is also alive. Both statements can be true at the same time without it being some weird sort of Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat situation. Blogging as a social activity, as the thing that the cool kids did to hang out together, seems to be mostly dead. I know a few people &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2022\/04\/blogging-is-dead-and-alive\" class=\"excerpt-read-more read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}