"Before #socialmedia ate the internet, and the internet ate everything else, and before everything else ate itself, #blogs occupied a wonderful and formative niche in the information ecosystem.
They were personal but public, permanent but updateable, long-form but informal. A blog post could be 3 paragraphs or 30 pages. It could build an argument over weeks/months, with each post serving as a chapter in an ongoing project that readers could follow, critique, respond to."
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/