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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by xwdv on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:19PM (#23207305)
I feel that rather than blogging, more people should write comments. I’ve never written one blog article, but I’ve written a novel worth of comments over the years. A comment IMO is more pure and true, and is created out of a strong desire to say something, rather than for some other extrinsic motivation.

My problem with blogging is that I can’t just write in a vacuum, I must always write in response to something and when I have something worth responding too I can write more usefully.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by slightwinder on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:36PM (#23207393)
You can just blog a comment. Read something that moves your mind longer than the first barfed out comment? Blog it. Write down your thought process, discuss with yourself, do something thoughtful witout the stress of a public discussion.
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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by cglong on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:56PM (#23207551)
This is essentially what Daring Fireball [1] is, and it's one of the biggest blogs out there.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by kyuudou on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:05PM (#23208507)
One reason I still visit jwz's blog[0]. Comments are usually thought-provoking and creative and sometimes even Brendan Eich shows up.

[0]https://www.jwz.org/blog/

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by saagarjha on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:49AM (#23220362)
As someone who writes a lot of comments but also now blogs a bit: blog posts for me are just long, thought out comments; often they’re an amalgamation of comments I might have left, or little bits on a topic that I keep around but have never had a place to write as a comment so I put them all together into one big one and polish it.
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