Re:I don't read web articles anymore, but I read books
by sasha_fishter on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:12AM
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Yes! It seems that blog posts are 90% written for self promotion, or to express thoughts so we can save them somewhere for later.
Re:I don't read web articles anymore, but I read books
by dpkrjb on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:19AM
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The trap in hyperlink rich blogs is clicking every link the moment you come upon it and essentially depth first read your way through an idea.
Compared to a few years ago, I don't remotely have the same enthusiasm I could have for blogposts, and on the contrary I often find the writing style to be irritating -- especially hyperlinks-rich ones, which break the flow of thought, like internalized distractions. Yet I've also started to write my own blogposts because there are some ideas that I wanted to express in that form and did not find on the internet.
My guess, based on my own experience: you have reaped what you could from the ideas that can conveniently be expressed in blogposts, and it would be very hard to find new ones that would enrich your worldview. You have to go deeper, thus find the format that is more suitable for this.