Capitalism broke it, not blogs. Blogs, in the original sense, are mostly harmless. The format isn’t the problem. Chronology bias can be an issue, but you can overcome this by building up a store of essays that link to each other. One of the great things hyperlinks can do is break our innate chronology biases, which the internet didn’t create.

Whole books could be written about how capitalism destroyed the web, but one sleeper culprit is the collapse of the middle-class job market. You need a fucking national reputation just to get what would have been considered a regular job 20 years ago. This results in a ubiquitous quest for attention by mostly talentless people doing stupid shit for attention. And now we have this adversarial culture where sincere content can’t get through.