Re:My Life in Weeks
by pronik on Saturday February 15, 2025 @06:20PM
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Gina Trapani! That's a name I haven't heard in a long time and at first couldn't place correctly -- for some reason, my mind went to Groklaw, but Lifehacker was the correct answer. Maybe I'm idolizing my own youth and its associated available free time just a tiny bit and I can't actually believe it's been 20 years, but those felt like good times, Web 2.0 with its focus on communication instead of publishing, with Slashdot up top for tech news, Lifehacker, Engadget and many other sites not yet owned by big corporations feeling fresh and bearing individual flair, making you feel being a part of something. A rare feeling in modern times.
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There are still tons of websites (more now than ever) not owned by gigantic corporations. It's not their fault that you and the masses mostly stopped going to them in favor of facebook and twitter and instagram and, of course, apps.
(You're on one right now, naturally.)
I get the same feeling when people say "RSS is dead". I read dozens of websites via RSS and my RSS reader still works fine. Very few blogs I want to read don't support RSS.
Re:My Life in Weeks
by unmotivated-hmn on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:46PM
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Could you share a few that you frequent? I'd love to read!
This happens with programming languages also. Lots of people cry "Perl is dead" because its market share is decreasing. But its absolute user count is increasing!
It's not a competition for a limited size of pie; the pie is still growing at a frightening pace, along with all its pieces.
Re:My Life in Weeks
by OccamsMirror on Sunday February 16, 2025 @12:20AM
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Although there used to be a time you could be a "successful blogger" and make enough money from advertising that you could focus on it full time.
Those days are long behind us.
Those days brought us to successful blogs/websites to be acquired by bigger corp and then enshittified.
Moreover, what used to be a successful blogger is now a successful YouTuber, no? Because generally speaking, masses prefer to watch and listen to things rather then read.
Re:My Life in Weeks
by OccamsMirror on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:42AM
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Or maybe a successful Substack author?
There are a few, such as https://kottke.org/ (started in 1998)
I'm firmly on the RSS bandwagon though. The shift comes from much more limited time and I need to filter what I can use it for.
Actually, itβs making a comeback now somewhat, thanks to the inherent capability to filter and select only wanted content and weed out the noise in this world.
ah that's it. i remember the name from when lifehacker was still popular.
I did the same thing! For me though it was a bunch podcasts she was on.
Re:My Life in Weeks
by jedsundwall on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:37AM
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She was just on my podcast! https://techsontexts.net/episodes/2025/01/zevin-gina-trapani...
She's the best. :)
Haha, I was thinking about her and the old Lifehacker just this last week! :-)
I loved the old LH when she ran it (and a short time after, before it became fully enshittified). Still have a Steelcase Leap chair, which was the usual runner-up to the Herman Miller Aeron in their office chair votes.