by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
With social networks competing for our attention, personal blogs that didn’t professionalize — turning into miniature versions of the publishing behemoths they were intended to overturn in the first place, completing a dance of mutual co-option — simply became ghost towns. No visitors means no comments, and without engagement, what’s the point of sharing your thoughts with the world? Hence, the exodous to Google+, which allows us not merely to update our friends on what we’re up to, but actually to blog, at length, publicly, completing the migration to a centralized platform that Facebook and Twitter began. It’s not that blogs are dead. It’s that they’re ubiquitous.
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