Long Live the Blog

When I started this very website, it was a "personal home page". That's what we called it in the late-90s. You had to be there.

Then, in 2002, the lightbulb lit up over my head. A burgeoning new format has emerged, and they were calling it a weblog, or blog for short. This site should be a blog!

The blog suited me perfectly. Little articles in reverse-chronological order. I could write about whatever popped in my head, as frivolous or deep as it may be. I loved blogging, and I loved follow other people's blogs. I'd subscribe to their RSS feeds with my Google Reader (#SORFH) then feed.ly. In retrospect, the blogging golden era was 2004-2009.

Then, when social media became all the rage, blogging fell out of favour. Many abandoned their blogs for Facebook and Twitter and then Instagram and TikTok. Social media killed the blogging star. But I kept on blogging.

Here we are in the summer of 2025 and there's been a recent Substack surge but social media remains the digital expression of the day. I choose to continue blogging, because with Substack and social media, you don't own your virtual home. This here... this is mind.

Long live the blog.