The Lost Art of Blogging: The Talking Place (Podcast Episode 34)
A Blog is Worth a Thousand Posts
This week’s podcast is all about blogging! That’s right, I go on for 45 minutes about
the importance of a blog in today’s age of the shortest attention spans ever known.
Check it out and let’s all get back to blogs!
For the record, this was recorded back in April. Right in the midst of my blogging resurrection. Like everything else I was neck deep in, I took a break from that as well for the summer. I am currently in the process of cleaning off the dust and getting back into things, so let me get my bearings.
BUT! It doesn’t mean I don’t agree with what I said a few months ago. I am still very very much on my high horse with blogging. I feel like the internet would be a better place for it if we all found a way back to such joy scrolling (yeah, I said it! I think it fits).
While I’m still casting aside social media on a personal level and haven’t thought about going back, I still use it for professional reasons. Sharing the show, or things about my shop, it’s as inevitable as Thanos.
But it doesn’t change the fact that all the points I made about blogging being better are still 100% true. So hear me out!
Tell me what you think! Jump down to the comments below and
tell me how you feel about blogs today.
And yeah, not knowing they even still exist is a valid answer.
As always, enjoy the show!
Links and Info Discussed
- Here is my blog! Go check it out and let me know what you think.
When I decided to get back in the flow of blogging, I wrote up quite a few – rather lengthy – blog posts about it. If you want to check them out, I highly recommend. Not because it’s me, obvi. But because it gives a lot more insight as to why I think the way I think about blogging. Those posts are:
- The Once and Future Blogger – My Return to Blogging
- Behind the Curtain – Updating the Blog
- My Life on Social Media
- Separating Myself from Social Media
I was going to link to Bloglovin’, because back in April I checked and saw it was actually alive. Buuuuuuuuut it’s dead again LOLOL. I managed to find out what happened to them though…
Turns out they underwent a rebranding. They turned into Activate in 2018 to become an influencer marketplace…..
Click here to see my face after I read that......
The platform was subsequently acquired by another company called Impact in 2020. And shocker! That influencer network failed. And it turns out, the original Bloglovin’ service that was loved and adored, turns out was shady af and redirecting traffic to them instead of the bloggers who created the actual content. So essentially, they were stealing the views and visits from blogs. Instead of being a gateway where people can find and click on and visit other people’s blogs, they had backend stuff going on that made Google list Bloglovin’ as the place to find the information, not the actual blog itself. Which doesn’t sound like a lot, but to a blogger, that’s a huuuuuge no no.
See! I told you something happened to it and there was a reason it wasn’t around anymore. I knew it didn’t just Google+ itself out of existence.
- Looks like Ashley from Nose Graze covered it here: Bloglovin’ Is Now Stealing Your Posts
- Nicole from Feed Your Fiction Addiction also talked about Bloglovin’. Looks like it was on its way out at this point, but she was a heavy user there like I was and noticed the change – Tales of a Social Media Failure: Is Bloglovin’ a Thing of the Past?
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