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Discussion on: Been Blogging since 2002 - AMA.

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Ben Halpern

How has the concept of blogging evolved? Have any innovations been meaningful?

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Joe Hobot

It changed to “Get famous quick” and while it works for short time.. people stop thinking about how to grow in long term. Just look at the music industry and blogs you might’ve read 5y ago. How did they change?

Tech sites pushing click bait articles about Politics so they can share it to 500k followers and get 3k clicks. While some that are still around produce quality content and authority that still to date get traffic to one post they pushed it back in 2012. What you read today is oldschool tomorrow because some other hot topic took off on social media. Don’t get me wrong I read those short and up to date posts, but I find 0 quality in them that I would go back to it and reference it somewhere else.