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Posted by Curiositry 22 hours ago

Blogging can just be stating the obvious(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
433 points | 125 commentspage 5
PaulHoule 9 hours ago|
A blog can say some things a “real” media outlet can’t. How could The New York Times rail against enshittification when it is a poster child?
dredmorbius 4 hours ago|
You ask how could they ... but they do, at least some of the time:

Can Cory Doctorow's Book 'Enshittification' Change the ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/books/review/cory-doctoro...>

Opinion | We Didn't Ask for This Internet <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...>

Among numerous other results.

The NYT is a complex organisation, and represents and even broader set of viewpoints (Tim Wu, author of one of the pieces above, isn't an NYT employee). As with most commercial publications, it serves multiple goals, some at conflict with one another, including seeking both subscription and advertising revenues being at odds with disseminating ideas and influencing culture and power. ... and another

HelloUsername 9 hours ago||
Obviously I decided to not read this blog post.
rhipitr 9 hours ago||
Obvious != known
green_wheel 20 hours ago||
Yes!!! This!!!
righthand 20 hours ago||
Of course, there’s a whole microblogging platform called Twitter where people do it.
taneq 21 hours ago||
Finally someone’s saying it! Also I love how meta this is.
LunicLynx 19 hours ago||
Disclaimer; have not read the article.

My current feeling about blogging is, that it more then anything else is we’re certian knowledge of AI came from. The arguments for blogging being the thing again also started at the same time AI got traction.

Just identify the bloggers that know their craft, weight them height. And you got yourself a step change in LLM competency.

Paying no one.

rchowe 19 hours ago||
My father, who worked as a market research analyst, said that the trick to the job was "point out the obvious before anyone else does".

Web sites and web content are trending towards being enshittified until it just barely becomes worth wading through all of the shit to get to what you actually wanted to consume.

d3v1an7 20 hours ago||
Yes!!! This!!!
j45 20 hours ago|
Blogging is a form of improving your writing and communication if you so choose.

Improving articulations is a helpful skill for use with AI too.

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