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The Purpose of a Blog

And so, I find myself entering the blogosphere, about two decades too late. Three if you don't restrict yourself to the period of time where penning a blog would be something I would (a) be interested in, and (b) be capable of.

The death of the blog1 has many contributing factors that I would not be qualified to comment upon2, but the latest bugle-batten screw in the coffin is the slew of LLM-spewed SEO-spam content-farms generating "chunked" pages, masquerading as Real People™ writing Real Content™. You know the ones — they have a 10-15 point numbered table of contents two pages of scrolling down outlining the five-Ws of whatever the topic at hand is, and contain about 100 times as many words as would be necessary to actually address the headline question3.
The web feels bad.

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