Asha’s Reviews > Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered > Status Update

Even the conversation of followers seems dated. Pre algorithmic content advice for community building feels like it is “right” to me. Like that’s how it should be. But in the era of TikTok and instagram and algorithmic YouTube front pages, it is isn’t actually how it works any more.

I am curious if the author has updated his thoughts on blogs with the centralization of social media. Is a blog and a personal domain still so important? Does it depend on field? I still sometimes click through for Jenny The Bloggess but pretty much no one else. I followed Neil Gaiman on his blog in the past but now just on the social media feeds. I haven’t been to a blog in a long time.

Social media functions like a public notebook. Does it? Does it really? Are you sure about that?

This is so dated and optimistic about social media!! It’s adorable. That’s not at all what the experience of being in the content grind is like in the 2020s but it does sound nicely inspiring.