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Reflections on 25 Years of Blogging

Posted on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025. 1,844 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

Just a line with a shower thought, or a link and a comment, or a response to someone else (I had a couple dozen sites I would pop open each morning). There we were, posting about our favourite snacks and simultaneously about the nature of this new social media (my circle included a bunch of theorists), and it seemed to matter. So having a blog was this social thing but it was also small p political: it was participatory culture, it was hearing voices of people instead of the old establishment gatekeeping, we were part of something bigger.

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