Blogging
topic on 6 shows · 12 statements across 10 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Another Podcast 
Startups For the Rest of Us 
My First Million 
How I Built This 
20VC
12 statements about Blogging, every show
Walling: Text blogging became a commoditized medium around 2011
“I realized that blogging was a commodity. People were reading the blog among many others, kind of like a social media feed, where, like, no matter how much you try to stand out, you're just another voice.”
Gray: Revive personal blogging to feed AI scrapers and boost discoverability
“Bring back blogging. You need to fill the AIs, and the AIs need to have data from the public web to scrape.”
Manson: Creators who write 100 iterative posts no longer need advice
“Most people, if they go write a hundred blog posts and try to make each one better, By the 100th one, they don't need the advice anymore. They know what they're doing wrong. They know what they need to get better at.”
Manson: Modern blogs probably will not scale beyond low six figures
“I think today you can still make a living off a blog. It's just, you've got to have your niche figured out. You got to like really be tuned into them and you're probably never going to scale an audience past like Low six figures.”
Evans: Twitter and Instagram Subsumed Traditional Blogging
“Twitter sort of, you know, blog posts, I think a lot of blogging kind of got subsumed by Instagram and Twitter.”
Casalena: Blogging sparked the DIY wave empowering non-technical web creators
“When blogging happened, I see it as the kind of beginning of this DIY, do-it-yourself wave, where people who would have otherwise been a little intimidated you know, it was this kind of like, oh, I can do this too, but then giving them something more powerful,…”
Twitter and Facebook killed the independent era of blogging
“There's no question. It was killed by Twitter and Facebook, and just really the sense that People moved on.”
Shutting down Google Reader put a nail in blogging's coffin
“The loss of Google Reader was another true, I mean, truly, it was one of the nails in the coffin of blogging.”
Skok: Blogging helps founders organize thoughts and attract relevant support
“I do encourage entrepreneurs to blog because I think rather than reading other people's blogging for yourself is actually, first of all, great therapy, and secondly, it brings people to understand how they might help you.”
Crowdfunding will achieve mass market adoption through simpler second-generation tools
“And our hypothesis is, is that crowdfunding will have a very similar narrative arc to blogging to where, you know, 1213 years ago, blogging was this thing that had a lot of hand waving, had a lot of it was on the tips of you know, journalist tongues of the, yo…”
Rojas: Fewer than 1,000 people were blogging in 2001
“It seemed at the time blogging was a very, very, very small space. There were maybe, at that point, I think there was probably less than a thousand people blogging.”
Writing Publicly Forces Deep Thinking and Drives Self-Learning
“When you're formulating it for a blog post and something that's meant to be consumed, you really need to think deeply and figure out every single angle so that you're, you know, you're communicating something which is coherent and clear and powerful. And I thi…”