Alan Jacobs writing on his blog entitled The Homebound Symphony:

[W]hile many of the old-school blogs are dead and gone, a surprising number of them remain active, and still have a multitude of commenters. In turns out that social media did not kill blogs, but just co-opted the discourse about blogs. Once journalists got addicted to Twitter, they stopped paying attention to what was happening elsewhere — but that didn’t stop it from happening._

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I don’t want to bring back the blogosphere, I definitely want to bring back the blog._

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[T]his is the time for people to rediscover the pleasures of blogging – of writing at whatever length you want, and posting photos, and embedding videos, and linking to music playlists, all on your little corner of the internet._

Let’s bring back the blog. And leave all the bad things spawned by the blogosphere to social media, where they belong.