You know, there are a lot of blogging and micro-blogging sites popping up in the last 10 years (Wordpress, Blogger, Medium, Svbtle, Octopress, etc), but I can't help but feel that nobody cares what most people have to say. Twitter has devolved into this weird sort of micro-marketing medium, Medium and Svbtle have devolved into Wordpress, Facebook has devolved into Yahoo's old front page. Any given person's software blog is probably only used as knowledge-portfolios on resumes, and are almost always abandoned for anything else more worthy of that person's time. The whole social aspect of blogs and micro-blogs seems completely useless compared to more transient services like snapchat or whatever. I just keep wondering when all these tons of mass-communication services are going to go the way of our old geocities pages.
I tend to agree, but with the following qualification: I don't really read any particular person's blog regularly, but I do end up reading a range of blog entries when they are linked from some sort of aggregator (HN, Twitter etc).
Additionally, as a software developer I often find myself on the blog entry of another developer who has blogged a solution to just the exact problem I am facing, which is extraordinarily helpful.
For those reasons I feel that these blogging sites should and will continue to exist in some shape or form.
