That right?
This is a slash: / This is a backslash: \ One can call the former a forward slash, but when telling people a URL, for example, one would say “slash.” That’s two syllables less than “forward slash.”
I hope the answer is no
In 2006, when Twitter and Facebook came along, this blog (well, its predecessor, but it was my eponymous blog, and it rolled over to this one) had dozens of thousands of readers per day. Now it gets dozens. (And thank you!)
Here’s the thing. Twitter and Facebook didn’t just suck away attention and readers. It sucked away writers. So many great bloggers went over to those two social platforms, and abandoned their blogs.
Now, blogging (personal publishing, syndicated with RSS) is having a resurgence. But on Substack, not on personal sites like this one. Not yet.
I am sure my readership would go up into the thousands again if I blogged on Substack, but I don’t want to. Here’s why: this is a home. And it’s mine. I’m not in somebody’s walled garden.
Am I wrong to have faith that independence will, in the long run, have more appeal (and effect) than dependence?
Which is happening, but how much will it produce?
Dana Blankenhorn says Big AI is now a commodity, and that doesn’t look good for OpenAI. ChatGPT’s market share is slowly yielding to Gemini and Claude, but still dominates.
But I wonder about revenue. Google’s cash cow is advertising, especially with the search engine, usage of which is being cannibalized by Gemini. Will the whole world start paying for commodity AI? Only if all of them put up a paywall.
Humbling
Leave a Reply