I read blogs submitted to social media (including HN, also Slack/Discord channels).
Sometimes if a blog is good I’ll look at the author’s other posts. But I don’t subscribe or check for blogs on my own.
I have an RSS reader but rarely use it, because most of the content (even from people who’ve posted interesting blogs before) turns out to be boring.
I wish it was easier to find good blogs, but finding blogs is on “good” social medias (the ones that are better than other social medias) is the best way I know right now.
EDIT: I also haven't read a book longer than short story in a long time. That seems bad so I'm planning to start a novel really soon. I've read really long internet writings (blogs, posts, etc.) that took at least an hour, but certainly not nearly the size of even a 100-page book.
I do read a fair amount of academic papers because I'm in academia. But I usually skim them, and I'm not good at reading papers in-depth. For instance a paper with a lot of formalisms, I understand the what and why and have a vague idea of the how, but can't grok the formal parts.
Something else: I don't usually (but occasionally) watch movies or TV shows, I watch YouTube videos. I spend more time and usually prefer reading over watching.
Yes (n=1), although I actively go out of my way to find more long-form blogs.
To be fair, I've found a lot these through social media (ref: TikTok, X, Reddit, Fediverse, [HN?]...) after curating my algorithm since just searching for blogs I like doesn't yield much relevant results.
no, I mainly switched to reading physical books from the local public library. the oxford a very short introduction series has been a nice drop in replacement
But are books and blogs even in the same info sphere? It seems to me that they address quite different information needs.
Also, I'm wondering to what degree social networks (tiktok etc.) have replaced blogs as a main source for information, whether appropriately so or not.
books in general, no, but in my experience the oxford very short introduction series is because it covers the same type of writing of the blogs I would read, the typically short form niche expertly things on substack/medium/blogspot/etc etc. not a lot of people seem to be familiar with the series, I wasn't until I randomly saw a dedicated corner at my library
https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-...
they have almost a tiny book for any specific niche subject and until I run out of books in this list to read, I don't really have a need for reading blogs anymore
I'll read a few good ones from authors that I follow because I know their content is great and I'm excited about those topics. But I'll also ready a lot of blogs casually, but for those I'll either skim through them myself or use something like https://rockyai.me/ to give me a tldr
I read blogs submitted to social media (including HN, also Slack/Discord channels).
Sometimes if a blog is good I’ll look at the author’s other posts. But I don’t subscribe or check for blogs on my own.
I have an RSS reader but rarely use it, because most of the content (even from people who’ve posted interesting blogs before) turns out to be boring.
I wish it was easier to find good blogs, but finding blogs is on “good” social medias (the ones that are better than other social medias) is the best way I know right now.
EDIT: I also haven't read a book longer than short story in a long time. That seems bad so I'm planning to start a novel really soon. I've read really long internet writings (blogs, posts, etc.) that took at least an hour, but certainly not nearly the size of even a 100-page book.
I do read a fair amount of academic papers because I'm in academia. But I usually skim them, and I'm not good at reading papers in-depth. For instance a paper with a lot of formalisms, I understand the what and why and have a vague idea of the how, but can't grok the formal parts.
Something else: I don't usually (but occasionally) watch movies or TV shows, I watch YouTube videos. I spend more time and usually prefer reading over watching.
Yes (n=1), although I actively go out of my way to find more long-form blogs.
To be fair, I've found a lot these through social media (ref: TikTok, X, Reddit, Fediverse, [HN?]...) after curating my algorithm since just searching for blogs I like doesn't yield much relevant results.
no, I mainly switched to reading physical books from the local public library. the oxford a very short introduction series has been a nice drop in replacement
But are books and blogs even in the same info sphere? It seems to me that they address quite different information needs.
Also, I'm wondering to what degree social networks (tiktok etc.) have replaced blogs as a main source for information, whether appropriately so or not.
books in general, no, but in my experience the oxford very short introduction series is because it covers the same type of writing of the blogs I would read, the typically short form niche expertly things on substack/medium/blogspot/etc etc. not a lot of people seem to be familiar with the series, I wasn't until I randomly saw a dedicated corner at my library https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-... they have almost a tiny book for any specific niche subject and until I run out of books in this list to read, I don't really have a need for reading blogs anymore
I'm not gen Z, but my experience (parent) of late gen-Zers suggests they don't read books or blogs much.
The social media alternatively replaced the blogs. I don't even read the blogs nowadays.
I'll read a few good ones from authors that I follow because I know their content is great and I'm excited about those topics. But I'll also ready a lot of blogs casually, but for those I'll either skim through them myself or use something like https://rockyai.me/ to give me a tldr