On the one hand, we're lamenting the death of our nostalgic remembrance of blogging's heyday. On the other, we're conflating blogging with indie commercial med

On the one hand, we're lamenting the death of our nostalgic remembrance of blogging's heyday. On the other, we're conflating blogging with indie commercial media businesses. Blogging isn't dead, but indie commercial media businesses may be in their death throes. Why do we fret? Is it because the listicle is such a mindworm that it has made us forget what we liked about the indie voice? That we can't help ourselves? There was this saying, "interesting news finds me", meaning that a properly tuned social network and media diet is a good filter for what you should ingest, better than trying to be omnivorous and a slave to fear of missing out (FOMO). Over time, it's become closer to "interesting people find me" as more of my intake comes from the people I follow (and the ones I mute). But there are great opportunities for us to create better filters, for better routing mechanisms to our short attention spans. I just don't know whether there will ever be a commercial motivation to create it, or whether there'll be enough of a market willing to give up their FOMO and outsource their self-discipline to consume it...