Do blogs still matter?

Many of us make jokes about blogs, and specifically how they used to be a thing. They were what we used to share our reactions and engage with others before Twitter, before Substack paid newsletters, podcasts, and videos.

But blogs… they don’t matter anymore. Or at least we don’t think they do. They’re slow; unlike social media, they take you out of the moment. You can’t have an instant reaction on a blog. They take a lot of work.1 They require a kind of thoughtfulness, at least in theory, th...