https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/ Jay Springett lives here on the Internet Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:25:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-100236 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:11:09 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-100236 […] Start a blog, build a website, write a newsletter, start a podcast, do whatever. Just do it on your own domain. […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-99928 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:11:20 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-99928 […] For the love of blarg, start a blog. […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-99739 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:42:40 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-99739 […] big welcome to any new readers who have followed the feed since last weeks blog on starting a blog. I’m always humbled that anyone might be interesting in what I have to say […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-99507 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:41:33 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-99507 […] mean that I can keep blogging – which I think remains an important part of online culture (it’s well worth reading Jay Springett’s paean extolling the virtues of maintaining a blo…) – even if I’m the only audience for my […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-83406 Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:34:08 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-83406 […] Which was the main argument in one of my most popular posts Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-36118 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:44:12 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-36118 […] managed to jog myself out of that paralysis after stumbling across Jay Springett’s post Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog just as I was debating whether or not to follow through with this project or another one. It was […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-27852 Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:41:05 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-27852 […] much as I encourage everyone to start a blog. There’s a reason web2.5 middle host services like Substack and Patreon (and to some extent […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-27685 Fri, 04 Aug 2023 12:04:27 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-27685 […] Secondly looking at the engagement on the tweet vs the amount of people that actually came over here to read the post there seems almost no point in posting anything to Twitter at all. Folks just don’t leave the ‘safety’ of the hell site it seems. They’d rather boil their brains doomscrolling the world away in 240 characters, and consider ‘threads’ well written and appropriate long form content. […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-27196 Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:55:28 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-27196 […] People are beginning to seek out the content they want to see again (even if they have to pay for it). Not the content the algo delivers to them. This is a big shift in user behaviour IMO and another reason why it’s never been a better time to start a blog. […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-24487 Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:08:55 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-24487 […] written a lot on my blog about why you should use an RSS reader and start a blog or newsletter. But less on what happens when you reduce your social media […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-24477 Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:51:42 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-24477 […] For the love of blarg start a blog, a newsletter, a Youtube channel […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-24293 Sat, 17 Jun 2023 19:37:39 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-24293 […] If Substack is encouraging its readers to use a glorified RSS reader, then why start a newsletter on Substack at all when you can just start a blog?  […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-11032 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:54:33 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-11032 […] Additionally, Twitter is criticised for generating a ‘dopamine rush’ of instant gratification, where you become addicted to refreshing the page or the app in order to get more ‘engaging content’, which is typically means bad-faith arguments or sentiments driven out of all nuance. Stepping away from that is to take a calmer view of virtual life, and allow the time to read or write ideas that have (in theory) more space to mature. A good summary of this approach can be found in Jay Springett’s 2019 exhortation ‘Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog’ […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-1288 Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:42:56 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-1288 […] 2019 post on why people should stop writing Twitter threads and start a blog frequently still shows up in my stats. It’s been read 80+ times in 2022 so far alone. I wonder […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/#comment-1102 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 19:22:35 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=5201#comment-1102 […] I wrote that people should stop posting Twitter threads and ‘For the Love of Blarg, Start a Blog’.  […]

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