3/3 Related

"By the late 2000s, blogs had long become a natural extension of chat rooms and online forums as budding writers turned to LiveJournal or Blogger to share their thoughts with the world.
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By 2013 ... Making things worse was internet commentary beginning to morph into the toxic dumpster fire it’s become today. It became riskier for anyone to stick their neck out."

#nzblogs #internethistory #blogging

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/18-06-2022/everything-just-got-nastier-the-2000s-biggest-bloggers-say-theyd-never-do-it-now

2/3 "It’s hard to believe that when we created Sciblogs in 2009, the iPhone was only two years old, being a ‘Youtuber’ wasn’t really a thing and Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok didn’t exist.
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We had the opinion pages of the major newspapers and news websites,.... We had a healthy blogging ecosystem, ranging from Kiwiblog to Public Address, but nowhere where science nerds could congregate and argue in rambling comment threads."

#nzblogs #nzscience

https://sciblogs.co.nz/guestwork/2022/06/17/sciblogs-gave-scientists-a-platform-before-social-media-took-over/

1/3 Ah well, fare well :(

"Some of Aotearoa’s best-known science communicators have contributed to Sciblogs, from Shaun Hendy, who says much of his writing from his first two books evolved from his blogging, to Siouxsie Wiles, who started blogging early in her arrival to NZ and covered such topics as the Fonterra botulism scare that helped get her on the radar of journalists in need of a scientist who could communicate clearly."

#nzblogs #nzscience #nztwits

https://sciblogs.co.nz/guestwork/2022/06/17/bidding-farewell-to-sciblogs/