Re: blogging is not always about the traffic

fab's response here I think gets at the heart of what makes good blogs good: the person who's writing wants to write, rather than feeling obligated to. Since the rise of Instagram, so many blogs have either vanished (correlating with traffic moving away from the open web, and toward social media), or become product-shilling shells of themselves. A while ago I wrote about someone I peripherally knew decades ago, who sang and played keys in indie bands in my hometown. She now runs a blog that isn't corporate, but feels like it, if you know what I mean - a certain style of writing, certain keywords inserted. Perfectly competent, uninteresting writing.

You know what I'd love to read? A blog about touring and recording with a series of bands in the late 90s through 00s, focusing on a scene that I wasn't in, but knew a lot of people who were.

But failing that, just something that someone is interested in, passionate about - something they _want_ to write about, not something they feel they should (or have to, or whatever else).

One of my favourite gemini capsules the first few months after I discovered geminispace was just a collection of photographs someone had taken during their hikes. On the face of it, incredibly ordinary, but the intention behind it was what made it interesting to me.

More of that, please. More of what people find interesting and compelling, the more specific, the better.