There’s lots of reasons not covered in the blog about not blogging trying to convince why to blog.
Writing, on the other hand, seems to “just flow,” and I spend a bit of time, after publishing, correcting and tweaking the prose. Nothing, compared to video postproduction.
As it is, I have barely written anything in the last couple of years, because I have had a fairly consuming project.
I think there are plenty of great reasons to blog, and there will be more in the future.
Google really kneecapped the written word with a few sites as exceptions. Wordpress has struggled to make blogging better, along with the other publishing options..
However the written words are often a better way to communication certain things as you can have easy to follow links and more formatting that makes things sink in well.
Although 2023 is a perfect time to sing the 'video killed the radio (and written word) star' ... some things are aligning where that could shift.
Now that mobile theme styling is getting better, all it's going to take is a few changes like 'nofollow' links by default, easy to moderate web ring additions, animated talking heads and AI pics to include and we will see a re-emergence of great story sharing again, and google won't be needed for them to have impact far and wide.
I see activity pub helping with this in the future, and a few other things that are starting to get traction.
Plenty of reasons why someone would care.
There is plenty of space for quality and thought out content on YouTube. Especially if you don't need to make a living. The kicker to me, seems the extra time required to get production value to a tolerable point.
https://www.youtube.com/live/UAUg6y2UX88?feature=share
I stopped most of the way down the page. Here are the exaggerated facial expressions:
https://www.youtube.com/live/CN5bnEn9YZA?feature=share (sort of an exaggerated :|)
https://youtu.be/iQ190Bf-6J0 (the only actual “soyface” I could find)
https://youtu.be/fpnd1OboPPs (borderline soyface maybe?)
So that’s 16 normal facial expressions, four slightly exaggerated ones, and 1, maybe 2 soyfaces. And a much larger majority of videos that didn’t show the presenter’s face on the thumbnail at all.
Edit: It occurs to me now that it’s not that easy to see a YouTube thumbnail after you click through to the actual video.