Recently I’ve been thinking about the old days of blogging. A few things happened to put me in that frame of mind. First I was reminded of two old blogs I used to love: Sunshine+Design and Color Me Katie. Both of them ended in 2013. I wondered why they suddenly stopped, so I poked around a bit and noticed that Katie moved to posting on flickr and later on Instagram. I suspect that’s how many old bloggers moved away from blogging: migrating from original social media sites like Blogger and WordPress to newer social media like flickr and Instagram etc. They moved on and their blogging days came to an end.
Not everyone who was an old school blogger gave it up, though. Kevin Drum was one of the original political bloggers who kept blogging until his passing just recently. Many of those who started blogging with him went on to have substacks or columnist jobs or even started small companies, but Kevin was still actively blogging in 2025.
Like Kevin, I am an old school blogger who somehow managed to keep at it into 2025. I use other social media, like Instagram and Bluesky and I’ve even recently started some tumblrs which I will talk about at some time. I’ve started some new blogs too. But I still keep blogging here. Blogs are a medium like anything else: you use them as a way of putting things out in the world. I suspect I will continue to post things on this site and other blogging sites until my end too. It’s good technology, good media.
In the meantime, R.I.P., Kevin. And rest in peace old bloggers and blogs everywhere.
P.S. More on Kevin Drum here: Kevin Drum Dead: Influential Early Political Blogger Was 66 in The New York Times
P.S.S. I noticed an account I follow on Instagram, @evgrieve, also has an ongoing blog that started in 2007! For fans of the East Village in NYC — my favorite part of that city — it is recommended.
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