Ben Casnocha: evaluation

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…Ben, what about you, do you self-identify? I do, but when MR started, when I was blogging in 2004, there were RSS readers. You would read every post. You really felt like you had a connection with the person you were reading. It was a smaller community. When Google killed Google Reader, I felt like that was also a distinct end to a chapter in the blogosphere because suddenly all the distribution went to Twitter and Facebook, and you didn’t read every post anymore. I used to consider myself a blogger when I felt like there was a dedicated readership that read every post. But now it feels like you’re a publisher on Facebook or something, as the identity. You really have to bow down to those algorithms to ensure that your posts get distribution. I aggregated a lot of my blogs in those days in Google Reader, but I saved Marginal Revolution as a bookmark because I wanted to check Marginal Revolution. For some reason, I didn’t want it to be in that kind of stream. I wanted to check it as a destination, and I still do, actually.…

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