This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to blog on relevance of blogging.
It took me a long time to get started with blogging – mostly because I thought I didn’t have much to say to anyone. I learned a lot from blogs written by many experts, and it was part of my answer list as a job interviewee and interviewer to talk about favorite blogs. I volunteered to find recruits for the ‘bloggers table’ at PASS Summit. I found that expert bloggers didn’t necessarily blog for an audience – they blogged as a form of documenting what they knew and what they were learning. It was an open journal, in other words. I love journalling and writing – writing always helps me clear my mind and find direction. I started to think of it that way. I am far from a consistent blogger, but I like blogging and plan to stay at it.
Has blogging taken a hit from AI? Absolutely. Most people do not have time to read, they want AI to give them answers. There is also an overwhelming amount of slop that passes as original writing.Personally, I always ask Claude to help me find a blog post for a script or a problem I am facing. If it can’t, then yeah, I might ask it to do something on its own. I think slop is just another issue we have to contend with, like plagiarism. Original writing and original voices have their value and their place, and always will.
I think blogging should stay as long as original thinking and writing should. Which is, always. Thank you Jeff, for hosting.