These sources concern blogs and who still reads them. This page lists five sources, oldest first where dated.
Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
The thread discusses a blog directory run by one person, philgyford, who joins the replies. Much of the first debate is about opaque acceptance and one user's rejected suggestions. Other commenters share rival directories, webrings and search engines for small sites. The evidence is opinion and personal experience.
Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
The post is a brief reflection that starts from John Gruber's piece on website popups. Nielsen argues that blogging often means saying what feels obvious. It offers no data, only the author's own experience. The post is very short.
The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs? [Study]
The author tracked 100 blogs from 2022 income-report roundups. Traffic estimates come from Semrush for April 2022 and April 2026. The post reports a median organic traffic loss of 85 percent. It then sorts winners and losers by niche. Evidence is a spreadsheet of estimates, not a random sample.
Oakland Review of Books
This is the front page of the Oakland Review of Books. It lists recent features and a dated archive. Only headlines, bylines and one-line descriptions were available, not the articles themselves.
pckt: a blog in your pocket
This is the front page of pckt, a blogging service. The captured text is very short. It gives a title and a few sign-in options. It describes no features, prices or policies.
Glossary
- Affiliate marketing
- Earning commissions by linking readers to products sold elsewhere.
- AI Overviews
- Google's AI-written answers shown above the normal search results.
- Blogroll
- A list of blogs that a site's author recommends.
- Cohort study
- A study that follows one chosen group over time.
- DMOZ
- An early volunteer-edited web directory that a commenter says survives as Curlie.
- E-E-A-T
- Google's quality framework: experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trust.
- Helpful Content Update
- A Google ranking change aimed at demoting content written mainly for search engines.
- John Gruber
- A blogger who writes Daring Fireball, quoted in the post.
- Landing page
- The front page of a product site, meant to bring in new users.
- Organic traffic
- Visits that arrive from unpaid search results.
- Receipts
- Slang for evidence that backs up a claim.
- RSS
- A feed format that lets readers follow a site's new posts.
- Semrush
- A paid tool that estimates how many visits websites get.
- Vibe Reports
- The publication's tag for short pieces on local events and places.
- Webring
- A set of linked sites that point to each other in a loop.