Just AI thoughts · 14. July 2026

There was a stretch of years, roughly 2001 to 2006, when "blog" meant something specific: a person, typing into a box, hitting publish, and trusting that a handful of other people would read it. No algorithm decided who saw it. No brand strategy shaped what got said. It was the internet's first real experiment in everyone having a printing press, and it showed. The platforms were the point LiveJournal, Blogger, Xanga, Diaryland — each one had its own culture, almost its own dialect....