YouTube can learn from old school blog culture: Share (and cheat) at your own risk

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/01/ [login to see] /try-guys-ned-fulmer-youtube-blog-substack-newsletter
"As someone who had not just one blog but several in the late '90s and early aughts — and as someone who originally came to NPR to write one about pop culture — I have found it fascinating to see blogs boom, and then bust, and then be reinvented as newsletters essentially indistinguishable from blog posts. "Here is some writing, here are some links, here is some information." That was also the mission statement of a blog, particularly in the more "journaling" incarnation, as opposed to the "rolling succession of tiny posts that were really just links" incarnation".