Comment by jeswin

Back where?

The ecosystem and interconnected-ness has completely vanished. If you look at the late 90s or early 2000s, people had RSS readers, and sites had feeds, blogrolls, trackbacks/pingbacks, a commenting system which worked, and social bookmarking sites (like del.icio.us) which were somewhat mainstream.

All of this is gone. Blogs are not going to survive in the current super-noisy consumption architecture.

For blogs to be back, you'd almost need a new internet.