blogging
Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the social web.
The latest Black Hat SEO technique: find articles from defunct sites linked to by major news operations, and grab the URLs.
This could impact the ranking of sites exploited by the technique.
Reasons I love blogging #3478: I spend several minutes Googling “Ted Danson flossing" for a blog post this morning.
Tumblr as we know it is dead, as a pile of corporate obfuscation makes clear. What’s left is a zombie-like shell - and a gap for places where young people can experiment with their identity.