RE: The Over-Engineering Of Blogging
I'm not sure I'm on either side of the gap. I'm certainly not managing my blogging on Steemit as you describe and, if that's what's required of me to be successful, I will definitely bale out.
It may not be relevant to what you're writing about but what's missing for me in that analysis is the role of human relationships and connection. It's what keeps me going here when things get challenging. It's what I will always fall back on if I can't keep up with technology. And I'm not sure the value of that can ever be taken from me.
If the techological needle keeps moving forward won't there come a point where people will walk away from it all and find a way to live simpler lives outside of all that? There's quite a bit of that going on already.
I just can't conceptualise a world where technology is king for everyone.
I just thought I'd say I'm blogging more of the way you are on Steemit, and that I agree, if I have to depend on bots and whales, then it ultimately won't be worth it, because that's not viable for more than a relative few, and it's not viable for Steemit when all what I'll call the "mainstreamers" hit.
I'll also agree with your evaluation of relationships, on Steemit, or elsewhere. It's good to find our niche and help those we can and have it reciprocated with technical knowledge or whatever it is. It's the human exchange that has the most value.
re: technology is king for everyone
I think we're living in such a world, and have been for as long as I've been alive (almost 52 years). From what I read, it's been going on for quite a while.
That is, if you consider that most of what we possess and use in our every day lives is the result of some kind of technological advance. The car was considered a technological marvel when the first working model was used. So, was the steam engine before it. The bicycle, the drawn wagon, the wheel—all of it was once a wonder of Man's ingenuity. As we hurtle into a new era of blockchains and AI, and whatever else there is, technology continues on.
What doesn't change generally, is the human condition. The need for human interaction. The need for human understanding. Anything that might try to replace that will ultimately be rejected I believe. Even from those of us who don't need as much social interaction on the daily. :)
Technology is not king, but it's the game changer now. Just try to imagine your life without a cell phone. A simple thing. You can't really. But this simple thing is unconceivable for someone born, let's say, in 1920. Very hard to conceptualize and understand. Would you say that that person is at disadvantage because of that? If that person has an accident, a cell phone can save his / her life. That's where the technology gets relevant.
Human connection is still important, but it gets "broadcasted" on different channels.
I do see it as a game changer but not the only game changer. And, believe it or not, I can quite easily imagine life without a mobile phone. Some days I don't use it or check it at all.
But thinking about it, it would be much harder to imagine life without my laptop so it's the same thing really. 😊 Sometimes I do consider taking a complete break from it but haven't done so yet.
I wouldn't say that someone in the 1920s was at a disadvantage for not having a mobile and, yes, they do have their place.
The human connection I'm referring to is not broadcastable. I mean literal human connection. although, hang on a minute, I consider this conversation to be human connection adn this is via techonology. Bloody hell, it's a mine field!! 😁
It's an interesting discussion and when you bring AI into it @glenalbrethsen it gets even more into the realm beyond my imagination. Perhaps my mind just doesn't want to go there.
I suppose I just can't envisage a world where there won't be people living simpler lives by choice, hopefully taking the best of technology and leaving the rest.
You can imagine life without a cell phone. But your readers, imagination apart, do use a cell phone, and you have to take that into account in your blogging habits. At least for that technology is a game changer. Or game breaker for some people.
I'm not sure I follow you @gbd. What difference does it make to my readers whether I'm blogging on my cell phone or on my lap top? 😊
In that direction not much (except that I would admire you for being able to blog from such a poor keyboard).
It's very important to know your readers though, and if they read you on a cell phone you should take that into account, for posting times, post length, page design...
those old folks now get senior alert buttons...you know the old commercials "Help I fell down and can't get up."