For instance, blogging has given me a superhuman external memory, if I ever need to remember anything to do with something I’ve blogged about, all I need to do is Google the name of my blog plus any word to do with whatever obscure fact is on the tip of my tongue and voila, up pops my reference.

Yes! This! This is probably the most useful thing to come out of all my years of blogging on Blogger and LJ and now Steemit, the ability to just tip-of-my-tongue old memories and old conversations instantly.

Meanwhile, you are making some very cogent points about the applicability and utility of blockchain in science writing and about how blogging is such a vital bridge between the silos of arcane expertise and the layman's understanding.