It's kind of interesting seeing where the internet has gone in the last 15 years or so. There's been a huge shift in the last 5 years or so to more commercial content, and I think facebook and twitter has kind of killed off blogging a bit, or at least blogging by regular people.
Don't get me wrong blogs still exist, but it seems all we're interested in seeing is content from celebrities and large news networks. The great thing about blogger back in the day was it was a fascinating insight into the everyday lives of regular people, and since most people didn't have the internet let alone knew what a "blog" was there was still some kind of anonymity. People would bare their soul and even though they weren't famous, it was still interesting, the top blogs were usually by regular people.
Now it seems since the demographics of the internet have shifted to include more of society all there seems to be are celebrity gossip blogs, food - oh my god so sick of the endless "foodie" blogs.
Perhaps it's an interesting niche that has now died out, but I think kids growing up with the internet now will never experience an internet that was still somewhat of a wild west, it was a self regulating system, where you would connect with strangers and build real friendships.
Now it's kind of like a giant shopping mall, and the government tries to censor everything, people try to sue over tweets and it's like the collective masses want to round off the edges and put a G rating on everything.
I think the last bastion would be something like 4Chan or Reddit. While there's some awful stuff on 4Chan, it's kind of nice to see a part of the internet that isn't censored, regulated and commercialised.
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