The Impressionist Blogging Movement - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I like Jim’s answer here.
It will no longer be enough to blog in order to merely “put out content”. The key will be what has always been key to great blogging: expressing your unique, inimitable impression.
Blogging is expressing your impression. It’s deriving action from thought.
“Expression” and “impression”. Your writing and your media needs to be an expression of your thoughts and impressions of the world. That’s what the people who are open to reading and watching new things want from their media.
My only quibble would be that the iA post he links to is a bit ahistoric.
Before photography, painting was a creative industry – studios, apprentices, masters, the whole lot – that worked on commission. If somebody with money wanted to preserve the memory of their favourite horse, they paid somebody to paint a painting of it.
It was an entire industry. Not particularly “artistic” in modern terms, but the income was what led to steady advancements in painting as a craft.
After photography, all that was gone. The innovation turned an industry into a vocation. Painters were either poor or had enough money to spend time on it as a hobby. It recovered somewhat over time, but it never grew back to the same size and it never returned to being the crafts-led industry it was.
If AI has even remotely the same effect on the various coding or office jobs we do, then we’re all fucked.
“Talkies”, movies with sound, devastated the job market for musicians in a similar way.
Providing live music for silent movies was a steady pay cheque for musicians that helped even out their income between less steady gigs. Once audio arrived, that disappeared, jobs for musician’s evaporated, and since it coincided with the Great Depression, fascism, rampant monopolies, etc. there weren’t any new jobs created to replace them.
Thank heavens nothing like that’s happening these days, right?