Do not know oneself is not a typical representative, wrote a small blog from the beginning of science and technology, once in Google Reader to obtain more than 1w+ subscription, now feedly still retained 2k, although many friends outside the wall do not meet, but I still insist on writing.
Obviously, I rely on blog writing to gain some influence, know a lot of friends and then get a lot of new opportunities, or with me such a dropout without internet background, how can survive in this era? So, I thank (independent) blog.
If I just describe it as "the stepping stone to the current industry", it is not complete enough. Social networking sites, writing platforms are for others, you have the right to write and a profile page, how much attention you get is not necessarily directly related to the content of your writing, more readers are interested in the platform rather than personal.
This is exactly, I have been with friends JY, blog is yours, even if it is again down, the number of visits again low, the dog is not too poor. As long as you don't give up, when you are 83 years old, he will still be there. From this point of view, it carries the recording function, you may say Evernote also can, but with the heart of "I would rather believe that WordPress live than the former (Evernote) longer", because all heavy platform products will disappear because of a variety of complex reasons. Even if Wordpress stops updating, I can still build an environment to let it run, it is an open source program, so that everyone has the fun of writing.
In addition to recording, The independent blog is "You", what domain name you choose, what theme to use, how big the font size, the full text output or truncated output, using which feed hosting, you may be in the feed tail with Plug-ins plus a small chrysanthemum, you can recommend a gay application you like to everyone without fear of being deleted.
That's what I want to say, "It's all because of you, and it's you," It's a place for your own writing, recording, and presentation. It is called blog, but not just blog, before blogging is for a lot of things, now write a blog just for a life habit, less on the road, say more common sense and life.
This is my understanding of (independent) blog for your reference. Will it disappear? Disappear is always a pseudo proposition, macro and micro separate said, as long as there is demand, it will not disappear, at least I have always had such a demand.