I admit that I’m confused that Geoff Manaugh looks around at an internet landscape of “nothing but reaction GIFs and Donald Trump” and finds “it’s enough to make anyone quit blogging”. (This links comes via Warren Ellis.) If anything, that landscape makes it even more important that people keep blogging, or return to blogging, or start blogging. Or, if not blogging, per se, tending a so-called “digital garden” would be fine, too. Which is not to say that Bruce Sterling (whose ending of his Wired blog was what prompted Manaugh) or anyone else has some sort of obligation to the blogging commons. The state of today’s internet can be exhausting, and lord knows there are plenty of times I exhaust even myself.