[jwmerrill]

Everyone should consider making their own blog! Kind of like everyone should consider baking their own bread, at least once.

Having a blog that I built that is truly “mine,” with a domain name that I own, is one of the most rewarding things I’ve done. Even though I don’t write that often and don’t have that many readers.

I currently host it on github pages, but I could move it somewhere else in a weekend if I wanted to.

Depending on your motivations, discoverability by strangers may be overrated. I’ve had good success just telling people that I respect that I wrote something and getting feedback from them. I’m not selling anything on my blog, so that’s worth a lot more to me than anonymous attention.

Social media like HN, Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook may also help for getting the word out about your writing while still letting you own the space where your writing lives.

[stOneskull]

I think MySpace should've focused on the blog, and kept the feel of having 'my space'. I think it could have thrived. It would've been better than whatever it is now anyway, some crappy pop music ghost town thing.