> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://onemanandhisblog.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# The role of blogs in the age of media overload
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2015/02/blogging-curation-connection-stoll/
- Published: 2015-02-15T14:49:39.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:30:10.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: aggregation, attention wars, Blogging, curation, linking

[![Blogger at work](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/blogger-at-work-thumb-1600xauto-4047.jpg?resize=960%2C540)](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/blogger-at-work.jpg?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)  
Fascinating read in the wake of Andrew Sullivan’s [closure of The Dish](http://time.com/3693638/no-blogs-are-not-dead/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), in which Ira Stoll [explores the present and future of blogging](http://time.com/3693638/no-blogs-are-not-dead/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> And while the ability to produce opinion quickly can be abused, blogs provide the kind of connection and curation that is necessary to understand a world with so much news and information. Successful blogs use hyperlinks to send us out into the web; the blog is guide and greeter. A great blogger can be a personal information concierge, and is likely offering that service for free. Blogs are often bargains.

It doesn’t say anything fundamentally new, certainly nothing we haven’t known for *years*, but Stoll brings a historic context and an eloquence to the argument that’s compelling.