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The demise of proper blogging.

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 I think we all need to face something here.  The world is moving on. Grandad's site - Entertaining and informing to the end.  It is sad to see it go.  I suppose I'll have to remove its link in the sidebar now. Talking to many younger people these days, the vast majority simply don't want to read anything longer than a few hundred words at most.  Video instructions seem to be rapidly replacing the traditional (and in my opinion much more user friendly), step 1 to 10 type of written idiot's guides.  Stopping a video and scrolling back to a point where you missed something is far from ideal, where good written instructions can at least be followed at any users own pace.  I'm not even a great fan of most video posts on YouTube and the like.  A colleague, during a car related conversation,  recommended a post to me about the depreciation of electric cars.  It was more than half an hour long, yet the relevant information in it would not have ...