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In an interview with Ruth Brown, Metafilter founder Matt Haughey says that fewer people blog now, opting instead to post quick thoughts to Facebook and Twitter. “Like, I have an interesting thought in the morning and think, ‘Can I whittle this down to one sentence? I can!’ then ‘tap tap tap, done.’ … Twitter’s too ephemeral. But it kills blogs dead.” He wonders if serious writers will pick up blogging again in a pushback against reducing everything to tweets and status updates. He also discusses Metafilter’s high-quality comments, noting that moderators remove perhaps 10 or 20 comments a day out of 3,000 posted.
The post includes Haughey’s top five Metafilter threads, including the one from last summer in which members in New York intervened to help a couple of Russian girls whom they thought were about to get caught up in a sex-trafficking ring.
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