"Great history (and history of linklove) from @DaveWiner on how blogging worked at its best and needs to work again, for so many more of us, if we are to break free, as a free and independent people, from the personal data ranches we call social media.

I like "personal data ranches" better than "silos" or "walled gardens", because it's more metaphorically accurate. Bonus link. Another.

BTW, my original blog was (and still is) http://doc.weblogs.com.  Here's my first actual blog post, in November 1999. The first post on that blog, two days earlier, was by Dave, instructing me on how to blog. His rules still apply.