@scg

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Writer, marketer. Have ADHD.
Live in Bangalore, India.

As a marketer, I’ve leveraged SEO, but as a writer and reader, I’ve always hated it. The AI boom seemed to promise a shift towards content written for humans instead of algorithms. But was this hope short-lived? Read my take on SEO, my friend, benefactor, and scourge. #SEO #contentcreator #writing

https://www.sharathcgeorge.com/post/seo-is-dead-long-live-seo

SEO is Dead, Long Live SEO

The internet age, and perhaps all ages before it, have followed a tragic cyclical pattern. Human ingenuity produces technology that changes the world, and it does, but somewhere along the line, it becomes a Pyrrhic victory. The internet brought all the information in the world to our fingertips, followed by misinformation. Social media connected long-lost friends and relatives, then made them hate each other instead of merely ignoring them. Newsletters became the rage, an antidote to the shallow

Sharath C George

Pretty sure this article made me get off my butt to build my current blog, and then researching led me to #Indieweb principles that I applied to the site.

https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging

Bring back personal blogging

As social media changes, Twitter slowly falls, and the landscape seems bleak, let’s take a moment and consider blogging. The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can help fix it.

The Verge
@megmac interested, but not sure if time zones will match. I’m in India
Could a Ming dynasty Buddha found on an Australian beach rewrite history? https://flip.it/JFReOk
Could a Ming dynasty Buddha found near an Australian beach rewrite history?

The origins of the 15cm statue, verified as authentic on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, remain a mystery. Could it have been left there by 15th-century Chinese explorers?

The Guardian
@CodexNotFound i got diagnosed a year ago and this specific video was the most insightful one I saw and showed to family
@arpcomics ChatGPT. I’m asking it all the 200,000 questions I had in childhood and pissed off my teachers
@[email protected] Are you not happy and confident in your success 24/7 like everyone else on Insta and LinkedIn?
@arpcomics incidentally 35 is exactly the age when i got diagnosed with ADHD
@brianhogg that’s cool

@brianhogg Like Carrot Weather - “Here’s the the thing you’ve been running from for 6 months”

Just an idea