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# The blogging resurgence and Known
- URL: https://werd.io/the-blogging-resurgence-and-known/
- Published: 2023-01-11T15:35:09.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-11T15:35:09.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

[Colin Devroe on blogging](https://cdevroe.com/2023/01/11/blogging-is-alive):

> Oh man am I happy! People that hadn't written on their blog in a long time are blogging again. Websites that hadn't been updated in many years, some over a decade, are being spruced up and published to again. And popular news outlets are publishing articles about blogging.

Do I wish we had founded [Known](https://withknown.com) the startup in 2023 instead of 2014? Yes, I do. Being early (in this case by eight or nine years) is the same as being wrong. I’m glad for all of the opportunities it opened up, and all the people we met through the process, but the startup was never going to be a success at that time.

If we started it *now*? Well, that might be a different story. But, of course, I’d do things differently, because I’ve learned a lot in the interim. And I mostly learned those things because of the startup. So it’s a futile thought experiment. What happened happened!

Known the open source project [is available and easier to install than it has been in years](https://github.com/idno/known). I’m grateful for that too. And I wish everyone who is building a service to make it easier for people to write on their own site all the best. We need you. Keep going.