Blog posts: historical documents or ephemera?
An article Bring Back Personal Blogging¹ on The Verge makes this provocative statement:
Personal stories on personal blogs are historical documents when you think about it. They are primary sources in the annals of history, and when people look back to see what happened during this time in our lives, do you want The New York Times or Washington Post telling your story, or do you want the story told in your own words?
I have no illusions that my own writing has any historical interest, but others have pointed out that we can't tell what's of historical interest until a couple of hundred years have elapsed.
With that in mind, it seems most blogs are ephemeral. If the content staying available depends on some company, the company may well cease to exist. If the content is on my personal site, possibly under a rented domain name, then when I stop paying for the site or domain name, the content will cease to exist.
I guess some popular blogs may make it into the internet archive, for posterity, but they are not likely to include mine.
Postscript
James pointed out that some of my posts are already archived and it's easy to archive more.
Footnote: 1. via Start a F***ing Blog via Does a Blog Need to Integrate