Interviews & Commentary

Interviews & Commentary features conversations, perspectives, and opinion pieces related to blogging and digital publishing. It highlights the voices behind the work, including bloggers, writers, editors, and industry participants.

The goal is thoughtful commentary that reflects the community and the evolving realities of publishing on the web.

In 2007, a 107-year-old Australian woman who could no longer type began dictating a blog about surviving two world wars and the Great Depression, and kept posting until two weeks before she died at 108

People who write in the same coffee shop every single day may not be creatures of habit — for some, the routine is what makes the blank page feel slightly less threatening

Bloggers past the 10-year mark earn more than double what 5-to-10-year bloggers make each month, but a 2025 survey of 187 bloggers found their revenue per pageview is actually lower

Writers who describe themselves as private people but still publish regularly aren’t always contradicting themselves — for some, publishing to strangers may feel far safer than sharing with the people who already have opinions about them

Volunteers left alone in a room with nothing to do for fifteen minutes, no phone allowed, rated it as unpleasant as a mild electric shock — and a close to half of them shocked themselves anyway