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Here's an interested ProfHacker post on blogging:
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/time-for-blogs-again/65266
I have done small-scale blogging with Wordpress installed on one of my domains for ... probably over a decade? Various incarnations, various topics--everything from ESL teaching to reading books in translation to, currently, running and hiking.
I also read a ton of blogs and I feel like I get a lot out of them. I use Feedly to collect them.
