Agreed with everything you said. But in my mind the word "blog" has bad connotations. In my normal life, I don't know if I've ever read/followed a science blog - never mind enjoyed - but I definitely visit wiki and wiki-type pages on a regular basis.
What I do sometimes enjoy reading is relaxed "academic" articles, like ones you'd find in newspapers, or, now, increasingly, substack, like Michael Shermer's column there, or Timothy Snyder's.
For me, originality does matter, i.e. I do want it to be necessary. The writers I mentioned above, do not rehash stuff written elsewhere. Carl Sagan's or Richard Feynman's books or lectures written for popular consumption contained original thoughts and arguments. Maybe that's too much to ask, and definitely an interesting blog is better than an uninteresting rehash of a wiki page, but here's to setting the bar high!
Your advice here should be pinned on the discord channel or smt.
Well, I was using blog just as a generic term for whatever we do here. One can write a fully fledged, groundbreaking publication here if they want, or somewhere in between a blog and that.
The difference is that we're not a science journal, but closer to a form of social community which I think we ought not to forget (comments are a large part of presence here)... and I think if you're somebody who is going to re-hash information, you better put your own spin on it (and do an excellent job as you might typically do =P)
Mayyybe, though I haven't seen lemouth around for a while to check with him as it's not an 'official' stance, just mine