The amateur blogger had largely vanished by the end of the 2000s

Evidence

By the end of the decade, the truly amateur blogger or videographer was something of a rarity, an eccentric hanging on from a different age. Most everyone else was either blogging as part of his job, writing for some professional blog, or had long since hung up his guns. Even Lawrence Lessig, the prophet of a free culture, retired his blog, claiming a degree of exhaustion. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 972

Categorization

• CANDY: That Lessig, champion of free culture, retired his blog from exhaustion is a neat tidbit summing up the amateur era’s end.
• XREF: connects to: The amateur web phase ended within its first decade — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 965; Paid professional staff displaced amateur bloggers in the attention economy — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 969

Broader Connections

• Paid professional staff displaced amateur bloggers in the attention economy #qualifies (0.85) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 969