Yeah, it seems like long-form pieces have just been decentralized to blogs. You can still publish quality stuff at Kuro5hin (if you introduce yourself in the Diary ghetto first).
The decentralization to blogs seems like a shame to me. Publishing in a public sphere like Kuro5hin guaranteed an automatic audience, whereas publishing something on your personal blog is more of less a shot in the dark unless you're already famous or somehow get picked up by Digg/Reddit.
The decentralization to blogs seems like a shame to me. Publishing in a public sphere like Kuro5hin guaranteed an automatic audience, whereas publishing something on your personal blog is more of less a shot in the dark unless you're already famous or somehow get picked up by Digg/Reddit.