Does StackOverflow make my blog redundant?

A few years ago I wrote a post describing how I creating many of my blog posts.
When I had a new question/issue that required some research, Usually I do a Google search, open a few articles and extract what is useful from them. Usually I was not able to find exact answer, so I had to  make a solution of my problem based on the ideas from different articles add my own ideas, combined the ideas from different sources, and finally describe my sollution in a blog post.

Recently I realized, that from top 10 result of Google search, pages from StackOverflow usually give me the most relevant answer to my questions- often exact, what I wanted to ask.

If I am unlucky to find satisfactory result, and my issue is not very urgent, instead of doing research by myself, I can ask a question on StackOverflow and there is a good chance, that next day someone will give me an idea, or (even better) tell that it possible duplicate of question, and refer me to appropriate thread.

If I wouldn’t have any responses from community and I would have to solve my problem by myself, I will answer my own question, and it will be seen by more people, than a post in my blog.

It’s definitely good that StackOverflow has answers for many needed issues.
 
Is it bad, that I will write less posts in my blog? Actually not, some of my posts will published as questions/answers is StackOverflow instead of in my blog.

posted @ Sunday, June 12, 2011 7:36 AM
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# re: Does StackOverflow make my blog redundant?

Left by RR at 6/16/2011 1:56 AM
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Hey, I just read your article. Yes you are right. StackOverflow keeps all the answers to most of our questions.But I think for long tutorials its not relevant. Also most of the moderators are very pushy and dominant. So i still love blogs :) Yours a good blog.

# re: Does StackOverflow make my blog redundant?

Left by alehro at 6/18/2011 4:45 AM
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You are right. It is peaty that we forced to spread our thoughts all over the web. Speaking about me I'm not the blog writer at all...
Read more at my blog (another one)
http://alehro.blogspot.com/2011/06/people-spreaded-over-web.html

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