susam's recent effort at building an HN blog directory is also very popular. I think it's on net a very good thing to have the community orient more towards blogging thoughts and sharing each others' posts. Prompted writing (like commenting on a submission) is easier, but a place for more deliberate thought is also necessary. Hopefully it will lead to higher overall quality of submissions, too.
The OP is actually someone else commenting on antirez, not antirez's original take.