— A newsletter for “anyone who wants to design, build, create, and publish on the Web.” Of course content exploring how to own your content on the web is sorely needed. But publishing that content as a newsletter under the domain of a third-party tool is a bizarre choice. Like driving around in a car when you want to convince people of the benefits of riding a bike.
Posts about Newsletters (RSS, JSON)
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Friday, 10 February 2023
— A little nugget by Nick Herr I enjoyed:
[…] newsletters and personal blogs — which are actually the same thing, but I do not think the investors backing Substack have noticed
It’s funny, ‘cause it’s true.
Friday, 21 October 2022
— Are We Past Peak Newsletter? The newsletter hype has always been a fad. Newsletters have existed before, and they will continue to exist. For a couple of years, there were enough companies with enough money to throw into marketing campaigns to make people believe emails are cool again. This time, for sure, everything’s different. You will connect with your audience, and this new square to enter words is better than the other squares you’ve used before. Just like blogs, many were started only for their writers to find out that they don’t have enough material for a periodical.