Provide something valuable, and people will pay: More than 11,000 people are paying (yes, paying) for email newsletters on Substack’s platform
One of the faintly depressing things about doing a newsletter is that within moments of pressing “send” you often lose subscribers, as your lists cleans an e-mails address that bounced.
That last post nearly had “kinky goodness” instead of “linky goodness” and now I want to launch a second newsletter TBH.
Prepping the latest issue of my sporadic interesting reading newsletter Commonplace Reading. Sign up for linky goodness in your inbox.
A page that makes me say “thank God for ebook pricing”: The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (Hardback) - Routledge
I was podding about on Twitter last night and was about to do a comment retweet on something when I realised that doing so wouldn’t really benefit anyone, would increase polarisation, and wasn’t something I really wanted to be doing. Deleted it. Be the change you want to see.
Nothing makes a self-employed person’s morning happier than the words “remittance advice” in his e-mail first thing in the morning.
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
I found Zuckerberg straining, not always coherently, to grasp problems for which he was plainly unprepared. These are not technical puzzles to be cracked in the middle of the night but some of the subtlest aspects of human affairs, including the meaning of truth, the limits of free speech, and the origins of violence.
I suspect his absolute control of the company is part of the problem.
The internet is basically a stroppy teenager, getting in trouble with the authorities, and making us all wish it would just hurry up and grow up: Deleting the internet’s innocence