(2019-02-07) Mod Oh God Its Raining Newsletters

Craig Mod: Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters. Launching it has given me reason to consider the state of newsletters and email, in 2019: It’s kind of amazing.

Email is a (the only?) networked publishing technology with both widespread, near universal adoption, and history. It is, as they say, proven.

Facebook has collapsed as a viable marketing / distribution platform for me. Twitter is fine, but the audience trends heavily to certain demographics

I try to be deliberate, and social networks seem more and more to say: You don’t know what you want, but we do. Which, to someone who, you know, gives a shit, is pretty dang insulting.

Wariness is insidious because it breeds weariness.

almost nothing has surpassed the intimacy and joy and depth of conversation I’ve found from publishing Roden.

the conversation is one-to-one even though the distribution is one-to-many.

Years ago, I helped build a storytelling platform called Hi (a simplification of its original name: Hitotoki... You could comment (BlogComment) on anyone’s story and your having commented would be public — a little avatar at the bottom of the page — but the comment itself would be private.