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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Ribbonfarm

      This is something like a roundup of a lot of inside-baseball thinking. Mostly of interest to serious online writers/publishers but the section covering Threadapalooza is possibly of interest to Twitter genpop since so many of you participated.https://twitter.com/ribbonfarm/status/1232129610952794112 …

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      New post by @vgr, a text renaissance https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/02/24/a-text-renaissance/ …
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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      I cover @RoamResearch @SubstackInc @gatsbyjs and threaded twitter. Also a look at the future of blogging and books.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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      I think the death of blogging is for real this time, because a bunch of better options have emerged and because virality is increasingly not worth it. Here I mean classic Wordpress indie-site blogging. Not Medium or fanfic sites or things that have grown into pro-media.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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      Though if someone reimagines Wordpress from the ground up around blogchains, threads, stripe etc it’ll come back. Though perhaps so transformed we wouldn’t call it blogging.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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      It’s interesting times for writers who are in it for the writing (I’m primarily that), rather than as a means to something else like money, influence, marketing, lead-gen, or as an information-products business like online courses (all of which I’ve done as a side effect)

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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      So long as you’re not about writing as an end in itself rather than a means, it’s totally a golden age. Great options for doing what you want to very effectively. Writing for the sake of writing is more mixed because temptations to solve for a valuable side effect are high.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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      I think the trick is being clear what game you’re in now, what each piece of tech enables, and what tradeoffs are involved in each case. Since the tech supports all games. For example, Patreon solves for community building not writing. Mailchimp solves for marketing not writing.

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    8. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson Feb 24
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      You're wrong about the long-term value of WordPress. Its flexibility made it possible to build Stratechery in the first place, and its flexibility allowed me to extend my business model this last week.

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    9. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson Feb 24
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      Every single writer on WordPress can follow what Stratechery did; if you're on a dedicated newsletter service, you're left crossing your fingers the platform will support you, with no alternative other than leaving.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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      Replying to @benthompson

      Like you I’ve been doing this for a very long time. 13 years and counting as a self-hosted Wordpress guy and a career built on it. Ours isn’t a shallow difference of opinions but different responses to the tradeoffs. Not something we can sort out on Twitter I think.

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        2. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson Feb 24
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          I agree that WP isn't necessarily the right choice for everyone. There also wouldn't be choices for everyone had WP not existed in the first place.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 24
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          Sure. Like I said I’m still there for a set of features I like (not the same ones as you). I’m just neither willing to deal with arbitrary costs of flexibility, nor sentimental about WP/open-source. When the features/risks tradeoff points elsewhere as a better fit, I’ll move.

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