In a strange way, bloggers seem more commercial despite making less money. Newsletterers are ideologues for pay.
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There's enough competition in the space that that's not accurate, plus normatively I don't like validating monopolistic brand-capture of a medium. Especially email which is at least still a cosmetic commons despite capture by gmail etc.
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Replying to @vgr
eh, substacker is probably right
it's a proprietary eponym, like how people user Kleenex instead of "tissue"
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Not concerned about the actual term so much as the worrisome state of a thing I'm invested in not having a True Name. One must not trust things that lack a True Name.
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"Blog" was a really true name for what it was, even though literal "web log" aspect disappeared in about 5 minutes.
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Symptom A of the perils of a non-True-Named thing is that it gets associated with its worst side, since there is no true north to orient around. twitter.com/alexqgb/status
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There is also a definite relationship between newslettering (now the verb works fine) and culture warring. It is escalated and paywalled culture warring in many ways. Newsletter content tends to be more polarized and ingroupish than blog content.
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As a blogger I basically write for whoever cares to read, and don't care to find out who they are for the most part unless they choose to tell me. As a newsetterer I do write for a "side" of some sort even though I don't know what it is
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There is no such thing as a medium-independent message. If it's medium-independent it's data at best, and even that's a shaky claim. Blogs and newsletters are definitely *very* different for me.
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Definitely just "blogger", there's no functional difference for most of us and it's basically replacing the existing space
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You may not see the differences as a reader, since I try to continue some of my old blog styles in my newsletters, but from the writing perspective there's a ton of differences in tone, rhetorical choices, audience relationships etc. Money is not the only factor.
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