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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i argued in my first newsletter that newsletters are bloggier than blogs: doriantaylor.com/eye-of-newt-an
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Yeah, definitely the potential for audience capture is far higher with newsletters
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Is this an example of potential audience capture?
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I think the risks of audience capture are far higher for non-textual media though. In text, I think the risk is highest for women who push the thirst-trap button without considering the risks, and for explainer types
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One of the reasons I'm curious about this is that I have a gut-level clear sense of what blogging is, and I had that within like 2 years of starting. I haven't yet hit that medium-significance-fit insight with newsletters.
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I'm looking for a theory of newsletters on par with my cozyweb theory of the web... kinda macro theory of the microbehaviors
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Hmm. I think the sub-genre that actually aims at being captured by an audience rather than falling into capture unwittingly should be called pandercraft.
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