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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Ha! As a subscriber, I don’t think of the rest of the audience as a coherent “side” as much as others who are just interesting in seeing where you go with your explorations.
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