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With Beehiiv, Tyler Denk Is Riding the Newsletter Wave

Recently, Denk has been taking the fight to Substack. In a December 10 newsletter post titled “Death by a Thousand Substacks,” Denk argued that Substack is more interested in building out its own brand and ecosystem than helping its less-popular newsletters find an audience. He wrote that Substack is deploying “the classic social network playbook” that platforms like Facebook and Twitter have used to hurt publishers in the past: “Gradually eroding the ownership, identity, and independence of writers on the platform.” With Beehiiv, Denk wants to restore that sense of ownership.
#newsletters #substack #beehiiv - inc.com

Chapel Hill Insider newsletter appears to be part of a larger network of AI-generated newsletters - Triangle Blog Blog

Some of the sites don’t have have bylines, but others do. Using LinkedIn, I looked up the authors listed on the sites that list an author. Each author runs a local digital marketing firm. So this effort could be an elaborate way to acquire lead generations, or acquire clients. But what doesn’t sit well with me is that these sites are a) not identifying their use of AI when they use AI and b) summarizing actual local journalists’ material (and taking their photos.)
#AI #newsletters #the-triangle - triangleblogblog.com

Marina Abramovic's odd jobs

“We milked the goats in Sardinia to get sausages and bread. … We made [sweaters] and sell them on the market,” says Abramovic. For one month, Abramovic even worked as a mail carrier in London—which didn’t end well. “First it took me so long time to deliver all the letters,” she says. “And I decide that every letter who was written with typewriter machine must be bad news or a bill, and I throw them away. And I only deliver letters written by hand and become much faster. Only beautiful letters. After four weeks working, they could not prove anything, but they asked me to give back uniform, which I did.”
#art #life #jobs #london #england #newsletters - bloomberg.com

Who will curate the curators?

If a cable package is a bundle of bundles, maybe MediaREDEF is a curator of curators. Let’s call it a “meta-curator.” […]We are in a world of nearly infinite choices for content consumption.[…]we end up watching whatever was put in front of us that was “good enough.” Because how else can we sort through it?
#prediction #pullquote #curation #newsletters - mediapost.com

Newsletters restore the web's intimacy

We subscribe to newsletters because we like someone and take interest in their unique points-of-view. Unless I am mistaken, hate-subscribing isn’t actually a thing. Besides, the person running the list can always blacklist unwanted subscribers. There must have been at least one intra-TinyLetter flame war, and if sub-TinyLettering people isn’t happening yet, surely it will.But newsletters aren’t discussion lists. It is one-way communication. No one sees the replies but the sender. This is great for avoiding trolls, not so good if you miss the days that the comments section might be as worthwhile as the original post.
#newsletters - medium.com