Evening Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Newsletters Are the New Weblogs
...on investment advisors, did an explainer on Greece's deal with the Eurogroup, aggregating some cool diagrams of an energy-negative house in Australia, aggregated a cool chart about cohabitation among unmarried parents, and offered a hot take on partisanship and patriotism.... Those pieces... are all designed for the social web as it exists in the winter of 2014-2015, which is to say that they are designed to be viable as atomic pieces of content read and shared by people who have no idea who I am or what I've done before. There's a lot to like about the contemporary social web, but one thing it lacks that I loved about blogging was the sense of direct, continual engagement between author and audience. My solution to that, I hope, is a newsletter. Specifically this newsletter. Communication between myself and a self-selected audience of individuals who I hope will subscribe with the intention of reading regularly and coming back for more.... Though I will always--always--have a very special place in my heart for blogging as a medium.... This will be like blogging, but for your inbox... it will come out frequently--but unpredictably. And like a Matthew Yglesias blog, it will come with plenty of typos and minimal editing...
http://tinyletter.com/mattyglesias/letters/i-m-writing-a-newsletter
