As you can see here, I’ve started experimenting with a blog. For me it’s a way to post things that may not fit neatly within this newsletter, like my social media cross-posting setup and some meta-commentary on the newsletter subscription business. I’ve also been posting more on Mastodon and syndicating those posts out to Bluesky, LinkedIn, Threads, and the blog itself. The latter gives me a durable record that’s under my control.
As for why: I’ve been so heads-down with the newsletters and freelance work in recent years that I’ve felt a bit disconnected from other journalists and tech folks. Marco Arment’s recent post about finding online communities resonated with me, and made me want to come out of my shell a bit more. It’s also just a nice having an outlet for writing with no pressure or expectations.
I might use the blog to play around with some other things, like comments or a blogroll, but for now it’s just a little throwback to when blogs were fun and cool. I’ll probably start linking briefly to blog items in the weekly Advisorator newsletter, but there’s also a blog-only RSS feed if you want to follow along via your feed reader of choice.