I thought this was an interesting take [1]: << I’m a blogging dinosaur, which makes me a little sad about the rise of Substack. Back in the day, the virtue of

I thought this was an interesting take [1]: << I’m a blogging dinosaur, which makes me a little sad about the rise of Substack. Back in the day, the virtue of blogging was that everyone could talk to everyone. Later, when many bloggers (including me) went to work for magazines, our work was still freely available. We could link back and forth and our readers always had the option of clicking those links if they wanted more details or just wanted to check and make sure we were quoting each other fairly. I’m not really willing to rack up a whole bunch of $60-per-year subscription fees for individual writers, which means I’ll never know what they’re saying. And even if I did, you’d never know what they’re saying unless you’re coincidentally a subscriber too. This means we have a growing circle of writers who are influencing the political conversation but doing it semi-privately. The rest of us will only get hints here and there, the way you might have heard snatches of gossip from acquaintances who had been invited to an 18th century salon. >> [0] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/11/is-the-substack-revolution-here-to-stay/ https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/11/is-the-substa...