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Yeah, it's weird that this article doesn't mention Medium or Substack which, for all of their faults, are just Web 2.0 monetization-ready equivalents to the Web
by Apocryphon 4y ago
Yeah, it's weird that this article doesn't mention Medium or Substack which, for all of their faults, are just Web 2.0 monetization-ready equivalents to the Web 1.0 sites it mentions (their list also misses Xanga and LiveJournal, a real oversight). And Tumblr for popular microblogging that's not Twitter.
- Lyngbakr 4y agoBut does monetization affect the content of blogs? I must admit that I really enjoyed the flavour of old school blogs where a person would just put some interesting ideas out there without ads, pop-ups asking for subscriptions, or product pushing. They'd built something cool or learned something new and wanted to share. They were excited about it, which translated into interesting reading even if the subject was really quite niche.
- ghaff 4y agoI'm sure it does. For starters, it means that your newsletter probably has to come out on a consistent cadence. It probably also has to be fairly narrowly focused. Nothing wrong with wanting to monetize--though the sort of success mentioned upthread is almost certainly an outlier--but you're going to need to pick a topic area, have a marketing strategy, etc.