Publishing

every few months i grumble about how i still feel like google docs, twitter, my wordpress blog, roam, substack, etc all don't quite scratch an itch that i want scratched want something like, easily-editable, selfhosted(?), url-editable, twitter-ish indexcard web

Reporters Without Borders @RSF_Europe has turned to #Minecraft in its fight against cyber #censorship: an in-game "uncensored library" is a repository for articles censored in the country of their origin (Mexico, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Russia...)

rise of the ‘renaissance creator’ 👀

Today @tryscroll announced our discovery partner program and @Techmeme as our first discovery partner. Now Scroll members fund both the ad-free content they read and the curators or aggregators that directed them there. Here’s why (thread): https://scroll.blog/2020/07/13/funding-curators-techmeme-becomes-inaugural-discovery-partner/... See more

For all the talk about the Passion Economy, it's still discussed mostly in terms of monetization (with a clear focus on subscriptions) There's so many opportunities to reinvent engagement and distribution, too 3 recent examples from @packyM @kanakhey and @jarroddicker 👇

1/ People who believe in 'citizen journalism' fundamentally don't understand is that the 'cost' of real information is very high. Finding new facts, and validating their truth, and carrying liability is structurally much more costly than citizens can afford alone.

There's a natural book publishing model for Substack to mirror that of QQ Reading: Start with a free newsletter. Each edition is a chapter. Readers can consume X chapters for free (high start %). Once reader gets to chapter Y, they pay to unlock ending: https://a16z.com/2018/12/07/when-advertising-isnt-enough-multimodal-business-models-product-strategy/... See more