#newsletter

Substack: five of the best from the niche newsletter platform | Culture | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/28/substack-five-of-the-best-from-the-niche-newsletter-platform
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Writers have embraced Substack to cut out the middle man. The result is an eclectic library of anything and everything
A woman at a vast, futuristic library.
Substack has taken the best elements of its predecessors to create a home for writers craving control and readers who want their words straight from the horse’s mouth. Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images
Shelley Hepworth
Shelley Hepworth
@shelleymiranda
Sun 27 Dec 2020 16.30 GMT

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Substack is best known as the newsletter platform that lured several well-known writers and journalists away from established news outlets this year.

Glenn Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan, formerly of the Intercept, Vox Media and New York Magazine respectively, have all jumped ship to sell their work directly to subscribers via the service.

Incorporating elements of Mailchimp and Patreon, Substack has variously been hailed as the future of the media industry, a home for writers who don’t want to be edited, and a place where those who have already made a name for themselves find success.

This is called a magazine. ▻https://t.co/9KyGkVvPY3
— T. Greer (@Scholars_Stage) November 15, 2020

The site boasts more than 100,000 niche newsletters about every subject imaginable. Below is a small selection of some of the best, compiled from the recommendations of friends, colleagues, random tweets and my own sleuthing.

#Substack #Blog #Newsletter #Journalisme

Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack | Digital media | The Guardian
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Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack
John Naughton
John Naughton

An online platform where journalists sell content directly to subscribers is luring eminent voices away from traditional media
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A new way of reaching people: the writer Glenn Greenwald, who has 1.5 million Twitter followers, has moved to Substack. Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP

Sat 26 Dec 2020 16.00 GMT

Way back in March, at the beginning of the first lockdown, I fell to wondering what a columnist, academic and blogger under house arrest might usefully do for the duration of his imprisonment. My eye fell on my blog, Memex 1.1, which has been a harmless presence on the web since the mid-1990s and a source of puzzlement to journalistic and academic colleagues alike. The hacks unanimously shared Dr Johnson’s view that “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money”, while my academic colleagues thought it peculiar to waste one’s energy writing anything that would not figure in scholarly citation indices. The idea that one might maintain a blog simply because one enjoyed doing it never crossed their minds.

So there it was, with a modest readership, which occasionally spiked as it caught some brief wave of attention. Given that many people were going to be locked down like me, I wondered if the regularity of receiving the blog as an email every morning might be welcome. The thought came from observing how Dave Winer’s wonderful blog, Scripting News, drew an even wider readership after he offered it as a daily email to subscribers. So I began looking for an easy way of doing something similar.

The obvious solution would be an email list service like Mailchimp, but that looked like hard work, so I opted for Substack, which made it really easy. My blog would be published and available on the web every day as usual, but every night the day’s version would be neatly packaged into an email and delivered at 7am the following morning to anyone who had subscribed. The only change I made was to include a daily five-minute audio diary – something I’d never done before.

It was such an obvious thing to do. But the results were surprising – and often gratifying. Two things in particular stood out. The first was that the level of reader “engagement” (the holy grail of surveillance capitalists) dramatically increased. People were reading the email version more intensively than its online counterpart: I could see that, because Substack told me which links had been most popular; and they signalled their reactions by “liking” things or by emailing me directly, pointing out errors or making suggestions about how a particular topic could be expanded or extended.

The biggest surprise, though, was how popular the audio diary was: it was consistently the most clicked-on link. And slowly, it dawned on me that audio seems to reach parts of the human psyche that other media cannot. Because the email was coming from a mailing-list server, some subscribers’ spam filters would occasionally block it, and on several occasions I received alarmed emails from readers who wondered if I had succumbed to Covid. But there was clearly something about the regularity of hearing a familiar voice every morning that was important.

It was founded in 2018 and backed by the big venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. As of July this year it had around 100,000 people paying various sums for at least one of the newsletters on its books. Its sudden prominence may be a portent of significant changes in our media, as traditional journalistic outlets decline and most of those that thrive online tend to be driven by clickbait. Given that, Substack offers a new option for journalists.

Suppose you have 1,000 paid subscribers, each paying $5 a month. That’s an annual income of $60,000, less the 10% that Substack levies. Then imagine you’re Glenn Greenwald, who has 1.5m Twitter followers and has just moved to Substack. Even if only a fraction of them sign up, well… do the maths. Lots of other prominent journalists and writers have – for example Andrew Sullivan and Zeynep Tufekci, to name just two I know: they have seen a way of being liberated from the demands of editorial gatekeepers or advertising-led clickbait while getting paid. “If you charge $10 a month or $5 a month, or $50 a year – if you can get 1,000 or 2,000 people to pay for that,” one of Substack’s founders told Buzzfeed, “you’ve suddenly got enough to go as an individual.”

#Blog #Newsletter #Substrack #Néo_journalisme #Editorialistes

The Substackerati, by Clio Chang - Columbia Journalism Review
▻https://www.cjr.org/special_report/substackerati.php

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(Substack = Uber for journalism)

Newsletters go back at least as far as the Middle Ages, but these days, with full-time jobs at stable media companies evaporating—between the 2008 recession and 2019, newsroom employment dropped by 23 percent—Substack offers an appealing alternative. And, for many, it’s a viable source of income. In three years, Substack’s newsletters—covering almost every conceivable topic, from Australian Aboriginal rights to bread recipes to local Tennessee politics—have drawn more than two hundred fifty thousand paid subscribers. The top newsletter authors can earn six figures, an unheard-of amount for freelance journalists.

(...) They have a system, created by a former employee named Nathan Baschez, that measures a Twitter user’s engagement level—retweets, likes, replies—among their followers. This person is then assigned a score on a logarithmic scale of fire emojis. Four fire emojis is very good—Substack material. Best and McKenzie will reach out and suggest that the person try a newsletter. The four-fire-emoji method turned up Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, whose Substack, Letters from an American—political with a historical eye—is now the second-top-paid.

(...) “Substack is not the sort of thing that is going to create a sustainable next phase, but it can open the door (...) “GoFundMe can help us see things we’re not seeing and put money where it would not go,” Schneider said. “Of course, we don’t want a GoFundMe society.”

(...) as you peruse the lists, something becomes clear: the most successful people on Substack are those who have already been well-served by existing media power structures. Most are white and male; several are conservative. Matt Taibbi, Andrew Sullivan, and most recently, Glenn Greenwald—who offer similar screeds about the dangers of cancel culture and the left—all land in the top ten.

(...) It’s a bit of a brain twister: Substack, eager to attract customers over Mailchimp or WordPress, has begun to look like it’s reverse engineering a media company. But all the while, its founders insist that they simply provide a platform. By not acknowledging the ways in which they are actively encouraging (and discouraging) certain people to use Substack, and the ways they benefit monetarily from doing so, they obscure their role as publishers.

(...) As more journalists embark on independent careers, the need for support infrastructure, beyond Substack, will become increasingly urgent. Labor organizing, the traditional method for making an industry more equitable, will have to adapt to the new conditions, especially as more and more industries embrace the independent-contractor model. Accountability is harder when the company you work for refuses to acknowledge what field it’s operating in. Yet people like Peck are still workers, even if they lack a boss.

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Un PC portable de milieu de gamme pour jouer.

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How to Make a Newsletter Generator Without Code
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-make-a-newsletter-generator-without-code-23ea24095347?source=rss-

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Originally published on MakerpadThis is a simple way to use the Pocket Chrome Extension as a way for you to easily save articles you come across on Desktop and Mobile (via Chrome browser obviously) to an evolving Google Document which you can use for populating a weekly/daily newsletter. In the version I’ll describe, we are going to add all the entries (automatically) to #airtable as a mini-database and way to reference back/add filters/tags/etc. But you can just skip the Airtable step altogether and link Pocket Chrome Extension to Google Docs directly. I’ll be using #zapier to perform all the automatic tasks involved here.First, you need to download the Pocket Chrome Extension. Take it for a quick spin and see what it looks like when you go to a webpage and click the Pocket icon to save a (...)

#startup #newsletter-generator #makerpad

FREQ #19: The Writing’s On the Wall for Jessica Pabón-Colón
▻https://feministfrequency.com/2018/12/28/freq-19-the-writings-on-the-wall-for-jessica-pabon-colon

 Each issue of the FREQ #Newsletter brings you an #Interview with a fascinating, inspiring, talented woman we think you should know more about. In our latest issue, we talk to pioneering interdisciplinary Latina scholar and activist, Dr. Jessica Pabón-Colón. Her recent book, Graffiti Grrlz: Performing #feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora is a towering yet accessible work of scholarship on global feminism, urban culture, and the history of graffiti writing. […]

#art #Music

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Les Pensées Minute
▻https://lespenseesminute.com

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Surprise ! est une #newsletter hedbomadaire présentant un contenu exclusif conçu uniquement pour votre boîte #mail.

Bonne Année 2018 !

2017 a été pour nous une très belle Année. Elle a été celle de la concrétisation de cinq années de travail. Vous avez pendant tout ce temps été à nos côtés à nous lire, à suivre pas à pas le long processus qu’a été la création de ce spectacle, qui nous est si cher. Vous nous avez aidé... ▻https://www.silencecommunity.com/blog/view/46824/bonne-annee-2018

#blog #newsletter #laurenzaccio #création #spectacle #tragédie #clown #théâtre #voeux #2018 #sand #musset #beaugency #poissy

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The Money and Math Behind Our #Newsletter Headlines
▻https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/newsletter-headlines

Some people love our headlines. Some hate them. Here’s the math behind why our headlines are the way they are.

[infolettre] La lutte des classe en cavale... (Le Blogzine de LaDistroy)
▻http://blogzine.ladistroy.fr/main/index.php/post/2017/04/24/%5Binfolettre%5D-La-lutte-des-classe-en-cavale

Une dernière infolettre avant la fin du quinquennat pour t’annoncer l’arrivage récent de quelques références de qualitay...
Commençons par le tout frais En cavale , le dernier opus de Diego Pallavas . Et c’est de la pure balle catchy punk rock. L’écriture est une fois de plus finement acérée, les refrains vous restent dans le crâne. De l’impitoyable « Mulhouse » au magnifique « Samedi soir » en passant par le reprise de Luna Parker... du concentré de poésie punk rocké dans ta face !
On poursuit avec l’incontournable du moment : la réédition en vinyle du premier album de Zabriskie Point , Fantôme . Les Zab auront été un groupe majeur des années 90, inspirant toute une flopée de groupes et marquant la scène nantaise à jamais. Prenant la voie punk à contre-sens : alors que l’ambiance est plutôt aux grosses guitare à l’améwicaine et au chant en anglais, les Zab tapent une pop-punk acide et assène des textes en français d’une qualité rarement égalée. Ce premier album a de plus une rage adolescente outrancière et poétique (le premier titre, Fantôme est plutôt glaçant, tout comme Taxi Driver dans un autre registre) qu’on n’avait encore jamais entendue. Les années 90 n’étant pas très « vinyle », l’album n’avait existé que sous forme de CD. Le voilà désormais disponible en galette 33T.

On ne saurait trop vous conseiller de vous ruer sur le dernier numéro de la revue Z, sous-titré « Bonnes femmes Mauvais Genre ». La Z team pose ses sandales dans une ville différente à chaque numéro (le pénultième était à Toulouse, et on en a en stock), et ce coup-ci c’est à Marseille. L’angle d’attaque y est féministe et les papiers sont terribles, prenants et instructifs (on vous conseille au passage d’écouter l’émission Lilith, Martine et les autres -sur Radio Galère-, consacrée à ce numéro).

#infopunk #ladistroy #infolettre #newsletter #revueZ #ZabriskiePoint #DiegoPallavas

Mailtrain-org/mailtrain: Self hosted newsletter app
▻https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain

Mailtrain is a self hosted newsletter application built on Node.js (v5+) and MySQL (v5.5+ or MariaDB).

Le site officiel: ▻https://mailtrain.org

#newsletter #nodejs #open-source #mailtrain

GrapesJS
▻http://grapesjs.com
#html #builder #block #javascript

So bloggt Berlin | COUCH – DAS ERSTE WOHN & FASHION MAGAZIN
▻http://www.couch-mag.de/so-bloggt-berlin-35189
Noch ein Blog über Blogs. Mal sehen, ob die Ankündigung stimmt.

So bloggt Berlin
Diese 10 Berliner Blogs und Newsletter solltet Ihr Euch unbedingt merken

Ich finde laufenden Lifestyle, Uninteressantes und ein bischen Nützliches.

▻http://www.sugarhigh.de

▻http://www.dailysecret.com/germany/berlin/en
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#Tja

►http://www.iheartberlin.de
... mal wieder ... OK

▻http://www.muxmaeuschenwild-magazin.de
... die agency bloggt was sie mag ...
Gang OK die Tipps. Ab und zu reinschauen oder Newsletter doch abonnieren, aber nur im Textmodus.

▻http://ceecee.cc
nochn Newsletter

#Berlin #Party #Newsletter

Un Lessi’Vélo à Esperanzah !
▻https://amisdelaterre.be/spip.php?article2844

Nous étions au Village des Possibles à Esperanzah du 5 au 7 août pour inviter les festivaliers à nettoyer leur linge à l’aide d’un Lessi’vélo, une machine à laver fonctionnant à l’énergie humaine et consommant moins d’eau ! De vendredi à dimanche, nous étions une bonne équipe de jeunes volontaires à nous activer au Village des Possibles ! Avec le Lessi’Vélo comme accroche interpellante et amusante, nous proposions au public de réaliser leur propre produit à lessiver naturel à base de savon de Marseille et de (...)

Avec le Sud, on perd pas le Nord !

/ #Subside_européen, #Newsletter, Avec le Sud, on perd pas le Nord (...)

#Avec_le_Sud,on_perd_pas_le_Nord!
«▻http://www.esperanzah.be/commitment/campagne-2016»

Produit à lessiver : la recette simple et naturelle ! (vidéo)
▻https://amisdelaterre.be/spip.php?article5486

Vous souhaitez réaliser votre produit à lessiver naturel mais ne savez pas comment faire ? Voici la vidéo présentant une recette simple et efficace : Produit à lessiver : la recette simple et naturelle ! from Les Amis de la Terre on Vimeo. Cet acte personnel qui peut sembler anodin vous offrira de nombreux avantages : respect de votre santé et de l’environnement, gain d’argent, autonomie et liberté de plus vis-à-vis des multinationales. Vous souhaitez plus d’infos sur le sujet ? Lisez donc cette (...)

#Pour_une_vie_plus_simple

/ #Newsletter

« ▻http://www.esperanzah.be »

▻http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/#mjml

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MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email. Its semantic syntax makes it easy and straightforward while its rich standard components library fastens your development time and lightens your email codebase. MJML’s open-source engine takes care of translating the MJML you wrote into responsive HTML.

▻https://github.com/mjmlio/mjml

Un pseudo language pour faciliter le templating email.

#email #templating

Defending the zad
▻https://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?article3504

Something is flowering in the forest, fields and hedgerows, of the bocage1 of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Nestled in a landscape that remains under threat by the building of a new airport, an experimental zone is proliferating, it’s called - La zad.2 Since the victorious resistance to the 2012 wave of evictions, the zad has become a rallying cry, inspiring a multitude of other nodes of disobedience. The French government has announced that the riot police might return to the territory and the (...)

#Newsletters

►https://zad.nadir.org/IMG/pdf/zad0k-couv.pdf
▻https://zad.nadir.org/IMG/pdf/zadok-es.pdf
►https://zad.nadir.org/IMG/pdf/defendre_la_zad-2.pdf
►https://zad.nadir.org/IMG/pdf/zad0k-couv-2.pdf

Overcoming #privacy Pitfalls in Cross-Channel #marketing | Adobe
▻http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/campaign-management/overcoming-privacy-pitfalls-in-cross-channel-marketing

“using third-party #Data for your email campaign is not enriching the customer view—it’s corrupting it” Tags: #automation marketing Data #clevermarks privacy #newsletter

Les serveurs #smtp pour l’e-mailing | Arobase.org
▻http://www.arobase.org/emailing/services-smtp.htm

mandrillapp étant désormais payant (pour les nouveaux utilisateurs), une sélection de prestataires proposant un #service SMTP au moins partiellement gratuit

#newsletter #webdev

Qui sera la Taylor Swift des médias ? - Libération
▻http://ecrans.liberation.fr/ecrans/2015/06/24/qui-sera-la-taylor-swift-des-medias_1336369

Qui sera l’équivalent de Taylor Swift pour la presse ? Certes, la chanteuse est mondialement connue et son album s’est vendu à 8,6 millions d’exemplaires. Ne pas l’avoir sur son réseau était problématique. Un tel rapport de force est-il possible entre Apple et les #médias ? Apple a en effet décidé de lancer #Apple_News, une application pour mettre en valeur les informations. Celle-ci commence même à embaucher des journalistes pour sélectionner les meilleurs contenus produits par les médias. La firme a tout intérêt à investir dans ce secteur. Les récents chiffres du rapport annuel du Reuters Institute, le « Digital News Report », indiquent clairement une utilisation de plus en plus massive du mobile pour l’accès à l’information. Deux tiers des utilisateurs de smartphones interrogés déclarent l’utiliser pour lire l’actualité. En France, 25 % des sondés ont déclaré que le mobile était leur principal point d’accès à l’information. Servir d’intermédiaire entre la presse et les lecteurs, et se servir au passage, est tout bénef pour Apple.

#Sites_d'information vassalisés, cf. ►http://seenthis.net/messages/354848

Non pas désintermédiation, mais réintermédiation via les #médias_sociaux, et féroce avec ça (@hubertguillaud ça fait longtemps que tu le dis non ?!)

The Perfect Email Preheader (aka Johnson Box) | Email Design Review
▻http://www.emaildesignreview.com/email-design-best-practice/email-design-best-practice-the-johnson-box-86

Tags : #e-mail #optimisation #marketing #newsletter

La première #newsletter Afnic de l’année 2015 est en ligne ! ▻http://urlz.fr/1lNX

Pour recevoir les prochaines éditions directement par e-mail, abonnez-vous ici -> ▻http://urlz.fr/1lO2

The first #Afnic newsletter for of the year is out ! Read it now ! ▻http://urlz.fr/1lO9

To get the next ones in your email box, register here ! >> ▻http://urlz.fr/1lOa

Why #newsletters are the future of online media
▻http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/11171/best-email-newsletters-2014 (pas lu)

Playstation Store #email: Transformers, brilliant images off design
▻http://emailblog.eu/2013/04/29/playstation-store-email-transformers

Tags: #image email #newsletter #fond

Optimize for #image Blocking | #email on Acid
▻http://www.emailonacid.com/email-preview/mozify

“85% of email clients block images by default. That means that unless your readers opt to download your images, they might be missing your primary call-to-action. Check out some of the samples and case studies below to see how we can help you increase the effectiveness of your next email campaign.” Tags: image email #newsletter #fond