DISQUS

Xavier · 1 year ago

Could it be inspired by Jason Calacanis' recent move? (without the whole "I'm leaving the blogosphere" drama-queen banter)

Stephanie Booth · 1 year ago

Actually, no -- I've been thinking of doing it since Going Solo Lausanne, approximately. The Going Solo newsletter showed me how useful e-mail still was. And it was mainly a chat with Martin that decided me. Now... maybe Jason was in the backdrop somewhere, who knows -- but not that I'm aware.

Different tools reach different audiences and encourage different voices. Blogs do not make e-mail obsolete, anymore than Twitter makes blogs obsolete. New tools redefine the space the old ones occupy, but don't eradicate them. That is what my panel at BlogTalk was about: http://www.viddler.com/explore/steph/videos/42/

Stéphane Deschamps · 1 year ago

Funny: I did a newsletter, serveal years ago, back when we thought a website was less/more personal than email (depends on who you thought your audience were for each medium). Then I began writing exactly the same on both, then definitely stopped with the rise of easy RSS tools.

YMMV.