Write About Substack
This one is even more applicable after Tuesday night.
I didn’t flip on any of the the cable news companies. Much of what I consumed wasonlimne content. I mentioned that I watched The FP’s livestream until they’d pretty much called things, then watched BlazeTF after they’d stopped.
Early yesterday morning, I flipped on Morning Joe for a bit, not so much to even in their pain, but…. No. I’m a horrible person, so I was looking to see them react with shock when it became obvious exactly how much they’d missed.
There a few things I subscribe to. Things I’ve supported in the past I’ve let lapse.
If I’m liking you, or what you’re putting out, I’ll probably throw you some money.
Maybe I just haven’t explored as much as I should, but I do wish it was simpler to let support die automatically.
Locals is pretty good letting you buy blocks of credits, and, once you run out, you can choose not to renew.
For Substack, it’s split a little differently. You can use a CC, or credits from your Locals account.
I actually can’t remember who was the first thing I subscribed to. Substack allows you kinda allows you to hide what’s underneath.
I had all sorts of issues when I was actively trying to avoid using the Totes-Didn’t-Used-To-Do-Evil company’s email.and had problems with some of the spam-prevention features in use on both ends. Inbound mail would get caught by aggressive spam filtering. Outbound mail gets caught up by things like SPF.
Things like live chat under video streams allow instant interaction with presenters. I’ve not presented anything, and would have trouble reading comments, but I can only imagine how this would have changed audience interaction when I was in radio.
Instead of waiting from the phone board to light you, you can see someone call you on your shit in the chat immediate.
Even the comments allow interaction with the audience in ways completely unseen in the past.
But, who’s my big Substack reads?
My first was probably Numlock.news.
I do read stuff like Cocktails With Superman. I somehow got on Blocked & Reported. I really like both Katie and Jesse’s writing, though their politics has the assemblage has become nearly intolerable during the election; I’m probably not going to renew.
Obviously, The Free Press is a real change from what’d been done in the past. Thank you, woke interns for edging the people out.
You got what you wanted, y’all. Hopefully nobody will ever hire you.
But the biggest thing is still The Fifth Column.
And I’m stopping for the morning. Off to do birthday stuff for my Mom.
