If the state of journalism is so bad from a business side, and if it's not serving the people very well, I wonder if we could work out some kind of deal here?#
If we want even a modest reboot of blogging, as a community thing, we're going to have to start with something like blogrolls. I wrote a bit yesterday about how blogrolls came about, then weblogs.com and how that led to RSS and feed readers. This time, we don't have to wait for feeds to show up, they're already here. It should happen more quickly. #
Last update: Thursday February 29, 2024; 3:53 PM EST.
You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you're about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won't do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that wouldn't last long if I did rude stuff like that. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It's got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we'll get in there. People really love it. I wish I had done it sooner. And every email has an unsub link so if you want to get out, you can, easily -- no questions asked, and no follow-ups. Go ahead and do it, you won't be sorry! :-)