{"id":22924,"date":"2019-03-23T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T04:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=22924"},"modified":"2019-03-24T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T08:03:56","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-we-are-cutting-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-we-are-cutting-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: We are Cutting Edge!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The New Social Network That Isn\u2019t New at All<\/span><\/h1>\n

My favorite new social network doesn\u2019t incessantly spam me with notifications. When I post, I\u2019m not bombarded with @mentions from bots and trolls. And after I use it, I don\u2019t worry about ads following me around the web.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because my new social network is an email newsletter<\/a>. Every week or so, I blast it out to a few thousand people who have signed up to read my musings. Some of them email back, occasionally leading to a thoughtful conversation. It\u2019s still early in the experiment, but I think I love it.<\/p>\n

The newsletter is not a new phenomenon. But there is a growing interest among those who are disenchanted with social media in what the writer Craig Mod has called<\/a> \u201cthe world\u2019s oldest networked publishing platform.\u201d For us, the inbox is becoming a more attractive medium than the news feed.<\/p>\n

The shift toward newsletters is part of a broader change. For years, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook\u2019s chief executive, asked us to live in a more \u201copen and connected\u201d version of the world. And billions of us did, posting status updates, photos and videos on the social network and flocking to other services like Twitter, where I post regular messages about my mood, personified in photos of my dog<\/a>.\u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/19\/technology\/new-social-network-email-newsletter.html<\/a><\/p>\n