New vision needed
My vision for Reading.email was not large enough to encompass many of the new newsletters. Lots of policy - politics - personal newsletters at the intersection of x and y. A way to see some of these is at: https://finding.email/nolist
Animal List
One of the biggest surprises when building Reading.email was cats. Caturday and mimes had me guess that there were lots of cat newsletters to be discovered. That was incorrect.
So while I thought this list would be one of the first on Reading.email, it has taken six months to get out. And it is more than cats. It is about pets and wildlife too. So welcome to the animals list where everyday there is a smile to be had in one of 5 different newsletters.
The Dodo newsletter provides stories about pets, My Pet’s on the Dodo, and For Pet Parents. You should definitely check Amy Jean Porter’s Wild Life newsletter with lots of animal paintings. What a great newsletter name: A Thousand Cats Walking on a Thousand Keyboards — all about cats. BussFeed - this week in cats was the first newsletter in the group - but they may now be on hiatus. National Geographic has an Animal newsletter which features great photographs, as you would expect, but primarily promotes their Disney+ channel. (No longer owned by 21st Century Fox.)
This Week's Promoted Newsletters
The Atlantic Photo newsletter make me really appreciate a good photo and photographer. You don’t have to go to InstaGram or other social media to see a good photo, take a look the photo newsletters on Reading.email
What’s in my …? another newsletter that depends on photos. In this case, a photo is taken of several recommended items from a person’s desk and recommended as tool. They now look into desks while previously they look at people’s bags.
Everything is Political
Basecamp, a well known tech company, is trying to limit internal political discussion and I highly recommend Casey Newton’s reporting on the subject in The Platformer. In his newsletter he wrote:
What that view misses, I think, is how confusing rules like these are to employees. One Basecamp worker I spoke with today, who requested anonymity, wondered the extent to which parenting issues could be raised at work. “How do you talk about raising kids without talking about society?” the employee said. “As soon as I bring up public schools, then it’s already political.”
Democracy depends on the written word for our ‘letter of the law’ and more. So I added a comment on his Sidechannel Discord (see last week’s newsletter):
Being that this is about platforms, I don't think you can underestimate the internal 'political' changes that Hey.com causes and in particular Hey World. Now that Hey.com is a 'blogging' platform - anyone can create a blog like website - this disrupts their own company blog which was a signifiant identity for the company and the founders. Previously the founders had editorial control on their blog , now on hiatus, but with Hey World (blogging) that control became visible and the voice of the company is now fractured as every employee can publish. And those 'politics' are now written (hardcoded) instead of oral (unwritten) which is a complete game changer. https://hey.com/world/ —raydaly
Note: the Hey World platform is a hybrid of blogging, email and newsletter. So one could say that this was the impact of newsletters on their blogging culture.
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