@d0gc0w i think EVERYONEbeware ... but that’s just me!
Don’t forget to email me.
... they used to be married - sadly - seem to have gone their own ways - but both VERY good and connected in the world of weddings and on the edge of new ideas …
J is my ‘main man’.
@jessy in one sentence ... describe MicroBlog
“an enticing rabbit hole that keeps drawing you in - at times there seems to be no escape ... but that is OK.”
@kaa 👍
Coming back as I said I would.
To be clear - not to say that both these gentlemen deserve what they are getting - the public is voting with their wallet - money is coming in because the public perceive there value. All Good.
Gruber on the first week of Dithering
We’ve had just over 5,000 sign-ups so far and not one single request for a refund. Zero! And for that $5/month price you get access to the whole back catalog of episodes going back to mid-March.
Fag Packet Analysis:
5,000 * 5 * 12 = $300,000 annualized subscriptions - OR ... if they all came through as $3 extensions to Ben's existing series - knock that down by 40% .. so say $180,000 ... so somewhere in the middle ... $250,000 with more to come probably.
This is to add to revenues that both already have ... translation - they are doing ok.
Meanwhile - over at The Intercept ... they are running a May campaign ... attempting to hit $500K
On the 27th they have only got to $360K (they say - but I guess like all fund raising - I suspect they have some unspoken dinations that will suddenly come o=inon the final day)
This all in light of what Gruber has been writing about re Howard Stern and Jo Rogan,
Brand indeed has power.
But of course there is also what you are saying and who you are writing about.
Not really sure what I am trying to say, other than we seem to be ok with paying for our entertainment, but still don’t seem to be interested in paying for news - commentary and analysis on same, investigative journalism etc etc.
What is right is that the ad supported models do need to go ...
BUT maybe there is room for other ways to reward the written word.
@jessy i keep some resources for MB here and in there is a link to the official emoji page and a great emoji wish page maintained by @burk
@jessy welcome aboard ... and for answers to questions like that ... check out the discover emojis ... 🖋 for example
@kaa how about capturing those hand written notes and just sending those as the newsletter ?
@danielpunkass done - although no action needed - a gremlin - problem fixed - if it repeats - will let you know.
@joshua Oh how cool - I was going to go with ‘Vegas’ - but now I KNOW! In that industry have either of you come across J Sandifer or Emilie Sommer?
@MitchWagner truthy ... but for me ... when it comes ... it would be the next big thing - and judging by Manton's reply - Converation.js (2.0ish) is my friend!
@danielpunkass 😊 … 24 posts ... the build is 4.4a2 (9146)
@danielpunkass - In Mars Edit ALPHA - 24 MicroBlog published posts suddenly appeared as draft posts on a totally different site. They synched and all got moved to the other side on WP.
I deleted them all - all ok - just wondering if you have seen that anywhere else?
@MitchWagner agree with all - the ability to allow easy comments on your own site surely HAS to be the next BIG thinkg ... @manton? PLEASE? It would be a ‘simple’ extension to add to the ‘replies' threads we have - so people outside the MB world can just comment in.
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Re slack - dump away … I just looked - 22 slack groups in my app - mostly desserts … the ones that are active are confused - and you either live there ... I won’t ... or you pop in every now and then and mark ... 'all read’
it is NOT a system that should be deployed ‘for all’
Re FB - i ‘left’ it about 5 years ago - although I reinstated 1 year ago - purely to TRY TO amplify what I do outside of the app (hasn’t worked - but I don’t spend too much time try8in have to say) ... I wanted to because I had about 1,500 ‘followers' over there - and was interestd to see who I could bring to the new spaces ... not much luck.
even when I was there … I mainly lived in the groups … interesting to note - after I left for 4 years and then came back - most of the groups that were once such a vibrant places were all dormant …
we had RockON!, BooksON!, ArtON!, BeveragesON! ... etc - you get the picture …
also like everywhere ... it’s about 5% of ANY group that populates 95% of the posts - no different in the ON! spaces - so I guess when I left that killed a lot of the posts for people to comment on.
ONWARDS sir - GREAT IDEA.
@Miraz ok - cancel last comment - glad you are safe …
@Miraz i heard there was one one down there ... again .. all ok?
@d0gc0w can you send me email … jphilpin@me.com
@russwinn One of those that gets lost. But I agree.
@jthingelstad yes indeed - and that is a BIG upsell !
@handy as am I - I need to get out what is sitting in my head.
The R numbers on the way back up.
Dominic Cummings facing possible police investigation as pressure mounts
We’ll see.
I discovered the tweet via Robin Renske
@hjalm 😂
