Most people don’t think about where their social networks actually live. Or who controls. Or what happens after their content is published. They just assume a platform is a platform. But behind the scenes, a handful of people decide how…
Mark Zuckerberg has described Meta as a technology platform, a social facilitator, a communication tool and, ultimately, a defender of freedom of expression. The one thing he never describes it as is a media company. This omission is not accidental…
Posting more doesn’t work like it used to. You post daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and still feel like nothing is getting through. But write less and you worry that the algorithm will forget you exist. So you’re stuck…
At an October 2025 launch event at Substack’s New York headquarters, the company shared a lineup that should change the way every independent publisher thinks about the platform. In the previous three months, Substack added 32 million new free subscriptions…
Ask a writer who isn’t worried about AI what they’re currently working on, and they’ll tell you something oddly specific. Not the subject. They can’t stop turning a certain question. A tension between two things that they live and cannot…
We’ve been here before. It’s not like “watching a newsletter platform grow rapidly” here. Here, as the entire blogosphere watches itself reorganize around something new, the latter promises to fix everything it broke. This happened with Facebook Pages – extraordinary…
In this week’s episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast, Tim Stoddart and I discuss what happened after selling the business and how he thinks about directories today. Tim also shares why the best online opportunities come from a combination of…
Webull Canada is one of the few online brokers in Canada that continuously runs competitive cash-based promotions for new customers. If you’re opening a new investment account or considering switching from your existing brokerage, there’s a Webull promotion you can…
When times get tough, the old playbook says to tighten your belt and cut costs where you can. But in 2026, small businesses are changing the scenario. for Constant Contact‘s Small Business Now report, we surveyed more than 1,500 small…
No two people in the same online comment line are being corrected for the same kind of factual error. One replies: “You’re right, I was wrong, thanks for the correction.” The stock market is closed. The other replies, “I think…
