Blog + Newsletter

Newsletters are all the rage now. In recognition of that, I blogged here two years ago about the idea of writing a solo newsletter. Since then I’ve been co-producing this one with Katherine Druckman at Reality 2.o. It’s a Substack one, so I know how that game works on the production as well as the consumption ends.

Recently I also learned that WordPress makes it easy to turn blogs into newsletters, which is why you see “Get New Posts by Email” in the right column here. So, wanting an image to go with the news that this blog can now be a newsletter if you like, I said to ChatGPT, “Draw me Doc Searls blogging on the left side of the image, and producing a newsletter on the right side.” It gave me this, including the caption:

Here’s the illustration depicting Doc Searls engaging in two different activities. On the left, he is blogging, and on the right, he is producing a newsletter. This split scene captures his multitasking abilities in digital content creation.

Except for the slouch, I never looked like that. But what the hell. AI is wacky shit, so there ya go.

Feel free to subscribe.



3 responses to “Blog + Newsletter”

  1. Hi Doc – What WordPress plugin/tool chain do you use to send your newsletter emails? I asked Dave Winer once, but he didn’t respond. Hoping you do. Oh, and you have a itch, jotting a note about why you chose it would be probably even better. Thanks!

    1. I don’t know, but I’ll check.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *