Yum
On the latest Prof G Pod, David Brooks says, “One of my favorite sayings about writers is, ‘Writers are beggars who tell other beggars where they found bread.’”
And now I’m disincentivized from subscribing to anything published by Hearst.
I don’t know how I started subscribing to the Esquire newsletter, or if I had anything to do with it at all. But unsubscribing is a PITA. Here is how it should work: 1) Click on the unsubscribe link, 2) A page appears confirming the decision. Here is what happens with Esquire: 1) Click on the (very tiny) unsubscribe link, 2) a Hearst “Email Preference Center” page appears, saying, “We don’t want to see you go, but we do want to make sure you’re only receiving emails you’ll enjoy. To update your email preferences, uncheck the box next to each email you no longer want to receive.” There are ten pre-checked boxes to uncheck, next to four newsletters from Cosmopolitan, three for Esquire, two for Mens Health, and one for an e-commerce thing called “Add to Cart.” And, of course, “Please allow up to 48 hours for your changes to take effect.” After I clicked to confirm my decisions, it jumped to a new page that said, “This email address is not currently subscribed to any emails from Hearst Magazines.” Good.
Should have been Wrongday
Just after midnight last night, when the computer clock said “Thu Apr 23,” I thought “It’s now tomorrow,” and then thought I needed a headline for Friday’s bloggings through Wordland. I came up with Whyday, went to bed, woke up, and now find it is still Thursday.
Already in 2016 we knew
The Onion: New Study Finds Humans Experience Greatest Feelings Of Joy When Pushing ‘Skip Ad’ Button.
It’s just bad
In order to make anything (search, for example) work in Apple’s Mail.app, I have to turn it off and on again. I won’t run down all its issues. I’m too tired of it, and…
So send them some money. Seriously.
Says here an LPFM station in Michigan just ceased operations. Two in Santa Barbara have come and gone. One was a Spanish community station. (Though its website is still alive.) The other was run by a local evangelical church. Calvary something or other. Two others got licenses but never went on the air.
So, on the whole, small time radio, like the rest of the business, is what investors call “distressed.” But community radio can be vibrant and vital. WFHB, here in Bloomington, Indiana, is a great example. I think it has a much bigger cultural footprint than the university’s NPR station, WFIU, whose footprint is not small.
Bonus link, from John Battelle, about a Martha’s Vineyard underground radio station, WVVY/96.5. Here’s a coverage map. I’m listening right now in Indiana, over the Net.
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