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jack_ryder) wrote2018-07-29 08:51 pm
jack_ryder) wrote2018-07-29 08:51 pm
Today I learnt about the Dark Forest Postulate
Which is here - if you want to give yourself the willies.
I subscribe to a growing number of newsletters - this was from a group newsletter Nothing.Here
Most of the newsletters are about the future, the near future, in some cases even the present. I'm so old I remember the APA scene. Fundamental to science fiction fandom at the time (the internet as we know it now was 30 years away - hints of its coming would occasionally poke through) APA zines were compiled from individuals and distributed as compilations, with responses to previous APA zines. This mode of asynchronous communication prepared the users and readers for the electronic version. After the initial explosion of content formats like blogs and e-zines and forums, there appears to be some level of stability, even if it's just flinging the content into the gaping maw of Facebook to be extruded to a myriad of datastreams.
Newsletters have come back to give not just a level of context to the weblinks (such as a blog would do) but a sense of personality and place. Blogs are all very well (and that's kind of why I"m returning to this one after what seems like decades) but newsletters, like podcasts, are the new jam.
I subscribe to a growing number of newsletters - this was from a group newsletter Nothing.Here
Most of the newsletters are about the future, the near future, in some cases even the present. I'm so old I remember the APA scene. Fundamental to science fiction fandom at the time (the internet as we know it now was 30 years away - hints of its coming would occasionally poke through) APA zines were compiled from individuals and distributed as compilations, with responses to previous APA zines. This mode of asynchronous communication prepared the users and readers for the electronic version. After the initial explosion of content formats like blogs and e-zines and forums, there appears to be some level of stability, even if it's just flinging the content into the gaping maw of Facebook to be extruded to a myriad of datastreams.
Newsletters have come back to give not just a level of context to the weblinks (such as a blog would do) but a sense of personality and place. Blogs are all very well (and that's kind of why I"m returning to this one after what seems like decades) but newsletters, like podcasts, are the new jam.