2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280598#Comment_280598 2011-01-27T16:56:51-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2

Over at the mothership.

Over at the mothership.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280669#Comment_280669 2011-01-28T03:54:10-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 kek http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3673

Ref: Into The Skid Some really excellent thinking-out-loud in that post, Mr. E. Content Curation is a pain ref: blogging - soon as you get into that, it kills spontaneity, rapid think-dumps, ...

Some really excellent thinking-out-loud in that post, Mr. E.

Content Curation is a pain ref: blogging - soon as you get into that, it kills spontaneity, rapid think-dumps, etc. Looking over your shoulder = blogdeath.

I swear people's attention-span has shortened even in the last 1 / 2 years, prob. hastened by Twitter / Facebook. Twitter / Tumblr has become an ADD front-end - a funnel / filter - for longer-stuff losted elsewhere wh/ no one reads anyway...

An Email Newletter has a lot to recommend it. Cuts through the murk.

Paper / analogue even better, but logistically a nightmare.

Whatabout some weird halfway house - Papernet - maybe using (something like) Google Cloud Print...your followers register their local printer address (or however it works). Newsletter hosted on GoogleCloud or somewhere similar - followers prompted to print via printer / fax / whatever when nxt ish available...Email for those who don't want paper.

Downside of print is that this would involve the recipients having to proactively carry out various actions (registering, etc) - in theory, no worse than say registering for a Forum or whatever - but people do seem to be getting more spoonfed passive / effort-challenged / time-stressed / etc. Tho I'm sure that's not true of Whitechapelfolk.

Wh/ leads into next problem: none of this widens your fame-bandwidth ref: new followers.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280700#Comment_280700 2011-01-28T07:15:27-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 RichBarrett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6228

Very interested in hearing more of your thoughts on what an email newsletter can offer in this day and age. Or maybe just waiting to see how you use it. We're constantly hearing that email is an ...

We're constantly hearing that email is an old and dead medium (mostly because of the spam problem) but as someone who makes a fair share of his income designing email newsletters and email marketing campaigns I've never really agreed.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280703#Comment_280703 2011-01-28T08:03:27-08:00 2011-01-28T08:03:47-08:00 Sonny http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1167

I read [BAD SIGNAL] through to its end. I used to love getting those in my Box... I for one would really enjoy if you started a new newsletter.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280709#Comment_280709 2011-01-28T08:32:41-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 stsparky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2311

FaceBook notes lack size limits. Folks can subscribe to your notes and it could be a way to cast your net.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280712#Comment_280712 2011-01-28T09:29:03-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 offtandiscord http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1628

I find that in blogging i'm always looking for the tags in the posts i'm interested in so that I can filter out the mind-farts from the juicy bits. I really enjoy the link-dumping and music-sharing ...

i'm sure there was a point in there somewhere.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280722#Comment_280722 2011-01-28T11:06:09-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 Seantaclaus http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6498

I generally read anything outside of LJ (which I only view small snapshots of) via RSS, once I've discovered it and had a chance to add the feed. The idea a newsletter isn't a bad thing, but I think ...

Adjacent to the topic, but related-- is there some way to tell who is RSS feeding your site/blog, as in numbers of subscribers? I would think that would be telling, and probably give as accurate of a headcount to those readers as email subscriptions would accurately portray who was reading their subscribed email.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280723#Comment_280723 2011-01-28T11:09:07-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 StefanJ http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=961

You know, I still have a couple of dozen Bad Signal emails in one of my accounts. They were a real pleasure to read; little well written screeds akin to Sterling's old anonymous newsletter.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280724#Comment_280724 2011-01-28T11:09:59-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

Would you be willing to share those? I, unfortunately, found out about Bad Signal far too late.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280729#Comment_280729 2011-01-28T11:28:16-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 StefanJ http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=961

OK, I just looked in my mailbox. I have 15 Bad Signals left, all dating from 2007 You want I should forward them to you? Send me email. Spam protected address: Ess Eee Jay @aol.com.

You want I should forward them to you? Send me email. Spam protected address: Ess Eee Jay @aol.com.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280732#Comment_280732 2011-01-28T11:45:00-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

K, you're going to get an e-mail from my @yahoo.com account in just a little bit.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280736#Comment_280736 2011-01-28T11:54:46-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

E-mail sent.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280745#Comment_280745 2011-01-28T13:06:04-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 StefanJ http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=961

You should have them by now.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280752#Comment_280752 2011-01-28T14:01:56-08:00 2011-01-28T14:06:54-08:00 Cameron C. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4226

@seantaclaus FEEDBURNER handles statistics of RSS feeds, even down to what RSS readers subscribers are using. Its a Google product now,and pretty useful. Just did a search in gmail. I subscribed ...

Just did a search in gmail. I subscribed to BAD SIGNAL on 6/25/08. I have 333 BAD SIGNALs in my gmail archive. From when I subscribed right up to its end. If I can find a way to selectively download just those, I can toss a ZIP on dropbox if others want to wade through it.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280757#Comment_280757 2011-01-28T14:25:29-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 Seantaclaus http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6498

@Cameron C. - Thank you for that info, it's appreciated.

Cameron C. - Thank you for that info, it's appreciated.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280766#Comment_280766 2011-01-28T15:29:46-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 chainsaw.serenade http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4906

Dropbox is my hero.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280783#Comment_280783 2011-01-28T18:07:00-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 michaelavolio http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6056

I don't end up reading as much from WarrenEllis.com via Google Reader, because there're so many posts and there's so much else competing for my time. Google Reader is like having my own private ...

Maybe an option would be to have different newsletters for different things, sectioned off the way tags on the website are. As much as I love music, I never get around to the music posts on WarrenEllis.com (or here)... I'm backed up on music, and have hours and hours of new stuff on my mp3 player that I haven't listened to even once yet. But I'd sign up for a comics theory/works-in-progress newsletter in a heartbeat.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280816#Comment_280816 2011-01-29T01:31:48-08:00 2013-05-24T11:50:39-07:00 RadioGuy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2615

I hope these thoughts are the precursor to a new mailing list -- I really loved Bad Signal. Perhaps it'll be a TinyLetter thing?

Perhaps it'll be a TinyLetter thing?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9472&Focus=280843#Comment_280843 2011-01-29T11:34:31-08:00 2011-01-29T11:35:14-08:00 Digitalyn http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2841

I never read Bad Signal actually, and regret it now. I came to know you because of your website (yeah, shame on me, not because of the comics first) and grew to love it because you are always ahead ...

Reading some of your comics went as a logical consequence.
Now the thing is, with Google Reader or feedly or netvibes, I don't exactly visit your website daily per say, but it's like Michaelavolio said, our own little private internet or archives we can check whenever we can. But like you said, blogging is changing, probably as a logic consequence of Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook and with the amount of posts of every website we enjoy we can get every day, time is reducing consequently.
I'm adding nothing to your post (sorry), but I'm interested - curious, always - in knowing and seeing what's about to come next.]]>