This newsletter will begin some meta-newsletter commentary drawing from another newsletter. It almost reminds me of the golden days of bloggy blogging about blogs. Sociologist David Beer, in a recent edition of his occasional newsletter, takes a look at the recent rise of newsletters and explains it as writers' reaction against algorithmic feeds. "Newsletters carry the appeal of bypassing algorithmic invisibility," Beer writes. "As people come to experience algorithmic filtering they are likely to feel they are more often on the losing side."
Other letters
Other letters
Other letters
This newsletter will begin some meta-newsletter commentary drawing from another newsletter. It almost reminds me of the golden days of bloggy blogging about blogs. Sociologist David Beer, in a recent edition of his occasional newsletter, takes a look at the recent rise of newsletters and explains it as writers' reaction against algorithmic feeds. "Newsletters carry the appeal of bypassing algorithmic invisibility," Beer writes. "As people come to experience algorithmic filtering they are likely to feel they are more often on the losing side."