When your commonplace book is a public database

Cory Doctorow on the value of longterm blogging.

5 Aug 2024

There are plenty of different reasons to blog and/or keep a public archive of your newsletters. Cory Doctorow offers an excellent one (as well as provides a bit of history on blogging ... and drops this incredible quote: “There’s a version of the ‘why writers should blog’ story that is tawdry and mercenary: Blog, the story goes, and you will build a brand and a platform that you can use to promote your work. Virtually every sentence that contains the word ‘brand’ is bullshit, and that one is no exception.”).

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