Internet – Page 3 – Elizabeth Tai

What I learned from one year of Substack

Oct 22, 2023

Personal and random observations on what it takes to “make it” on this platform. Caution: Some of it can be brutally honest and rub you the wrong way. This post will be gated after a week. ;)

Weekend Tales #2

Jul 16, 2023

Dealing with digital burnout and a bumper issue with 12 recommended reads! 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

The sorry state of social media

Jul 9, 2023

A good post by SelfAwarePatterns about Threads and why social media is mostly crummy these days.

The puritanical pursuit of platform purity

Jul 9, 2023

Threads is out. And the natives are restless. 🍿 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

Being an imperfect gardener of my digital garden

Jul 6, 2023

The way I blog has drastically changed since I discovered the IndieWeb. For one, I’m less precious with my blog posts. I allow mistakes, errors, and no longer think chronologically. Every post is an evolving document.

Google: All your content are belong to us

Jul 4, 2023

In a move that surprised absolutely nobody, Google has changed its privacy policy to declare that they will scrape up anything you post online to train their AI tools. How should writers and artists protect their content from now on?

How I am blogging the IndieWeb way

Jul 3, 2023

Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Substack … if you’re building your content home on any of these, it’s time to wake up to the cold hard reality that they could all disappear on you one day. As a writer, embracing Indieweb principles could save your life’s work from disappearing along with these platforms. Here’s how I…

POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content

Jul 2, 2023

When I wrote this today, #TwitterDown was trending on Mastodon. Here’s another lesson why using platforms like Twitter and Substack as your content home is a bad idea. Publish your content the POSSE/PESOS way and you avoid much of the dangers of a social media site melting down.

How I’m healing from algorithms

Jun 20, 2023

The slow awakening that I no longer have to create around an algorithm’s demands. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

WordPress.com releases paid newsletter features

Jun 14, 2023

Watch out Substack, here comes Wordpress! Automattic has now enabled WP.com blogs to share paid or gated content. Should I mirror my Substack to my wp.com website?

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