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The Blog Herald Editorial Team

The Blog Herald Editorial Team produces content covering blogging, content creation, the publishing industry, and the systems and practices behind digital media. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, research, drafting, fact-checking, editing, and review, rather than a single writer's work. The Blog Herald takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

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The Substack model was built on the idea that writers could own their audiences by moving them off platforms, and the writers who did it are now discovering that the email inbox is a platform with its own rules, its own deliverability decisions, and its own terms of service
Reading fiction is among the few activities shown to build the capacity to model other minds, which makes it something worth protecting, not just something to enjoy
The writers whose work is now being summarized by AI search results that never send a reader their way are receiving a form of citation that is invisible in analytics tools they have access to and counts as influence in no system that pays them
Google built its business by organizing other people’s writing and sending readers to it, and it is now building a system that reads that writing and answers the question so completely that the reader has no reason to visit the person who wrote it
Amazon MGM Studios dropped a nearly finished film about Sam Altman after signing a $50 billion deal with OpenAI, and the official statement was that the movie would be better served by a different studio, which is one of the more transparent non-explanations a major corporation has issued in recent memory