Content & Digital Publishing

Content & Digital Publishing explores the broader craft behind publishing content online.

Here we cover editorial planning, content formats, newsletters, and media trends. Blogging is treated as a publishing discipline, with attention given to consistency, voice, and long-term audience trust.

Psychology says the “bigger wedding, bigger divorce risk” finding everyone half-remembers isn’t a straight line at all — the original study breaks it into specific spending brackets, and each bracket carries its own distinct risk multiplier, not a simple “spend more, risk more”
One food blogger watched her traffic fall from close to a million monthly pageviews to under 200,000 after Google’s AI Overviews started answering exactly the questions her posts were built to rank for, down to “how to cut a banana”
Some people don’t find their writing voice until their 60s — and for many it turns out the decades weren’t wasted, they were just research
People who check their phone hardest during a stressful week aren’t the most addicted, they’re the ones who never learned another way to regulate what they’re feeling
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