Interviews & Commentary

Interviews & Commentary features conversations, perspectives, and opinion pieces related to blogging and digital publishing. It highlights the voices behind the work, including bloggers, writers, editors, and industry participants.

The goal is thoughtful commentary that reflects the community and the evolving realities of publishing on the web.

A Substack writer with 20,000 subscribers laid out her seven-step growth framework. Here’s what it reveals about how the platform actually works in 2026

People who reread what they wrote years ago aren’t being nostalgic — they’re checking whether the person who wrote that still exists

A diverse audience attentively engaging during a significant indoor event.

There’s a particular loneliness that comes from being the creator who notices everything in a room full of people who notice nothing, and most of us learned to stop mentioning it before we turned twenty

I asked 50 bloggers if they’re still making money in 2026. The answers were brutal

When Heidi Klum’s Father Sent a Blogger a Cease and Desist Over a URL — and What It Still Teaches Publishers About Trademark Risk