The newsletter preparation experiment
2024-07-16 09:06:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
I'm going to try something a bit different this week as far as the newsletter goes. I usually just listen to podcasts throughout the week, sometimes taking notes, and wait until the end of the week to put it all together into an issue. This week I’m going to try, as much as possible, to write the podcast reviews as soon as I listen to an episode that I star, and create a link on the linkblog. That way at the end of the week I’ll only have to write the newsletter intro, and just gather up all the reviews, which will already be written.
I suppose it could be a bit of a spoiler if you already read the blog and linkblog and look forward to the newsletter. On the other hand perhaps it’s a nice way to encourage newsletter readers to read the website more regularly. The newsletter intro will of course always be original content written at the end of the week. The new way might even improve that part because I won’t be as burdonned by the weight of writting the reviews, and the reviews might be better because they will have been written while the episode is fresh in my mind.
Let’s see how it goes.