I wish I had added formatting and bold to important things and w/e. I’m on mobile. Sorry if anything is unreadable or hard to parse. Thank you for being interested in playing a part in doing this sort of work for the community. Bye.
Neat!
I feel a bit concerned putting a price tag at all
Put a price. I won’t pay for it. That won’t matter. Put a price. USD 10 . Add it to bundles. Have sales. Link to Patreon. Add all curation sheets to Patreon at the 2 dollar contribution level. Every week or so update with whatever you looked at that week.
Try to have every publication you look at each update to have a cohesive theme or tag or both they all share.
any individuals would perhaps actually find any of this useful
It’s a good idea. When you update the product, itch.io sends an email to everyone. This let’s those who are checking get an email of a new issue of summaries and opinions. That does not work for me. I use RSS. I have never seen my itchio emails.
how to supplement your own journeys
For people who do this sort of data curation ( but for other subjects ), I have some ghost.io writers I subscribe to and do pay. Ghost is for curators/journalists who already have a following, as that is a user management, email formatting and processing service you pay for. I’ve heard of Patreon accounts that are built in the same way which require more subscriber management on your part.
But I know it’s profitable work, even without a fee. If you enjoy the work, I think you should try out a publication and see.
As an example, here is a typical newsletter curation I frequent:
https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter
Each issue is a collection of publications arranged by subject per issue.
For each entry there is
- a
Categorycell, for genre - a
Highlightcell, for whether it went at the top for it’s week - a
Titlecell, - a
Authorscell - a
Venuecell - a
Yearcell - a
Headnodcell, for who pointing you to the material - a
Issuecell, for which issue it appears - a
Summerizercell, for when you eventually get volunteers/contributers - a
Summarycell, this is where you do what kamuda1 does an impartial summery - a
Opinioncell, this were you gush and raise issue - a
Read Morecell, for additional context on the topic - a
Content Warningcell - a
Prerequisitecell, for items that assume you have other items
for each entry.
At the end, there is an announcement section. This would be for bundles you support
The above newsletter is conducted through MailChimp. That is not a free service.
Ghost is another. And substack another. Both paid. They handle the “Who gets what What goes where” part. If you have over 100 people, it saves an hour or more of time every issue you send out / every update you push.
The above example curator has a few different platforms they are posting on including:
- CSV (Google sheets)
- Video (YouTube)
- email newsletter (MailChimp)
- Web app (Github)
- Online discussion forum (LessWrong)
- Podcast (libsyn)
- https://alignment-newsletter.libsyn.com/
which helps people view the content in a format most suitable for their needs. Crossposting into multiple platforms like this also helps create multiple copies of the data and keeps each copies in more than 1 place, in case one location breaks or discontinues service. This practice also moves the content up in visibility for search algorithms, each link adding 1 score to your curation’s rank.
Last, the above example is a free service. They do it to increase awareness of an issue they care about. Although, there are benefits. A benefit is contributors see recognition in the community. A benefit is the newsletter also looks good on a resume.
Love life like love,
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