Substack, Ghost and the revenge of the bloggers

The New York Times' Ben Smith wrote a great article about Substack and Ghost, the newsletter platforms that have attracted many old-time bloggers who found themselves adrift after founding startups, taking traditional media jobs, or losing them. There is some controversySubstack is financing star authors and many perceive an overly libertarian¹ leaning to its incipient A-listbut Smith focuses his article on Danny Lavery, one of my favorite writers, and his wife Grace, a professor at U.C. — Read the rest