Fritinancy

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You can find this week’s word, aesthetic injury*, in its new home on my Substack newsletter. Sign up for a free subscription!

 

* Yes, I know it’s two words, but it’s what linguists call a “lexical item,” which qualifies it as a word of the week.

More non-blog writing

In case you aren’t following me on the splintered social-mediascape*, here are links to two recent pieces I’ve published on Medium and my bloggish new home, Substack:

LinkedIn Is Actually Fun Now (no, really!)

On Collaboration (and old folks who swim the English Channel)

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* Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, Threads (app only for now), LinkedIn. And I still maintain a ghostly presence on Xitter, pronounced Shitter.

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Introducing Fritinancy, the Substack newsletter

Brand new from the Fritinancy family of fine wordcraft products: Fritinancy, the Substack newsletter!

Read all about it here. 

The tl;dr: After 17 years of blogging, and of increasing dissatisfaction with the Typepad platform, I’m ready to try something different. I’m pivoting—gradually, slowly—to newsletters.

I’m looking forward to a new, more flexible format for writing and for reading. I’m looking forward to continuing some fan favorites (word of the week, words of the year, linkfests) and experimenting with new subject matter. I’m also intrigued by Notes, a Substack feature that permits short-form comments and links. A replacement for Xitter? Maybe!

You can read the newsletter on your phone, your laptop, your desktop, or the convenient Substack app. (The app is one of the primary reasons I decided to make the switch.)

In addition to the introductory post, I’ve also published three additional posts, including one about a proposal to change the name of the Oakland airport and one that explains the Fritinancy name. Check them all out here. Subscriptions are free (for now), so please sign up. 

My long-term plan is to gradually phase out blog posts in favor of writing on other platforms (Substack and Medium, maybe others). But not to worry: the whole 17-year blog archive will remain here for your pleasure and reference. And yes, I intend to continue publishing on Medium until further notice.

Off to Substack!

New writing on Medium: Notes on a bad new tagline

Yes, I’m writing about Twitter again. (Or as I call it now, Xitter, pronounced Shitter. Thank you, James Fallows.) This time I’m poking my s’more fork into the dumpster fire that is that company’s new tagline, introduced abruptly and ill-advisedly last weekend. Read all about the inane “Blaze your glory!” [sic].

My previous Twitter-now-X story is here.