New Questlove book and film coming. Plus: news and politics, cartoons and humor, and music from Bessie Smith, Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny and Leonard Cohen.
Out of curiosity.....are the click stats from Substack only? Or can/are they tracking email newsletter clicks too?
Either way....I'm one of those guilty of leaving too many links of interest unclicked. But you nailed the reason - I love getting the quick hits but generally just don't have time for more than one or two deep dives across all my newsletters after I've caught up on the morning news.
A single point of anecdata about the lack of clicks on text links: The Substack software isn't transparent about where a text link is going to take me. When I hover over it, instead of seeing the target URL I get a long string of gobbledygook that I know from my experience with other mass mailers is used to track clicks. I've no objection to having my clicks tracked (I have a non-Substack blog myself), but I won't click on links when I can't see the destination. That's just good Internet safety practice, at least for me.
don't understand that, in this case.....typical example will be, "NYT reports today that blah blah blah" with either NYT or the blah blah blah highlighted for the link...so where else would it be taking you? almost all such links are for news attributed to NYT,
Wash Post, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Politico etc. etc.
Ouch! I feel like I've been caught! To be honest, I have been busy and saving up your posts for when I have time to indulge, because I really do enjoy talking the time to read it all!
Out of curiosity.....are the click stats from Substack only? Or can/are they tracking email newsletter clicks too?
Either way....I'm one of those guilty of leaving too many links of interest unclicked. But you nailed the reason - I love getting the quick hits but generally just don't have time for more than one or two deep dives across all my newsletters after I've caught up on the morning news.
A single point of anecdata about the lack of clicks on text links: The Substack software isn't transparent about where a text link is going to take me. When I hover over it, instead of seeing the target URL I get a long string of gobbledygook that I know from my experience with other mass mailers is used to track clicks. I've no objection to having my clicks tracked (I have a non-Substack blog myself), but I won't click on links when I can't see the destination. That's just good Internet safety practice, at least for me.
don't understand that, in this case.....typical example will be, "NYT reports today that blah blah blah" with either NYT or the blah blah blah highlighted for the link...so where else would it be taking you? almost all such links are for news attributed to NYT,
Wash Post, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Politico etc. etc.
The young photographer is Stanley Kubrick. Great blog by the way. And I read the article links too.
Without any online checking...The photographer looks like Stanley Kubrick.
on the path to glory
One of my favorite antiwar films
one of ten greatest films, period
Ouch! I feel like I've been caught! To be honest, I have been busy and saving up your posts for when I have time to indulge, because I really do enjoy talking the time to read it all!