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By Mitch Berg
I’ve been doing this blog for a long time – 23 years in February.
It’s still a part of my day every morning – I’m usually up doing some kind of writing or another, before 6AM every weekday. And it’s the bulk of my radio show prep. And it’s also kind of a quick reference for the past 23 years of my various goings-on.
That makes me sound like a creature of habit. I guess it is a habit of mine – the gnawing urge to get something down, profound or pathetic, wakes up with me every day.
But notwithstanding that, I’m a fundamentally restless person. I’d like to keep doing what I do – only better.
Now, this old WordPress site is getting a little long in the tooth. The “template” on which it runs is almost 15 years old. Things are breaking – and I have a hunch, given WordPress’s fundamentally chaotic nature (like I should talk) that upgrading would be…sporty.
And I have some new ideas for content in mind – blog writing, yes, but there’s at least one other book project, maybe two, in mind (not to mention an update and print edition of Trulbert). And I have some other content ideas rattling around in my head that could finally come to fruition over the winter.
And I’m starting to think a different platform might be useful – one with a little more flexibility, and the ability to make a little money off these ventures baked in.
Not that I’m going to charge for the blog – what’d be the point? But some of the other ideas might have the opportunity to put a little money in the pot.
I don’t qualify for OnlyFans, and I’d rather gargle razor blades than use Medium.
So I’m pondering moving the blog to Substack.
I’m leery of the idea, of course – I remember all the bloggers who moved to Facebook and Twitter, and regretted it shortly. I’d keep shotinthedark.info for…something. Special projects?
But Substack is arguably a better, better-connected platform for both exposure and money, even if I don’t make the blog pay-per-view. Which I won’t.
It’s winter. A time for huge projects, after all!
December 5th, 2024 at 1:49 pm
Surber seems to like his move to Substack.
December 5th, 2024 at 4:38 pm
Love the blog, and do what you will. But if you move to substack, whatever that is, please provide instructions to those of us dinosaurs who wouldn’t know which end of it to plug into the wall.
December 5th, 2024 at 4:42 pm
I’ve had a stack account for about 8 months. Started it as a place to chronical the building of my lakefront compound in the foothills of the BlueRidge mountains, which I am doing with my own hands.(As I shared here a couple years ago, we sold all the extranious stuff, hot rods, extra bikes, art, rental props & etc. This is where everything went).
Anyway, I find it to be a great place to meet likeminded people. I’m not selling anything, and until right now, I never even looked to see howm many subscribers I have; 208 turns out. There are great writers, academics, radicals, preppers, leftist fuckwads, grifters, wankers and reprobates there; for now, it’s the Wild West.
There are several people evidently making a decent living on Substack and I find it hilarious that the most prolific accounts are from leftist boomers like the excrable Heather Cox Richardson, Robert Reich and Dan Rather who have attracted thousands of geriatric lefties to commiserate with and grift off of. Of course there’s plenty of big names on the right there as well, Matt Tiabbi, Steve Sailer, Gen. Mike Flynn, Edward Snowden are pretty popular.
Biggest upgrade over wordpress: pictures and no moderation.
That last might be a problem for some of the regulars here, though. The ‘Stack isn’t a hotbed of support for boomer neocons cheering the slaughter in Gaza/Lebanon, or Ukraine; to the contrary…be advised.
December 6th, 2024 at 12:42 am
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