dear arnon
before you and i knew each other i used to read your blog and sometimes wonder about those mysterious friends you have who send you articles. now that i seem to have become one of them, what i love is finding out what you think about an article by sending it to you and then reading your response to it on your blog.
i loved this :
Maybe this is another route to happiness. Give yourself a mysterious assignment. You are your own secret service.
which made me wonder if you are familiar with the work of the french artist sophie callé?
greetings johannes.
ps of course your readers will hit a paywall when they click on the link to the article which is why on my own blog i usually include a link to an archived version of the article, as well as a link to the original but i suspect for someone who earns their living from writing, paywalls are fair enough and i agree that people should pay to read an interesting well written article, but as someone with extremely limited funds i often wish there was a way of paying without taking out a subscription. i don't trust any writer, except maybe you ha ha (and justin e.h.smith — do you know him?) let alone a publication, to generate enough interesting ideas to justify committing to paying them a certain sum of money per month. that's why blendle was such a great idea — and you could get for your money back if you clicked on a link to an article which looked promising but didn't deliver. i was an enthusiastic blendle user until they too changed to a subscription service because the pay per article model didn't producing enough revenue to make the business profitable. ah capitalism...