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The Post-SEO Era

What happens when a news site launches that basically ignores the SEO orthodoxy? Easy: They do fascinating stuff. Hence, Robinhood’s Sherwood.

Barely Minimum

Substack favors the quick fix for its moderation crisis over the fundamental change, leaving a lot of longtime users in the lurch.

Magalogs & Mailboxes

Once upon a time, before the internet, there were attempts to combine magazines and catalogs together. The weird part? For a while, it worked!

The Whole Stack

Substack got an unexpected wave of momentum last week that threatens to upend the game for people who just want email to be email. What should indie newsletter publishers think of that?

Giving Without Restraint

It’s near the end of the year once again, which means that it’s time for another list of poorly considered gift ideas from us at Tedium. Consider it our gift to you.

When Newsletters Were Printed

What can modern newsletter authors learn about newslettering from an era when people actually mailed these things? A lot, it turns out, according to this book I bought.

No Computers Allowed

Thinking about what, exactly, remote work and the creator economy looked like before all these computers got in the way.

Newsletter, Untethered

There’s no real reason you have to use a platform like Substack to send email. If you want to get into making a newsletter of your own, understand your options.

The Inbox Pioneer

For more than 25 years, this newsletter author has been snarking wise about weird news. Here’s the tale of This is True, one of the first inbox success stories.

We’re Making A Zine

If you’re a fan of Tedium in digital form, you should know that we’re going to create a physical form. But not just any physical form. Zine form.
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