It seems easy enough, start up a Substack, kick off a podcast, or host a few events — you're well on your way to profitability. Wrong. While often touted as a way to democratize creation or put the tools into creators hands, there's a ton of time, energy, effort and resources that...
Another notification to my inbox? Yes, another notification, and hopefully a notification that brings you joy, reminds you to slow the fuck down, to log off every so often. 2021 thus far, has been a lot. I’m not going to expand on this at the current moment (scroll twitter or read one of the...
How can the creator economy disrupt the newsroom, and what should the newsroom be watching out for? The Viability of the Solopreneur It seems easy enough, start up a Substack, kick off a podcast, or host a few events — you're well on your way to profitability. Wrong. While often touted and advertised by...
How Web 2.0 paved the way for creators to well, create. The more that I dive into researching the media solopreneur, the more that I realize that we should have saw this coming. Web 2.0, or the evolution to the web towards being a participatory or social web [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The 'stable' media job is so yesterday — Erin Mikail Staples breaks down the media solopreneurship landscape....
Twitter and social media as a whole have had a unique presence in the past major election cycle and even continue to do so now. With the second president to exist on social media while in office and probably tweeting from the toilet as we speak, along with the resignation of Representative Katie Hill over...
