Quite a lovely essay from Henry:

When those promises of exorbitant wealth and a life of decadence through per-click monetization ultimately dry up (or come with a steep moral or creative cost), creators and learners must look for new solutions for how educational content is shared on the Internet. The most self-evident, convivial answer is an old one: blogs.

Self publishing rules. I’ve begun to think that it doesn’t matter if it “takes off”. It’s where the interesting and smart people are, will continue to be, and I’ll be here reading it. Thanks the RSS, which matters, despite it’s uncool status (says Ben Werdmuller):

But to be frank, it’s got terrible PR: it feels like a part of the old web (Google Reader, Web 2.0, Blogger, et al) even though it powers much of the modern one. And standards that enable direct publisher–reader relationships are inconvenient for companies whose business depends on sitting in the middle. Consequently, it’s under threat. The result will be that publishers will lose distribution sovereignty, and readers will lose one of the last tools that puts them, not algorithms, in control.