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Stephen Downes

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Both Facebook and Google are moving into email newsletters. Email is one of the last non-platform forums for communication, so people are understandably worried that the companies will 'help' email newsletters the way they 'helped' RSS. Facebook's Bulletin model is a basic clone of Substack, while Google is integrating its Museletter model into its cloud services, and especially Google Docs. It's nice to have publishing tools that make it a lot easier to produce email newsletters, but the fear is that the companies will eventually reduce them to a closed system.

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