Re:Pycoder's Weekly
by sjahl on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @11:54AM
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Are you planning to offer something better than http://www.pythonweekly.com/ ? In other words, why should I subscribe to _another_ weekly python digest? :)
Re:Pycoder's Weekly
by petercooper on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @03:12PM
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and competition doesn't hurt.
Usually, yep!
A rising tide lifts all boats, and the increase in newsletters is validating them as a viable option for hesitant subscribers.
I run several newsletters (most famously http://javascriptweekly.com/) and I'm delighted to see all of these new *Weekly newsletters (although, admittedly, I'm kicking myself for being too generic with the 'weekly' suffix) because they're helping to validate my entire business model and subscriber #s keep leaping up! :-)
Re:Pycoder's Weekly
by mapleoin on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @11:30AM
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Can you give some more information about your project? Who are you guys? Why would I be interested in your opinion on what is good? What topics are covered? What is an example issue?
Right now, I only get the smugness:
"One e-mail each Friday(starting Feb. 17th), easy to unsubscribe, only god knows why you would want to do that."
Re:Pycoder's Weekly
by googletron on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @11:39AM
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Pycoder's Weekly, will be a weekly newsletter for those interested in python development and various topics around python. It will be broken down into sections on topics regarding web development, python news, python projects and general python discussion.
We are both full time python developers and enthusiasts, if you would like to know more about us, we have provided our twitter accounts at the bottom of the site.
We are just gearing up for our first issue (17th of February), I promise the smugness will be justified.
You have outline some good points, We will take them to heart and improve the site accordingly.
Re:Pycoder's Weekly
by _feda_ on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @12:31PM
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Sometimes I think mailing lists are the future aswell as the past. Something very elegant about them, moreso than something like google reader. The suckless-tools mailing list (http://suckless.org/community) is a great example.
Re:Pycoder's Weekly
by mgrouchy on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @12:55PM
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I think the real value is in the curation, which is something you don't get from google reader.
Essentially, if a list is curated well enough, you know you will be able to find things of value on there and I know for me, not having to rummage through my rss feeder has a lot of value.
Its the same reason why I read hacker news, better curation then my rss reader.
Re:Pycoder's Weekly
by wgrover on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @11:55AM
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Sounds good. Any example content you can put on the signup website now (a single sample story, a sample contents listing, anything) might go a long way in convincing people to sign up.
http://www.pythonweekly.com/
It will come down to if you like the curators and share their passion for python development.
pythonweekly.com is awesome, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved, and competition doesn't hurt.
Usually, yep!
A rising tide lifts all boats, and the increase in newsletters is validating them as a viable option for hesitant subscribers.
I run several newsletters (most famously http://javascriptweekly.com/) and I'm delighted to see all of these new *Weekly newsletters (although, admittedly, I'm kicking myself for being too generic with the 'weekly' suffix) because they're helping to validate my entire business model and subscriber #s keep leaping up! :-)
Right now, I only get the smugness:
"One e-mail each Friday(starting Feb. 17th), easy to unsubscribe, only god knows why you would want to do that."
We are both full time python developers and enthusiasts, if you would like to know more about us, we have provided our twitter accounts at the bottom of the site.
We are just gearing up for our first issue (17th of February), I promise the smugness will be justified.
You have outline some good points, We will take them to heart and improve the site accordingly.
Thanks!
That text would have sold me without a doubt.
here's an example - http://lwn.net/Articles/454574/ - which looks like cameron laird's email to subscribe, but i can't find anything at http://phaseit.net/ to indicate if it's still in operation.
hmm. the latest i can find is aug 25 2011, which is the last one in my mailbox. so i guess it died.
Essentially, if a list is curated well enough, you know you will be able to find things of value on there and I know for me, not having to rummage through my rss feeder has a lot of value.
Its the same reason why I read hacker news, better curation then my rss reader.
If you want to take it one step further sign-up for my Hacker Newsletter (http://www.hackernewsletter.com) ;)
[EDIT: I see the first issue will be the 17th, cool; well maybe add a link to that when it comes out]
We expect there to be archives of the individual issues that you can browse before you signup.
Will you be accepting contributions from readers(May I contribute)?
If so, where could you be contacted(other than twitter(I don't tweet))?