The Role of Blogs and Newsletters in Writing on the Internet

The idea of combining publishing to a potentially infinitely large audience with the informality of, hey, I'm 15 years old and I'm just writing how I feel about my favorite pop song into my live journal is quite an interesting combination. It's very common today to see creators still owning a blog with an attached newsletter as a way to own their audience. Many people are using social media to attract people to platform they own.