Like many of us, I read an exceptional amount of content that I love... and then lose sight of immediately in the swarm of my digital day. These days, social media algorithms disappear content almost instantly after I've glanced at it, pushing me to the next high-engagement post every time I scroll or reload. To mitigate feed media's insistence on immediate forced obsolescence, I subscribe to a ridiculous amount of newsletters and bookmark as much as I can.
Here are my regular influences, the ones I constantly like, follow, and subscribe to — the ones I'm deeply indebted to for creating brilliant content for readers, linking me to their amazing networks, and generally laying the foundation for The Content Technologist's deep focus on complex content strategy.
And the next time you hear someone say "the internet sucks now," please point them thisaway. The internet is still filled with brilliant minds and original thinkers.
Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting.
Agency and organizational collaborators, idols, colleagues, and friends who create stellar content and make the internet a better place
- Anomaly
- Autogram
- Bust Out
- CMYK
- Collective Measures
- Creed Interactive
- Duz Creative
- Fjorge
- Indee
- Lullabot
- MIMA
- Monicat Data
- Movement Strategy
- Perrill
- Pop Up Think Tank
- Proofpoint Marketing
- Storythings
- ThreeSixtyEight
- US Creative Works
Other agencies whose content deserves an honorable mention
Rolodex of content brilliance: Individual influencers, friends, collaborators, and colleagues
- Paul Armstrong
- Ryan Baum
- Wyatt Coday
- Kathryn Frankson
- Thomas Frenkiel
- m.e. gray
- Vicky Gu
- Ryan Hagen
- Sarah Howard
- Paula Land
- Lindsay Li
- Arikia Millikan
- Tina Morgan
- Jessica Quillin
- Emily Rochotte
- Natasha Serafimovska
- Shayla Thiel-Stern
- Larry Swanson
- Kate Tovsen
- Ernest Wilkins
Unmissable newsletters for content professionals: The greater content, creativity, and user experience universe
- Formats Unpacked and Attention Matters by Storythings
- Bold Face by Erin Balsa
- Button by Brain Traffic
- contentfolks by fio dossetto
- Contentious by Lauren Lang
- Contentment by Tracey Wallace
- Content People by Meredith Farley
- Cre8tor Hub by Lloyd George
- Creators of All Trades by Rolf Mistelbacher
- Cultural Content by Georgina Brooke
- Delightful by Steve Bryant
- Everything in Moderation by Ben Whitelaw and Alice Hunsberger
- The Ghost Newsletter
- HeyDesigner by Tamas Sari
- Inbox Collective by Dan Oshinsky & company
- It's Nice That
- Lens by Robert Rose
- The Marketing-Analytics Intersect by Avinash Kaushik
- Marketing under the Influence by Ronnie Higgins
- Nielsen Norman Group
- Nudge by Ben Young
- OOUX Newsletter Sophia Prater
- Perfect Sentences by Ingrid Burrington
- The Sensemakers Club by Abby Covert
- [SIC] by Ben Dietz
- Smashing Magazine
- Weeknotes by Lauren Pope
- Wolf Craft by Nora Wolf and Kirsten Larson
- UX Content Collective
- Working in Content
- Zine by Matt Klein
Tech commentary, culture, and reporting
- Arts Management & Technology
- Citation Needed by Molly White
- Vicki Boykis
- dynomight
- MIT Technology Review
- New Public
- Read Max by Max Read
- Tedium
- Things that Caught My Attention by Dan Hon
- The Verge, especially Liz Lopatto
SEO and search
- WTF is SEO
- SEOFOMO
- Growth Memo
- SEO for Lunch
- Tom Critchlow
- Women in Tech SEO
- Field Notes by Omniscient Digital
Social media news, trends, and leadership
- Embedded by Nick Catucci and Kate Lyndsay
- Arik Hanson
- ICYMI by Lia Haberman
- Link in Bio by Rachel Karten
- Social Signals by Greg Swan
Artificial intelligence
Media industry news, resources and critique
- Baekdal
- Indie Publisher by Indiegraf
- Journalism.co.uk
- The Lenfest Institute
- Lion Publishing
- Medialyte by Mark Stenberg
- Media Minds by Adriana Lacy
- A Media Operator by Jacob Donnelly
- The News Revenue Hub
- NiemanLab
- The Other Wave by Anita Li
- The Rebooting by Brian Morrissey
- Wonder Tools by Jeremy Caplan
Business, leadership, and entrepreneurship
- Liz Giorgi
- They Got Acquired by Alexis Grant
- Perspectives by Deb Liu
- Harvard Business Review
- Business Drivers by Jim Cuene
- Julie Zhou
Link roundup newsletters
- The Morning News
- Links I Would GChat You if We Were Friends
- Today In Tabs
- Dense Discovery
- Storythings newsletter
- The Browser
- Sentiers
Professional communities
Book publishing (old habits die hard)
B2B newsletters from other industries
- Handmade Seller
- Money Stuff
- Never Met a Science
- The Pragmatic Engineer
- Scope of Work
- The Sociology of Business
- The Web Scraping Club
Newsletter OGs
Activism in data and tech
- Algorithmic Justice League
- Anti-Racism Daily
- Check My Ads
- Data for Black Lives
- Data & Society
- The White Pages
Independent Minnesota media
Damn good newsletters, websites, and curiosities
- Asterisk
- The Brick House
- Subculture Archives
- School for Poetic Computation
- Nor.LA
- Perfectly Imperfect
- Professional Sweetheart
- Dirt
- Candy for Breakfast
- LitHub
- Printed Matter
- Public Work
- Quanta
- Vittles
Cult classics
Religiously read, never-miss-an-issue newsletters
- The Red Hand Files by Nick Cave
- stacy marie-ishmael