i'm not publishing new cartoons on the blog any more

Hugh’s daily cartoon is a reliable bright spot in my day. Along with morning coffee, keeps me in the right frame of mind to conquer the world. Like Dilbert in some respects, only better 😉

Perhaps you can elaborate on why you made this decision?

While email is no-doubt “push,” it’s also passive. It comes in — and perhaps even gets opened — without necessarily engaging with it. Most of the recurring stuff I receive in email amounts to spam and so I tend to sift through it for the important personal messages and ignore the rest. Even the interesting stuff I intend to review later is quickly buried under the new stuff coming in. Contrast that with my RSS reader, which I pull up less often (though still almost daily) but always with the expectation of satisfying content. It retains unread content for me until I get to it, and if I want to refer back to something, I know I can go to the site directly and find it.

We’re always told that content is king, and erecting barriers to your content is merely limiting your reach. So I admit that I don’t see why forcing me to switch to a noisier, unstructured medium to continue to have access to your great material makes sense.