Maurice Banerjee Palmer
@MBanerjeePalmer
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Nonsense upon stilts
New York • Paris • Peckham
Joined July 2012
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Interview by @DomPonsford with @edwardroussel on @pressgazette particularly good:.- *Why* users prefer the app (page turning, notifs).- Nuanced marketing -- bonus reader accounts, not discounts.- Subs up +8% yoy. (And high-paced, information-dense. No waffle.).
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RT @DigitalFrontier: Who remembers RSS? The little orange icon from the early 2000s. In 2025, RSS is weirdly useful again, especially if….
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RT @swyx: so Chrome 138+ onwards ships Gemini Nano for every user*, putting a local LLM in 3.7 billion monthly active users of Chrome. wrot….
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🛜 rotate this bad boy 45° 🛜.turn it orange. welcome back to 2005.
Who remembers RSS? The little orange icon from the early 2000s. In 2025, RSS is weirdly useful again, especially if you’re building tools for LLMs or trying to escape algorithm fatigue. @MBanerjeePalmer on why dead protocols still have life:
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Thanks to Alys for some exquisite editing, pulling out clarity that has resulted in a piece I'm proud of.
It was fun to work with @MBanerjeePalmer on this piece, arguing for the second life of RSS. He has a fascinating case that doesn't lean on nostalgia. Where some look back wistfully at the web of raw protocols, he points out that there were good reasons we moved away from RSS.
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The problems are all solvable. It just needs more attention than I can justify, given what I have around the corner. (But if these problems pique your interest drop me a message! I'd be happy to collaborate to resurrect Printstack for Readers from the ashes.).
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That said, print remains underrated. Not only am I continuing the books, I do want to return to 'print and post my newsletters every week' because the experience is unparalleled.
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There are no good APIs for print & post. What comes through the letterbox is an expensive guessing game (hence the 'minor bugs' in the mesage).
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Emails are ludicrously hard to access. I wish Gmail allowed an API scope for particular queries e.g. `from:-from:no-reply@substack.com` to see newsletters but not password resets.
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Weirdly, I think there's an LLM opportunity in printing: they can resize or cut the cruft (e.g. huge adverts) cheaply. This mattered much more than when turning Substacks into books (which I'm still very much doing!) because you get new content each week.
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The thrill of people trusting you with their money in exchange for your wacky product, and giving feedback on it, never gets old. Thank you everyone who took a punt.
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Printstack for Readers is going up in flames. In case you missed it, it was a service that took your email newsletters, printed them out, and posted them to you every week. Five things I learnt, briefly:
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RT @risj_oxford: Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!. 📊48 markets.🌏Almost 100K respondents.📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news a….
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Most RSS readers use an algorithm that hands control of your attention to publishers. (It's called reverse chron.). Now you can control the algorithm
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Will be interesting to dig into methodology here.
Today, we’re launching Agenda, the UK’s first system for analysing the relationship between public opinion, parliamentary debate, and media coverage.
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