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We here at Damn Interesting don’t manage to post new articles quite as often as we’d like. We relish researching and writing, but until recently there were a few bottlenecks and logjams restricting our flow. The “until recently” in the preceding sentence was foreshadowing, you see. Something has changed. The suspense is almost palpable.
Our recent call for donations has ameliorated our hosting costs most months (although this month is looking a bit bleak), and this has provided us with the wiggle room to wiggle. And wiggle we shall.
We are tickled to install a handful of new humans. First, please give a warm round of implied applause to our new Lead Editor, Melissa Wiley. Her skilled editorial oversight is already streamlining our publication process, thereby reducing the time needed to prepare piping-hot articles. Furthermore we’ve invited an array of new talented writers to join us, thereby upgrading our overall capacity. As each author finishes the process of pitching, writing, and revising his/her first feature—a process startlingly similar to dressing room montage scenes from 1980s cinema—you’ll see their shiny new articles begin to appear and we’ll give each a proper introduction.
With this un-jamming of the logs and un-necking of the bottle, our overall output should accelerate gradually over the coming months. Of course we’re unlikely to ever publish at the quality-compromising rate of certain unnamed borderline-plagiarism content regurgitators, but nor would we want to. Life is too short for such stuff.
On an entirely unrelated note, we are attempting to increase the visibility of our podcast, so if you can be convinced to rate and/or review it on iTunes (or another podcast catalog of your choice) that would be perfectly damned delightful of you.
If this all works out as well as we hope, subsequent pleasant surprises are forthcoming.
Superthanks.
Update: Please pay no attention to the remark regarding a bleak outlook for donations this month. The situation has improved owing to our generous, supportive, and shockingly attractive readers. Much gratitude.
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Love it! Still reading your originals with enthusiasm for more than a year now :) Can’t wait to see the new DI machine power up and start spilling interesting stuff into the internet!
Excellent news. I love seeing your new articles. Cough. They are almost always things I’d never heard of before. Keep up the good work.
Welcome Melissa! You have a captive audience that is eager for new DI articles!
In the meantime, what’s the URL for the podcast for those of us who don’t want to go through Apple/iTunes?
Here are the links to the plain RSS feed and Soundcloud.
Thanks!
Great news! Thanks for the update!
You might consider checking out patreon.com. I’d give $1/month, I’m sure many others would as well.
This is great news! I’ve been reading since late 2005 (believe it or not!) and, while I was pretty upset when the article famine of the past few years started, DI remained in my “Diversions” bookmark folder ever since. I’m glad to see that this may soon return to the publishing rate is used to see!
Glad to knw you guys are back in action with renewed passion and determination. …. have been a di loyal from more than a year :)
I’m not sure if I’m proud or ashamed to admit I’ve read all the articles at least twice during the slower times on Damn Interesting… but I’m Damn sure that I eagerly await some new material! I’ll keep an eager eye out from my little corner of Ireland.
LOVE THIS WEBSITE and happy to hear that there are plans for growth. I rated on iTunes. Keep up the good work!!!
This by far is my favorite site, and I have donated enough for the book and the MP3s. Both well worth it and then some in my opinion. I appreciate your work to continue providing quality little known facts to the rest of us that are damn interested. :)
If you love it – support it, and I do/will. Thank you and keep up the excellent work I absolutely love it.
BTW… there are some Podcast Players for Android people like myself like iPP Podcast Player. I only have 1 subscription and that is DamnIntersting! :)
A quick google search tells me “borderline-plagiarism content regurgitators” is a novell phrase. Having let it in, I cannot get it out of my head. Fantastic.
Im sitting in a bar in Phoenix drinking cheap beer to escape this relentlessly oppressive heat only to randomly discover this site. Once I’m no longer a starving doctoral student I’ll pay your hosting fees for a friggin year, but only after this super cute bartender agrees to let me buy her dinner. Great site, a few topics that had escaped my attention while attempting to become encyclopedic, however written with a verve that reveals a bit of a grin. Fun excuse to order another pint.
Thanks.