Last updated: July 11 at 12:37pm CT
I'm back from my trip to Quito and will be liveblogging the news every day this week. I was wrong about the news being slow last week, between ThriveCart's Friday outage, Flodesk's Studio release and beehiiv's hilariously bad report, there was plenty to discuss.
This week's featured story (coming this weekend) is about whether or not adding the "fractional" title helps or hurts you with clients. Other stories I'm keeping my eyes on include the fallout from ThriveCart's mess, more evidence of the AI bubble bursting, and Cloudflare's make-AI-bots-pay-to-crawl experiment.
Here's what's shaping up this week...