Simple, general-purpose personal publishing is not really a part of the modern web in any straightforward way.  There are plenty of special-purpose &#x27;listmaking&#x27; services — but it&#x27;s hard to imagine one tackling the problem in the general case because it&#x27;s just not a great business.  Email gets shoehorned into this usecase because it&#x27;s one of the only personal publishing tool that&#x27;s totally decentralized and really easy to use.<p>[edit: grammar]