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Apr
15
Six thoughts about the Substack Local initiative
Newsletter platform Substack is chucking $1m of its VC cash at local news journalism. Is this helpful — or just marketing?
3 min read
Apr
15
Google's shift towards quality (again)
2 min read
Apr
14
Is content moderation futile? And — if so — what should we do instead?
Are we waging a losing war on misinformation? Do we need to try a different approach?
3 min read
Apr
12
How newsletters will inevitably change media and the power of journalists
Worrying about Substack is just a proxy for worrying about the business impact of losing star journalists to their own newsletters.
4 min read
Apr
11
Sunday Supplement: trees, mental health, Alistair Campbell and more
Pour yourself a drink, find a quite corner, and enjoy this selection of interesting reading, listening and viewing from around the web.
6 min read
Apr
09
Morning Conference: The Recirculation System
Some useful insights about moving readers around yoru site, another notable Google update, and more…
3 min read
Apr
08
Morning Conference: Core Web Vitals are coming for your search traffic
A major change is coming to SEO from next month. Plus a few Clubhouse links.
2 min read
Apr
07
Morning Conference: blogrolls, audience engagement and the discovery problem
Why Substack and Medium are looking back on 2001's tech to solve the biggest challenge in media
2 min read
Apr
06
Morning Conference: turn those damn comments off (now that you can)
I hate writing about Facebook. It squats obscenely at the heart of so much online communications like a digital Jabba
2 min read
Mar
31
Morning Conference: what the Unsplash sale and the Substack investment mean for you
Some swift analysis on the two big publishing deals of yesterday.
3 min read