AI
The AI pendulum keeps swinging
When will publisher learn that AI isn't a quick fix for cheap content? Plus changes at the BBC, an SEO apocalypse and more.
Blogging
The problem with Automattic’s 100 year plan
Many bloggers and web creators want their work to persist after their death. But can they really pay $38,000?
Google seeks hidden gems, and YouTube polices AI
YouTube is policing AI, LinkedIn is getting personal — and so is Google?
TikTok
Avoiding the TikTok trap
TikTok is both a necessity to reaching younger audiences, and a platform we should be incredibly wary of. How do we reconcile these two facts?
Threads
How to accidentally create a competitor
What’s to stop a bunch of people you just laid off from launching a competitor? Almost nothing, it turns out…
AI
Tumblr fades and an AI badge is born
Tumblr and Jezebel head to the great electronic compost heap, while Humane wants to replace our phone with an AI pin.
TikTok hides the money
Plus AI is polluting search already, and the industry jobs bloodbath continues.
By-catch from the attention trawlers
While the MailOnline puts out vast nets of attention, the Telegraph is making audio agile. And what can we learn from dead podcasts?
The AI view from Gaza
Fake images in real stories, niches fight lies and BeReal BeDoomed, in Friday's round up of audience and journalism news.