AI
AI Friday: the vapourware edition
The latest news from the intersection of AI, journalism, and techbro hype.
Adam Tinworth
Adam is a digital journalism lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 25 years, a journalist for 30 and teaches audience strategy and engagement at City St George’s, London.
The Sun
Spinning the digital news cycle
The Sun's starting to gate its content, and local news is putting up a paywall. No, this isn't a post from 2014 — this is happening now.
missing links
The missing links and unfinished thoughts
The links I should have shared, the posts I should have written…
audience engagement
Forget the volume, feel the community
The abandoned audience strategy of the 2000s might be our only hope in the 2020s. Plus, TikTok's seedy underbelly is in the open.
mastodon
Adding Mastodon author attribution to Ghost
How to add the Mastodon author attribution to your single author Ghost site.
attention
Why we need new gatekeepers to counter AI slop
In less than two years, AI content is polluting search results and social networks. We need a new wave of curators to counter this.
AI
Launching the Institute for Creativity and AI
What happens when you take academics from across multiple disciplines, and let them explore the intersection of creativity and AI? We're about to find out…
Threads
How Threads got tangled
Meta's Twitter clone is struggling with engagement bait and over-zealous moderation. Meanwhile, has The Economist figured out how to attract Gen Z without TikTok?
Meta
Facebook woos the kids
And this might matter to local journalism. Plus: has The Telegraph found a buyer? And the mysteries of algospeak.
Blogging
On bloggers and journalists, 20 years on
An old debate reared its head over the weekend. Why do journalists still misunderstadn what blogging was — and is?
Threads
How many people are you?
Meta is up to its old tricks, the WordPress meltdown continues, and Shorts aren't long enough, it seems. Happy Monday!
Publishing
When digital goes shopping for print
Tortoise wants The Observer. Unherd has got The Spectator, and installed a new editor. The relationship between tradition print-era brands and digital startups has suddenly reversed.