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.
Latest
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.
substack
Why I don't read the Press Gazette newsletter now
The problem with playing the platform game, even if it's a newsletter platform. And another reason to mistrust AI…
Journalism
How to journalist better
This issue guaranteed to be 100% Halloween free — unless you're really scared of AI content…
Social Media
Social: shifting, selling and struggling
An alliterative end to the week, with a look at the state of social media.
Social Media
Post-Twitter death-match update: Pebble is down. Who’s next?
One would-be Twitter replacement crashes and burns, while an unexpected challenger is sneaking up behind the pack. Uncertain times in the social media world.
SEO
Dispatches from the SEO trenches
A quick round-up of news for those of you battling with Google's ever-shifting algorithm. Are you a Google Entity yet?
Blogging
So, blogs are dead are they?
If you want to rank, get yourself a blog, it appears…
LinkedIn wants to connect with you, news
Plus Meta stitches Threads into Facebook, and Substack works around Musk’s headlines ban.
YouTube
Cuttings #10: YouTube is coming for your news
YouTube wants your news videos — and your podcasts (but ad-free). Plus more evidence that we need to get serious about video… again.