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?
LinkedIn
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.
A tale of two emerging social media platforms
Bluesky wants journalists, Threads couldn't give a damn. Should we pay either any attention?
LinkedIn
Cuttings #9: Make money, sack staff
It's the LinkedIn way. Plus more on the verification problems in Gaza and some great podcasts to listen to.
AI
Cuttings #8: We've made AIs racist
Image AIs love their stereotypes, Snapchat is embeddable, and to nobody's surprise, Elon does something dumb.