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.

X (Twitter)

Cuttings #7: Is X throttling your site?

That cheeky scamp Elon is at it again with his traffic throttling ways. Plus ChatGPT can now read news in real time…

AI

The next stage in human evolution?

If we try to merge machine and man, which will have the upper hand?

X (Twitter)

Cuttings #6: Blogging Elephants and Banned Influencers

Plus what could be Elon's strategy for X, and a useful newsletter tool…

Cuttings #5: Ros Atkins explains my delay

A (delayed) digest of reading about AI, SEO and the problems with newsroom objectivity around the conflict in the Middle East.