personal
The Festive Silence
My unplanned festive break is over. Here's what happened, and where I'm going next.
Meta
Better Threads than dead
Threads has gone global by finally launching in the EU, and is beginning to add ActivityPub, connecting it to the Mastodon world. Could it be winning?
SEO
Why you're probably doing SEO wrong
Why bad SEO advice is costing publishers dearly in the Helpful Content age, and why consolidating local newspapers is a recipe for further decline.
AI
OpenAI is paying Axel Springer for its content
The German publishing giant has inked a deal with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT
newsletters
The meta-newsletter newsletter
Newsletters are over, apparently. But we know better than that, don't we?
Slow Five #1
Five more in-depth pieces, to consume at your leisure through the week.
newsletters
Saving local news, one newsletter at a time
Local newsletters for local people, as The League of Gentlemen never said. Plus, AMP is dead, and Threads is rapidly developing…
reuters institute
The pandemic changed newsrooms. But did it change them the right way?
New research from the Reuters Institute shows us that newsrooms have become more flexible post-pandemic, but not how that flexibility is being used.
Blogging
What if the Twitter replacement isn’t a Twitter clone?
Twitter's growth was fuelled by making it easier to publish micro blog posts there than on a website. That was a trap, and we fell into it.