Cuttings #4: Vindicated!
Twitter traffic is not what it's cracked up to be, AI Search will hit harder than people expect — and Mastodon turns out to be a bigger beast than thought.
Social Media
Cuttings #3: Social is more than just traffic
Sometimes the journalism world talks as if social media is purely a place to win traffic. This week, we've been reminded that there's far more to it than that…
LinkedIn
Cuttings #2: the social media diaspora
If you think that one site will replace Twitter or Facebook, I have some bad news. That's not the emerging dynamic…
X (Twitter)
Beating the X (Twitter) headline ban
There is a way around X's removal of headlines from links shared on the platform once known as Twitter. But it comes at a price.
X (Twitter)
Cuttings #1: One year of Musk Twitter
The return of the daily lunchtime email, but now for paying members only.
Blogging
Saving Harvard’s blog history
Harvard closed down its network of blogs, that helped define the medium in the early 2000s. But, thankfully, they've been saved for posterity.
photos
Images of Hamburg & the Reeperbahn Festival 2023
An annual dose of photography from Hamburg, during the height of the Reeperbahn Festival.
podcasting
Building a successful journalism podcast business
Podcasting is becoming big business. But how do you create a viable strategy, make money — and staff up a team? The panel discussed what works — and how.