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.

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.