The death and life of websites
One toxic site is up, when everyone is telling you it's down, and another one has found its way back to the grave. Plus news from Mastodon and Twitter.
Readers Write: on comment toxicity and TikTok arguments
The important figures The Times omitted, evidence of real name toxicity and more feedback from readers
The Times tames trolls with the power of naming
The results of The Times’s experiment in enforcing real names in comments look promising, and the EU starts looking warily at TikTok.
Let the AIs write the quizzes. We’ll do the newsletters…
Buzzfeed's quizzes just read like they're generated by AIs at the moment. But in the future — they will be. At least we can still write newsletters.
Audience Strategy: News Links #1
Some links, mainly for MA Interactive Journalism students on the Audience Strategy module…
Accountability for my TikTok Heresy
Plus some explanation of why social platforms go bad, and how the FT’s Mastodon experiment died.
The readers write: on newsletter fights, due credit and AI in the newsroom
Question and feedback from readers on newsletters, AI, local journalism and TikTok.
podcasting
Why open rates, keywords and Twitter are the past — and podcasting has a great future
It's time to stop clinging to the publishing wisdom of the past. And the decline in new podcasts is not the bad news it looks on the surface.
Publishing
Four things publishers should give up in 2023
Digital publishing moves so fast it can be hard to keep track of what works, and what doesn’t. Here are the things you need to be letting go of right now.