year in review
One Man & His Blog’s top 10 posts of 2022
2022 was all about two stories: the rise of newsletters and the fall of social media. Here's how that played out on my site.
X (Twitter)
Musk disbands Twitter Trust & Safety Council
Twitter is rapidly becoming Elon Musk’s personal plaything. Dissenting opinions on its management are not required.
X (Twitter)
Five things we learnt from The Twitter Files
After nearly a week of “revelatory” Twitter threads, what have we actually learnt?
brand journalism
The end of Future
Andreessen Horowitz’s short-lived foray into tech journalism is over. When even VCs don’t see a future in tech hype media, what does that mean for the rest of us?
7 things I learned from the Media Moments 2022 report
The annual Media Moments report from the Media Voices crew is here - here’s the highlights.
X (Twitter)
It’s really time to stop embedding tweets in articles
Things are changing so fast under Elon Musk, embedding Tweets may no longer be safe, if they're important to the story
Social Media
Social media isn’t dead — it’s regenerating
Despite Twitter and Meta’s troubles, humanity’s desire to create and share will not diminish. They’ll just find new ways of connecting. And they already are.
mastodon
Mastodon servers for journalists
Looking for a Mastodon Instance to begin your journey in the fediverse as a journalist? You’ve come to the right place!
X (Twitter)
What today’s Twitter layoffs could mean for journalists
Elon Musk is busy gutting Twitter’s staff — and where he chooses to cut will tell us what the platform’s future relationship with news will look like.