Five Morning Links #2: Unleash the Zuckercopier
Is this the Reels life? Or is it just Facebook fantasy?
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Five Morning Links
Five worthwhile reads to start your day.
coronavirus pandemic
Covid-19, schools, and the dangers of unintentional misinformation
Not all misinformation is intentional. Sometimes the angle we take on a story, and the headline we use, can leave completely the wrong impression in a reader's mind.
SEO
Why Google's Core Web Vitals update is going to hit medium-sized publishers hard
Major changes are coming to Google next year - and the technical burden of them are likely to fall disproportionatly on the middle rank of publishers.
newsletters
What the new newsletters can learn from the early days of blogging
Today's newsletters look more and more like the early days of blogging - but with one missing ingredient.
TikTok tensions, fake contributors and the Post in your ears
TikTok: fear the algorithm not the data capture It's undeniable that one consequence of the past few months has been a shifting in the West's relationship with China. We've seen the UK plan to remove Huawei equipment from its networks [https://www.bbc.co.
Facebook judges you, Google neglects you and AI gets blogged
Social networks are arbitrating who is a journalist and who isn't - again. And more essential news for digital journalists from around the web.
newsletters
Newsletters: Rise of the Blogletter
Why today's newsletter actually take a lot from blogging and why The Economist is on Instagram: answered.
The strength of weak social ties and signals
Human social interaction is more complex then we realise. And by depriving us of some critical feedback loops, social networks limit their own potential.
Social Media
How do we solve our online civility problem?
Some more thoughts on deescalating the culture war, as well as ways of looking better in your Zoom calls and an interesting new business opportunity…
Facebook is an accelerator of our toxic times, not its cause
Facebook has merely harnessed and amplified the networks already at work online. Blaming the symptom for the problem is no route to a solution.
Social Media
Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks.
The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?