Google's shift towards quality (again)

If you want affiliate revenue, you need to actually do the work…

Is content moderation futile? And — if so — what should we do instead?

Are we waging a losing war on misinformation? Do we need to try a different approach?

How newsletters will inevitably change media and the power of journalists

Worrying about Substack is just a proxy for worrying about the business impact of losing star journalists to their own newsletters.

Sunday Supplement: trees, mental health, Alistair Campbell and more

Pour yourself a drink, find a quite corner, and enjoy this selection of interesting reading, listening and viewing from around the web.

Morning Conference: The Recirculation System

Some useful insights about moving readers around yoru site, another notable Google update, and more…

Morning Conference: Core Web Vitals are coming for your search traffic

A major change is coming to SEO from next month. Plus a few Clubhouse links.

Morning Conference: blogrolls, audience engagement and the discovery problem

Why Substack and Medium are looking back on 2001's tech to solve the biggest challenge in media

Morning Conference: turn those damn comments off (now that you can)

Morning Conference: what the Unsplash sale and the Substack investment mean for you

Some swift analysis on the two big publishing deals of yesterday.