paywalls
Paywalls promote misinformation
If all high-quality news becomes paywalled - what will fill the void left behind?
the correspondent
How The Correspondent plans to handle audience engagement
The Correspondent has revealed a little bit about how it's going to be run — and where its money is going.
privacy
We'll regret surrendering our ambient privacy
You don't know what you've got til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a Facebook lot.
X (Twitter)
Guilt by Twitter association — how Labour Left Voice blocked swathes of Twitter
One Corbynite Twitter account has been blocking great swathes of Twitter - and thus created a manual filter bubble.
Social Media
Amazon kills the Instagram competitor you never heard about
Did you know that Amazon launched an Instagram clone? Yeah, me neither.
community management
Reddit and the problems of scale in large communities
Is there an optimum size for online communities? This analysis of Reddit suggests that there is.
reuters institute
Digital News Report 2019 launch: connecting with readers and building trust in news
The annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report was published today — and a panel discussed the implications for journalism of its key findings. Here's my notes.
