blogosphere
Don't be an influencer: earn influence (a grumpy old blogger writes)
Is "influencer" really a useful catch-all term for creators on social platforms? And is there a danger in the way it's become the default label?
whatsapp
India's WhatsApp murders - is this a technology or a human problem?
People are dying in India thanks to intentional disinformation being spread over — principally — Facebook's WhatsApp. This needs to be addressed - but how?
read it later services
A healthy news diet: how and what we read changes our brain
One of the responses to political polarization and toxic community could — and should — be paying greater attention to our information diets
ghost
One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0
I've just updated the Ghost CMS I use to run this blog to version 2.0 - and it's a little glimpse of the future.
drama
Press - a new BBC drama set in a newsroom - gets a trailer
Oh, no. The BBC is making a drama about national newspaper journalism…
Instagram
Instagram thread accounts: format innovation at work
New formats are emerging within the neglected Instagram grid - and they're not ones promoted by the Facebook-owned social network.
X (Twitter)
Twitter: why context collapse turns it into a battleground - and drives people away
The very structure of Twitter is creating the toxic atmosphere on there. Can it be fixed without completely reinventing itself?
Instagram
Hacking your phone to hack your Instagram
How - and why - do people hack social media accounts?
freshness
Recency is killing the web - and we'll all lose if that happens
Our obsession with organising everything around the latest content may be destroying the greatest value the web holds.