smartphones

Life through the (smart) rectangle

The rise of the Stories format is forcing us to accept that the smartphone is creating brand new forms of media.

ghost

A new look for OM&HB e-mail subscriptions

I've just updated the way my blog handles e-mail updates. This si the age of the newsletter…

Medium

Medium: destroyer of journalism

Ev Williams is full of a world of good intentions - but journalists who trusted Medium are paying the price.

Medium

Medium kills the reader memberships of its final partners

Medium continues the cull of all the features that made it a worthwhile platform to build a business on.

news

Hyperactive reporting is a problem. Let’s fix it.

Have we let the internet’s hype cycle shorten our attention span for big stories? Yes. And that’s a problem.

zetland

Zetland's audio stories are outperforming its written ones

Copenhagen-based digital startup Zetland is getting more traction with the audio versions of its stories than the text versions.

influencers

Is the influencer bubble deflating?

Is there something rotten in the state of influence?

Facebook

The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook

The attitude Mark Zuckerberg is displaying towards news suggests a deep ignorance of the true dynamics of news and its role in society.

kickstarter

Backed: revisiting the designer of the original emoji

Emoji have rapidly become part of modern life and communication. But how much do you know about their origin, designer - and the very first set?