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A collection of 27 posts
Inside the Facebook censorship machine
Fascinating interview with Monika Bickert, the head of global policy for Facebook: We use technology to help us triage reports, and we also use Microsoft’s Photo DNA to help us prevent images of child exploitation from being uploaded to…
"Content" is crap
Greg Satell: The reason is that content isn’t really king. Content is crap. Nobody walks out of a great movie and says, “Wow! What great content.” Nobody who produces meaningful artistic expression thinks of themselves as content producers either.…
Is Medium just a content farm?
Is glossy, exciting new blogging site Medium just a content farm? But it all neatly glosses over one ugly fact: Medium is just an upscale version of the same old business model used by shady content farms the world around.…
Think about reader quality, not content quantity
Kevin Anderson refutes the “content quantity is king” blog post I wrote about earlier: However, it’s important to remember that volume of content is not the same as commercial success. The figures are a couple of years out-of-date (2010…
Keep shovelling the content...
A Digiday post on volume of content per full-time staff member has been doing the rounds today: Digiday looked at several publications — from stalwarts like the New York Times and Forbes to upstarts like Buzzfeed and The Awl — to see…
How to close an online service gracefully
The problem with today’s startup-centric web culture is that increasing numbers of services fail or get sold, and they close down, taking their content with them. DailyBooth was a hot site, particualry amongst teens and 20-somethings, a couple of…
Where Content Strategy and Brighton meet...
So, content strategy is the new hotness. Lots of people who were once web editors or content managers or even, heavens forbid, journalists, are now describing themselves as “content strategists”. But there’s a world of difference between just being…