The inexorable rise of newsletters – and the newsletter editor: Publishers are rediscovering that email newsletters are a reliable way to reach readers — and serve a critically important direct connection to audiences that serves as a counterweight to the mercurial algorithms…
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A collection of 31 posts
Twitter is revamping its custom timelines
Twitter is revamping its custom timelines Twitter is making some changes to its embeddable custom timelines, a useful curation-and-publication tool: As a result, the new timeline has a clean, modern design that blends seamlessly into any page on your site.…
Commonplace Reading: curated reads for an indulgent weekend
Would you like a selection of great online journalism to read at your leisure over the weekend? Well, that’s exactly what I’m now offering you via Commonplace Reading, a new weekly newsletter I’m pushing out every Saturday…
Meta-curating the death of David Bowie
Curation is the new obituary: 8 ways media outlets marked Bowie’s life and death Paul Bradshaw: The media’s reaction to David Bowie‘s death from cancer early this morning demonstrates just how widely curation has become in journalism…
Why Apple created its News app
Apple’s Eddie Cue, speaking to CNN’s Brian Stelter: “We’ve only created the apps that we think everyone uses every day… We really wanted to create a single app that all customers could go to, to read all…
Curation begins where the algorithm ends
Jean-Louis Gassée: But ask a computer scientist for the meaning of meaning, for an algorithm that can extract the meaning of a sentence and you will either elicit a blank look, or an obfuscating discourse that, in fact, boils down…
Can Apple Music save a middle-aged man from the music of his youth?
Apple Music arrived last night, and with it Beats 1 – a new, global music channel. And I’m not just quite hopeful that it’ll be god; I’ve been actively listening to it and enjoying it. Like many people…
The role of blogs in the age of media overload
Fascinating read in the wake of Andrew Sullivan’s closure of The Dish, in which Ira Stoll explores the present and future of blogging: And while the ability to produce opinion quickly can be abused, blogs provide the kind of…