Some reputable publishing sites have these trash content modules on the bottom. Makes pennies, destroys brands. pic.twitter.com/nFEm7mNA5P — Jason Hirschhorn (@JasonHirschhorn) December 12, 2015 There are good and bad varieties of these “news from our partners” ad boxes.…
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A collection of 8 posts
The Sunday Times turns Social List
On Friday evening, I was invited to the launch of a new Sunday Times-related website, The Social List (as this rather cryptic post hinted). The organisers asked us to refrain from blogging about it until midnight tonight, but despite that,…
What is social influence?
This is fun:…
Persecuting your fans the Royal Opera House way
From the “batshit insane” file: the Royal Opera House is busy sending appallingly typo-ridden legal threats to an opera blogger. I have made not a penny from “images referenced to performances at the Royal Opera House”. The ROH have not,…
A Prediction: 2010, Social Media & Snake Oil
I made a small mistake this evening. I broke my self-imposed social media exile to retweet something by Alan Patrick, that linked to this post on his blog. And suddenly, I found myself besieged by unhappy social media pros that…
The Times vrs NightJack: Destroying Journalists' Reputation
I think that it’s absolutely despicable that a journalistic operation did this. The “public interest” figleaf they’re using blows away the second you consider that they’ve made it easier for people to connect the blog posts with…
Le Web 08: Leadership in the Network
Quick summary of Dave Weinberger’s speech: Information age has been formative of who we are as individuals and people together. also formative of what our idea of leadership is. As it comes to a close, it’s interesing to…
Le Web 3 Lost Posts 3: The Dark Side of the Web
For an opening session focusing on eeeevil on the web, it proved to be rather quiet. I think everybody was knackered, thanks to the early start… Laurent Haug of LIFT kicked things off by asking if there is a thirst…