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Why we need new gatekeepers to counter AI slop
In less than two years, AI content is polluting search results and social networks. We need a new wave of curators to counter this.
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Social & Digital Coffee Break: Google tools, social media stats and free money
A round up of news you can use in your social media and digital publishing work. Just don't click on the last link, unless you want to despair of men.
niche
Metamorphosis of the Journalist
In today’s round-up of good internet reading, we learn to love the niche, look (again( at newsletters, and get attention hacking
charles arthur
Lessons from 1000 editions of a links newsletter
Charles Arthur has aggregated links in 1000 editions of a daily newsletter. He's learnt a thing or two along the way.
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Techmeme, and the opportunity in connecting the conversation
Has our lust for innovation made us move on from ideas too quickly? I’ve been mulling that over for most of the day, since I read Charlie Wurzel’s long piece on Gabe Rivera and Techmeme [https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/meet-the-man-who-shapes-techs-narrative] . Unless you’re a blogger of a
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How journalists behave when your video goes viral
How journalists behave when your video goes viral [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/c9b6250d-6557-4968-b0ce-e6eef3e04dfb] Journalist Marc Settle found his video suddenly of great interest to a wider new media than just his employer, the BBC: > Broadly, their behaviour fell in to one of three categories: a)
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Twitter is revamping its custom timelines
Twitter is revamping its custom timelines [https://blog.twitter.com/2016/coming-soon-an-improved-embedded-timeline] 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. It’s fully
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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 to a set of rules, of heuristics, that yield
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Tired of "aggregators" stealing his pics, a photographer sues
One photographer has had enough of a viral content site nicking his photos [http://petapixel.com/2015/07/31/this-is-what-it-looks-like-to-sue-a-viral-clickbait-site-for-photo-copyright-infringement/?curator=onemanandhisblog] : > California-based photographer Jeff Werner has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular website ViralNova for publishing (and profiting from) his photos without his permission. Theft is
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A first look at Apple News
It’s interesting to note that it has a “For You” option, just like [Apple Music](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/07/apple-music-curation-discovery-algorithems.html). That suggests we’ll see the same mix of algorithmic and human curation in the app.
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The lesson of a decade in digital media: trust your instincts
A lesson I learnt from my big blogging mistake…
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Your five minute Mail hate
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/03/aggregated-rubbish.jpg] A Gawker piece by James King is doing the rounds today, highlighting the “ripping off” done by the Daily Mail Online [http://tktk.gawker.com/my-year-ripping-off-the-web-with-the-daily-mail-online-1689453286] : > Yes, most outlets regularly aggregate other publications’ work in the