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Why we need new gatekeepers to counter AI slop Paid Members Public
In less than two years, AI content is polluting search results and social networks. We need a new wave of curators to counter this.
Social & Digital Coffee Break: Google tools, social media stats and free money Paid Members Public
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.
Metamorphosis of the Journalist Paid Members Public
In today’s round-up of good internet reading, we learn to love the niche, look (again( at newsletters, and get attention hacking
Lessons from 1000 editions of a links newsletter Paid Members Public
Charles Arthur has aggregated links in 1000 editions of a daily newsletter. He's learnt a thing or two along the way.
Techmeme, and the opportunity in connecting the conversation Paid Members Public
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
How journalists behave when your video goes viral Paid Members Public
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)
Twitter is revamping its custom timelines Paid Members Public
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
Curation begins where the algorithm ends Paid Members Public
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
