AI
Meta pirated books — and trained AI on them.
And it looks like some of mine were in there.
AI
The AI trap has closed around Apple. Don’t be next.
Apple tried to make AI a personal answer engine. It failed. It's a warning to all businesses.
cms
Your coffee reading, or the Monday linkdump
For your amusement and edification as you sip your coffee
audience engagement
Five telling quotes
Five pieces worth your times — and quotes that show you why.
AI
AI Friday: the vapourware edition
The latest news from the intersection of AI, journalism, and techbro hype.
missing links
The missing links and unfinished thoughts
The links I should have shared, the posts I should have written…
audience engagement
Forget the volume, feel the community
The abandoned audience strategy of the 2000s might be our only hope in the 2020s. Plus, TikTok's seedy underbelly is in the open.
attention
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.
AI
Launching the Institute for Creativity and AI
What happens when you take academics from across multiple disciplines, and let them explore the intersection of creativity and AI? We're about to find out…
Social Media
We need a social media POSSE
But I'm not talking about an online lynch mob, but some new digital plumbing to make it easier to navigate a social media diaspora. Plus an AI tool worth exploring.
AI
Step back, and rethink journalism in an AI age
I finally found the perspective on generative AI I've been missing
AI
AI: should publishers sign up or sue?
The media versus the AI companies is the latest battlefront in the war between platforms and publishers. Which side should we pick?