AI
Jon Steinberg, Future CEO, on Gen AI and revenue
The new CEO of Future on navgiating stormy economic waters, and how to use AI sensibly.
AI
Learning to live with AI
Generative AI is here to stay. So, the sooner we set some guidelines, and communicate them to the reader, the sooner we can start experimenting.
AI
Good AI, Bad AI
In today's roundup: how to get generative AI wrong — and right. New video tools. And… a moderation game…?
SEO
Why you shouldn’t worry about AI-powered search — yet.
Hundreds of thousands of words have been spent describing a new era of search that nobody understands. Let me add to them by explaining why you shouldn't worry just yet.
Social Media
Media’s no good, very bad week
More proof that VC funding and journalism are poor bedfellows — and that you should never trust a social media platform.
podcasting
Micro.blog’s podcast transcripts and assistive AI
The small blogging platform is showing how AI can easily add compelling extra features to an existing product.
world politics
The Politics of TikTok, Reddit explained, and Google gamed
Could a US ban on TikTok trigger a social media power struggle? And how did the Verge use ChatGPT to game Google?
AI
AI is about to take misinformation to a new level
AI generated misinformation is going to be a nightmare to verify. Plus a big Google update, YouTube gets serious about podcasting and some rules for curation.
AI
Weekend Reads: social media cycles, AI and a podcast car crash
Insights into the decline and fall of social networks, the audience capture of celebrities — and the surprisingly dangerous nature of podcasting.
Weekend reading — from the serious to the silly
From lessons we should learn from the coverage of Nicola Bulley’s disappearance, to AI copyright, to that weird, mysterious content on TikTok, it’s all here.
SEO
Readers Write: on ChatGPT search, Twitter changes and Mastodon Ice Cubes
Thoughts from the lovely OM&HB community about types of search, the impact of Twitter’s changes — and a freebie Mastodon app.
newsletters
What is a newsletter?
Rethinking how we conceptualise newsletters, why you should ignore the podcast doom-mongers and more in today’s updates.