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Facebook fired the human journalists working on its trending section (see posts passim [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/05/dont-be-a-journalism-algorithm.html] ) and replaced them with algorithmic journalists [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/29/facebook-fires-trending-topics-team-algorithm] . It went…uh…well: > Over the weekend, the fully automated Facebook trending
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The sheer power of Facebook’s news feed is not a matter of debate – especially for publishers. But Om Malik makes a different challenge in this thoughtful piece for the New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/facebooks-news-feed-often-changed-never-great] : > However, every time Facebook’s news feed, introduced almost a
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Gizmodo‘s Michael Nunez delved into the lives of Facebook’s contract journalists [http://gizmodo.com/want-to-know-what-facebook-really-thinks-of-journalists-1773916117] in a well-shared piece: > Over time, the work became increasingly demanding, and Facebook’s trending news team started to look more and more like the worst stereotypes of a digital media content
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Twitter has gone all in on that algorithm [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2016/03/17/twitter-quietly-turned-new-algorithmic-timeline-everyone/] You’re now getting a Twitter timeline with added algorithmic sorting by default: > The algorithm now appears to be enabled by default across the social network, with users reporting that the company started
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Publishers feel the pain in new Google update [http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/01/17/economist-new-yorker-and-time-all-fall-victim-google-update] A new update to the Google search algorithm seems to have hit some publishers, including TheAtlantic.com, GQ.com, Newyorker.com, Economist.com and Time.com: > Commenting on the results, Marcus Tober,
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Tinder rates the desirability of its users with an algorithm [http://www.fastcompany.com/3054871/whats-your-tinder-score-inside-the-apps-internal-ranking-system] Tinder is judging you: > You might not realize it, but anyone who’s used the popular dating app is assigned an internal rating: a score calculated by the company that ranks the most
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As anyone who has been trained by me of late will know, Facebook is the 1000lb gorilla in the traffic generation game right now. It’s been steadily rising as a percentage of traffic referrals to publisher sites, and it by far blows away all other forms of social media.
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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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Apple Music [http://www.apple.com/uk/music/] arrived last night, and with it Beats 1 [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/30/apple-musics-beats-1-zane-lowe] – a new, global music channel. And I’m not just quite hopeful that it’ll be god; I’ve been actively listening to it and
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[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/08/jWtARPhoWqVxrSSD.jpg] One of the most dangerous things you can do on the internet is start depending on one other company almost entirely for your traffic. A few years ago, I ended up working briefly with a business that
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The Facebook game has changed, and anyone who is surprised hasn’t been paying attention. Social@Ogilvy published research showing that the reach of posts from brand pages on Facebook has been plummeting [https://social.ogilvy.com/facebook-zero-considering-life-after-the-demise-of-organic-reach/] , something borne out by the couple of pages I have a hand