ghost
A new look for OM&HB e-mail subscriptions
I've just updated the way my blog handles e-mail updates. This si the age of the newsletter…
algorithms
Understanding Facebook's quasi-journalistic trending algorithm
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
automation
IFTTT: the natural successor to Yahoo Pipes
Paul Bradshaw reminds us that IFTTT [https://ifttt.com] is the natural inheritor of Yahoo Pipes’s mantle [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2015/06/10/the-drawn-out-death-of-yahoo-pipes-and-the-steady-rise-of-ifttt/] : > The proposition was a clear one: if you’re having to anything more than once, get IFTTT to do it for you. Cross-posting from