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Clickbait, comments and screen apnea
The complexities of clickbait, the problem of scale in comments — and why you're breathing wrong when you're staring at a screen…
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What Facebook is doing to deceptive newsfeed clickbait will change your life
Facebook is weeding out some deceptive clickbait practices [http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/08/news-feed-fyi-taking-action-against-video-clickbait/] : > When people click on an image in their News Feed featuring a play button, they expect a video to start playing. Spammers often use fake play buttons to trick people into clicking links
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Retiring to escape clickbait?
A sobering end to Jean-Louis Gassée's tribute to veteran tech columnist Walt Mossberg [https://mondaynote.com/a-salute-to-walt-mossberg-e3c562288f03]: > As bleak as this sounds, I can’t help but wonder why Walt, a young 70, has decided to retire. Is he really tired of it all? His Twitter [https:
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"Bullshit curation" is bullshit
Someone has a cynicism problem [https://medium.com/@aaronloeb/you-wont-believe-what-hillary-ordered-the-dnc-to-do-to-bernie-s-brother-a344eb5bad1b#.4sjg9snuz] : > The art of good headline writing and image selection in order to get someone to click and go to a website is usually called “clickbaiting,” but I think we should call it “bullshit curation.” Oh, because clearly there’
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Teasing the clickthrough, visually
Really nice Twitter graphic from the FT communities team. A good “tease” of the clickthrough: > Love this quote from @JananGanesh [https://twitter.com/JananGanesh] on the desperate attempts to keep Scotland from voting Yes http://t.co/XowUeoZ3Kt pic.twitter.com/ITkW05WxSK [http://t.co/ITkW05WxSK] — Esther Bintliff (@estherbintliff)
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Clickbait, as mocked by comics
Looks like Marvel Comics has take the measure of today’s news cycle. From yesterday’s Original Sins #1 [https://www.comixology.co.uk/Original-Sins-1-of-5/digital-comic/104064]: The “spammy click bait phase of the news cycle” just entered my vocabulary. Good work. (Not the first time comics have commented on