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Clickbait, comments and screen apnea Paid Members Public
The complexities of clickbait, the problem of scale in comments — and why you're breathing wrong when you're staring at a screen…
TikTok hides the money Paid Members Public
Plus AI is polluting search already, and the industry jobs bloodbath continues.
Readers Write: on comment toxicity and TikTok arguments Paid Members Public
The important figures The Times omitted, evidence of real name toxicity and more feedback from readers
The Times tames trolls with the power of naming Paid Members Public
The results of The Times’s experiment in enforcing real names in comments look promising, and the EU starts looking warily at TikTok.
Morning Conference: turn those damn comments off (now that you can) Paid Members Public
I hate writing about Facebook. It squats obscenely at the heart of so much online communications like a digital Jabba the Hutt, slobbering and growing fat on the misery of others. Sadly, though, as long as it remains important in gathering traffic and attention, we're going to have
The need for intelligent skepticism, proved through links Paid Members Public
Can you trust your commenters? Can you trust your transcription service? In the digital world, here be dragons…
Naming and shaming is not a community management strategy Paid Members Public
The Bristol Post named and shamed abusive commentators. But that was the easy option.
Anyone know of any big stories happening today? Paid Members Public
There's got to be something. Maybe an election somewhere?