comments
Anyone know of any big stories happening today?
There's got to be something. Maybe an election somewhere?
audience engagement
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…
TikTok hides the money
Plus AI is polluting search already, and the industry jobs bloodbath continues.
Readers Write: on comment toxicity and TikTok arguments
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
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 emails
Morning Conference: turn those damn comments off (now that you can)
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
comments
The need for intelligent skepticism, proved through links
Can you trust your commenters? Can you trust your transcription service? In the digital world, here be dragons…
community management
Naming and shaming is not a community management strategy
The Bristol Post named and shamed abusive commentators. But that was the easy option.
engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: listening, killing comments and getting visual
Another round-up of interesting reading about journalism and audience engagement
the correspondent
How The Correspondent plans to handle audience engagement
The Correspondent has revealed a little bit about how it's going to be run — and where its money is going.
cms
Publishing Tech round-up: the News Project and the Coral Project
Some interesting new moves in the CMS space
audience engagement
The Atlantic closes its comments - and makes them more important, too
The Atlantic joins many other sites in turning off comments - but that doesn’t mean its abandoning reader commentary.