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Why we need new gatekeepers to counter AI slop
In less than two years, AI content is polluting search results and social networks. We need a new wave of curators to counter this.
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AI is about to take misinformation to a new level
AI generated misinformation is going to be a nightmare to verify. Plus a big Google update, YouTube gets serious about podcasting and some rules for curation.
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Newsletter editors: the new newsroom power players
The inexorable rise of newsletters – and the newsletter editor [http://digiday.com/publishers/newsletter-editors-new-important-person-newsrooms/] : > Publishers are rediscovering that email newsletters are a reliable way to reach readers — and serve a critically important direct connection to audiences that serves as a counterweight to the mercurial algorithms of Facebook. The popularity
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Twitter is revamping its custom timelines
Twitter is revamping its custom timelines [https://blog.twitter.com/2016/coming-soon-an-improved-embedded-timeline] Twitter is making some changes to its embeddable custom timelines, a useful curation-and-publication tool: > As a result, the new timeline has a clean, modern design that blends seamlessly into any page on your site. It’s fully
commonplace reading
Commonplace Reading: curated reads for an indulgent weekend
Would you like a selection of great online journalism to read at your leisure over the weekend? Well, that’s exactly what I’m now offering you via Commonplace Reading, a new weekly newsletter I’m pushing out every Saturday morning. It’s a little more eclectic than the material
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Meta-curating the death of David Bowie
Curation is the new obituary: 8 ways media outlets marked Bowie’s life and death [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2016/01/11/curation-is-the-new-obituary-8-ways-media-outlets-marked-bowies-life-and-death/] Paul Bradshaw: > The media’s reaction to David Bowie‘s death from cancer early this morning demonstrates just how widely curation has become in journalism practice – and
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Why Apple created its News app
Apple’s Eddie Cue, speaking to CNN’s Brian Stelter: > “We’ve only created the apps that we think everyone uses every day… We really wanted to create a single app that all customers could go to, to read all their news — no matter what they are interested in,
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Curation begins where the algorithm ends
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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Can Apple Music save a middle-aged man from the music of his youth?
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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The role of blogs in the age of media overload
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/blogger-at-work.jpg] Fascinating read in the wake of Andrew Sullivan’s closure of The Dish [http://time.com/3693638/no-blogs-are-not-dead/], in which Ira Stoll explores the present and future of blogging [http://time.com/3693638/no-blogs-are-not-dead/]: > And while
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Financial Times ups its morning e-mail game: FirstFT
Slightly baffling e-mail from the Financial Times press team this morning: > Financial Times readers can now receive the FT’s daily top picks of global news, comment and analysis from around the web by signing up to FirstFT [http://www.ft.com/firstft]. Concise and engaging, this free email
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Maria Popova of Brain Pickings on attention and journalism
Here’s a fascinating interview with Maria Popova [http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/maria-popova/8840-maria-popova-on-information-in-the-digital-age] , curator of the truly excellent Brain Pickings [http://www.brainpickings.org] blog. Some choice highlights: > I can’t speak for others, but I’ve found in myself a tendency to retreat deeper and deeper into