curation

An AI-driven robot spewing lies to a crowd.

AI is about to take misinformation to a new level Members Public

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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
AI

Newsletter editors: the new newsroom power players Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
completion

Twitter is revamping its custom timelines Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
aggregation

Commonplace Reading: curated reads for an indulgent weekend Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
commonplace reading

Meta-curating the death of David Bowie Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
curation

Why Apple created its News app Members Public

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,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Curation begins where the algorithm ends Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
aggregation

Can Apple Music save a middle-aged man from the music of his youth? Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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