Social Media
Post-Twitter death-match update: Pebble is down. Who’s next?
One would-be Twitter replacement crashes and burns, while an unexpected challenger is sneaking up behind the pack. Uncertain times in the social media world.
Posts about Zuckerberg's world-destroying data gathering machine.
LinkedIn wants to connect with you, news
Plus Meta stitches Threads into Facebook, and Substack works around Musk’s headlines ban.
newsletters
Newsletters and other decades-long overnight success stories
Can a format that's been around since the last century truly be something new?
Facebook’s long, slow breakup with journalism is underway
Meta is putting Facebook's journalism-related features on the back burner. The social network's on and off relationship with news is finally over.
TikTok
Five great reads from the online content mines
Plus some jobs, a tip, and Lagerfeld’s iPods. Yes, really.
audience strategy
Why did some publishers gain traffic from the Facebook outage?
Despite many publishers using Facebook to attract readers, some sites saw a boost from the extended outage last night. And some took a hit. Here's why.
Single point of (Facebook) failure
Facebook has wiped itself, WhatsApp and Instagram off the internet. And the longer they stay down, the more some publishers will be suffering…
Local news, for local people, by local creators (sponsored by Facebook)
Facebook's local news investment, Greenwald's Yes, Minster moment and more news from the "new media" trenches.
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
Morning Conference emails
Morning Conference: AI good, Facebook bad
An LSE-led initiative attempts to get ahead of the curve, while we're all still paying the price of letting Facebook get out of hand
business models
Catch-up Digital Digest #1: revenue, vaccines and more
Welcome to the 2021. Let's catch-up. Or try to, at least.
social networks
Attack of the clones: all social networks are NOT becoming the same
Yes, all social networks are developing the same feature set. No, that doesn’t mean they’re all becoming the same. Here’s why.