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Social & Digital coffee break: 3 stories in 3 sentences
Because your time is precious, and I respect it, dammit.
Posts about Zuckerberg's world-destroying data gathering machine.
Social & Digital coffee break: escaping the Facebook shadow
It’s not really a surprise that Facebook can’t be trusted — but are we really taking the steps we need to end our additions to it? This, and many other useful topics in today’s digest.
niche
Metamorphosis of the Journalist
In today’s round-up of good internet reading, we learn to love the niche, look (again( at newsletters, and get attention hacking
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…
Facebook launches new Groups tools, and Google spends lobbying money on journalism
Facebook does a good thing, and Google does something that merely looks nice. This is platform economy life.
YouTube
“Hey, Guys”: the latest on YouTube, Facebook oversight and more
YouTube is a huge source of news, Facebook gets a hostile oversight board. Just another Tuesday in the digital culture wars.
audio
Get some audio in your engagement strategy
Why audio is critical to your audience engagement thinking, why hashtags are back on Facebook, and more to spark your imagination this week…
analytics
On engagement metrics and Facebook malignancy
Today's thesis: engagement metrics are unfairly maligned, but Facebook deserves every piece of criticism thrown at it.
TikTok
Weaning media off its social addiction
Kicking the social media traffic fix, plus links on the tricks of pseudoscience and the future of media.
Five Morning Links #2: Unleash the Zuckercopier
Is this the Reels life? Or is it just Facebook fantasy?
Facebook is an accelerator of our toxic times, not its cause
Facebook has merely harnessed and amplified the networks already at work online. Blaming the symptom for the problem is no route to a solution.
Social Media
Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks.
The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?