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Blogging after Gawker - still not dead Members Public

Dave Winer reiterates his distinction between blogging and journalism [http://scripting.com/2016/08/25/reportersNeverUnderstoodBlogs.html], in the wake of Gawker’s end: > Blogs are what sources write, not what reporters write. An irreverent scandal sheet written by professional reporters is not a blog. The piece that triggered

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Your five minute Mail hate Members Public

[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/03/aggregated-rubbish.jpg] A Gawker piece by James King is doing the rounds today, highlighting the “ripping off” done by the Daily Mail Online [http://tktk.gawker.com/my-year-ripping-off-the-web-with-the-daily-mail-online-1689453286] : > Yes, most outlets regularly aggregate other publications’ work in the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Gawker plumbs the Facebook traffic valley Members Public

Another reminder of the dangers of building your business on one company’s platform [http://recode.net/2014/08/31/why-building-a-web-business-built-on-facebook-is-so-scary/] : Those are Gawker’s figures – and why did that valley happen? > Read and his co-workers think that this is the result of some algorithm changes Facebook made in

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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