Five Morning Links #2: Unleash the Zuckercopier
Is this the Reels life? Or is it just Facebook fantasy?
advertising
Journalism's surveillance capitalism problem: it's all in the ads
Those in glass houses…
news
Hyperactive reporting is a problem. Let’s fix it.
Have we let the internet’s hype cycle shorten our attention span for big stories? Yes. And that’s a problem.
cameras
The iPhone rules Flickr - and is pushing other cameras into niches
Flickr has published its annual round-up of the most-used cameras [http://blog.flickr.net/2016/12/06/smartphones-dominate-flickr-in-2016-apple-leads/] . Guess which one wins? Apple, of course, is a proxy for “iPhone” here. The iPhone is the biggest camera brand on Flickr by a significant margin. And I bet you it would
algorithms
Is Facebook's algorithm a bit… rubbish?
The sheer power of Facebook’s news feed is not a matter of debate – especially for publishers. But Om Malik makes a different challenge in this thoughtful piece for the New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/facebooks-news-feed-often-changed-never-great] : > However, every time Facebook’s news feed, introduced almost a
Blogging
The stranglehold of the journalistic orthodoxy
The stranglehold of the journalistic orthodoxy [http://om.co/2016/01/13/the-journalistic-orthodoxy/] A brutal condemnation of the mindset that has stopped traditional journalism embracing change – and still does – from Om Malik: > Instead of trying to understand this change in behavior, the media establishment kept saying, “It’s not