Will AI-infused search be the end of publishing economics as we know it? Or is the hype outrunning the utility? | Continue reading
The US Senate votes to force Bytedance to sell TikTok — or see it banned in the US. Social media is the new geopolitical battleground. | Continue reading
Does a reviewer have a duty to ease off a bad product to protect a company from harm? No! | Continue reading
Another would-be Twitter replacement is dead in the water. What killed this one? | Continue reading
AI is at once more ubiquitous and less useful than people think. Navigating the coming flood of generated content is going to be a challenge. | Continue reading
The Chinese-controlled social network really doesn't want to play nice with other governments… | Continue reading
Says the man using the internet to send you this. | Continue reading
Yet again, the journalism business is dancing to the Tech Pied Piper's tune. Yet, even they don't know how the tune will end. | Continue reading
The regulators get itchy about China and AI, and a useful SEO tool gets its last update before AI changes everything — forever! (Maybe.) | Continue reading
It's never easy being dumped. But Meta has dumped us good and hard. We need to acept that — and move on. | Continue reading
Some news from the podcasting world, as Apple gets transcription happy, Ai translations prove harder than expected — and the worst celebrity podcast is announced. | Continue reading
The WordPress.com company is selling posts from that site and Tumblr to AI companies — while its CEO scraps with a banned user online. Which is… fine? | Continue reading
Vice is the latest digital player to collapse. But the phoenix of the third era of digital media is being birthed in the ashes of the social web age. | Continue reading
Reddit has jumped into bed with an undisclosed AI firm, and is earning $60m from the encounter. It's another step in the monetisation of free labour. | Continue reading
The camera may never lie, but there's no cameras involved in this video. Seeing is no longer believing… | Continue reading
Another round-up of audience news, derived from my sessions with my Audience Strategy students at City, University of London. | Continue reading
And other strained metaphors about the state of journalism. | Continue reading
The doomsayers are out in force. Journalism is dead, they say. Just look at the job losses, the titles closing. But we’re just paying the price of bungling the last digital transition. Let’s not repeat that mistake with the coming one. | Continue reading
A quick round-up of stories about Podcasting, from Apple's analytics change, to some cool new mics from Røde. | Continue reading
In the couple of months since an Atlantic piece suggested Substack has a Nazi problem, the normally PR-savvy newsletter company has dropped the ball repeatedly. And both publishers and subscribers are quitting. | Continue reading
2023 was the year of social media uncertainty, and nostalgia for publishing past. Here's which stories caught your attention. | Continue reading
My unplanned festive break is over. Here's what happened, and where I'm going next. | Continue reading
Threads has gone global by finally launching in the EU, and is beginning to add ActivityPub, connecting it to the Mastodon world. Could it be winning? | Continue reading
Why bad SEO advice is costing publishers dearly in the Helpful Content age, and why consolidating local newspapers is a recipe for further decline. | Continue reading
The German publishing giant has inked a deal with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT | Continue reading
Newsletters are over, apparently. But we know better than that, don't we? | Continue reading
Five more in-depth pieces, to consume at your leisure through the week. | Continue reading
Local newsletters for local people, as The League of Gentlemen never said. Plus, AMP is dead, and Threads is rapidly developing… | Continue reading
New research from the Reuters Institute shows us that newsrooms have become more flexible post-pandemic, but not how that flexibility is being used. | Continue reading
Twitter's growth was fuelled by making it easier to publish micro blog posts there than on a website. That was a trap, and we fell into it. | Continue reading
When will publisher learn that AI isn't a quick fix for cheap content? Plus changes at the BBC, an SEO apocalypse and more. | Continue reading
Many bloggers and web creators want their work to persist after their death. But can they really pay $38,000? | Continue reading
YouTube is policing AI, LinkedIn is getting personal — and so is Google? | Continue reading
TikTok is both a necessity to reaching younger audiences, and a platform we should be incredibly wary of. How do we reconcile these two facts? | Continue reading
What’s to stop a bunch of people you just laid off from launching a competitor? Almost nothing, it turns out… | Continue reading
Tumblr and Jezebel head to the great electronic compost heap, while Humane wants to replace our phone with an AI pin. | Continue reading
Plus AI is polluting search already, and the industry jobs bloodbath continues. | Continue reading
While the MailOnline puts out vast nets of attention, the Telegraph is making audio agile. And what can we learn from dead podcasts? | Continue reading
Fake images in real stories, niches fight lies and BeReal BeDoomed, in Friday's round up of audience and journalism news. | Continue reading
The problem with playing the platform game, even if it's a newsletter platform. And another reason to mistrust AI… | Continue reading
This issue guaranteed to be 100% Halloween free — unless you're really scared of AI content… | Continue reading
An alliterative end to the week, with a look at the state of social media. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
A quick round-up of news for those of you battling with Google's ever-shifting algorithm. Are you a Google Entity yet? | Continue reading
If you want to rank, get yourself a blog, it appears… | Continue reading
Plus Meta stitches Threads into Facebook, and Substack works around Musk’s headlines ban. | Continue reading
YouTube wants your news videos — and your podcasts (but ad-free). Plus more evidence that we need to get serious about video… again. | Continue reading
Bluesky wants journalists, Threads couldn't give a damn. Should we pay either any attention? | Continue reading