Category: Link
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CNN Plans to be Everywhere Your Phone is
Alex Cranz writing for The Verge: a memo from CNN CEO Mark Thompson outlines some of the early plans to try to save CNN from cable — and grow its presence on the phone. As noted by The Wall Street Journal, which has seen the memo, the first step will be combining CNN’s myriad news-gathering groups into one…
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Substack suffers the consequences of their actions
After a hellish month for Substack many writers on its platform have decided it is time to set up their newsletters and writings elsewhere. If you aren’t familiar with what happened, you can find out more on a timeline I made. A large number of Substack writers, including Ryan Broderick (Garbage Day), Molly White (Citations Needed),…
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Mona Chalabi on Longform
This Longform episode with data journalist Mona Chalabi, who has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, and won a Pulitzer for her work, was so good I listened to it twice in one day. In the podcast she speaks about the ongoing Israel and Palestine war and her feelings on it and the bad reporting that is happening…
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The Death of Physical Media
An old college buddy of mine, Adam, who also has been a creative partner for me over the years, created an awesome video essay. It’s about the end of physical media, what it might hold for the future of media consumption, and how collectors might be dealing with this change. At 12-minutes long, it’s the perfect video…
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“Shot on iPhone”
Apple created a really interesting post covering the “Shot on iPhone” keynote they did for Scary Fast. They also created a video accompanying it. What I thought was more interesting though was the backlash it got from people saying that because it had so much gear and equipment required to get the look it had the “Shot on iPhone”…
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Moderator Mayhem
Today Techdirt released their second game, Moderator Mayhem. It is a “game that lets you see how good a job you would do as a front line content moderator,” Mike Masnick writes, “for a growing technology company that hosts user-generated content”. Not only does the game have you moderate content, but it also gives you feedback from your manager and…
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Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker, and Twitter Chaos Updates
I was listening to a recent episode of the podcast Hard Fork, and a specific part of it really resonated with me. It was where Casey Newton was talking to his co-host, Kevin Roose, about NPR’s decision to leave Twitter after getting a “state-affiliated media” badge. You know what I’ve been thinking about lately, Kevin? Do you remember during the Trump…
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Huge Upgrades to Mastodon
People signing up for Mastodon will no longer have to worry about what server to go to. Instead, Mastodon will now be defaulting to a server they operate. Eugen Rochko, Mastodon’s Founder and CEO, explained his reasoning for this saying that “[m]aking the onboarding process as easy as possible helps new users get past the sign-up process and more…
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Substack co-founder denounces bigotry, but has no plan
Shortly after Substack announced their Twitter competitor Substack Notes Nilay Patel interviewed Substack’s CEO, Chris Best, to talk about it. In it, Patel asked Best if the statement “all brown people are animals and they shouldn’t be allowed in America” would be censored on Substack Notes. Best refused to say that it would, and when pressed further by Patel…
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Go Indie
Nick Heer writing on Pixel Envy: These are just a few of the numerous pleasant experiences I have had with independent software developers. I cannot say the same is true of big corporate developers — not even close. When I buy and use software from an independent developer, it feels like I am establishing a…