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
It's the LinkedIn way. Plus more on the verification problems in Gaza and some great podcasts to listen to. | Continue reading
Image AIs love their stereotypes, Snapchat is embeddable, and to nobody's surprise, Elon does something dumb. | Continue reading
That cheeky scamp Elon is at it again with his traffic throttling ways. Plus ChatGPT can now read news in real time… | Continue reading
If we try to merge machine and man, which will have the upper hand? | Continue reading
Plus what could be Elon's strategy for X, and a useful newsletter tool… | Continue reading
A (delayed) digest of reading about AI, SEO and the problems with newsroom objectivity around the conflict in the Middle East. | Continue reading
Twitter traffic is not what it's cracked up to be, AI Search will hit harder than people expect — and Mastodon turns out to be a bigger beast than thought. | Continue reading
Sometimes the journalism world talks as if social media is purely a place to win traffic. This week, we've been reminded that there's far more to it than that… | Continue reading
If you think that one site will replace Twitter or Facebook, I have some bad news. That's not the emerging dynamic… | Continue reading
There is a way around X's removal of headlines from links shared on the platform once known as Twitter. But it comes at a price. | Continue reading
The return of the daily lunchtime email, but now for paying members only. | Continue reading
Harvard closed down its network of blogs, that he;ped define the medium in the early 2000s. But, thankfully, they've been saved for posterity. | Continue reading
Three insightful pieces of AI reading to finish off your week right. | Continue reading
An annual dose of photography from Hamburg, during the height of the Reeperbahn Festival. | Continue reading
Podcasting is becoming big business. But how do you create a viable strategy, make money — and staff up a team? The panel discussed what works — and how. | Continue reading
How can data and AI analysis help you diversify your content, and attract new types of readers? FT Strategies think they have the answer. | Continue reading
Scottish publisher DC Thompson is rethinking its strategy around communities, becoming both a member of them, but also a source of expertise on them they can sell to others. | Continue reading
What does live coverage of news look like in the third decade of the 21st century? Is liveblogging past its prime? | Continue reading
With the perception that social and search traffic is on the slide, what should audience teams do now? | Continue reading
An insight into what AI could mean for journalism, from the CMS platform backed by Jeff Bezos and used by the Washington Post. | Continue reading
The new CEO of Future on navgiating stormy economic waters, and how to use AI sensibly. | Continue reading
With search and social media changing faster than ever before, it’s time for audience teams to get out of their comfort zone, and start experimenting. | Continue reading
Twitter is dead, and X has risen, zombie-like from its ashes. Now's the time to review your publication's commitment to the platform. | Continue reading
There won't be one Twitter killer. Instead, the platform's decline has opened up the world of microblogging. | Continue reading
It’s another anniversary… | Continue reading
Stressed by poor Google News traffic? Scared that Apple is coming for your newsletters and AI for your job? Relax. It's not as bad as people claim… | Continue reading
Meta’s Twitter clone is here, and it’s surprisingly good. But most of all, it’s growing at an astonishing rate. Time to pay attention. | Continue reading
Too many editors hide behind analytics when making bad choices on which stories to prioritise. And what's going on with the would-be Twitter replacements? | Continue reading
Generative AI is here to stay. So, the sooner we set some guidelines, and communicate them to the reader, the sooner we can start experimenting. | Continue reading
2023’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report makes for grim reading. But, for the savvy, audience-centric journalist, there’s opportunity here, too. | Continue reading
Apple's stripping another analytics tool from our toolbox with new privacy features in iOS17 | Continue reading
A bad product update can seriously ruin a newsletter writer’s day. | Continue reading
While the waters of digital journalism have never been calm, right now we're passing through a storm that will sink some publications — but be the making of others. Here's what's causing that tempest. | Continue reading
Everything you need to know about Apple’s new platform and journalism. | Continue reading
In today's roundup: how to get generative AI wrong — and right. New video tools. And… a moderation game…? | Continue reading
The death of Buzzfeed News and the bankrupty of Vice make it clear how the new media ecosystem is developing: it's surprisingly… nautical? | Continue reading
Buzzfeed News and Vice crashing and burning has led to another wave of doomsaying about the future of journalism and social media. Let’s get some nuance back in the discussion… | Continue reading
The queen of mummy boggers, the first influencer… Call her what you will, the tragic loss of Heather Armstrong means that one of the web's true pioneers is gone. | Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of words have been spent describing a new era of search that nobody undersands just yet. Let me add to them by explaining why you shouldn't worry just yet. | Continue reading
There's a whole new wave of social media emerging. Do you need to be there now? | Continue reading
Five useful reads, lovingly sifted from the cesspit we call the interwebs. | Continue reading
More proof that VC funding and journalism are poor bedfellows — and that you should never trust a social media platform. | Continue reading