The social web is fracturing and subscription fatigue is real. Could this allow blogging to make its return in 2024? Maybe! Robb Dunewood of DTNS and The Tech Jawn has been making blogs and podcasts for decades. He returns to the show to discuss the potential revival. One thing is for sure, owning your content […]
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Photo by Fikret tozak on Unsplash The social web is fracturing and subscription fatigue is real. Could this allow blogging to make its return in 2024? Maybe! Robb Dunewood of DTNS and The Tech Jawn has been making blogs and podcasts for decades. He returns to the show to discuss the potential revival. One thing
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Photo by Maxim Ilyahov on Unsplash Some of you have probably heard about Substack’s “Nazi problem”. I was not going to write about it, but given a) I’m on this platform and b) it says a lot about current media and tech trends, I thought I’d give it a go. Tuesday’s newsletter is usually paywalled,
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And we’re back… discussing Gary Lineker’s social media. The “Match of the Day” presenter retweeted a post that called for Israel to be banned from international football tournaments “until it ends its grave violations of international law”. He has since removed it from his feed. Forget what you think about what is going on in
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As some people will know, I co-host the “House of Comments” podcast with Emma Burnell. Every Friday, we discuss British politics and sometimes politics from the US and elsewhere. You can listen on AudioBoom or wherever you usually get your podcasts. In the hours before we recorded the latest episode, US and UK forces hit
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Get 20% off for 1 year Sometimes, stories just… happen. Not just on Twitter, but really… happen. This usually requires a few different things to occur at the same time. It needs both coverage and a cultural moment. As I write this I’m obviously thinking about the Post Office scandal, the enormous fallout from which
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Amazon is introducing adverts to its Prime Video streaming service in a matter of days. Not only is this a controversial move, as discussed in a recent newsletter, it is also going to prompt a significant shake-up of the ad market. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the platform’s “scale, in both subscriber reach and real
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AI dominated the discourse for much of 2023 and it looks like it is going to be the same in 2024. I’m wary of making The Addition another AI-dominated publication. However, the story really matters. Furthermore, not all publications are prepared to sit back while the bots scrape their work to train Large Langauge Models
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Get 20% off for 1 year Photo by Jakayla Toney on Unsplash AI dominated the discourse for much of 2023 and it looks like it is going to be the same in 2024. I’m wary of making The Addition another AI-dominated publication. However, the story really matters. Furthermore, not all publications are prepared to sit
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Sometimes we all want a bit of escapism and we especially want a break from the news. It has long been thought that AR/VR devices, and the metaverse they let users enter, could help provide such an experience through gaming and other immersive work. However, that could flip and your news could be delivered right
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