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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 […]

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

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,

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

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

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

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

The Addition is an award-winning reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Image credit: Top_CNX / Shutterstock.com When TV and movie streaming first launched there seemed to be a new, albeit largely unspoken, contract between provider and consumer – pay a somewhat premium price and

Few people are in any doubt that 2024 is going to be another tumultuous year for the media industry – for good and bad. There is certainly going to be a lot to discuss on this show! To start the year, ‘The Addition Podcast’ looks ahead with Adweek’s Mark Stenberg, who shares his predictions for

Welcome to 2024! The Addition is back and I’m ready and raring to go – I have big plans for the next 12 months. Continuing building and giving readers more of what you want does though require more people to take out a paid subscription. Doing so gives you access to all the paid newsletters