Interesting, and not unexpected, move from the team at Ghost, the CMS I use to run this site. John O'Nolan:Ghost now includes built-in GEO tools that generate the files AI systems expect and provide Markdown versions of your public content,…
Is Meta treading the path followed by Yahoo, MySpace and even AOL into cultural irrelevance? Julia Angwin thinks so, in a piece from a couple of months ago:I believe the company — one of the most powerful media organizations in the world an…
Three months ago today, I tripped up a kerb while crossing a roundabout, and smashed my head on a lamppost. The time since has been something of a journey, from the initial stay in hospital, to my initial recuperation in Bristol, to eye sur…
Have we managed to learn anything in two decades? Exciting news from the Audiencers Festival, which I’ve always wanted to attend, but never had my applications accepted, about a project one of my former students is involved with – although
We've lots one of my earliest blogging idols, just when we need him most When you’re flicking through your RSS reader, this is not the sort of thing you want to see: I didn’t really know Om, but I’ve been reading him for the best part of a
Fear-based marketing is infecting all of us. Do we need to slow down and stop panicing? Can you remember the last time a technology was sold to you purely through fear? If you exempt AI, I can’t remember the last time one was marketed to us…
A year on, the author of the best Facebook exposé is still being silenced by the company The stage was at this year’s Hay Festival. And the “Sarah” in question is Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of the book about the early years of Facebook Car…
Google's AI is ruled liable in Germany, media leaders try to define podcasting – and I'm on a podcast (again) This came up in the discussions at OphCon last week, and I think it's absolutely worth paying attention to. One German court has d…
2026 is the year where social platform come to dominate news distribution – and video platforms in particular. What does that mean for traditional journalism businesses? Earlier this week, the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report, a…
What do you get when you get journalists, coders and audience data enthusiasts together in a room? Last week, I had the delight of talking to a group of journalists and coders at OphCon, an annual get-together of people interested in the us…
When other businesses get between us and our readers, we become vulnerable to their decisions. If you’ve been reading me for any length of time, you’ll know I’m obsessed with publishers, publications, and journalists owning their relationsh…
A living list of the reasons I think the panic is over-blown - and any evidence I can gather One of the current bogeymen of publishers is what's variously called “zero click search” or “Google zero”. It's the idea that, as Google introduces…