Gizmodo editor-in-chief sues Apple over Tetris movie
He claims Apple’s Tetris film is heavily inspired by his book.
The Curator’s Code: Blogging’s Great Misunderstood Idea
Podcasts Are Everywhere. These LA Startups Aim to Make Good Listens Easy to Find
With so many podcasts out there, companies like Goodpods and Breaker are popping up to help listeners find their next podcast. Run by siblings, the year-old Goodpods bills itself as the GoodReads for podcasting.
Thread Heat with Casey Newton - What Future with Joshua Topolsky (podcast) | Listen Notes
On Reading More Books — Random Notes
Recently, a friend sent me a link to an article that they thought I might mind useful. It was one of those articles, the kind that purpor...
How a titan of 20th-century journalism transformed the AP — and the news
"If one man fails to file a story of a millionairess marrying a poor factory hand because that man understands such a story is not properly A.P. stuff, such an error of news judgment ought to be generally made known to other employees."
REGULATE ME | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Regulating AI; Old Hollywood Myths; Fixing the Internet
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links
What’s next?
Post, a publisher-focused Twitter alternative, launches to public
Post doesn't want to be just another Twitter clone.
Substack is getting tweets — err, “Notes”
They’ll start rolling out in the “coming days.”
Public radio can help solve the local news crisis — if it will expand staff and coverage
"Local public radio has a staffing problem. Stations have considerable potential but aren’t yet in a position to make it happen."
Hey, local news publishers: Give the people a calendar
"It shouldn't be that difficult to keep an updated list of when and where and what the meetings are."
On Star Trek: Discovery and Michelle Yeoh's accent
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When the Star Trek: Discovery trailer was first announced, I almost didn't want to watch it. I'm a lifelong fan of the franchise — I grew up on The Next Generation and Star Treks II–VI and I'd followed every up and down of the…
Don’t trust “the news media”? That may be a good thing
The pervasive amount of news media criticism in the U.S. has intensified the erosion of trust in American journalism, but such discussion can be seen as a sign of democratic health.
You Are Not a Parrot
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
Journalists, You Should Be Looking for Undocumented APIs. Here’s How to Start – The Markup
A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet
Apple News too corporate for you? Try this app
OptOut aims to be a daily news app "100% free from corporate media narratives."
RZA Spent 10 Years Making This TV Show
The architect of the Wu-Tang Clan and his young cast discuss their new 10-part Hulu show, ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’
Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z
What is Post News? Founded by former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, the Twitter competitor just raised funding from Andreessen Horowitz.
The year journalism and capitalism finally divorce
"It is capitalism that incentivizes the degradation of our news media — disinvesting in local journalism, weaponizing social media to capture our attention and data, and devaluing media workers’ labor conditions."
Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.
pEver since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]/p
Vincenzo Natali's Peripheral Visions - What Future with Joshua Topolsky | iHeart
Come for Josh's rant on the future of the internet, stay for his conversation with Vincenzo Natali, director of 'Cube,' 'Splice,' and your favorite episodes of 'Hannibal,' who has taken on William Gibson's reality-bending book 'The Peripheral' and turned it into electrifying TV. The two discuss how horror is in our DNA, his creative relationship with AI, and the difficulties of turning 80's sci-fi into modern art. Discussed: Ray Harryhausen, math that kills you, "big" iPads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed stock has plunged more than 60 percent this year.
Here are 11 journalists’ tweets about how Twitter is losing its “heavy tweeters”
Twitter is losing its most active users and turning into a porn-and-crypto fest as "interest in news, sports and entertainment" wanes, according to Reuters' Sheila Dang, who saw internal research from the company. Also check out "What happens to journalists after Twitter?" and &…
Facebook closes down service it hoped would compete with Substack
The decision to shut down Bulletin is an indication that Facebook found a subscriber-focused site was not as lucrative as hoped.
Sentience and Sensibility | Meghan O’Gieblyn
The notion that capitalism metabolizes dissent is no longer theoretical but embodied in the architecture of its most profitable corporate technologies.
How Platformer is changing in year three
What I learned in year two, and what comes next
We’ve Got Misinformation All Wrong
Both advocacy groups and political leaders tend to assume that misinformation persists on social media because the platforms are unwilling to get rid of it—a gross and unhelpful oversimplification. Some of the largest technology companies in the world spend tens of billions of dollars each year ...
Welcome to the new Verge
A complete redesign of The Verge that marries the best of old-school blogging with a modern news feed experience.
What YouTube’s official entry into podcasting means for the industry
The video platform is finally dedicating real resources to growing its podcast offerings.