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10 Things We Learned at AnnotatED 2024 If you thought social annotation was just an EdTech buzzword, AnnotatED 2024 was here to prove you wrong. This year’s conference was a […]

This is an active and growing series of blog posts toward helping local journalism thrive anew in our digital age. They include a collection of original ideas (most notably from Dave Askins of the …

GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.

As Twitter was crumbling under Elon Musk’s new leadership in 2023, various online circles found themselves flocking to alternative platforms. While some may have kept using Twitter (now known as… X), a non-negligible number of communities migrated over to Mastodon and other smaller platforms. Meanwhile, Meta shipped its own textual social media platform, Threads. The

Google can tell you if your info shows up in a data leak.

When you factor in the engineering and time that went into some of these models, they were more than flops.

Perkins has a big mission — and a big plan.

Pandoc makes it really easy to convert existing HTML into Markdown plain text format. Read on for some simple examples.

John O’Nolan, the founder and CEO of Ghost, calls himself “the inverse Peter Thiel.” That’s because he wants to build a tech company that bucks the usual narratives, with as few monopolies as possi...

Peter Kafka is the Chief Correspondent at Business Insider. We cover the evolution of Netflix, the YouTube threat for media incumbents, and the business model for news.

More news about Ghosts' work on ActivityPub, statistics of Mastodon show the massive diversity in software ecosystem that happens when you have a fully open API, and much more.

Apple announced that today it is releasing Final Cut Pro 2 for the iPad and Final Cut Camera for the iPhone on the App Store. Both apps were announced at the company’s Let Loose event in May. To recap, Final Cut Pro 2 for the iPad adds the following features: Live Multicam, which allows users

2025 will make the job even harder.

Microsoft might be finally ready to transition to Arm chips.

“It becomes a snake eating its own tail. It really does homogenize media.”

Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

Because everybody needs a spot on the web these days

Microsoft Excel is arguably the world’s most important piece of business software. Can it also be a sport?

How Warhammer 40,000 abandoned anti-authoritarianism for comfortable cowardice

Hey Snackers, fired around a dozen staffers after investigating claims that they were pretending to work with “simulation of keyboard activity.”...

Periodically I try out those online surveys that pop up on ESPN, or the like, because I want to see if anyone's figured out how to make them...

In late 2021, Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, logged onto a virtual all-hands meeting to tell the staffers of Complex—a publication BuzzFeed was then in the process of acquiring—how much the media brand meant to him. In an effort to connect with Complex’s coverage of sneaker culture, Peretti ...

Robinhood Markets, Inc. today announced the formation of Sherwood Media, LLC, a new subsidiary that will be a home for

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"If you're doing it, do it properly. Don't just add a few widgets, or overlay products and embeds, and call yourself accessible."

Sherwood News editor Joshua Topolsky is betting ad-supported, free news can turn a profit in the internet’s post-scale era.

As the Letterboxd ratings curve for Megalopolis reflects the skyscrapers of ‘New Rome’, George Fenwick tries to make sense of the divisive first responses out of Cannes to Francis Ford Coppola’s…