- Post Phone World #1: Kill off The News Feed
Facebook started as a tool to share and look at images shared by your circle of friends. In 2017, it has deteriorated to a place where your feed is polluted with great opinions of your friends and clickbait news articles…
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- How to leave a toxic Whatsapp group / Whatsapp university / Whatsapp echo chamber
A young Indian woman posts her letter to her family members in a Whatapp group, saying 'In today's personal victory, I quit my extended-family WhatsApp group. I cannot fully express the relief I feel.' There is just …
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- How Mainstream Media in India Covered The WireâEUR(TM)s story on Jay Shah
Notes from a post on Newslaundry.com:
The bad
On TV news, India’s leading English channels decided that The Wire story was not worth any play at all.
Times Now: Its primetime was dedicated to such issues as #Sh…
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- Annals of Pseudo-Science: People Who Use Facebook Live Longer
Five things that are wrong with this pro-business, peudo-science study such as this:
1. This study sounds more like an advertisement for Facebook than an actual scientific experiment.
2. An actual experiment such a…
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- Standing Rock Pipeline Protest: Another Example of How Useless Facebook Trending Stories Are
Techcrunch reported that terms such as “Standing Rock,” “Native Americans,” “pipeline,” “Missouri River,” etc. didn’t show up as Facebook Trends to any users until long after the check-in protest began over the pre-Hallo…
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- 20 mobiles for a house: Or, How To Really Use Your Friend Network For Good
From the BBC, about a woman who really used her social network for good:
Xiaoli (not her real name), a woman from the city of Shenzhen in southern China, asked each of her 20 current boyfriends to buy her a newly la…
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- Two Things That Would Have Made Facebook Marketplace Any Good
1. Payments feature: Otherwise, many users would end up abandoning their choices.
2. Flag / Review feature: This is the bedrock of any solid community marketplace. This is why Craigslist is still the best marketplace …
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- How Hillary Beats Trump On Twitter
At first glance, Trump beats Hillary (on Twitter): 12.7 million followers vs Hilalry's 10 million, and 34000 times retweets vs Hillary's 9700 times.
However, whereas Trump uses his social media presence as a mega…
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- The #1 Sad Reason Why Twitter Shut Down Vine
It wasn't that Instagram's video feature offered more video time, 15 seconds vs Vine's 6 seconds. It was bacause Twitter couldn't just increase the video duration limit back in 2013 (when Instagram launched Videos featur…
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- Who will fund journalism that matters?
Investigative journalism costs time and money. Consider this recent news fact: Prison investigation by Mother Jones journalist Shane Bauer took over 18 months and cost about $350K; banner ads that ran on the article brou…
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- How social media is destroying useful criticism: Everyone is being nice and dishonest
In this age of Facebook friends and Twitter followers, and where everyone is trying to build her/his Tribe (or 1000 fans) , everybody is playing nice - everybody is playing to please one's echo chamber - no one likes the…
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- Why you shouldn't pay attention to political news on TV anymore: It is an echo chamber for assholes
Dave Winer gets it right about the nature of most political news on Television:
What passes for political discourse these days is basically "Did you hear what that asshole said!" Followed by whatever the asshole said.
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- Journalists hall of infamy: People who got caught copying, fabricating…
So, Mike Daisey might have fabricated some parts of Apple/Foxconn awful factories in China, that doesn’t deny the truth about the awful working conditions under which your shiny, over-priced, status-gizmos are made, and …
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- Annals of social media policies gone bad: Honda pays bloggers to write about Civic and other cars
Evgeny Morozov was right all along. The internet is increasingly used more and more by big business and governments to further their interests. Big businesses paying people to write positive things about their products i…
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- How to change the world, idea #1: Seize properties of a major media house, starting with Murdock holdings
This post is about an idea for a French Revolution for the media industry in the 21st century. Left to their own devices, and considering how deeply entrencehd their reach is inside the system, media houses like Rupert M…
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- Media comment of the day: CNN should be forced to register as a Republican Super PAC
News organization should just cover events and report, and not work with any subject that may be part of the news under coverage. Describing CNN's decision to "partner" with Arizona Republican Committee, Sam Smith says:
…
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- The Insta-author trend: Make short ebooks on the latest media sensation and make a killing
Latest media sensations such as basketball's latest star Jeremy Lin are inspiring content creators to churn up 15,000-word ebooks and putting them up for sale for Kindle and other devices, as quickly as they can. The ri…
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- Dead war correspondent Marie Colvin believed paywalls were bad for war reporting
War correspondent Marie Colvin, before she died in Syrian city of Homs, wrote that paywalls were a hinderance in making useful reports from conflict area available to a wider audience across the world, restricting useful…
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- 10 Things Journalists Should never do
The most important thing that ever modern journalist must do is not to take anything for granted in this era of constantly changing news business. As such, re-skilling and re-affirmation of key beliefs are important. Re-…
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- Do big websites have a better deal with Google?
To protect its big tent, Google has its growing and frequently updated set of rules. Rule #1: thou shalt not sell links on your blog/site. But, as we have seen in the case in the case of Mahalo, Google is pretty lenient …
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