Tag: browsing
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The Facebook Hyperlink Silo
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I saw two posts commenting on how Facebook was paywalling external hyperlinks. In order to link to an external site Facebook is now adding payed tiers. Pay one amount, and you can post more hyperlinks, pay another and you can pay fewer. Years ago people spoke of the social media…
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Tabloids, Human Writers, and AI Summaries
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I read what some might think is good news. Tabloids in England are firing human writers because Google AI summaries are undercutting human reader traffic to their sites. To this I have two comments. Before every newspaper was pay-walled I would browse to The Guardian, the Independent, Le Monde, Le temps,…
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Google News, News Sites and Paywalls
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the mid to lake 90s and the early two thousands we could browse from news site to news site. I would visit the Guardian, the Independent, Le Temps, Tribune de Genève, New York Times and more. I would also look at the RTS, BBC News and other sites to check a…
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YouTube And Sensationalism
Reading Time: 2 minutesI love the medium of video and I have love having a choice of thousands, or even millions of videos to choose from. In effect my love of the medium of video should mean that I love YouTube. I don’t, because of sensationalism and clickbait. I have paid for YouTube prime twice…