Tedium Highlight in Social media: Can we find our way back to useful real-time journalism? 

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Post-Post

The demise of Post, one of the social networks that emerged from the 2022 Twitter exodus, shows how users have come to understand that vibes aren’t everything with social media.

Recapturing Real Time

A decade ago, real-time social news coverage was a machine that simply worked. With our recent social media disarray, it feels broken. Can it be fixed?

Losing The Buzz, Keeping The Heat

BuzzFeed’s sale of Complex Networks (minus Hot Ones) shows how on the ropes the one-time media innovator really is. It feels reflective of the rest of the industry, too.

Diet Facebook

A browser extension I’m using has me really surprised about how much junk Facebook feeds me. I hate that we’re stuck with it.

Message In A Bottle

The current splintering of social media across networks is creating a problem eerily reminiscent of the early battles over instant messaging. Here’s what we can learn.

Let The Internet Be Grimy

Meta’s take on mimicking Twitter feels like it was built for brand safety first, and you don’t get fulfilling internet experiences when you build for brand safety first.

Freeloader Culture

Reddit seems to be crumbling under the weight of a big controversy. The reason? It didn’t account for its free-riders.

Social Network Drift

Maybe the reason why social networks fade away over time is as simple as different generations wanting different experiences. Picnic, an emerging social network, exemplifies this point.

Social Gloss

In continuing with our long series of glossary entries, let’s take a look at some online-community-related terms hiding in the archives.

The Next Chapter

Online culture sure feels like it’s in a transition phase, doesn’t it? In an attempt to understand what we learned this week, let’s compare it to some prior internet-era shifts.

The Whole Stack

Substack got an unexpected wave of momentum last week that threatens to upend the game for people who just want email to be email. What should indie newsletter publishers think of that?

Robot Hand is the Future

What I learned about YouTube’s algorithm from creating an account that only watched videos related to Elliott Smith. I fought hard, but the algorithm won.

Rejection, In Four Parts

How rejection shapes the way we think, for good and bad—and if we let it, we take important lessons from it. (Tylenol helps in this process, we hear.)

The Social Circle

The completed purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk reflects a symbolic victory for those who saw its power as a tool of influence, rather than for communication.

Where The Action Was

A list of social networks that failed to stick around in any real way, except as memories. Some of them were more influential than others. Others scored big paydays.

The Central Question

What is the difference between centralization and decentralization, and what should you know? I was asked this question recently; here’s my attempt to answer.

By Our Powers Combined …

How the webring became the grassroots tool of choice for sharing content online in the ‘90s. The concept was social media before media was social.

No Room for Design

Of the many things that social platforms have taken away from us, perhaps the most disappointing is the freedom to customize our spaces. We need it back.

Social Reunion Tour

Thoughts on returning to an old social haunt after half a decade away—and whether you should go back to an old social network you stopped using a few years ago.

Blogging Bandwagon Jumpers

Are you starting a blog in 2019? Here's a list of some sites that I know are getting off the ground this year. Have one of your own? Let us know.
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