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Simon Owens • Quibi could have succeeded. Here's how
Over the past ten years, media companies have responded to their loss of audience by creating “viral” editorial that performs well inside the platform’s engagement-at-all-costs ecosystem. Predictably, however, quality editorial – the context journalists create for a living – rarely qualifies as viral.
John Battelle • John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
Software is no longer an asset that has value in its own, but as vehicle used to deliver services and products.
Rodrigo Mendoza Smith • Devs have eaten the world
Media companies in the past had to actually balance neutrality and accuracy or they would lose their viewership to their competitors
Tim Urban • #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast
Professional media will turn to recommendation media
Michael Mignano • The End of Social Media and the Rise of Recommendation Media
Journalists might want to be under a brand instead of on independent platforms
Adam Keesling • Explaining a16z's Investment in Substack
Sullivan and Weiss weren’t merely the victims of some ethereal struggle between the forces of free speech and ideological censorship: they were the collateral damage of shifting media business models. And there will be lots more of them before this drama finishes.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
Technology removes the soul from human performance in order to make it more compatible with industry.