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: In this week’s edition of my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I wrote about why Australia’s …

: New in my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter: How bicycles are changing what …

: Today in my newsletter “When The Going Gets Weird”: How the Great Cranberry Scare of …

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: If you’re interested in whether Bluesky is truly a decentralized social network, I looked …

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: In today’s version of my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter, a member of Blue …

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: One thing this interview with Vincenzo Barney makes clear is that he knows he has won the literary …

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: In my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I argue that — believe it or not — Elon Musk has made a good …

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: I encourage you to read the entire thing, but my favourite fact in my piece about Bluesky at The …

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: There’s been lots of commentary about how social media swung the election for Trump via …

: New at The Torment Nexus: “Social media is a symptom, not a cause” …

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: I wrote about a project I ran for a number of years at the Columbia Journalism Review called Galley …

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: The Economist magazine endorses Kamala Harris, saying “being independent and being …

: “In evaluating WordPress-as-risk, the flag has been raised. Regulatory, compliance, and …

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: Great interview with John Todd, founder of the free open DNS service Quad9: …

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: I talked with Charlotte Henry on her podcast The Addition about the turmoil at the Washington Post …

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: Note to writers everywhere: Not everything is a “liminal moment” or a “liminal …

: New from me at The Torment Nexus: “Is AI going to save us or kill us? Even the experts …

: Great interview with Kevin Rose, about everything that Digg did right – and wrong. He even …

: I’ve updated my post on Matt Mullenweg and WordPress with information on a number of incidents …

: When Matt Mullenweg talks about contributing to open source, he says that he doesn’t own the …

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: Great interview with Caitlin Dewey, who writes one of my favourite newsletters, “Links I Would …

: “As usual, Elon Musk is trying to compete in the Tour de France on a tricycle.” Dan O’Dowd, …

: In this week’s edition of my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I look at why Google deserves to …

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: Using the social web as a distribution platform for news has become increasingly problematic. Is …

: So Israel didn’t just hijack some pagers already in the supply chain — they set up a front …

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