An ersatz tree for our heathen Christmas.
But doesn't it look nice?
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Happy 250th birthday, America
Let's keep building.
Notable links: July 3, 2026
AI, surveillance, open tech, and news as a business.
A new media spinout provides streaming apps for public service broadcasters. I just wish it was open.
We need to see more technical collaborations between public service media organizations. It's also really important that they're based on open technology that doesn't lock them in.
Newsrooms need to get comfortable expressing their business value - and raising money on it.
Newsrooms like to spend their time on the journalistic process and assume that the value of their work will speak for itself. They need to start selling themselves.