Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
I like to test project ideas from time to time to see if there’s some merit to them. This is one of those times. If you work on a team of knowledge workers, and use a communications tool like Slack or Microsoft Teams, I’d love to know how
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"Some critics of Big Tech have argued that leading AI companies like Google, Microsoft and Microsoft-funded OpenAI support regulation as a way to lock out upstart challengers who'd have a harder time meeting government requirements." Okay, but what about regulation that allows people to create
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A fascinating discussion of how authorship has changed, and what the demands of new authors from publishing houses really are. In the old days, an author was someone who created a work. Today, they have to be a brand. But it also turns out that unionization has a big part
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I'm really hopeful for this new generation of worker-owned media outlets. It's a promising model, and obviously hugely empowering. What will be disempowering is if they start to disappear. So let's support them with our full voices. If you're into video
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The technology depends on ingesting copyrighted work, and the business models depend on not paying for it. But just because the models only work if no payment is involved, that doesn't give the technology the right to operate in this way. It's not the same as
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These numbers are amazing to me. The Daily Mail publishes around 1640 articles every weekday. BBC News, in contrast, which has lots of local newsrooms, "only" publishes around 226 in total. The Daily Mail, in other words, is a content farm. It's also the largest news
I love the indieweb carnival. Every month, a new blogger hosts a topic on their website, and everyone else is invited to post about it on theirs. Webmentions link it all together, allowing anyone to browse through all the different points of view and modes of expression. It’s lovely.
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Golinks seem like a small thing but actually might be the thing that pushes me over the edge to running my own tailnet. I like Will's solution here to running multiple otherwise-conflicting golinks servers. The whole thing seems powerful and I suppose I should just dive in.
Publishers can own their relationships with their community - and increase their trusted reach in the process.
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Unsurprising. Which is the word I will also use for his inevitable early release. #Business [Link]
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"An algorithm must not be in full control of decisions that involve killing or harming humans, Egypt’s representative said after voting in favour of the resolution. The principle of human responsibility and accountability for any use of lethal force must be preserved, regardless of the type of weapons
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"AI systems falsely classifying individuals as criminal suspects, robots being used for policing, and self-driving cars with faulty pedestrian tracking systems can already put your life in danger. Sadly, we do not need AI systems to have superintelligence for them to have fatal outcomes for individual lives. Existing