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People with depression are more likely to use more social media platforms. Suspect depression comes first, though. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161220175543.htm
Matter's Corey Ford on the future of media - and what needs to be done to preserve democracy. I hope he's right. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/12/the-year-of-the-rebelprenuer/
This thoughtful conversation about fascism and media is worth a read. https://medium.com/initialized-capital/fascism-and-the-historical-irony-of-facebooks-fake-news-probl...
We all thought Trump was setting up a media network. What if he actually did? Sure were lots of outlets reporting the fake Ford plant story.
I just got a specially recorded message from the President when I opened Spotify. We are the media now.
I find this kind of thing fascinating: how the Obama administration is preparing to hand over its digital accounts. https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-soci...
The SVP of Strategy at News Corp is going to be Gawker's new CEO. http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/media/raju-narisetti-gawker-univision/index.html
ThinkProgress is coming to Medium. http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/20/media/medium-think-progress/index.html
The NY @mattervc class got Alex and Matt from @gimletmedia to come talk to them. I'm not jealous at all. https://medium.com/matter-driven-narrative/our-product-is-to-surprise-you-16d948babdf3#.1jfn8huf8
This animal take on the Gashlycrumb Tinies by Media Design School students is beautifully animated. https://vimeo.com/172490277
Sometimes it pays to join a city. http://adage.com/article/media/medium-s-publishing-program-drawing-interest/304668/
More on Matter's New York expansion and the New York Times, from Haje: https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/23/matter-and-new-york-times-media-accelerator/
This is great: the EU runs a whole site debunking misinformation in UK media. Share it with Euroskeptic friends. http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
On the Media on Obama's trip to Japan and why the Keep Calm and Carry On poster is terrible is so good: https://overcast.fm/+FrigFZU
Fascinating discussion about social media and journalism in this week's On the Media.
https://overcast.fm/+FpKcpEE
"It's time for nonprofit media organizations." Like, uh, the Scott Trust? https://medium.com/soapbox-dc/its-time-for-nonprofit-media-organizations-c5da3de97c4b#.bfe075fcr
Micropub is a W3C working draft for a standard API that posts content to a domain. https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/ #indieweb #socialmedia #openweb
@aral I obviously don't support invasive ads, but Flattr / Blendle don't work. And free-to-read media has social value that subs erase. Hard
The Indie Web Summit in Portland is go. I'll definitely be there. http://2016.indieweb.org/ #openweb #socialmedia
With @Medium, "the infrastructure for the future of news is complete". https://medium.com/thoughts-on-journalism/what-next-now-the-news-media-has-lost-dad58ea0b622#.tido3b...
What *is* media, anyway? I like @cshirky's definition: "the connective tissue of our society". https://medium.com/matter-driven-narrative/what-is-media-anyway-e272ffcfecb#.w8qzjvivn /by @mattervc
"Let's build a public media organization from scratch in 2016." What would it be? https://medium.com/@mkramer/let-s-build-a-public-media-organization-from-scratch-in-2016-9470448cebd... by @mkramer, cc @mattervc
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