"In fact, search engines are more like a TV camera crew let loose in the middle of a crowd of rowdy fans after a game. Seeing the camera, everyone acts boorishly and jostles to get in front. The act of observing something changes it."
Why aren't newsrooms sharing and innovating? And more.
"The problem is, if you’re optimizing a product that fundamentally isn’t working for how people get news in 2026, all you’re really doing is riding that buggy off of a cliff with style."
"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes." This study shows that some do - to significant effect.
In a world where traffic is decreasing, publishers are moving more heavily into subscriptions - with very good results.
