Kick and Ban
Yesterday, a Twitter employee made the account of Donald Trump disappear for 11 minutes. Twitter’s reaction showed the world how fucked up the company still remains. The incident and their response was...
View ArticleShould Academics Try Twitter?
Yes. Absolutely. According to this tongue-in-cheek chart. No, but seriously. You absolutely should — at least — try it. Academic Twitter explained. Courtesy of @sylviaduckworth....
View ArticleWhat is social media anyway?
Technology might change and forms of communication might shift but, at its heart, social media is based on basic human impulses of sharing. Social media platforms are a space — most often extremely...
View ArticleIs WordPress indie web? Should I publish on Medium?
We spend more and more of our time in walled gardens owned by private companies: still love Twitter, ever ambivalent about Facebook, on LinkedIn out of obligation to HR departments everywhere, reading...
View ArticleCutting corners on social media
I’ve been a part-time social media manager for a long time now. Other responsibilities and tasks have always made it hard to focus on the social media side of things. This is far from ideal. The stakes...
View ArticleThoughts on the latest Twitter abuse piece
The Buzzfeed piece about Twitter abuse that makes the rounds since last Thursday proves to be a very interesting read. The way the abuse problem has been left to fester is infuriating. So much so that...
View ArticleAdieu ThinkUp
Hier soir, j’ai appris avec tristesse la fin annoncée de ThinkUp. Anil Dash, co-fondateur de cette entreprise avec Gina Trapani a expliqué les raisons de cette fermeture sur Medium. ThinkUp permettait...
View ArticleHow To Share Online Without Worrying About Reputation
Our beloved internet never sleeps, never forgets. Worse, people often don’t understand our intents or make wrong assumptions about us. We may assume a curator approves of the content of every article...
View ArticleUse the Editor’s Note to Tell Your Paper’s Story
Curators show who they are by exposing what they care about, what they consider worthy of other people’s attention. We use stories as currency in the attention economy: picking the best of them and...
View ArticleContent Rivers and Information Gluttony
As the festive season was drawing to a close, I –like a large portion of the online population– became concerned about ending the cycle of over-eating. The sense of satiety is easy to numb and hard to...
View ArticleOn or Off? How to Make Comments Work for You
I was prompted to think about the costs and value of comments after reading a post about the latest changes made to Gawker’s comment management system in which Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media,...
View ArticleShould Academics Try Twitter? [en]
[en] Yes. Absolutely. According to this tongue-in-cheek chart. No, but seriously. You absolutely should — at least — try it. Academic Twitter explained. Courtesy of @sylviaduckworth....
View ArticleWhat is social media anyway? [en]
[en] Technology might change and forms of communication might shift but, at its heart, social media is based on basic human impulses of sharing. Social media platforms are a space — most often...
View ArticleIs WordPress indie web? Should I publish on Medium? [en]
[en] We spend more and more of our time in walled gardens owned by private companies: still love Twitter, ever ambivalent about Facebook, on LinkedIn out of obligation to HR departments everywhere,...
View ArticleThoughts on the latest Twitter abuse piece [en]
[en] The Buzzfeed piece about Twitter abuse that makes the rounds since last Thursday proves to be a very interesting read. The way the abuse problem has been left to fester is infuriating. So much so...
View ArticleHow To Share Online Without Worrying About Reputation
Our beloved internet never sleeps, never forgets. Worse, people often don’t understand our intents or make wrong assumptions about us. We may assume a curator approves of the content of every article...
View ArticleUse the Editor’s Note to Tell Your Paper’s Story
Curators show who they are by exposing what they care about, what they consider worthy of other people’s attention. We use stories as currency in the attention economy: picking the best of them and...
View ArticleContent Rivers and Information Gluttony
As the festive season was drawing to a close, I –like a large portion of the online population– became concerned about ending the cycle of over-eating. The sense of satiety is easy to numb and hard to...
View ArticleOn or Off? How to Make Comments Work for You
I was prompted to think about the costs and value of comments after reading a post about the latest changes made to Gawker’s comment management system in which Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media,...
View ArticleCarousels work great but not for communications
Slideshows or carousels are wonderful. They provide ample space for everything to be on the homepage for weeks. There is no need to hold meetings about the website. All stakeholders think they are...
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