Twitter and the Fake Bot Rabbit Hole
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The high cost of being popular; an incredible look inside social media’s black market. When a member of Britain’s House of Lords, who also happens to sit on the board at Twitter, has 25,000 purchased followers on her account, there’s...
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Buzzfeed Lays off 100 and Ad-funded Online Journalism Takes its Lumps
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There’s a group of 20 or so journalists in the UK suddenly available for hire. No, they weren’t laid off from a struggling print newspaper. Rather, they’ve been cut from the editorial staff at Buzzfeed, part of a purge of...
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What Happens When a Publisher Puts the Community First 
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What we learned from the Mr. Magazine interview with William R. Hearst III. Echoing the idea of “magazine as community” I shared yesterday, publisher William R. Hearst III says he believes his readers aren’t just a mailing list; they are...
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Why We Can’t Get Magazines Out of our Blood
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“I recently had coffee with a new acquaintance who runs a web design firm. When she mentioned she’d like to start a magazine, my first impulse—as a former magazine editor—was to tell her she’s crazy,” writes Gail Reitenbach of Right...
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Hyper-local Journalism and the City Magazine
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The world may be getting smaller, but we still care deeply about what’s going on in our own communities. And city magazines are filling in where local newspapers have left off. “The neighborhood that goes by the moniker ‘West End’...
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Those Old-school Quasi Catalogs were Social Media in Print
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The way brands focus on the idea of “community building” in their digital marketing today, you’d think this generation invented the idea. Not so, according to Lorraine Boissoneault in The Smithsonian. Boissoneault shares a short excerpt from the July 1907...
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Qontra Hapna with You? This Week’s Free Friday Fonts go European.
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This week we go across the pond for our Free Friday Fonts, visiting the works of designers in Eastern Europe and the UK.First up is Qontra by Slovenian graphic designer Tomaz Hrastar. This condensed sans serif font has low contrast,...
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The Depressing Truth about Screen-addicted Kids
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We are raising a generation of unhappy kids. There are all sorts of places to put the blame, and much of it is out of our daily control. But there is one area that you can control, and it could...
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What Real-life Gen Z Children Kids are Saying about Social Media
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Is it possible that Gen Z kids have had it with social media? According to Lesley Bielby writing in The Drum, this could very well be the case. Bielby, chief strategy officer at Hill Holliday and HHBrandable (and self-described Gen...
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How FB’s New Rules Might Actually Increase Polarizing Content
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Meaningful engagement – it’s the new standard by which posts will be evaluated for inclusion in your news feed. For brands, this means organic reach will continue to drop, while FB shifts to featuring “meaningful” content – ostensibly one’s family...
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