ben

ben, 19 hours ago to technology

"A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models." #Technology https://werd.io/view/66460b700123961ccd0a5482

ben, 19 hours ago to technology

This is great news for Mozilla, for everyone who uses the internet, and for everyone who cares about ethics, privacy, and human rights. #Technology https://werd.io/view/664608b99c4a04a4850e6292

ben, 20 hours ago to random

What’s important: inclusively supporting the democratic public interest in a way that makes everyone’s lives better.

What’s not important: maintaining incumbent institutions.

People are what’s important, not a stable status quo.

ben, 21 hours ago to random

In your organization, how do you share provocations, reflections, and thoughts about the future with each other? In Medium, it's Hatch, their internal version of the platform. At Automattic it's P2. What do you have?

ben, 21 hours ago to random

If Google makes its money through contextual ads on search results pages now, in an AI-driven world it’ll make its money through sponsored answers (or just contextual ads related to the answers). The way sites will continue to get traffic is through buying ads.

ben, 1 day ago to random

I’ve been co-running a summit week for our product team and it’s been lovely - but I’m also very, very tired. Also I’m realizing I have mad scientist hair because of the humidity or something and I’m just going to lean into it.

ben, 1 day ago to ukteachers

“It’s all about destroying the trust with the citizens to the point where they would tolerate something like doing away with public schools.” #Education https://werd.io/view/6644bf224f7eb5ae2d0736c2

ben, 3 days ago to random

Lovely train experience from Philly to Newark; everything went south from there, including the trip into NYC and the subway. No fun. Harrumph.

ben, 3 days ago to journalism

"Aggregate Facebook traffic to a group of 792 news and media sites that have been tracked by Chartbeat since 2018 shows that referrals to the sites have plunged by 58%." Establish direct relationships with your audience. #Media https://werd.io/view/66422eae8d950c23e9030e32

ben, 3 days ago to technology

"Last year, more than 50% of all global venture funding for AI-related startups went to companies headquartered in the Bay Area, as a cluster of talent congregates in the region." In other news, water is wet. #Technology https://werd.io/view/664227e532ac3ca33a088d42

ben, 3 days ago to random

I'm really confused about these Philadelphia Inquirer ads. Seems like picking a fight for no reason. https://werd.io/2024/the-philedelphia-inquirer-is-here-to-fight

ben, 4 days ago to random

Who wants to build the fediverse equivalent of Upcoming.org?

ben, 4 days ago to journalism

"British newspaper groups have warned Apple that any move to impose a so-called "web eraser" tool to block advertisements would put the financial sustainability of journalism at risk, the Financial Times reported on Sunday." Counterpoint: block the ads. #Media https://werd.io/view/6640fbf0ac0a7b80eb0d7a02

ben, 4 days ago to business

"The youngest generation of American workers is prepared to move away from states that pass abortion bans and to turn down job offers in states where bans are already in place, a new survey from CNBC/Generation Lab finds." #Business https://werd.io/view/6640fa8909bd622f960a64e2

ben, 5 days ago to random

I love seeing ShareOpenly in the wild! https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/share-openly/

tylrfishr, 5 days ago to random

Pitch: Google Reader over ActivityPub