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Praxis is Joining the Everything Bundle - Forte Labs
fortelabs.co

make every minute you spend consuming information much, much more valuable... much ... online content ... awful. Driven by clickbait, optimized for maximum distraction... lowest common denominator, it only added to people’s confusion ... in ... productivity, performance, and personal effectiveness... lots of gems ... buried beneath an avalanche of…

How Medium’s Curation, Distribution and Paywall Systems Work for Writers
blog.medium.com
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We don’t charge for hosting, we never put ads on your content or share your data, and we will only put your story behind the Medium paywall if you choose to take advantage of Medium distribution beyond your followers.... We recommend stories to millions of Medium readers every day on our personalized home page, in our email digests, and in our mob…

27/02/2019
Compass News: How we built an AI editor that makes young people smarter, quicker.
medium.com
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We’ve spent 18 months training an AI editor... shadow the curation performed by professional journalists on a gigantic range of topics... it now works independently.... your own personal journalist on hand at all times, ready to explain what’s going on in the world... real-time updates on important headlines, explained in the most succinct way po…

Building Credibility Indexes from Fact-Checking to #TackleFakeNews
medium.com
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Fake News is suddenly on the boil in the Brussels Bubble. Here are some ideas I brainstormed earlier this week. Comments welcome.

Somewhat ironic that Sidewire won’t itself respond
medium.com
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My sadly underwhelmed response to @sidewireinc’s gr8 “Today’s Internet is Optimized for Noise”

Inside Axel Springer’s answer to Facebook's Instant Articles
digiday.com
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Axel Springer, wary of being overly dependent on third-party platforms for traffic... fighting back by launching its own news aggregator platform... now has around 1,200 publishers on board ... Digiday spoke with Würtenberger, CEO of Upday, about using humans and algorithms for news sourcing, creating a platform for publishers and banning ad block…

Samsung's own curated news app for Galaxy devices
www.engadget.com
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Apple isn't the only one developing an exclusive news service for its mobile customers. Samsung has announced a partnership with Axel Springer... to develop a news platform exclusive to Samsung Galaxy... UPDAY is being pitched as an "aggregated news content platform," with stories selected both algorithmically and by a local team of news editor…

07/09/2015
Applying advanced language technologies to EU democracy
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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An array of sophisticated language technologies could help ideas flow across EU borders, link national conversations together and support the EU Online Public Sphere - the demos the EU needs. But BloggingPortal is unlikely to feature them. [update (17/5/15): I finally decided to kick Medium's tyres by reposting this there, with less history. …

How Facebook changes how users consume journalism
www.nytimes.com
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"Facebook say that the more time users spend at its site, the more likely there will be a robust exchange of diverse viewpoints and ideas shared online. Others fear that users will create their own echo chambers, and filter out coverage they do not agree with. ... [that] “is when you get conspiracy theories.” - How Facebook Is Changing the Way It…

27/10/2014
Longform launching iPhone app
www.capitalnewyork.com

"There's no clickbait, there's no fluff, no listicles... just articles." Apparently the new app "scours the Internet for content published by both news outlets and writers..." - but until they launch the Android & Web app (underway) I won't know if it involves semantic analysis... But: "the [article] publishers ... will get pageviews, as art…

Ensuring quality in Social Journalism
pando.com
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There are more good recommendations in here than can be summarised, but if I had to choose one, it's: "Integrate the developers and editors, from where they sit to whom they report to. If you’re going to do social journalism well, you’re becoming a technology platform company... Almost all the important breakthroughs in social media have come fro…

Follow the money to new media startups
qz.com
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A pretty good idea of where news & journalism will be in 5 years, or deja vu all over again? "the organizations worth backing must be run by tech savvy, top-notch people focused on social distribution of stories that serve an existing but underserved niche audience. ... “They are all technology companies first ... understand how people utilize t…

Is aggrefilter a good word?
www.mondaynote.com
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Les Echos looks to be doing what I have long dreamed to do for the bloggingportal reboot - deploy semantic analysis to aid content discovery and to underpin a new wave of media and comment. But do we have to call it an 'aggrefilter'? "Les Echos launches its business news aggrefilter ... to gain critical working knowledge of the semantic web." …

News curation news: 2 Inside(.com) stories
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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Interesting points emerging from the first two articles I’ve seen about Jason Calacanis’ his new venture, Inside.com.

Think long-form journalism is dead? Think again
newsroom13.journalists.org
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“There is a huge audience of readers out there craving this kind of storytelling ... With phones and tablets, they now always have a reading device available on them to dig into something.”

Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry - Megan Garber - The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com
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"That's about 100,000 business opportunities we provide publishers every minute." - good article on how slow the newsindustry was. Interesting thoughts too on balancing algorithmic approach with human concerns. Google News at 10 - The Atlantic http://t.co/Fupf11B6

Robot news curator NewsCred launches human editorial team — paidContent
paidcontent.org
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"The NewsCred announcement coincides with a shifting perspective on automated news. While some feared that the arrival of robot story writers and editors would phase out journalists, the human touch now appears to be back in fashion..." - Human touch back in fashion for news #curation? http://t.co/uQqLSTw5 via @NiemanLab cc @bloggingportal

MuckReads, Meet RebelMouse - ProPublica
www.propublica.org
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Have you read a great investigative story lately? Anyone can pitch a story, video, graphic or other news link by Tweeting us with #MuckReads

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