Worth Reading – To Change Your Life, Start With Your Algorithm
My advice to you is to find the content that gives you hope, even if it’s just content that makes you laugh. We need more of that and a lot less outrage.
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Linked – How I Learned to Love Newsletters
As the author says, algorithms aren’t working to keep us well informed. RSS can work, but it takes some effort on our part and the availability of an RSS feed from the site we want to follow. An email newsletter shows up.
I might not love email, but I can’t argue with that.
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Easy Prediction – AI Will Eat Most of the Ways We Get Our News
This should not surprise anyone. The ability of anyone to create an avalanche of content capable of overwhelming any algorithmic curation is here. It exists, and it is happening. It’s only going to get worse. Fake profiles sharing fake stories from AI-written content farms will eventually overwhelm the number of people online and make every network worthless. If you think there aren’t already thousands and thousands of these, you haven’t been paying attention. ChatGPT just made it easier to do.
The only thing we’ll be able to fall back on is trusting the people we know personally. Assuming we can tell the difference.
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With Social Media Companies Distancing Themselves from News, It’s Time For You to Learn About RSS
In the interest of helping.
Check out this post with a tutorial on using Feedly. Or some of these other posts about RSS Readers.
Check out a newsletter service like Substack. – here’s my newsletter as an example.
Check out a Fediverse-based social network like Mastodon. No big companies, no data tracking for ad tech, just people and a small, but growing, number of journalists, sharing stuff. (Here’s my Mastodon profile, feel free to create an account and follow me.)
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Shared Links (weekly) August 20, 2023
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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’– don’t ask how cops get data or whether the data they present is accurate by having them explain it. “Trust us”. Hmm.
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real simple syndication– “So maybe it’s time we all got back to the basics and curated our own news, instead of having it pushed to us by an algorithm.”
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How Microsoft is Using Copilot to Drive Customers to Microsoft 365 E5
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Linked – This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!)
I have heard this before, but is the Twitter situation going to be the thing that moves the needle for RSS? I started using Revue to send newsletters last year as an option for people who were trying to follow my websites on social media but ran into the algorithm deciding not to shat them anything that was being posted, especially with Facebook Pages. It had some subscribers but not that many. After Twitter killed Revue, I also moved to Substack and have seen some growth, but I’m also realizing that we can’t replicate Twitter with email newsletters.
