Nieman Lab: “We are seeing a huge divide between people who are interested in news and those who are not, and I suspect that this divide is intensifying…Benjamin Toff is one of the leading experts on the rise of news avoidance and one of the authors of this recent book on this issue, based on survey data… Continue Reading
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World’s largest gravesite collection
Find A Grave: Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one’s memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world. Slate – My Weekends With the Dead – “In 2017, I decided to solve a… Continue Reading
New website tracks government’s many digital services teams
StateScoop: “Last week, the Digital Service Network at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University published a new online tracker that documents details about government digital service teams across the country. The new Government Digital Service Team Tracker, which was published on the Digital Service Network’s new Digital Government Hub reference… Continue Reading
The National Security Case for Public AI
Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator: In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posed a simple but striking question: “Who will control the future of AI?” Altman frames the choice as between two futures: “Will it be one in which the United States and allied nations advance a global AI that spreads the… Continue Reading
Google Scholar is not broken (yet) but there are alternatives
London School of Economics: “…Google Scholar has advantages over traditional academic databases like Scopus and Web of Science: it’s free to use, requires no log in for searching, and has more comprehensive coverage, especially of non-journal sources such as books and theses. These benefits are particularly important for unaffiliated scholars without institutional access to resources,… Continue Reading
Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC
TechCrunch: “In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research, answer emails, and handle other back-office jobs on their own. The company referred to this as a “next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching” — one it believed that could, if all goes according… Continue Reading
What’s In a Lie? On the Different Ways Politicians Mislead the Public
Lit Hub: “…Today, there’s still a range of opinions about using the word. Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post Fact Checker, uses it broadly to refer to Trump’s “election lies” or “the big lie.” FactCheck.org doesn’t use it. But maybe we’ve been too cautious. A 2018 study by researcher Paul Mena found a disconnect between journalists… Continue Reading
Towards Your “Tombstone Site”
The Wind Down: “As part of my work developing The Wind Down, I have been bookmarking the websites of sunset nonprofits for the past few years. As my list grew, someone suggested that maybe we needed a “museum of closed nonprofits“, (hat tip, Kyle Soo) so I went ahead and created one. And then a… Continue Reading
People think they already know everything they need to make decisions
Ars Technica: The world is full of people who have excessive confidence in their own abilities. This is famously described as the Dunning-Kruger effect, which describes how people who lack expertise in something will necessarily lack the knowledge needed to recognize their own limits. Now, a different set of researchers has come out with what… Continue Reading
Media Monitoring Guide Everything You Need to Know
Muck Rack – Media monitoring is the practice of listening, watching, and tracking media coverage and conversation about your organization, your industry, your competition, and topics that relate to your industry. Table of contents What media monitoring means in PR Why is media monitoring so hard? What to monitor and where to start What functionality… Continue Reading
The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here. Rules of thumb, and general philosophy – Below you’ll find a collection of general… Continue Reading
How to find helpful content in a sea of made-for-Google BS
HouseFresh: “Uncovering the tactics used by big media content farms, SEO pattern makers, content thieves and AI slop creators to fool Google’s enshittified algorithm (so you don’t fall for them, too). At the beginning of 2024, we said Google was killing independent sites with its bias towards established media outlets, even in cases where these… Continue Reading
