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Recently, a young lady stood at our door, smartphone in hand, and asked if we would be interested in a free (!) sample delivery of breakfast rolls.I was curious. It…
Recently, while on vacation, a friend asked me, “How long can you keep water in a swimming pool without adding chlorine?” I never had a pool myself, so I replied:…
This may in fact be a huge opportunity for dedicated publishers. I’m not referring to publishers contributing to Google and OpenAI, nor to publishers creating their own AI summaries in…
Like many digital publishers, The Daily Beast was struggling at the end of 2023. Facebook, long a primary driver of clicks to the publication, had turned away from news. Search…
from Ars Technica: The feature, renamed “AI Overview,” is here now, and it feels like the biggest change to Google Search ever. The top of many results (especially questions) are…
Since the internet took off, the print media’s advertising-supported business model has floundered. In the past 20 years newspapers’ ad revenues in America have fallen by about 80% (to Depression-era…
For hundreds of years, publishers were successful and prosperous by having the highly desirable role that technology people call a “platform”. They aggregated content from their journalists (who, by themselves,…
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