Notes on media and the rest.
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Notes on the attention economy
Attention is not a resource that gets used up. It is a relationship. The publications that understand this are the ones that will outlast the platform cycle.
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Reading list: media transformation
Ten books that have actually changed how I think about what media is, what it does, and why it fails. Not a canonical list. A personal one.
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On writing for the internet
Most advice about writing for the internet is advice about getting people to click. This is not the same as advice about writing.
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The slow death of the homepage
The homepage used to be where a publication made its argument for what mattered today. Most readers never see it anymore. What did we lose when we stopped curating the front page?
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Why I still believe in comments sections
Every serious publication has either killed its comments or outsourced them to social media. I think this was a mistake, and I think we are starting to see why.
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