"Substack's One Weird Marketing Trick was leveraging the economic interests of traditional media employees against their publishers to get positive "earned media"." [www.atvbt.com/substacks-se...](
People trust people more than brands. What if we rebuilt newsrooms around that truth? Here's a thought experiment: a semi-decentralized model where journalists own their audience, keep most of their revenue, and still get legal, editorial, and platform support.
[When people trust humans more ...](
What is open source? How did it develop? How does it succeed and where does it fall short of its potential? An updated look at the movement: [werd.io/what-is-open...](
I enjoyed this and recommend it as an overview of the shortcomings both of "AI" as a technology and, in particular, of the vendors who are currently giving us the hard sell. I liked the recommendation that smaller, more ethically-trained models for specific problems may be part of the solution.
[The AI Con: How to Fight Big T...](
It's not about one protocol; it's about the open social web as a people-centered movement. Bounce lets you move from service to service, keeping your network in the process. #Fediverse [www.theverge.com/news/678928/...](
Journalism treats technology like something that happens to it - like an asteroid. But newsrooms need to take control of their tech destiny.
I wrote about how to build technology leadership and culture in newsrooms in order to preserve their own futures: [werd.io/2025/buildin...](
Commuting into NYC. Call me crazy, but I think the solution to high demand on public transit is to add more trains, not to raise prices. Itβs infrastructure that has knock-on effects on the whole economy, not a business that needs to be profitable in isolation.
