A personal post. [werd.io/telomeres-my...](
Ben Werdmuller
Telomeres, my son, and me
I bawled my way through Nowhere Special, a 2020 movie about a terminally ill man who needs to find a new family for his four year old son. I’ll ...
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Ben Werdmuller
Telomeres, my son, and me
I bawled my way through Nowhere Special, a 2020 movie about a terminally ill man who needs to find a new family for his four year old son. I’ll ...
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Microblogging is terrible. It's all context collapse and unbridled id: notifications as conversation. We need more long-form, considered discussion. The internet needs more nuance and structured thought.
What if we built a LiveJournal-like system on ATproto? Long-form posts but in a feed, based on who you were connected to. Picking up the ball from Leaflet and similar tools but riding on the Bluesky social graph and resting heavily on updates from your friends. Throw in RSS for good measure.
I love how thoughtful the Mastodon blog post about introducing quote posting is. A way the team could be even more impactful on the open social web would be to share their research findings and thinking that went into these features - that's the sort of body of knowledge everyone could learn from. [Introducing quote posts](
Mastodon Blog
Introducing quote posts
Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here
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Can newsrooms become social platforms themselves? Should they? The future belongs to organizations that understand their communities, not just their analytics. In this post, I dig into a reader question that speaks to the future of social, newsrooms, and AI. [werd.io/can-newsroom...](
Ben Werdmuller
Can newsrooms become social platforms?
How community-first thinking can help newsrooms survive AI
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Ben Werdmuller
Can newsrooms become social platforms?
How community-first thinking can help newsrooms survive AI
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"Focus on flows and relationships, not products or services." An argument for systems thinking instead of design thinking or breakthrough innovation. [werd.io/why-you-need...](
Ben Werdmuller
Why You Need Systems Thinking Now
"Focus on flows and relationships, not products or services." An argument for systems thinking instead of design thinking or breakthrough innovation.
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Ben Werdmuller
Why You Need Systems Thinking Now
"Focus on flows and relationships, not products or services." An argument for systems thinking instead of design thinking or breakthrough innovation.
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Do you wonder what the future of newsroom technology looks like? Or how technology is used behind the scenes? I've spent 15+ years inside media startups and major newsrooms. Ask me anything. [werd.io/ask-a-newsro...](
Ben Werdmuller
Ask a newsroom technology leader
From startup CTO to newsroom leader: Ask me anything.
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Ben Werdmuller
Ask a newsroom technology leader
From startup CTO to newsroom leader: Ask me anything.
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On bridging between networks vs cross-posting: "They’re similar, but they’re different in some important ways. Notably, bridging results in more unified conversations, while cross-posted conversations are more fragmented." That's why Bridgy Fed's approach is so interesting - and, imo, important. [Bridging vs cross-posting](
A New Social
Bridging vs cross-posting
When we talk about what we do here, one topic that comes up often is bridging vs cross-posting. They’ve both been around for a long time, and the...
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I hate this. It’s going through the motions of doing something very human and important; simulating the output when the remembering, the loving, the process of memorializing a person is the value of the thing. RE:
Bluesky Social
Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com)
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found t...
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What if public networks became a platform for communities to create their own local media, not just consume it? After the federal funding cuts, here's one idea for rebuilding NPR and PBS around community co-creation, open platforms, and human-centered, prototype-driven design. [If I ran NPR and PBS](
Ben Werdmuller
If I ran NPR and PBS
Building community-driven public media for the post-federal funding era.
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