Tag: Cluetrain

  • Slop might save us from social media

    If true, this is probably great. Obvs people engaging with each other – with strangers – on social media is too risky for society: “People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.” (Via…

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  • Potato chips that taste like Thanksgiving stuffing – what could go wrong?

    Potato chips that taste like Thanksgiving stuffing – what could go wrong?

    Relative to your interests Cluetrain at 25 – This was an important book to me when it came out. It probably had a huge influence on my professional life. All these years later, I think it was right. The biggest evolution, unexpected, was that the Big Bad Corporate Octopus took it seriously and figured out…

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  • Rebecca Greenfield, writing for Fast Company, traces the return of the internet newsletter to the death of Google Reader. A representative from TinyLetter told her that there was an uptick in users just as Google pulled the plug last year. Some of us switched to other RSS readers, nevertheless a number of bloggers saw their…

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