Clickhole is the latest offering from the satirical news site The Onion, and it’s designed to parody the kind of dumbed-down lists, quizzes and viral clickbait used by other media sites… Read more »
RebelMouse, the social-aggregation platform founded by Paul Berry — the former chief technology officer at Huffington Post — is relaunching as a full-fledged publishing system designed for media companies who want… Read more »
In the aftermath of multiple killings in California by a violent misogynist, the hashtag #YesAllWomen became a lightning rod for criticism and trolling — but also showed just how powerful the… Read more »
More and more countries and governments are making use of Twitter’s ability to block specific tweets or accounts from being seen by users in certain countries — but is this an… Read more »
A post by long-time tech blogger Dan Gillmor about the decline of the “indie web” got me thinking about the old days of the blogosphere, and how powerful the unedited voice… Read more »
The New York Police Department got more than it bargained for when it tried to drum up social-media engagement by asking followers to post photos with members of the police force. Read more »
The idea of publishers becoming open platforms for “social journalism” isn’t a radical new internet invention, it’s an acknowledgement of the way the media works now — what’s important is to… Read more »
Most of the new features that Twitter is either rolling out, experimenting with or rumored to be launching are aimed at one thing: trying to cram as much stuff as possible… Read more »
Twitter says it is not only fighting the Turkish government’s recent ban on the service, but it is also fighting a request to remove a specific account that has been tweeting… Read more »
An increasing number of new-media startups — and even new projects by existing media outlets — are aimed at bringing context, background and analysis to the news instead of just trying… Read more »