We all have to do something, big or small, because this (global warming, climate change) isn't getting any better ..read more

We are still in the early Wild West days of Generative AI use, itself changing (some might say at a crazy pace without pause for thought, but who waits in the tech business these days?), fluctuating, certainly not fully stable or reliable, but full of possibilities. Think anyone considering actively using a tool needs to get some sort of policy down to help guide their journey, vs goals, with some guard rails etc. that fit their objectives/industry. Just having a realistic understanding of what AI, machine learning and GenAI are, and are not, is a starting point. And then finding a place out o ..read more

Is this thing still on? As a race, we’ve been pretty clever, in creating the world around us. Yes, there are plenty of things that we can be certain weren’t so clever, and are bad long term plans, but we’ve come a long way. Now, we have opened the door to AI, and General AI. Now things are getting interesting, to say the least. Thanks to big tech companies thirst for the next digital payday or source of virtual power, Pandora’s Box is firmly open, whether the general public like it or not. I’m trying to understand AI for a few reasons: to be ready for where it might lead; to be able to help my ..read more

How to Use XML Sitemaps to Boost SEO How to Use XML Sitemaps to Boost SEO As the web evolves, so too does Google and SEO. This means what is considered best practice is often in flux. What may have been good counsel yesterday, is not so today. Tags: seo, xml via Pocket http://j.mp/2zJ130e October 01, 2018 at 01:26PM October 01, 2018 at 01:30PM via Pocket https://www.searchenginejournal.com/xml-sitemaps-seo/266907/ Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I’ll stop talking about race when I stop experiencing racism’ Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I’ll stop talking about race when I stop experiencin ..read more

A Twitter search filtering tip. You can filter tweets with a specific hashtag to find any from people or organisations you follow, potentially more relevant. For example, today: #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, this URL shows you tweets including that hashtag from people you follow only: https://twitter.com/hashtag/childrensmentalhealthweek?s=follows&vertical=news ..read more

Facebook changes have left publishers with an unexpected challenge to start 2018 Publishers have been dealt a head-scratching start to 2018, following confirmation of Facebook’s previously tested News Feed changes, shifting directly posted news out of the main News Feed, leaving many strategies with an unexpected hole to plug (‘translated’ here for in layman’s terms by Adam Tinworth). Essentially it boils down to this, from  Facebook’s own post ‘News Feed FYI: Bringing People Closer Together’, the killer blow in bold: Because space in News Feed is limited, showing more posts from fr ..read more

Another week, another Facebook change, but this “Page-level demotion” should be significant for publishers, as the battle against fake news rounds upon ‘engagment bait’. Facebook will “…begin implementing stricter demotions for Pages that systematically and repeatedly use engagement bait to artificially gain reach in News Feed.”, with changes rolling out over the next few weeks. So now is the time to adapt and “avoid inadvertently using engagement bait in their posts.” Headline writing and related social posts just got harder for some publishers and some publishing strategies just took a hit ..read more

A photo story, from my Instagram feed, on playing cricket for Peterborough Town CC in England and the ‘beauty’ of our summer weather in 2017. https://www.instagram.com/p/BbC4W0hAugg/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BbDggMEgJ6z/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BY0fF9-Aoy1/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BYA2FiTgDNH/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BXv9boSARok/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BXfjzR2Am_P/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BXIXf9rgrll/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BXIW00_AJHM/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BW2ezW9g67b/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BVnWmeLlMh1/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BUt83KfATpf/ https ..read more

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Journalists > @newsrewired snapshots: feat. fake news war, live video, data vis, & robots! https://t.co/gQg2lnj0R6 #newsrw — Richard Kendall (@richardkendall) February 9, 2017 I wasn’t at the news:rewired digital news conference yesterday, 8 February, but the updates were so excellent, and adding to a timeline in Twitter Moments was surprisingly easy ..read more