How Platforms Are Disincentivising Web Creators PLUS How to Collaborate More While Meeting Less

The platforms want creators to create on their platforms and are punishing those that dare to link off-platform. (The author of the post would give one newsletter subscriber for 1000 followers on Facebook.)

How a Reynolds Fellow is redesigning collaboration with some good ideas on how to support asynchronous working.

PLUS those Facebook Raybans. Vice is growing up and focusing on being a business and losing its youthful edginess in the process. A sad look at digital pubs on life support. (NFTs are becoming the embalming fluid of zombie pubs. Ewwww...)

The incentives to publish no longer reward the web’s creators | What’s New in Publishing | Digital Publishing News — whatsnewinpublishing.com

Many, many web creators (those who publish, in any format, on their own sites rather than big tech’s platforms) who historically published content with great frequency are doing less of it. I think it’s no coincidence that as the major social, discovery, and amplification platforms have reduced the value of externally-published content, the quantity of …

I’m redesigning brainstorming for asynchronous participation and I love it – RJI — rjionline.org

In my journey of learning to be a better community listener, facilitator, and organizer, I’m currently trying to blow all of these assumptions out of the water. My work, which involves hundreds of people in different time zones, geographies, family situations, and news organizations, makes flexibility essential. 

Facebook partners with Ray-Ban to launch its smart glasses — mumbrella.com.au

Facebook has launched its version of smart glasses in partnership with Ray-Ban.The announcement:Today we’re excited to launch Ray-Ban Stories: Smart glasses that give you an authentic way to capture photos and video, share your adventures, and listen to music or take phone calls — so you can stay present with friends, family, and the world […]

A Lesson from the Decline of Vice - by Richard J. Tofel - Second Rough Draft — dicktofel.substack.com

Revisiting what David Carr saw, and why it may have been lost.

Let it die - by Luke Winkie - On Posting — onposting.substack.com

It should be impossible to read Spin in 2021. The URL should either redirect to an elegiac 404, or a tasteful archive of the magazine's glory years. No publication has been treated more viciously by the plundering agents who run the media industry; those psychos who seem uniquely obsessed with distressing the assets of every beloved legacy brand on the web before handing off the baton to the next specious consortium of VC suckers.