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Twitter is under no obligation to host Chuck Johnson’s witch hunts

I don’t always mind if people invoke the C word when referring to an instance in which a major social media or search platform bans a particular person from posting to it. Yes, Facebook or Twitter...

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The one advantage Twitter has over every other social network

I was watching the series premiere of HBO’s True Detective when I heard the popping sounds, each in quick succession — POP POP POP. Living in Washington, DC, you occasionally hear what sounds like...

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The problem every news aggregation app faces

Back in the December, I profiled the cadre of companies — ranging from Flipboard to SmartNews to News360 — that aim to be your one-stop mobile destination for news. While interviewing their founders...

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Why academic journals are teaming up with Reddit

The Public Library of Science, the academic publisher more commonly known as PLOS, doesn’t lack for media coverage. Launched in the early 2000s, PLOS was one of the pioneers in what’s called open...

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Why the media has become more reactive to Twitter

Over at Ryot News I wrote about the current Gawker controversy and how Twitter forced the company’s hand into removing the post outing Conde Nast’s CFO: Ben Mullin, a writer at the Poynter Institute...

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Why every blog post should be crossposted to LinkedIn and Medium

Earlier this month, I completed a 1,500 word feature story on why the scholarly publisher PLOS is teaming up with Reddit on an ongoing science interview series. I had put a good deal of work into the...

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Lessons I learned during a year of self-employment

July 31, 2014. That’s the day I walked away from my PR and marketing job with a steady paycheck and into a life of self-employment and uncertainty. It wasn’t that I disliked the people with whom I...

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Recruiting on LinkedIn? 4 things you should stop doing immediately

  If you have a profile on LinkedIn and have taken the time to upload your résumé and list all your technical skillsets, then chances are you receive somewhat regular inquiries from recruiters who...

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Silicon Valley once steered clear of original content. What changed?

By the time news outlets began reporting that Apple is actively negotiating with Hollywood executives to produce exclusive programming for its fledgling television platform, none of us seemed...

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How I leveraged my journalism skills for a career in content marketing

From time to time I’ll be speaking to someone I’ve never met before, and the “What do you?” question comes up. I’ve always struggled to answer. If I tell the person I’m a journalist, then invariably...

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How novelists are monetizing their short fiction through Patreon

Speculative fiction writer Kameron Hurley Tim Pratt cut his teeth writing short fiction. The science fiction and fantasy author spends most of his days now working on novels — his website bibliography...

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How this blogger became one of the most influential voices in tech policy

Mike Masnick In May 2003, the legal website The Smoking Gun posted a short item titled “Barbra Sues Over Aerial Photos.” Kenneth Adelman, an environmentalist who takes aerial photographs of...

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How Boing Boing adapted to the social web

A question started bugging Mark Frauenfelder in November of 2014: Could you take marijuana onto a plane in a state where it was legal? Would the TSA let you through? Earlier that month, Alaska had...

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I tried Facebook’s revamped Notes tool for a month. Here’s what I learned

For years now publishers have fretted over Facebook’s increasing emphasis on native content and what it means for the outbound referral traffic they’ve come to rely on. Back in 2012 I noticed that...

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Email newsletters are the new zines

Caroline Crampton isn’t lacking for an audience. A longtime political journalist, she’s been a web editor for the New Statesman, the 103-year-old British political and cultural magazine, since 2012....

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The rise of the YouTube video essay

Evan Puschak, host of The Nerdwriter To understand how J. Matthew Turner ended up creating a viral YouTube essay arguing that Daniel LaRusso, the young hero of the 1984 film The Karate Kid, was...

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How Reddit is launching the careers of unknown artists

Billy the Fridge William Berry always knew he wanted to work in entertainment. For years, he had aspirations to have a career as a professional wrestler and even began to train for it, but the...

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Can Pacific Standard thrive in a post-clickbait era?

Pacific Standard editor-in-chief Nicholas Jackson (left) with senior editor Ted Scheinman. In December 2011, on the night the news broke that Christopher Hitchens had died, Nicholas Jackson was in an...

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Meet the power users of Quora

Quincy Larson (center) has amassed over 13,000 followers and cumulatively generated more than 14 million views on Quora. For Quincy Larson, the lightbulb moment when he realized the power of Quora came...

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How authors use Reddit to promote their books

Mignon Fogarty, creator of Grammar Girl It’s hard to blame Kameron Hurley for her wariness of Reddit prior to joining it. When non-users hear about the site, it’s often within the context of some...

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