Tag: Content
MCP in Digital Marketing
What MCP Actually Means for Digital Marketers
Unblogged June
May's update was short, as I was mostly recovering, whereas this month I have been able to do a little more, including returning to my standard blogging pattern of every other day. Still, here's a few things that didn't result in a blog post of their own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx6_jj9RxhI Tom Scott's creator advice Tom Scott got...
Over-Filtering The Internet
Despite many, many failed attempts to do so, people keep trying to filter the internet. Let’s look at the lens of the current moment through past attempts—including one led by, of all people, a librarian.
Rudy Fraser - BlackSky - Next Generation of Social Media
Rudy Fraser built BlackSky, a safe community space carved from BlueSky using custom feeds and ATProto tools for Black creators.
Under Pressure: Creating Impactful Short-Form Content in a Fast-Paced World
From Bohemian Rhapsody to sneezing pandas -- why short-form video wins and three strategies to capture attention in fifteen seconds.
Remaking Podcasts For Text
Podcasts are far and away the great example of how RSS can empower creators. Today’s thought experiment: How can we bring these benefits to written content?
On Structured Content
Why YAML-based structured content beats freeform Markdown for API documentation at scale, drawn from work on docs.microsoft.com and DocFX.
Is Blogging Dead?
As some ponder whether the practice of blogging should be seen in the past tense, it may be better to consider what the concept gave us in the first place.
The Progressive (Profitable) Web
Ryan Holiday laments the loss of Google Reader and RSS in general in Our Regressive Web, arguing that if someone came up with them today, we'd think they were brilliant ideas: We’re just regressing. [...] RSS is impervious to blogging’s worst, but most profitable traits. [...] No wonder nobody ever pushed for widespread adoption. Of course it died a slow death—along with Google Alerts and Delicious. Their mission is antithetical to the ethos of our new media age. Where noise, chatter and pushi
2011: happy new year
I’m a little late to the party for end-of-year wrapup / start-of-year prediction posts. Instead, I thought I’d write about some of the things I’m looking forward to playing with this year. Vanquishing piracy through better business First, though, I do have one prediction: this will be the year that traditional content producers finally get to grips with piracy. They won’t do it using restrictive DRM and other counter-productive tactics that have been shown not to work; instead, they’ll do it b
User control on the open web
Data portability and the open data movement ("the open web" for simplicity's sake) revolve around the idea that you should be able to take your data from one service to another without restriction, as well as control who gets to see it and how. Very simply, it's your data, so you should have the ability to do what you like with it. That means that, for example, if you want to take your Wordpress blog posts and import them into MovableType (Wordpress's competitor), you should be able to. Or you s