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In 30 years as a tech reporter, Kara Swisher had a front-row seat to Silicon Valley’s obliteration of the media. In ‘Burn Book,’ she shares what she learned from covering Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and the other tech titans.
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AOL is shutting down the dial-up service that introduced homes across the US to the internet, effective September 30.
The firm's dial-up offering connects to the internet via a phone line and currently only exists in the US and Canada.
Launched more than 30 years ago, AOL dial-up was known for its chirpy whirring start-up sound, but it has long since been replaced by faster alternatives.
Fewer than 300,000 people in the US reported having only a dial-up internet connection, compared with more than 300 million with broadband service, according to 2023 government estimates.
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Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.
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Apple’s new short film, shot entirely on the iPhone 16 Pro, showcases the smartphone’s impressive cinematic capabilities and raises the bar for mobile filmmaking. Via jack hollingsworth
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Residents of Oakdale, Calif., have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. These days, they’re often not sure what information to trust.
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Since expanding the the carousel feature to allow up to 20 photos at a time, we are now being inundated with content that appears haphazard, but isn't really. Why?
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The two major techbro obsessions—crypto and AI—have delivered mostly scams and hype. But this year, they managed to buy themselves a federal government.
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America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power,
KazzaDrask Media's insight:
This site started 13 years ago, with the advent of a new style of communicating that was fast becoming the best way of keeping connected. For the most part, I've tried every shiny new toy and celebrated most of them. Even as the backlash started, I still held firm that Facebook was the best way to keep in touch with family and old friends; Instagram was a great way to share photos and build community from those images; Twitter was an amazing place for real-time news (deleted my account when Elon bought it -- at least I had the foresight to see bad things were coming over there).
I began studying media in college, as a "communications major" (and an English major, too). My first job was as an editorial assistant for a New York publishing company that had recently relocated to my hometown of Norwalk, CT. Within 2 years of that job (old school, every desk had a typewriter to complete triplicate forms; we trafficked paper manuscript pages to galleys to blues to bound book), I took a new job for a smaller company that became a pioneer in the desktop publishing industry. Two years later, then two more years after that, I was getting managing editor jobs in New York and California, leading these companies' desktop revolution.
By 1994 (yes, 30 years ago!), I'd left the day job racket to go freelance. I could edit on my home computer by now -- clients sent me floppy disks through the mail. But what I really wanted to do was write. For the next several years, I balanced writing and editing as technology steam-rolled us into the 21st century. Everything was going online. Many of my early bylines were on now-defunct websites. I used to print out my articles. Good thing -- you can't find many of them anywhere but in a binder in my basement now.
Twenty years ago the work I had always done -- writing, editing, proofreading, graphic design/layout, research, fact-checking -- was now called "content creation". It had to be produced faster than ever, and we all suffered from those results. You may have started noticing a typo in an esteemed publication you had always subscribed to that was known for never having them. That was just the beginning. There wasn't enough time to do thoughtful research that yielded those big think pieces we used to have the time to wait for -- and then consume. Fast-checking? Why waste the money to pay for that -- everyone has an Internet connection now. If they don't believe you, surely they can look up more about your subject and prove you wrong -- or right. But even so, communications were flying by us so quickly, we simply couldn't keep up. To combat that, we created our own information silos. Follow those we agree with, tune out the noise. And as a result, everyone's ability to be a critical thinker took a hit, some more than others.
My next pivot, about 10 years ago was the wonderful world of video production and documentary filmmaking. Even I, a lifelong reader and wordsmith, saw the "writing" on the wall -- and it was images. Add a voiceover and some music and post it to YouTube, SnapChat, TikTok. People react to short videos with their feelings. Emojis become even more important. A like, a love, some laughter, some tears, some anger, even shock. Feelings, however, are not facts. And, we scrolled on, continuing to freely input all our information into the hands of some of the worst actors.
[Disclaimer: A lot of my video work was done within the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. I've followed all the players here for years.]
Online communications -- and all that it's spawned -- did not start out this way, But power sure does corrupt. We're about to find out how much.
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Try a few simple tips and lifestyle changes to minimize hand, eye and brain problems.
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For 12 years, the MTV reality series “Catfish” has traveled the U.S., presenting hundreds of intimate snapshots of what can go wrong when the heart mixes with technology.
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In 30 years as a tech reporter, Kara Swisher had a front-row seat to Silicon Valley’s obliteration of the media. In ‘Burn Book,’ she shares what she learned from covering Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and the other tech titans.
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Readers who have taken the plunge said it had improved their lives, marriages and mental health, and offered advice to those going without their smartphones for “Flip Phone February".
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From Tumblr to Gawker, the sites and voices that defined the 2010s are gone or changed. There is no happy ending to this story.
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TikTokkers are filming private conversations and posting them online. This has potential consequences.
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This may be the best known -- and most loved -- amendment to our Constitution, the first: "freedom of speech". This is an ongoing breaking story about the removal of one of America's most popular comedians from his late-night show.
ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show following comments he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk has set off a flood of reactions.... During Kimmel’s Monday night monologue, he suggested that the suspect in Kirk’s killing might have been a pro-Trump Republican.
...The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman called Kimmel’s comments “truly sick” and said his agency had a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation.
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He was laughed out of academia for this take about the internet. Turns out he was right.
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Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level. When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see?
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Beyond the aesthetics, [director Spike] Jonze predicted that we as a generation of Theos [played by Joaquin Phoenix] would be as disconnected and listless as ever, even in our desperate pursuits of real connection. We are turning to chatbots to be our therapists and best friends, with some even admitting that they trust and feel more viscerally with a robot than their IRL therapists and best friends. We want the raw experiences of forming friendships and falling in love, but we turn to the artificial to hack it.
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Numerous studies have shown that fact checking has helped reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation online.
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An alleged murderer has become a folk hero, on all sides of the political spectrum.
"But this was something different. The rage that people felt at the health insurance industry, and the elation that they expressed at seeing it injured, was widespread and organic. It was shocking to many, but it crossed communities all along the political spectrum and took hold in countless divergent cultural clusters. I’ve been studying social media for a long time, and I can’t think of any other incident when a murder in this country has been so openly celebrated. …" [excerpt by Zeynep Tufekci for the New York Times]
KazzaDrask Media's insight:
The common ground has been found. MAGAs and Libs and many in between and on the margins share this one truth: corporate greed and all that flows from it is bad. Very bad. In fact, it is evil.
I've read a LOT since the election. Heck, I've read a LOT my whole life. The burbling up between the lines this time is that our politicians have done much to distract us. The media has amplified that distraction (hey, it practically covers itself - no need to do an investigative deep dive). Social media has given us all a soapbox on which to stand and a warm, cozy bubble in which to sink. Our critical thinking skills at best are frayed and at worst are nonexistent. Watch this space, unfortunately.
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A reporter from the New Yorker speaks with low-information voters—people who pay little attention to political news—about their perspective on the political race and why many of them favor Donald Trump. Conspiracy theories abound!
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Dr. Vivek Murthy said he would urge Congress to require a warning that social media use can harm teenagers’ mental health.
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Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.
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June 11, 2024 12:20 AM
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