Dan York on the intersection of PR/communication and the "social media" of blogs, podcasts, wikis, Twitter and more - and the way our conversations are changing...
Today marks 25 years since the first edit to Wikipedia! And what an amazing trip it has been! The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has a website celebrating the day: https://wikipedia25.org/en/ They also have an outstanding video: They also have posts, images and videos on all the major social networks, including TikTok and Instagram Reels. In fact, [ ]
If you want to understand how we got to the Web that we have today, I would strongly recommend reading this beautiful piece by Mia Sato at The Verge on the theme of “Google shapes everything on the Web” It is an interactive piece that explains in both text and animations why it is that [ ]
Visit “Aitana Lopez” on Instagram. As you scroll down, the account looks like that of any of the hundreds (or thousands) of “influencer” accounts on Instagram. “Aitana” post photos from her travels, of her wearing various clothes, and making references to various brands. Except… it’s fake. As described on Ars Technica, this account is a complete [ ]
I find it fascinating that Meta just announced the ability of Facebook users to have multiple accounts attached to their single Facebook account. So you can have different “personas” for interacting with different communities differently. Now, this is nothing very new. We’ve had this in the Fediverse since its beginnings. You can have as many [ ]
As of today, May 1, 2023, 43% of web sites will no longer be able to easily auto-share posts to Twitter. I’m referring, of course, to WordPress, which W3Techs shows as powering around 43% of all sites they scan. Due to the continued incomprehensible decisions being made by Twitter’s new management, the company behind WordPress, [ ]
If you read nothing else this week, I encourage you to read Cory Doctorow’s latest … rant? … essay? … article? Written in a style uniquely his own, he calls the article “TikTok enshittification”, giving us an ever so appropriate new word. Here’s his intro: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to [ ]
Back on December 1, 2022, I boldly said that I was going to attempt 100 consecutive days of blogging. Today marks day 50, the halfway point. So.. how did I do? Wellll… how many different ways can you say FAIL! I started out strong. From December 1 to 15 I published every single day. Then [ ]
A tip for all the newcomers to Mastodon if you are seeing a lot of posts in your timelines in languages that you don’t know, there is a very simple way you can filter those posts out. You just: In the web client, click on the gear icon to go into Preferences Select the [ ]
In a sign of the growth of Mastodon in the midst of the continuing drama at Twitter, Techmeme, the news site I use the most to keep up on tech news, has started to highlight Mastodon posts in addition to the way the site highlights tweets. In fact, in an interesting bit of prioritization, the [ ]
It’s great to see nonprofit organizations getting into the business of operating public Mastodon / Fediverse instances. Two announcements recently caught my attention. First, Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, announced that they would launch a public server (“instance”) in early 2023: In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in [ ]