Shel Holtz and I recorded the December edition of the monthly Hobson & Holtz Report podcast. It is the final FIR episode of 2017: FIR will return on January 8, 2018, in an all-new format. Listen to this episode for details!
This month’s topics:
- A group of UK newspapers using robots to help write stories
- Research that found higher engagement for tweets that took advantage of the new 280 character count
- Storify, a great curation tool aimed at journalists, is shutting down
- GoFundMe is changing the shape of disaster relief
- The FCC’s comment server was flooded with fake comments
- Netflix sent out a tweet that many found creepy (but was it really?)
- Dan York reports on Twitter’s new tweetstorm tool, the new ability to follow hashtags on Instagram, and Facebook opening its AR studio to more people
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Links from this episode:
- UK newspapers start publishing first joint human and robot articles
- Minor League Baseball reports by the Associated Press are written by machines
- We actually like 280-character tweets, it turns out
- Storify’s standalone service is shutting down next year
- Storify, once a hot tool among journalists looking to tell stories using social media posts, is shutting down
- How GoFundMe Is Redefining The Business Of Disaster Relief
- Millions of People Post Comments on Federal Regulations. Many Are Fake.
- Yes, that Netflix tweet is creepy — and raises serious privacy questions
Links from Dan York’s Tech Report
- Twitter officially recognizes tweetstorms with a new threads feature
- Instagram Gets More #Interesting
- AR Studio Now in Open Beta, World Effects Rolling Out for Creators
- Facebook opens AR platform and ‘World Effects’ to all developers
(Photo at top by rawpixel.com on Unsplash)
