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Alex Fink

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Messages, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 101 stories have been published about Messages which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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WhatsApp will finally let you unsubscribe from business marketing spam | TechCrunch

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E! Online

Prosecutors shared the final text message Laken Riley sent to her mom before she was killed while out for a jog

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Being a Bletchley Park codebreaker was the best time of my life

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BGR

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How to use iPhone's Check In feature, and why it's such a big deal

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MSNBC

MSNBC

FBI says Hispanic, LGBTQ people also got threatening text messages after the election

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WWD

Holiday Shoppers Are Looking Out for AI-powered Scams and Deepfakes as More Admit Falling Victim

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Verge

Verge

WhatsApp now lets you save message drafts

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ABC News

ABC News

Hispanic, LGBTQ communities receive hateful emails after racist text surge

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Scientific American

Scientific American

The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50

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Engadget

Engadget

WhatsApp finally has a drafts feature

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BBC

BBC

Humza Yousaf accuses Elon Musk of 'scouring' private messages

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BBC

BBC

FBI investigates racist text messages sent to black people across US - BBC News

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Guardian

Guardian

Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL ‘You’ve got mail’ greeting, dies aged 74

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Mashable

Mashable

Emoji reactions finally look normal between iPhone and Android devices

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PBS

PBS

Racist text messages sent to Black recipients, including children, raise alarms in multiple states

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CNBC

CNBC

'It's gross, it's unprofessional': Some LinkedIn users are being put off the platform by unsolicited flirtatious DMs

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NBC News

NBC News

Black people are receiving texts about picking cotton 'at the nearest plantation'

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BGR

BGR

Emoji reactions from Android users finally show up correctly on iPhones

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