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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 SMS, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 18 stories have been published about SMS which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Samsung reminds Android users that RCS chats with iPhones lack one key thing

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TechCrunch

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After spending three years working on SMS verification at Zenly, Prelude wants to fix SMS onboarding | TechCrunch

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Mashable

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iOS 18 lets you send iMessages without cell service or Wi-Fi - here's how

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You could soon be forced to download Telegram, and it might not be a bad thing

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TechCrunch

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5 'dumbphones' that can still run WhatsApp | TechCrunch

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Insider

Insider

How a teenager used a spoof cell tower to steal personal information from thousands of people

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Mashable

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How to connect your iPhone to a satellite to send messages

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Wired

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Amid Air Strikes and Rockets, an SMS From the Enemy

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica

iOS 18 brings RCS to major carrier iPhones, but prepaid plans are still waiting

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SlashGear

SlashGear

What do you do if you need a copy of your Android text messages? Here's how

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

X begins rolling out support for passkeys on Android | TechCrunch

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How-To Geek

How-To Geek

Google says the world's most potent SMS attacks are not transmitted through legitimate cellular networks

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How-To Geek

How-To Geek

Samsung Messages Is Dead, and Thats Not Good for Android

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Fox News

Fox News

How to reclaim your phone and block unwelcome political text messages

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Android Central

Android Central

Text message exploits are scarier than ever, but you can protect yourself with these tips

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Android Police

Android Police

Google explains how Android protects against stingrays, SMS blasters, and smishing

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9to5Google

9to5Google

Google on why you should disable 2G on your Android phone

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