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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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News from islands

Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about islands, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 106 stories have been published about islands which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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BBC

BBC

Trump team hostile to Chagos deal, claims Farage

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Reuters

Reuters

Pacific atolls face $10 billion cost of rising sea, says World Bank

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Reuters

Reuters

Palau president wins second term, will seek to diversify tiny Taiwan ally's economy

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VOA

VOA

World’s largest coral discovered in Solomon Islands

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Reuters

Reuters

Exclusive-Glencore-Chandra Singapore refinery to earmark 20% of output for Shell, sources say

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iNews (Indonesia)

iNews (Indonesia)

How Falkland Island squid could be a bargaining chip in Brexit reset talks

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BBC

BBC

Mauritius election: Pravind Jugnauth accepts 'huge defeat'

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Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Australia Gives Security Guarantee to Taiwan Ally Tuvalu - TaiwanPlus News

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BBC

BBC

Is this tiny Mauritian island a confidential spy station?

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Good News Network

Good News Network

Life Savings of an Entire Small Town Recovered from the Depths of a Cryto-Scam by FBI

Good News Network

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Fox News

Fox News

World’s smallest inhabited island features a single home and tree

Fox News

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Pasquines - Context of islands

Pasquines - Context of islands

Jenniffer González-Colón, Pablo José Hernández in the lead of Puerto Rico's gubernatorial and resident commissioner races - Pasquines

Pasquines - Context of islands

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MailOnline

MailOnline

Hurricane warning issued as Storm Rafael heads for the US

MailOnline

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ScienceAlert

ScienceAlert

Scientists Found a 'Yellow Brick Road' at The Bottom of The Pacific Ocean

ScienceAlert

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Reuters

Reuters

Palau, US security ally in Pacific, holds election

Reuters

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Phys Org

Phys Org

Eddies supply upwelled nutrients to boost productivity around Hawaiian Islands, research finds

Phys Org

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torontosun

torontosun

'I just found my soul here:' Britney Spears fawns over Turks and Caicos

torontosun

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Reuters

Reuters

Commonwealth leaders say sinking nations should keep their maritime boundaries

Reuters

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Science News

Science News

The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

Science News

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Phys Org

Phys Org

May 2024 super geomagnetic storm challenges current space weather prediction models

Phys Org

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