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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 messages

Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about messages, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 88 stories have been published about messages which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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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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ABC News

ABC News

Racist text messages reported in multiple states after Election Day

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The Columbus Dispatch

The Columbus Dispatch

Racist text messages spam Black Americans in Ohio, across the nation

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INQUIRER.net USA

INQUIRER.net USA

Google adds new features to protect users from scams, unwanted content

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BGR

BGR

I voted early and I'm still getting 800,000 text messages a day from both campaigns

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Android Central

Android Central

Google Messages might give its read receipts a new home and design

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Phys Org

Phys Org

Political pros no better than public in predicting which messages persuade, researchers find

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Reuters

Reuters

Pastors and secret codes: US election officials wage low-tech battle against AI robocalls

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ABC News

ABC News

Opponents use parental rights and anti-trans messages to fight abortion ballot measures

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Upworthy

Upworthy

Woman discovers her husband’s secret love letters while trying on new pair of shoes

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BGR

BGR

Netflix's Moments feature lets you save and share your favorite scenes

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BGR

BGR

iPadOS 18.1 now available with these Apple Intelligence features

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Fox News

Fox News

iOS 18's new text formatting and effects in messages

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Fox News

Fox News

Secret trick to send a text message again with iOS 18's new Send Later feature

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