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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 accessibility

Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about accessibility, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 25 stories have been published about accessibility which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Engadget

Engadget

Microsoft recruits accessibility app to make its AI more useful to blind and low-vision users

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Fable adds cognitive and hearing impairments to its accessibility tools with $25M round | TechCrunch

TechCrunch

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Wired

Wired

These Apps Help People With Disabilities Travel Smarter and Safer

Wired

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Last of the week

Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Sunderfolk is a couch co-op tactical RPG you play with a phone. No, really.

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Latest news stories

Engadget

Engadget

Uber will let riders disclose whether they're hard of hearing or have low vision

Engadget

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo

Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Answer to Arachnophobia Mode Is Just Not Having Spiders at All

Gizmodo

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ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily

New apps will enable safer indoor navigation for visually impaired

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Android Police

Android Police

Android could soon let you move the mouse cursor using your keyboard

Android Police

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The Hill

The Hill

Alabama senator says Democrats ‘use’ IVF as ‘scare tactic’

The Hill

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Upworthy

Upworthy

Hundreds of parks and playgrounds have added these colorful picture boards for autistic kids

Upworthy

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Android Police

Android Police

How to use Google's text-to-speech accessibility feature on Android

Android Police

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SlashGear

SlashGear

Apple's iOS 18 will support every iPhone released in the last seven years

SlashGear

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gazette.com

gazette.com

Unintended consequences: New law on accessibility leads to removal of public records from websites

gazette.com

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ABC News

ABC News

Paralympic equestrian riders praise access for disabled riders at Versailles

ABC News

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Android's latest update improves text-to-speech, Circle to Search, earthquake alerts and more | TechCrunch

TechCrunch

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SlashGear

SlashGear

Real-time text calling helps people with hearing or speech difficulties communicate over the phone

SlashGear

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ABC News

ABC News

LA to pay more than $38M for failing to make affordable housing accessible

ABC News

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BGR

BGR

Apple ad promotes accessibility features for parathletes ahead of Paralympic Games

BGR

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Home

Home

How the DNC is prioritizing accessibility for all at this year's convention

Home

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo

Google Pixel's Best Accessibility Features are Now Easier to Use

Gizmodo

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