Read it first on my Substack What replaces the feed? The Discourse has loosely revolved around that question for the past week or so, in light of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition. Everyone wants to leave Twitter; nobody will leave Twitter. …

Read it first on my Substack Lately I’ve been craving coherent threads in media. Front-to-back magazines, rather than sliced up articles. Full albums, rather than playlists. Aggregated digests, rather than the full fire hose. I think this stems from a desire to step back. The raw feeds of content get…

Read it first on my Substack What games come to Game Pass? For developers, understanding the breakdown of the game library could be instructive for landing a lucrative deal. For gamers, knowing which games are coming down the pipeline could save a big chunk of money. …

This post is the first in a series on attention markets — how they work, and how they can improve. Subscribe on Substack to read the rest as they’re published. You post a tweet; it does numbers. Mute-your-notifications numbers. New followers come pouring in. Damn, this is the big break. …

The Times recently announced a slew of newsletters limited to paid subscribers. They’re converting existing newsletters to paid and creating new offerings explicitly for this push. This effort drives home the heart of newsletters’ success — they’re a pure distillation of writing into a digital product. Micropayments are too clunky…

I’m reconsidering how I publish writing online, moving from a blog that lives on Medium to a distributed approach with a website home base. Even after six years(!) publishing on Medium, I still find myself missing key functionality in the day-to-day experience. One key aspect: the way Medium reports metrics. …

Recently, a paper I worked on with Johannes Wachs and Emőke-Ágnes Horvát was published in New Media & Society. We looked at political polarization in news production, by tracking how freelancers and other writers move from outlet to outlet over time. This paper complements work done on polarized news consumption…

The last leg of a journey is the most difficult, and the least efficient. How do you get from the train station to your apartment? How does a package get from a large distribution center to its recipient’s front porch? …

Last week the website of Yamauchi №10 Family Office made the rounds. It’s a great website — isometric scrolling! Voxel animations! Music! It’s hard to find websites like this. Arguably, for good reason. Most of the time you just want to find information, complete a transaction, fill out a form…