Ben Smith on New Book, 'Traffic', and the How Race to Go Viral Killed Digital Media
Ben Smith, the author of 'Traffic,' opens up about the rise and fall of digital innovators like Gawker and BuzzFeed News.
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Ben Smith, the author of 'Traffic,' opens up about the rise and fall of digital innovators like Gawker and BuzzFeed News.
For larger publications, the upside of newsletters is obvious. Email-bound readers can seamlessly swipe over from their Zocdoc appointment notification to their health insurance bill payment notification to their student loan payment notification to their local mass shooting notification to a Washington Post opinion newsletter about the biggest threat facing the nation (still, somehow, cancel culture). Of course, no one has pursued newsletters as zealously as the legaciest legacy-media operation of them all: the New York Times.
(image) The most common complaint I hear from friends and colleagues who are interested in the crypto/web3 world is how hard it is to "get smart" on the topic - for a neophyte, there's just so much noise and precious little signal. Sure, you might dive headfirst into crypto Twitter - but the experience is…
Our columnist surfaces how recent events around art help pinpoint the core problem and best solution to the narrative of A.I. dominance.
Scientists are asking for a pause on AI tech. That might be what society needs to get a grip on how to think about, develop, and constrain artificial intelligence like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and more.