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Tech platforms were supposed to democratize online content. They’re not
Back in 2006, technology author Nicholas Carr wrote an incredibly prescient blog post in the form of a fable. It addresses a widely-held notion that the internet is a meritocracy where the best...
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How YouTube and podcasts spurred the golden age of film criticism
Evan Puschak, founder of the Nerdwriter YouTube channel “Why is David Fincher in my head?” Thus begins the voiceover narration of a YouTube video titled “How David Fincher Hijacks Your Eyes.” Created...
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What Facebook’s algorithm teaches us about free markets
Conservatives often talk about the value of free markets, but nobody really knows what a completely free market looks like or operates because every government places regulations on businesses. But,...
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Why I stopped using RSS readers
Recently, Gizmodo published a post making the argument that you should resist the siren song of social media and instead consume your news through an RSS reader. “RSS…cuts out everything you don’t...
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How this true crime podcast generated 1,600 paying subscribers
Aaron Habel and Justin Evans came up with the idea for the Generation Whypodcast after Evans had served on jury duty for a murder trial. “Justin said, ‘You know how these things work, maybe we can do...
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How the Washington Post built the nation’s most beloved weather blog
Jason Samenow, founder of the Capital Weather Gang In March of 2014, Jason Samenow, the editor of Capital Weather Gang, the Washington Post’s weather blog, published a post titled “March 3 snowstorm:...
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It’s time for YouTubers to diversify their revenue streams
Casey Neistat Last month, the famous vlogger Casey Neistat uploaded a 15-minute video titled “DEMONETIZED DEMONETIZED DEMONETIZED.” In it, he pointed to a few recent examples in which his videos were...
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How this political news site generated a thousand paying subscribers
Ben Cohen, founder of the Daily Banter Ben Cohen launched the Daily Banter in 2007 so he could blog his (left-of-center) political opinions. But what started as a hobby eventually grew into a robust...
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Dear publishers, it’s time to diversify your referral traffic
In an article I published last month, I wrote about the increasing marginalization of Facebook pages in the newsfeed and how it’s becoming harder and harder for publishers to get organic reach on the...
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Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments
AARP’s Matt Chinn (left) and Jeff Taylor AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enormous...
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