TweetDeck Doesn’t Work Anymore
March 6, 2023
12:14 pm
Folks are losing their minds. It’ll come back but it won’t be free, that’s for sure.
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CNET Lays Off Staff, Moves Connie Guglielmo To AI Role
March 3, 2023
7:01 am
The Verge’s Mia Sato delivers a scoop on layoffs at CNET (perhaps 10% of staff) and Connie Guglielmo‘s move from EIC to editor-at-large and senior
It’s 420 Somewhere
March 1, 2023
8:10 am
Barron’s vet Eric Savitz posted the following on LinkedIn: “I just received the following pitch: ‘Hi! Reaching out regarding my cannabis clients XXX and YYY,
NiemanLab Interview with the FT’s New AI Editor
February 28, 2023
11:03 am
Newly promoted Madhumita Murgia oversees AI coverage in the FT, across all disciplines. NiemanLab reveals her priorities in this Feb. 27 Q&A. “Good journalism, in
Andrew Nusca Lands at Activation Blizzard
February 27, 2023
3:47 pm
The former Fortune and Morning Brew editor will become the gaming software company’s editor-in-chief. “Tt is an editor’s dream to create for and engage an
CNET Will Give AI Another Try
February 25, 2023
8:01 am
Futurism continues with its exclusive reporting. Red Ventures has instituted new procedures and has committed to generative AI no matter the cost. All of publishing
Generative AI Now Does Slide Presentations
February 23, 2023
11:13 am
Tome is the app that does it. Forbes’s Alex Konrad wrote about it. We tried it. If you create slide decks, you’ll want to try
This Web Site Is On Borrowed Time
February 23, 2023
10:36 am
No, not SWMS — this one, from TechTarget. Generative AI one day will plow it under.
Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories
February 22, 2023
11:05 am
The sci-fi magazine Clarkesworld speculates that prospective authors are using AI to make ‘a quick buck’ since the sci-fi publication pays 12 cents a word
Eric Newcomer’s AI Event, Mar. 30
February 22, 2023
10:27 am
Eric Newcomer is hosting a by-invitation-only AI summit Mar. 30 in San Francisco. Only 200 attendees. Here are the details.
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FRIDGE NOTES
‘Bloomberg Tech’ Now Open for Registration
January 6, 2025
Registration is now open for the ‘Bloomberg Tech’ F2F event, being held Jun. 4-5 in San Francisco. With the current early-bird discount, a ticket runs $1,500. There is no better way to build relationships with Bloomberg’s notoriously elusive tech reporters.
Congress to Investigate the Omnicom-IPG Deal
December 20, 2024
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
SWMS Predictions for 2025
December 10, 2024
No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.
Talk About Confidentiality…
December 10, 2024
According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.
Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’
November 22, 2024
Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam
Business Insider Reporters Starting to Go on Camera
November 19, 2024
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.