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Cheat Sheet: Demo Review Shops
April 25, 2022
5:50 pm
This cheat sheet is a bit different: we’re looking at review sites that do product demos or walkthroughs. A bit of an inexact science. We led with the publications this time, not the editor in charge…
Cheat Sheet: Sites that Sell Gear (Mostly) to Guys
April 17, 2019
1:32 pm
It seems there are as many platforms as publications these days. A subscriber recently sent us a list of cool-things-to-buy sites, apparently geared to males and built on affiliate marketing, where the publishers make a commission on every item sold.
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Coming Soon: Charisma as a Service (CaaS)
March 28, 2023
Don’t know what to say on a job interview, or a date? In a recent hackathon, Stanford researchers used AR glasses, voice recognition and ChatGPT to create a system that shows you what to say. Voila! “Charisma-as-a-Service.” Meteor broke this story.
Publishers are Losing Visibility in Google Search Results
March 23, 2023
The publications in question are UK-based. Still, the author’s observations about Google bode ill for US publishers as well.
Biz Carson to Bloomberg
March 14, 2023
Biz now covers “the intersection of money and Silicon Valley” for the Bloomberg Wealth section (not Brad Stone‘s team).
Behind the WSJ’s Attack on ‘Woke’ SVB
March 14, 2023
Twitter blew up yesterday about the WSJ’s suggestion that SVB’s problems may have stemmed from “diversity demands.” Absolutely no one should be surprised by this claim. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch recently installed Emma Tucker as EIC, a Murdoch loyalist brought in to lead WSJ’s coverage of the 2024 elections. Says The Guardian: “Tucker will find herself having to work out how to cover a third presidential run by Donald Trump. Murdoch has… cooled on the former president and is warming to Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida who is expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination.”
So prepare for an onslaught of woke this and woke that from the WSJ, a publication that isn’t what it used to be, no matter how much we wish it otherwise.
ICYMI: SMK at SdXCentral
March 13, 2023
Sean Michael Kerner now writes for SdXCentral… watch for his copy soon.
Morning Brew Lays Off Another 40
March 10, 2023
Owner Axel Springer must be nervous. Not a good signal from one the world’s most successful publishers. We’ll do the best we can to audit who left. Axios’s Sara Fischer broke the story.