Jan 22, 2018
Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook's solution for fake news is to remove news from the newsfeed. We talk about the implications of this for news outlets, PR people and Facebook users themselves. While it will take some time for this to play out, it could lead to a period of innovation as publishers...
Jan 16, 2018
A recent post by Gini Dietrich on Digital Distraction and Creativity provides our jumping off point this week. We talk about he importance of times when our minds are "in neutral" for creative thinking and serendipitous inspiration. For Gini, it's long bike rides. For Martin, it's long walks. For Joe, it's shaving and...
Jan 7, 2018
This week's conversation was sparked by a comment from Monica Miller, who wonders how the flow of sponsored content and content originated by companies and published by communicators affects media credibility. This leads us to a discussion of the limits to sponsored content, new models for journalism and the...
Jan 1, 2018
Artificial intelligence was a hot topic among communicators in 2017 and it's something to continue watching and exploring in 2018. Clearly, it will have an impact on the nature of the work we perform. It will destroy many existing jobs, especially those involving repetitive, data-based tasks. But, for those who...