Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000. #AI

Ben Werdmuller

Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says

Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000.

Congrats to everyone who voted for the guy because they thought he was anti-war. You complete fucking morons.

One of the things I find the most depressing is that some people will be genuinely cheering for war.

It's alive! #threads #fediverse

PSA: "Dutch" means "from the Netherlands". It does not mean "from Germany". Except when "Dutch" is "Pennsylvania Dutch", who get their name because apparently nobody in America knew the difference between Dutch and Deutsch. Which, tbqh, they still don't.

News to me that one of the candidates for Mayor of NYC was a rapper who collaborated with Madhur Jaffrey, but I have no notes. This is excellent.

Sitting in a panel discussion about the effect of social media on news consumption and the open social web networks haven't been mentioned. It's all Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X. But any newsroom that *isn't* paying attention to Bluesky and Mastodon is missing a trick.

Timely advice from WIRED. It’s going to be a long summer. #Democracy

Ben Werdmuller

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

It's going to be a long summer. WIRED has some advice for being prepared.

I'm knee-deep in migrating from Known to Ghost. It's a little harder than I'd like - I think I need to export into an interim format and then build something in Node to convert my HTML into Lexical JSON. But I'm getting there. It's kind of an emotional transition to move from something I wrote to something I didn't, but it's the right decision for me (and Ghost is awesome).

What characteristics do you think are important in a technology leader in a non-technical organization like a non-profit or a newsroom?