What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media
In August 2023, we launched 404 Media with a novel idea: pay journalists to do journalism. Here we are, a year later.| 404 Media
In August 2023, we launched 404 Media with a novel idea: pay journalists to do journalism. Here we are, a year later.| 404 Media
Today, I want to expand on a topic I discussed in issue #2: publishers striking deals with AI companies and what that means for their futures and the publisher landscape as a whole.| augment
Culture is either being erased or regurgitated back at us, and the people who created and recorded it have none of the power to stop it from happening.| augment
"My goal for the next issue is to not talk about the Fediverse." That was me in the last issue of Human-Generated Content and I would like to start by apologizing for this very predictable lie. Hello, again! Last time, we talked about the diverging strategies between publishers choosing AI| augment
Publishers are seeing two very different futures for their businesses. Is the future of media aggregated and summarized or is it direct-to-audience?| augment
This issue: Nilay Patel talks to Google's Sundar Pichai on AI, chriswaves and Mike Masnick each explore the managed decline of the web, and Molly White and Mike McCue chat about building a new web inspired by the old one.| augment
Ghost's Fediverse integration will have larger implications for the newsletter landscape. Namely, I think this will eventually bring the slow death of another social silo: Substack.| augment
