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The Press Release Is Dead — Use This Instead – Mike Butcher
I’m QUITE TIRED of dealing with MILLIONS of tech entrepreneurs (these days there are a HELL of a lot of you) and (some) PR people who have ZERO clue how to pitch me/TechCrunch/the media. Their pitches are long-winded and rambling. They ask if they could ‘send some more information’. Listen, I have no idea if it’s interesting or not until you send it! Many just ask me out to lunch or coffee. (Thanks, but I prefer hanging out with my *actual friends*). Even worse, they haven’t read this post or seen my presentation on how to deal with tech media. [2021 update: This is a basic outline for super-early startups. If you want something for Post Series A / later stage startups go here].
Media Startup Fellowship: Startup funding & coaching
Media Startup Fellowship: Do you have an innovative media idea? ★ Benefit from funding ► Suitable for every start-up phase!

Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains
Kate Starbird,Ahmer Arif,Tom Wilson,Katherine Van Koevering,Katya Yefimova,Daniel Scarnecchia
Guide to Incrementals/Defining the Genre | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
New Horizons: Tech & News Live on Bluesky
Aggregates real-time news from Bluesky media profiles, tech companies, organizations, institutions, and journalists, along with threads from Hacker News.

Topics — Real Life
ABOUT TOPICS: Since we began Real Life in the summer of 2016, we’ve run many essays across a range of topics, with a particular focus on the personal and cultural implications of living with technology. Our aim is not to track the news cycle so much as the longstanding social issues that inform and transcend it. We wanted to make it easier to read and explore Real Life beyond our chronological archive, so we’ve created these Topics to gather in one place the work we’ve published on some key themes. More Topics will be added to this page over time.

The $2.43 Billion Question: Podcast Advertising in 2024
An immersive data story exploring podcast advertising trends and the breaking point where ads drive audiences away.
Embracing the Atmosphere
Rethinking Popfeed’s Homepage UX - matlfb.com
Popfeed.social is a new social application, similar to Letterboxd, that allows users to log movies, but also TV shows, music, and video games. Built on the ATPr...

Surf: A Fresh Take on Digital Media Curation and Discovery
Explore how Mike McCue's Surf app redefines content consumption with human curation, battling algorithm-driven media chaos.
Guide to Incrementals/Appeal to Players | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Medium has been great for us
More readers, wider distribution, new audiences. An enjoyable place to write. Win, win, win. Win. Just about a year ago we switched this blog, Signal vs. Noise, to Medium. Here’s the post announcin…
Another creator workshop! All things monetization. Talking about @sprk.so and the Atmosphere with creators well versed with making a career in social media. sprk.so/post/did:plc:qed67d2sst5xqsbu…
Another creator workshop! All things monetization. Talking about @s... | Spark
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Universal Music signs a new AI deal with Nvidia