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Media industry
fromNieman Lab
21 hours ago

How newsrooms are bringing their archives to life

News organizations are repurposing archives to create new stories and engage audiences, moving beyond simple reprints.
#ai
Digital life
fromdiacritical
13 hours ago

From Messages to Conversations: AI Agents are Changing how we Find Culture

Automated web traffic has surged, with AI bots now significantly outnumbering human visitors, impacting arts organizations and cultural discovery.
Digital life
fromdiacritical
13 hours ago

From Messages to Conversations: AI Agents are Changing how we Find Culture

Automated web traffic has surged, with AI bots now significantly outnumbering human visitors, impacting arts organizations and cultural discovery.
fromFortune
47 minutes ago

One fan secretly recorded 10,000 concerts over 40 years. Now volunteers are racing to save the tapes before they disintegrate | Fortune

The growing Aadam Jacobs Collection is an internet treasure trove for music lovers, especially for fans of indie and punk rock during the 1980s through the early 2000s.
NYC music
Data science
fromTheregister
9 hours ago

UK National Data Library plan needs work, study finds

The UK's National Data Library needs improved dataset accessibility to support AI development and meaningful analysis.
Silicon Valley
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the taskers' scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm

Scale AI, part-owned by Meta, employs thousands to train AI using personal data from social media, raising ethical concerns about data scraping.
Music production
fromFast Company
1 day ago

The future of music is human-generated

The music industry's value is shifting from songs to the human connection behind performances as AI-generated music becomes abundant.
London
fromianVisits
11 hours ago

The case for keeping museums free - even if you never visit

Reintroducing entry charges at UK museums could harm cultural diversity and economic benefits derived from free access.
#accessibility
fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago
Higher education

These blind students say their college blocked their education. A new rule could help

Higher education
fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

These blind students say their college blocked their education. A new rule could help

Blind students face significant challenges due to inaccessible learning materials in online education programs.
Cancer
fromNature
2 days ago

Engaging the head and the heart: why scientists turn to poetry

Poetry and medicine intertwine, enhancing the healing process and providing emotional support in palliative care.
#elearning
fromeLearning
1 week ago
Online learning

Audio Descriptions & Closed Captions in Adobe Captivate: A Step-by-Step Accessibility Guide - eLearning

Online learning
fromeLearning
1 week ago

Audio Descriptions & Closed Captions in Adobe Captivate: A Step-by-Step Accessibility Guide - eLearning

Accessibility features like closed captions and audio descriptions are essential for inclusive eLearning courses.
fromSpeckyboy Design Magazine
3 days ago

How To Protect Media Files Uploaded to WordPress - Speckyboy

The predictable file structure of the content management system makes it easy to guess where a file is stored, leading to potential leaks, as demonstrated by a journalist accessing a leaked UK budget document.
Privacy technologies
Marketing tech
fromForbes
4 days ago

From Streaming To AI: Agency Leaders' Next Big Media Bets

Streaming platform consolidation is reshaping agency strategies, emphasizing precision and adaptability in targeting consumer attention.
Photography
fromThe Phoblographer
4 days ago

Our Staff is All Human. Can Other Publications Say the Same?

Phoblographer aims to reduce reliance on big photo retailers and banner ads by promoting a subscription model for sustainability.
Design
fromArchDaily
5 days ago

Cultural Centers Beyond the Building: 6 Unbuilt Projects Integrating Landscape

Cultural centers are evolving to reflect diverse architectural explorations and redefine public institutions' roles in various contexts.
Media industry
fromPoynter
6 hours ago

Student newspapers still dominate campuses. This newsletter shows what else is possible. - Poynter

Tomo Chien's newsletter, Morning, Trojan, offers a unique independent news source for USC students, blending hard news with humor and engaging a large subscriber base.
Apple
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

The mad dash to build the future of multimedia

A small team at Apple revolutionized multimedia by developing software-based video playback, eliminating the need for expensive hardware.
Education
fromFuturism
4 days ago

AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class

Typewriters in class encourage students to engage more with each other and the learning process, contrasting with modern digital distractions.
fromTechdirt
5 days ago

Meta Caves To The MPAA Over Instagram's Use Of 'PG-13,' Ending A Dispute That Was Silly From The Start

Meta has agreed to 'substantially reduce' its references to PG-13 and include a rather remarkable disclaimer: 'There are lots of differences between social media and movies.'
Social media marketing
Media industry
fromDigiday
13 hours ago

Digiday+ Research: Publishers apply AI to streamline tasks and improve audience experience

Publishers are increasingly integrating AI into editorial workflows to streamline tasks and enhance audience experience.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

Comment | Museums must be the leaders in a moral revolution

Bregman claims, 'Today the whole of Europe risks turning into one big Venice, a beautiful open-air museum. A great destination for Chinese and American tourists. A place to admire what was once the centre of the world.' This statement encapsulates the concern that Europe is losing its cultural significance.
Arts
Online learning
fromeLearning Industry
6 days ago

Microlearning Solutions For Mobile: How L&D Leaders Build Engaging, In-The-Flow-Of-Work Learning

Mobile microlearning solutions effectively address time scarcity and fragmented attention, providing quick, accessible training for modern employees.
Digital life
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

The pleasure of books in the digital age

The debate over digital archiving versus physical books highlights the unique engagement and sensory experience that books provide in a digital age.
Education
fromPR Daily
5 days ago

Why writing skills matter more than AI for the next generation of communicators - PR Daily

Karen Freberg emphasizes the importance of experiential learning and clarity in writing for effective communication in a rapidly changing industry.
Social media marketing
fromTechCrunch
5 days ago

Flipboard's new 'social websites' help publishers and creators tap into the open social web | TechCrunch

Flipboard launched social websites, enabling creators to consolidate content and build communities around their work on decentralized platforms.
Social justice
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

Public libraries are vital infrastructure enabling free access to knowledge, gathering spaces, and shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to eliminate.
Education
fromTheregister
6 days ago

AI search atomizes our information, warns govt designer

Relying on AI for summarizing official material may lead to incomplete understanding and reinforce knowledge gaps.
Media industry
fromFast Company
6 days ago

How AI agents are changing journalism

Working agentically with AI tools significantly enhances productivity and shifts focus from task execution to outcome management.
Film
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

The ultimate entertainment budget hack: Your local library

Local libraries offer free access to books, ebooks, DVDs, and audiobooks as a cost-effective alternative to expensive movie tickets and streaming services.
Education
fromeLearning Industry
1 week ago

Personalized Learning: How New Tech Assists With Student-First Awareness

The shift to personalized learning emphasizes student-first awareness, leveraging technology to address individual needs and reduce cognitive overload.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Meet the Woman Who Made Museums More Accessible

Lorena Bradford, the National Gallery of Art's first head of Accessible Programs, transformed museum accessibility by creating intentional programs for disabled visitors, including ASL tours, memory loss programs, and medical student training initiatives.
Online marketing
fromThedrum
4 weeks ago

Exclusive Research Reveals the Importance of Integrated Content Management

Leading organizations using centralized content management are 3.5 times more likely to consistently meet communication goals, while marketers waste over half their time on automatable administrative tasks.
Marketing tech
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

Publishers are finally getting serious about AI scraping

ChatGPT's 900 million users demonstrate AI's rapid growth as a discovery channel, creating urgency around content compensation and generative engine optimization as publishers seek fair value for scraped content.
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Archiving the Technosphere: How Museum Architecture Mediates Human-Made Systems

The contemporary technology museum has emerged as a performative participant in the systems it seeks to document. The architecture of these institutions has become increasingly fluid and bold, often mirroring the velocity and complexity of the systems it houses. They operate as mediators between the human, the ecological, and the technological realms, transforming from encyclopedic warehouses into active educational engines.
Science
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
3 weeks ago

How Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus

Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.
Higher education
Online learning
fromeLearning Industry
3 weeks ago

Making Video-Based Learning Accessible: A Practical Guide

Video-based learning dominates digital education but lacks accessibility features, creating barriers for 1.3 billion people with disabilities globally, requiring captions, transcripts, audio descriptions, and keyboard controls for inclusive design.
Media industry
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Traffic is dying as a media metric. What comes next is more important

AI is significantly reducing traffic to major tech media sites, but publishers with strong brands and loyal audiences are adapting through paywalls and diversified strategies rather than facing business decline.
Miscellaneous
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Error 404: Architectural Memory in the Age of Algorithms

Architectural archives have always been instruments of power that determine what counts as architecture and how history is told, whether through institutional curation or digital algorithms.
fromBig Think
1 month ago

From myth to machine: The technological evolution of storytelling

I wanted to write a book about how the smartphone changed the world, but the more I researched, the clearer it became that phones were actually the latest step in this evolution of storytelling technology that stretches all the way back to prehistoric times.
Books
Media industry
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
3 weeks ago

Blocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web's Historical Record

Major newspapers are blocking the Internet Archive from preserving their websites, threatening decades of historical records that journalists and researchers depend on.
Podcast
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The surge of video podcasts raises an awkward question for the industry: Why do we still call them 'podcasts'?

The definition of 'podcast' has expanded from asynchronous talk radio to any episodic audio or video content with people speaking, making the original term increasingly obsolete as consumption shifts toward video-based formats.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Why every scientist needs a librarian

Academic libraries have transformed into dynamic research hubs offering expert librarianship, technologies, coding, maker spaces, and data support that accelerate scientific research.
UX design
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Virtual Museums: A Closer Look at This Exit Strategy

Virtual museums improve access but cannot fully replicate physical presence, and they pose accessibility, preservation, and trust challenges.
Web development
fromCmsreport
2 months ago

Preserving CMS Report: Why We Are Transitioning to a Permanent Archive

CMS Report will be transitioned into a permanent archive: no new content or updates will be published while existing material remains online and accessible.
Podcast
fromRAIN News
1 month ago

A landscape of listening

Podcasting in the U.S. continues significant growth, reaching diverse demographics—especially ages 25–44, males, Black and Hispanic listeners—with strong crossover between listening and watching.
History
fromTechRepublic
2 months ago

National Archives Embraces AI to Modernize Its Museum - TechRepublic

The National Archives uses AI recommendation-style portals to tag, organize, and surface existing historical records for personalized museum visits without generating new content.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Internet history is vanishing. Researchers want to save it

Preserve historical internet operational data to enable future analysis of network behavior, societal impact, and to prevent irreversible loss of critical measurements.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

We Do Not Just Consume Media, We Live Inside It!

Streaming media pervasively shapes perceptions, emotions, and behavior, requiring public understanding of media psychology to recognize manipulation, misinformation, and cognitive bias.
US news
fromNieman Lab
2 months ago

A scrappy story-sharing tool with local newsroom DNA gains traction

Plucky Wire provides a simple platform enabling local news organizations to find and share republishable stories, reducing costs and easing collaboration across publishers.
Marketing
fromThedrum
2 months ago

Let's think about video

Short-form video dominates digital campaigns and social platforms, while long-form remains valuable for in-depth, informational content when optimized across platforms.
Mindfulness
fromAlttextselfies
2 months ago

Alt Text Selfies

Alt text selfies are self-portrait descriptions that prioritize multisensory access, blending sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell to connect across distance.
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Wikimedia announces AI partners including Meta and Microsoft

As part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, parent company Wikimedia a slew of partnerships with AI-focused companies like Amazon, Meta, Perplexity, Microsoft and others. The deals are meant to alleviate some of the cost associated with AI chatbots accessing Wikipedia content in enormous volumes by giving the tech companies streamlined access. As noted by , the timeline on these deals is a little squirrely.
Artificial intelligence
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Where 'digital assets go to die' - signs that you might need a next gen DAM system

Next-generation DAM systems are essential to manage rapidly growing digital media, enable personalized modular content across channels, and drive online customer engagement.
fromNature
2 months ago

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

Within a couple of years of ChatGPT coming out, I had come to rely on the artificial-intelligence tool, for my work as a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany. Having signed up for OpenAI's subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, I used it as an assistant every day - to write e-mails, draft course descriptions, structure grant applications, revise publications, prepare lectures, create exams and analyse student responses, and even as an interactive tool as part of my teaching.
Privacy technologies
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Six more AI outfits sign for Wikimedia's fastest APIs

The org revealed the new partnerships in a post celebrating its 25th birthday, and which points out it is among the world's ten most-visited websites, and the only one to be run by a nonprofit. The post notes that 250,000 editors work on at least one Wikipedia article each month, and that editors make 324 changes each minute as they contribute to the 65 million-plus articles the site contains. 1.5 billion unique devices reach Wikipedia each month.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

In the age of AI, can art expertise be digitised?

Recently, AI decided that a painting long thought to be a copy of Caravaggio's The Lute Player is actually by the master, while another version of the same subject, previously thought to be authentic, is not. Both conclusions were disputed by the former Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. A similar debate erupted in March 2025 when AI declared that portions of The Bath of Diana, also long believed to be a copy, could have been painted by Peter Paul Rubens.
Arts
Digital life
fromThe Cipher Brief
1 month ago

Media Literacy Isn't Enough Anymore

Media literacy remains necessary but is insufficient; systemic and platform-level changes are required because AI, scale, and engagement design overwhelm individual judgment.
Software development
fromEngadget
2 months ago

A developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed

Xikipedia displays Simple English Wikipedia entries in a social-feed style, personalizing locally without collecting data to offer a less negative browsing alternative.
Science
fromColossal
2 months ago

'Making the Invisible Visible' Highlights an Ambitious Digitization Project at Harvard

Digitizing museum analog catalogs and microscope-slide invertebrate collections preserves fragile records and makes thousands of specimens accessible to researchers and the public.
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Dazed Media wants to know how 'cerebral content' propagates across the web

Dazed Media analyzes how cerebral aesthetic content spreads across platforms to inform advertisers and shape editorial-led sponsored storytelling.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

When Artists Lose Their Archives

An artist lost a storage unit and later discovered parts of their work were sold online without notification, stripping authorship and meaning.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Institutions are drowning in AI-generated text and they can't keep up

Generative AI is flooding institutions with synthetic submissions, overwhelming human review processes and prompting defensive closures, automated triage, and escalating AI-vs-AI arms races.
Marketing tech
fromdiacritical
2 months ago

An AI "Digital Twin" for the Performing Arts

Performing arts suffer from poor discovery due to static listings; personalized, dialog-driven AI experiences can reduce audience risk and increase meaningful engagement.
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

British Museum's A.I.-Generated Post Sparks Online Backlash

Taking time to take a closer look is always worthwhile,
Arts
fromDigiday
2 months ago

WTF is liquid content?

Publishers' adoption of generative AI is reducing the friction between content and format, making it easier for the same story to appear as shorter summaries, audio, or video, often in real time. To some publishers, a text article may soon be more of a vehicle for original reporting, not a final product. That information could become no longer available strictly in a static piece of content, but transformed into different shapes and formats, based on a reader's signals and preferences.
Media industry
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Archival Art Will Not Save Us

Archival work supports historical recovery and cultural self-understanding, but not every artwork must be archival and political work requires action beyond mere presence.
fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago

Education In Motion: The Shifting Shapes Of Digital Learning

Education has never been static, but digital learning has made that movement visible. What once looked like a straight line from curriculum to classroom now feels more like a living system: stretching, folding, responding, and reshaping itself around learners, teachers, technology, and policy. Digital learning is no longer a "format." It's a motion subtle at times, seismic at others, shifting shape as expectations evolve. And here's the quiet truth many are discovering: the biggest changes aren't about more technology. They're about different technologies.
Education
Artificial intelligence
fromDigiday
2 months ago

WTF is vibe coding?

Vibe coding lets creators use natural-language or voice prompts with generative AI to produce functional apps, websites, and digital products without traditional programming expertise.
Media industry
fromFast Company
2 months ago

How AI is forcing journalists and PR to work smarter, not louder

AI-driven answer engines will reshape how information is discovered and allocate value between journalism and PR, changing their roles and incentives.
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Adobe Acrobat can now generate presentations and audio podcasts from your documents

Adobe adds generative-AI features to PDF Spaces for presentation generation, collaborative file and note sharing, natural-language editing, and podcast creation.
fromNieman Lab
1 month ago

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here's how we rebuild it

If you've worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the "show your work" spirit was everywhere. Newsroom nerds shared code on GitHub, swapped tips on social media and unfurled long blogs guiding others on how to get things done. You might also have a vague sense that - like reaction GIFs, demotivational posters, and that guy who sang "Chocolate Rain" - you're seeing less of it these days.
Media industry
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