We were back. Audience was great, I enjoyed my lunchtime keynote interview with Wired editor Steven Levy.
Below are a few notes from the daylong unconference on the future of news for my own memory.
- “I can promise you that the AI intermediation of email is coming” Aram Zucker-Sharff
- It’s time for Technical.ly to have a stance on decentralized social media: Mastadon most purely, Bluesky does its own hosting; Threads wants to get there
- Jack Dorsey: Twitter should have been a protocol not a platform
- The fediverse is a decentralized network of independent social media servers that are connected by a common protocol: Mastadon prominently a part, but others can tag in
- Bluesky can subscribe with different algorithms
- First Twitter CTO wanted Twitter to be decentralized but Ev Williams overruled
- Nostr is an alternative protocol , many microblogging uses (Aram feels right now too many Bitcoin boosters, so maybe the protocol is cool but community isnt, in his estimation)
- Jack Dorsey didn’t like Bluesky’s moderation so started to back Noster project
- “I do not believe the internet will be as stable in the future as it was in the past” Aram
- Indie web: publish on your site, syndicate everywhere else (POSE)
- Our journalism and software are “crisis disciplines”: Aram
- Technical.ly is splitting our AI strategy into three: news-gathering, editorial creation and story distribution. Our policies will follow those lines
- Freedom of speech vs freedom of reach
- My AI steps: Play with the SEO thing to draft items that can support our sales marketing funnel (if it still scares the newsroom); Play with RAG concept discussing my business
