AI Rises, Social Media Falls, and Content Creators Adapt


This time digilingit explores the evolving landscape of technology and content creation. While social media giants like Twitter grapple with declining user engagement and content moderation issues, platforms like LinkedIn experiment with new formats to stay relevant. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence takes center stage with Google's potential subscription-based search using advanced AI and the introduction of AI-powered video creation tools. Content creators can find solace in the enduring value of blogging, with tips for generating fresh ideas, and the growing importance of curation in a world saturated with information.

8 Cunning Ways to Increase Facebook Page Engagement
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Twitter/X's ChatGPT rival Grok is now open source. Here's how to get it.
Twitter/X's AI chatbot Grok is now open source. In a better timeline, I wouldn't have to know any of those words.Last Monday, Twitter/X owner and xAI founder Elon Musk announced that Grok would soon go open source, making its source code freely available for anyone to access and modify. Now the company has acted on that plan, releasing Grok-1's base...
15 Creative Blogging Ideas to Energise Your Business Blog
Are you looking for blog post ideas to share on your business website? Want to know the best ways to improve your posts to maximise views and shares? We share 15 blogging ideas to get you started in this infographic. Here are a few that make the list: “How to” guides List posts Visual posts Statistics “Ask the expert” posts Check out the...
just another blog
I write this blog mostly for myself, though it’s great to have people join in and create conversations. “But there’s also a part of writing, of online writing particularly, blogging, that’s all the humble without the security, that’s full of risk, that’s vulnerable even if what you’re saying isn’t necessarily personal or deeply meaningful or anything...
Instagram just limited the political content you see. You can change that.
It looks like Meta is distancing itself — and users — from political content even more.It's easy to see why. Social media sites have been rife with misinformation and disinformation during past elections. It seems Meta's response to these egregious mistakes is to make political content rarer on its platforms. Users have noticed that Instagram and Threads...
Spotify is dabbling in online learning
Spotify is testing the waters of online learning, with video-based courses launched on the audio streaming platform today.Available only in the UK for now, Spotify's video courses are the result of partnerships with educational platforms including Skillshare, BBC Maestro, PLAYvirtuoso, and Thinkific. The courses cover four areas of learning, described...
X / Twitter use is down by nearly a quarter since the Musk Era started, report says
An uptick in bots, a rise in hate speech, and content moderation policies that are unevenly applied to the social media platform's users.These are just some of the issues that have plagued X, formerly known as Twitter, since Elon Musk acquired the company back in October 2022.Now, roughly a year and a half later, it appears that Musk's X has lost almost...
LinkedIn is testing a TikTok-like video feed
LinkedIn is testing a short-form video feed, following in the footsteps of so many other apps that are trying to be like TikTok. TikTok, home to over a billion users, has sent social media apps scrambling for years. Instagram, YouTube, and even Netflix have tried to mimic TikTok's winning formula: the app's vertical video feed and the way it happens...
Yahoo leaps toward AI-powered news with Artifact acquisition
Artifact delivered curated content and categories based on your news-reading habits.
The new Google search powered by next-gen AI may be subscription-only
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our sovereign territory
Joan Westenberg promotes the idea of POSSE (publish on your own site & syndicate elsewhere) or what I have called social media’s home base — blogs. This may be just another blog, but it’s mine. Westenberg also promotes real simple syndication (RSS). So do I. Therefore, the idea that, “curation is the last hope of intelligent discourse” resonated...
Beeper
Automattic, Apr 09, 2024 Do you sometimes feel like you're just being played? A communications app called Beeper came out of beta today, meaning anyone can use it, no invitation needed. And it also launched an Android app! It was enough to make Alan Levine say "This is cool!" But before we could even send...
Google Workspace gets new generative AI features, including an AI-powered video creation app
With Google Vids, you can collaboratively write, produce, and edit videos in one app with the help of AI.

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