Feminist Frequency 2020 Annual Report
▻https://feministfrequency.com/2021/01/19/feminist-frequency-2020-annual-report
We are elated to share our 2020 annual report with you! Over this remarkable past year, Feminist Frequency has shifted the scope of our work to include bold efforts to end abuse in the games […]
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Team Liquid Selects the Games Hotline as Recipient of $50k Victory Donation
▻https://feministfrequency.com/2021/02/03/team-liquid-selects-the-games-hotline-as-recipient-of-50k-victory
For the inaugural LCS Lock In tournament, Team Liquid came out on top, defeating Cloud9 in a best-of-five League of Legends series in the finals. As victors, Team Liquid not only won the grand prize […]
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Substack : how the game-changer turned poacher | Digital media | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/02/substack-how-the-game-changer-turned-poacher
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Substack has marketed itself aggressively to people such as Roughol as a new type of tech company, one that will let writers build their own brands and communities. The company offers software to help people set up free or paid-for newsletters and promises the people creating them that they can write what they want and that they own their own mailing list and can take it with them if they leave.
Initially, everything was great: Substack’s interface to make newsletters was much more intuitive than Mailchimp or other rivals and the company seemed keen to be friendly to small independent outlets such as Borderline, but then Substack started courting big-name writers and, with it, controversy.
Reports earlier this year revealed Substack has offered six-figure advances to a number of US writers to leave traditional media and go it alone on its platforms. Many are making more money than they ever did in traditional media, but concerns are emerging about what Substack is now, exactly. Is it a platform for hosting newsletters and helping people discover them? Or is it a new type of publication, one that relies on stoking the culture wars to help divisive writers build devoted followings?
The result of all this is that Substack finds itself in the middle of an identity crisis. Is it a cool online tool to help people outside legacy media build and write newsletters? Is it a publisher picking the journalists of the future? Or is it some combination of the two – and how much editorial control does it claim?
I don’t feel convinced that Substack has come up with something that is fundamentally new
Douglas McCabe, media analyst
Given its team offer some writers massive advances, while leaving others to work entirely off their own merits, they are making very similar hiring choices to those made by traditional editors. The company is also hoping investors value it as a fast-growing tech company, rather than as a dowdy old media company reliant on a large staff of journalists, web developers and back-room employees.
Substack rose to prominence among numerous rival newsletter services by positioning itself as a friend to people trying to set up solo media brands. The company takes a relatively small commission and to position itself as truly creator-friendly, it even started launching funds to help independent publishers tackle lawsuits.
But the bid to capture big-name writers changed the nature of the service. Where once Substack was a software tool, it started to become a brand in its own right, persuading big-name columnists to defect from traditional media and launch on Substack, perhaps changing how Substack itself was perceived.
If a company is talent-spotting for journalists and cherry-picking big names to offer them guaranteed minimum salaries of five or 10 times what most reporters could hope to earn, at what point does it stop being a technology company and start being just another new media outlet?
Covid-19 : à quoi vont ressembler les 35 vaccinodromes annoncés par le gouvernement ?
▻https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/actualite/france/covid-19-%c3%a0-quoi-vont-ressembler-les-35-vaccinodromes-annonc%c3%a9s-par-le-gouvernement/ar-BB1eQSRM
A Village Erased (▻https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/world/asia/jap...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12582610
A Village Erased
OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline (►https://ww...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12576159
OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline
#technology #security #bleeping_computer #bleepingcomputer #computers #news #education #updates #tech generated by pod_feeder_v2
Lifting Veil on Algeria War Trauma, France Eases Access to Archives...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12577128
Lifting Veil on Algeria War Trauma, France Eases Access to Archives
#classifiedinformationandstatesecrets #algerianwar195462 #historyacademicsubject #macronemmanuel1977 #algeria #france #news
Meldeportal zum Mindestlohnbetrug gestartet
▻http://www.ag-taxi.de/milobetrug.html
Mit einer neuen Internetseite soll dem Mindestlohnbetrug der Kampf angesagt werden. Unter www.mindestlohnbetrug.de können Hinweise auf Unternehmen gegeben werden, die ihre Beschäftigten um den gesetzlichen Mindestlohn von derzeit 9,50 Euro pro Stunde prellen. Die Hinweise werden an die für die Kontrollen zuständige Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit des Zolls weitergeleitet. Das Projekt hat der niedersächsische Bundestagsabgeordnete Victor Perli (LINKE) initiiert. Das Deutsche Institut für (...) #News
Meldeportal zum Mindestlohnbetrug gestartet
▻http://www.ag-taxi.de/Meldeportal-zum-Mindestlohnbetrug-gestartet.html
Mit einer neuen Internetseite soll dem Mindestlohnbetrug der Kampf angesagt werden. Unter www.mindestlohnbetrug.de können Hinweise auf Unternehmen gegeben werden, die ihre Beschäftigten um den gesetzlichen Mindestlohn von derzeit 9,50 Euro pro Stunde prellen. Die Hinweise werden an die für die Kontrollen zuständige Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit des Zolls weitergeleitet. Das Projekt hat der niedersächsische Bundestagsabgeordnete Victor Perli (LINKE) initiiert. Das Deutsche Institut für (...) #News
Why Japan Is Holding Back as the World Rushes Toward Electric Cars ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12571251
Why Japan Is Holding Back as the World Rushes Toward Electric Cars
#electricandhybridvehicles #nissanmotorco #toyotamotorcorp #hondamotorcoltd #japanautomobilemanufacturersassn #teslamotorsinc #japan #generalmotors #news
The Performance of Racial Passing (▻https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12550388
The Performance of Racial Passing
#2020tbookclub #raceandethnicity #blackpeople #discrimination #booksandliterature #larsennella #thevanishinghalfanovelbook #passingbook #news
#Newsflash mardi 2 mars 2021 : Appel aux dons pour la location du serveur pour les 6 prochains mois
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Bonsoir chères lectrices et chers lecteurs,
On s’y attendais par ce que le temps passe, mais je n’étais pas près, l’hébergeur nous réclame les 160€ de location pour les 6 prochains mois, j’en profite pour rappeler que le service Crashletter n’est pas reparti, car je n’ai pas pu payer les 86€ de l’abonnement et nous n’avons eu aucun don en ce sens.
Je vous informe aussi qu’on a une nouvelle amende Copytrack de 120€ à payer....
Aussi si vous appréciez Crashdebug.fr et sa liberté de ton, vous pouvez nous aider à passer le cap et bien démarrer l’année.
Merci par avance.
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Giant iceberg breaks off Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica (►https://www...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12535839
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Giant iceberg breaks off Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica
Image: New Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar images show a giant iceberg breaking off from the northern section of Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf
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Facebook va restaurer les contenus d’actualité en Australie
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2021/02/23/facebook-va-restaurer-les-contenus-d-actualite-en-australie_6070859_3234.htm
Le gouvernement a accepté d’amender la loi, décriée par Google et Facebook, visant à contraindre les géants de la tech à rémunérer les médias pour la reprise de leurs contenus. Facebook a fait marche arrière. Le réseau social a annoncé, mardi 23 février, la levée « dans les prochains jours » du blocage en Australie des contenus d’actualité. Le ministre australien des finances, Josh Frydenberg, et le directeur général de Facebook Australia, Will Easton, ont dit avoir trouvé un compromis sur un des points-clés (...)
Auf wired (▻https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/6990730
Auf wired entdeckt Brian Berrett die #RSS Feeds als Alternative zu #Newsfeeds in Sozialen Netzwerken wieder. Der Vorteil aus Sicht von RSS gegenüber sozialen Netzwerken wie #Twitter und #Facebook ist die einfache Chronologie, in der die Einträge angezeigt werden. Kein #Algorithmus versucht zu erraten, was dem Nutzer wichtig ist und was nicht, alle Einträge werden gezeigt, keine weggelassen.
Außerdem gibt es keine Abblenkung oder Manipulation, die dazu dient, mehr Zeit als nötig auf der Plattform (RSS Reader in diesem Fall) zu verbringen.
Da ich RSS selbst regelmäßig nutze (via #TinyTinyRSS), war dies für mich nichts neues. Interessant finde ich den Hinweis auf feedBase. Dort kann man seine RSS-Liste als OPML-Datei hochladen. So entsteht eine Netz von RSS-Feeds und Nutzern mit der Möglichkeit, (...)
Australie : Facebook bloque le partage d’articles, y compris pour les services de secours et de santé
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2021/02/17/en-signe-de-defi-au-gouvernement-et-aux-medias-facebook-pret-a-bloquer-les-i
Le groupe californien dénonce ainsi un projet de loi voulant forcer les plates-formes à rémunérer les médias pour la reprise de leurs contenus. Google a cédé. Facebook, lui, met ses menaces à exécution. Le géant des réseaux sociaux a restreint le partage d’articles et de vidéos d’information en Australie, en représailles à un projet de loi qui veut forcer les plates-formes à rémunérer les médias pour la reprise de leurs contenus. « Nous faisons face à un choix désagréable : essayer de nous conformer à une (...)
#publicité #législation #domination #censure #Facebook #NewsCorp #Google
Should Student Debt Be Canceled? (▻https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/1...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12473860
Should Student Debt Be Canceled?
#studentloans #collegesanduniversities #raceandethnicity #incomeinequality #bidenjosephrjr #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #news
Numbers, Speed, Mystery: The World of the Delivery Worker (https://...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12468022
Numbers, Speed, Mystery: The World of the Delivery Worker
Trial for Aung San Suu Kyi Begins in Secret (▻https://www.nytimes.co...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12466912
Trial for Aung San Suu Kyi Begins in Secret
#myanmar #courtsandthejudiciary #aungsansuukyi #winmyint #defenseandmilitaryforces #coupsdetatandattemptedcoupsdetat #politicsandgovernment #zawmintun #news
#Newsflash mardi 16 février 2021 : Appel au don pour l’abonnement annuel du service Crashletter
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Bonjour chères lectrices et chers lecteurs,
Je me permets de vous prévenir par ce que je voie des gens s’inscrire au service, or il se trouve que notre Crashletter quotidienne est suspendue depuis 3 semaines, (car je n’ai pas pu payer les 86€ de l’abonnement annuel).
Ça concerne environ 200 personnes, aussi si vous voulez que le service reparte rapidement, merci de faire un don
Dès qu’on arrive à 86€, je paye la facture du service pour l’année. Moi pour l’instant je suis bloqué (donc de mon côté ça attendra).
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Fedora 34: New Features and Release Date
#linux #fedora #opensource #news
Substack: five of the best from the niche newsletter platform | Culture | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/28/substack-five-of-the-best-from-the-niche-newsletter-platform
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Writers have embraced Substack to cut out the middle man. The result is an eclectic library of anything and everything
A woman at a vast, futuristic library.
Substack has taken the best elements of its predecessors to create a home for writers craving control and readers who want their words straight from the horse’s mouth. Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images
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Substack is best known as the newsletter platform that lured several well-known writers and journalists away from established news outlets this year.
Glenn Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan, formerly of the Intercept, Vox Media and New York Magazine respectively, have all jumped ship to sell their work directly to subscribers via the service.
Incorporating elements of Mailchimp and Patreon, Substack has variously been hailed as the future of the media industry, a home for writers who don’t want to be edited, and a place where those who have already made a name for themselves find success.
This is called a magazine. ▻https://t.co/9KyGkVvPY3
— T. Greer (@Scholars_Stage) November 15, 2020
The site boasts more than 100,000 niche newsletters about every subject imaginable. Below is a small selection of some of the best, compiled from the recommendations of friends, colleagues, random tweets and my own sleuthing.
Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack | Digital media | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/26/control-shift-why-newspaper-hacks-are-switching-to-substack
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Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack
John Naughton
John Naughton
An online platform where journalists sell content directly to subscribers is luring eminent voices away from traditional media
glenn greenwald working in his study in rio de janeiro
A new way of reaching people: the writer Glenn Greenwald, who has 1.5 million Twitter followers, has moved to Substack. Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP
Sat 26 Dec 2020 16.00 GMT
Way back in March, at the beginning of the first lockdown, I fell to wondering what a columnist, academic and blogger under house arrest might usefully do for the duration of his imprisonment. My eye fell on my blog, Memex 1.1, which has been a harmless presence on the web since the mid-1990s and a source of puzzlement to journalistic and academic colleagues alike. The hacks unanimously shared Dr Johnson’s view that “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money”, while my academic colleagues thought it peculiar to waste one’s energy writing anything that would not figure in scholarly citation indices. The idea that one might maintain a blog simply because one enjoyed doing it never crossed their minds.
So there it was, with a modest readership, which occasionally spiked as it caught some brief wave of attention. Given that many people were going to be locked down like me, I wondered if the regularity of receiving the blog as an email every morning might be welcome. The thought came from observing how Dave Winer’s wonderful blog, Scripting News, drew an even wider readership after he offered it as a daily email to subscribers. So I began looking for an easy way of doing something similar.
The obvious solution would be an email list service like Mailchimp, but that looked like hard work, so I opted for Substack, which made it really easy. My blog would be published and available on the web every day as usual, but every night the day’s version would be neatly packaged into an email and delivered at 7am the following morning to anyone who had subscribed. The only change I made was to include a daily five-minute audio diary – something I’d never done before.
It was such an obvious thing to do. But the results were surprising – and often gratifying. Two things in particular stood out. The first was that the level of reader “engagement” (the holy grail of surveillance capitalists) dramatically increased. People were reading the email version more intensively than its online counterpart: I could see that, because Substack told me which links had been most popular; and they signalled their reactions by “liking” things or by emailing me directly, pointing out errors or making suggestions about how a particular topic could be expanded or extended.
The biggest surprise, though, was how popular the audio diary was: it was consistently the most clicked-on link. And slowly, it dawned on me that audio seems to reach parts of the human psyche that other media cannot. Because the email was coming from a mailing-list server, some subscribers’ spam filters would occasionally block it, and on several occasions I received alarmed emails from readers who wondered if I had succumbed to Covid. But there was clearly something about the regularity of hearing a familiar voice every morning that was important.
It was founded in 2018 and backed by the big venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. As of July this year it had around 100,000 people paying various sums for at least one of the newsletters on its books. Its sudden prominence may be a portent of significant changes in our media, as traditional journalistic outlets decline and most of those that thrive online tend to be driven by clickbait. Given that, Substack offers a new option for journalists.
Suppose you have 1,000 paid subscribers, each paying $5 a month. That’s an annual income of $60,000, less the 10% that Substack levies. Then imagine you’re Glenn Greenwald, who has 1.5m Twitter followers and has just moved to Substack. Even if only a fraction of them sign up, well… do the maths. Lots of other prominent journalists and writers have – for example Andrew Sullivan and Zeynep Tufekci, to name just two I know: they have seen a way of being liberated from the demands of editorial gatekeepers or advertising-led clickbait while getting paid. “If you charge $10 a month or $5 a month, or $50 a year – if you can get 1,000 or 2,000 people to pay for that,” one of Substack’s founders told Buzzfeed, “you’ve suddenly got enough to go as an individual.”
#Blog #Newsletter #Substrack #Néo_journalisme #Editorialistes
@fil Retour vers le futur ?
The World News
TheWorldNews.net is the world’s first and largest decentralized news aggregator, built on blockchain technology using neural networks.
The main goal of the project is development of the largest decentralized anti-fake news platform in the world. With the help of neural networks the project will provide people around the world with verified and trustworthy news in all languages and in one place. At the same time, no one will ever be able to remove or otherwise influence the news as a concept.
TheWorldNews.net is an international news agency registered in the EU, and it is managed by the “World News LLC”.
The Substackerati, by Clio Chang - Columbia Journalism Review
▻https://www.cjr.org/special_report/substackerati.php
(Substack = Uber for journalism)
Newsletters go back at least as far as the Middle Ages, but these days, with full-time jobs at stable media companies evaporating—between the 2008 recession and 2019, newsroom employment dropped by 23 percent—Substack offers an appealing alternative. And, for many, it’s a viable source of income. In three years, Substack’s newsletters—covering almost every conceivable topic, from Australian Aboriginal rights to bread recipes to local Tennessee politics—have drawn more than two hundred fifty thousand paid subscribers. The top newsletter authors can earn six figures, an unheard-of amount for freelance journalists.
(...) They have a system, created by a former employee named Nathan Baschez, that measures a Twitter user’s engagement level—retweets, likes, replies—among their followers. This person is then assigned a score on a logarithmic scale of fire emojis. Four fire emojis is very good—Substack material. Best and McKenzie will reach out and suggest that the person try a newsletter. The four-fire-emoji method turned up Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, whose Substack, Letters from an American—political with a historical eye—is now the second-top-paid.
(...) “Substack is not the sort of thing that is going to create a sustainable next phase, but it can open the door (...) “GoFundMe can help us see things we’re not seeing and put money where it would not go,” Schneider said. “Of course, we don’t want a GoFundMe society.”
(...) as you peruse the lists, something becomes clear: the most successful people on Substack are those who have already been well-served by existing media power structures. Most are white and male; several are conservative. Matt Taibbi, Andrew Sullivan, and most recently, Glenn Greenwald—who offer similar screeds about the dangers of cancel culture and the left—all land in the top ten.
(...) It’s a bit of a brain twister: Substack, eager to attract customers over Mailchimp or WordPress, has begun to look like it’s reverse engineering a media company. But all the while, its founders insist that they simply provide a platform. By not acknowledging the ways in which they are actively encouraging (and discouraging) certain people to use Substack, and the ways they benefit monetarily from doing so, they obscure their role as publishers.
(...) As more journalists embark on independent careers, the need for support infrastructure, beyond Substack, will become increasingly urgent. Labor organizing, the traditional method for making an industry more equitable, will have to adapt to the new conditions, especially as more and more industries embrace the independent-contractor model. Accountability is harder when the company you work for refuses to acknowledge what field it’s operating in. Yet people like Peck are still workers, even if they lack a boss.
Chez #substack les auteurs ont accès aux informations de leurs abonnés ce qui n’est pas le cas des personnes travaillant pour Uber et d’autres plateformes.
Il faudrait tester ce qui se passe quand un auteur à succès essaye de partir de chez substack en emmenant tous ses abonnés.
#journalisme #newsletter #USA #plateformes #disruption #startup