Best Practices
TikTok IRL
Marissa Meizz became a TikTok meme after her friends excluded her from a birthday party. She decided to do something about it.
Yelp COVID Labels
Know ahead of time if a restaurant or store will require proof that you've received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Instagram Blocking
Instagram announced a series of features designed to protect users — particularly celebrities and high-profile creators — from hateful comments posted by users who are not among their regular followers.
Brain To Computer Input
The BCI was implanted over his speech motor cortex.
Twitter Redesign
Among the changes is the implementation of Twitter’s new font, “Chirp,” and changes to various elements that will make them more high-contrast, among other things.
Notice anything different?
— Twitter Design (@TwitterDesign) August 11, 2021
Today, we released a few changes to the way Twitter looks on the web and on your phone. While it might feel weird at first, these updates make us more accessible, unique, and focused on you and what you’re talking about.
Let’s take a deeper look. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/vCUomsgCNA
Problems We Solve
Rather than describing your services and capabilities, address the pain you relieve.
Worst Practices
Snopes Retracts
The fact-checking site has banned David Mikkelson, who owns half the company, from writing articles after a BuzzFeed News investigation outed his plagiarism.
Kirk Cousins’ Disastrous Anti-Vaxx Media Availability
Associated Press reports that the Minnesota Vikings are the least-vaccinated teams in the NFL and starting quarterback Kirk Cousins is one of the unvaccinated.
#KirkCousins’ dad, Don Cousins, lead pastor of Discovery Church in Orlando, preached last week that Satan, like Hitler did, “has an agenda,” and is behind textbook changes, cancel culture, statue removal, and the current (Black Lives Matter) platform taking place in “pro sports.” pic.twitter.com/VSnExkgfyo
— Resist Programming 🛰 (@RzstProgramming) September 2, 2020
Twitter's Cropping Bias
Twitter Engineering held an algorithmic AI bias bounty challenge. The results are revealing - and helpful.
Drumroll please! Our first-ever algorithmic bias bounty at #defcon wrapped this weekend, and the winners were announced at yesterday’s #defcon @aivillage_dc workshop. ICYMI, you can watch a recording of the presentation here https://t.co/0cCwSAzSAq
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) August 9, 2021
Anti-Vax Doctors On Doximity
Doctors on the industry networking site are finding their news feed inundated with anti-vaccine comments from fellow physicians.
Smiles
Subway Melodies
Another fabulous multi-media piece in the NY Times on the melody of subway sounds as doors close around the world.
Shiny New Stuff
Projects
B.L.'s Project
- Love, Dog Magazine - B.L. will be curating content for new publication that comes from dogs’ point of view. Launching September.
David's Project
The Reputation Algorithm LinkedIn Live stream every Tuesday at 7 PM CST on David's LinkedIn profile. He discusses how algorithms use the signals generated by online activity to interpret and represent our reputation.
Pro Tips
YouTube Auto Chapters
Chapters are now enabled by default for new uploads. If you add manual chapters, those will replace any automatic chapters.
Google Page Experience Report
These new reports give us more information to prepare for the new timeline for the page experience update rollout.
Weekly Numbers
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