Links Jan 20-26, 2019
Tuesday, Jan 22, 2019
What would an "internet" emoji look like? 🔗 emojipedia.com
"A newspaper: how people used to read news from the previous day prior widespread internet access." . [Editor's note: Let's try this again, "A newspaper: how people
"In response to Facebook’s announcement this week, UK journalist James Ball argued in CJR that not only was it wrong for technology companies to fund journalism, it was also unnecessary for them to be paying reparations to an industry which had been too slow and arrogant to save itself." cjr.com
Life After Working Remotely: "In fact, researchers have found that a face-to-face request can be as effective as sending 34 email requests, meaning you might be more productive now that you can pop over to a co-worker’s desk and ask in person for whatever you need." medium.com
"While requesters underestimated compliance in face-to-face contexts, replicating previous research, they overestimated compliance in email contexts." sciencedirect.com
End of Google News in EU? When it shut in Spain, @Susan_Athey found it reduced online "news consumption by about 20% ... and it reduces page views on publishers... by 10%. This decrease is concentrated around small publishers while large publishers do not see significant changes" https://t.co/vfnnt3DqWt
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) January 22, 2019
"The European Union’s Copyright Directive will give publishers the right to demand money from the Alphabet Inc. unit, Facebook Inc. and other web platforms when fragments of their articles show up in news search results, or are shared by users." bloomberg.com
Monday, Jan 21, 2019
9 Surprsingly Simple Ways to Get People to Respond to Your Email: fastcompany.com
Sunday, Jan 20, 2019
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