Stephen Downes

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The Cookie Monster won’t be coming for the web’s most popular browser for another year-plus
An Australian court ruling makes publishers legally responsible for every idiot Facebook user who leaves a comment
Elon Musk thinks he's got a major win-win for news publishers with micropayments
When it comes to misinformation, partisanship overpowers fact-checking, over and over again
What's it take to make a great daily newsletter? Axios' Kendall Baker is planning to bring one to Yahoo Sports
Elon Musk took the headlines away from Twitter - but you can bring them back with this one weird trick
Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.)
Going back to the well: CNN.com, the most popular news site in the U.S., is putting up a paywall
Wired’s un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of its role in the information ecosystem
What kind of stories are best at turning local news readers into subscribers? It’s hard news, not the soft stuff