Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I am also grappling with this new reality. "Original reporting, news analysis, and a roundup of links. Those have been the three pillars of journalist Casey Newton's technology newsletter, Platformer, since it launched in 2017. But, Newton wrote Monday, two of them - link roundups and news analysis - may no longer work so well for his audience in a time of AI automation." With a fundraising campaign stalled at 15% of what I calculate I need to continue running this newsletter, I am learning to reconcile myself with the idea that people don't need it any more, and that it's time to - like Newton - rethink what I'm doing in the online space. But on the other hand, I don't want to lose out on the value producing the newsletter brings to me

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