'Go back to Kirribilli': Morrison heckled by angry residents in Cobargo
Residents in the fire-ravaged town heckled and yelled at the PM as he was filmed making a quick getaway into a government car.
Emergency services minister to return as bushfire risks rise
Emergency services minister David Elliott will return to Sydney on Friday morning after cutting short his European holiday.
How to spot a bot (or not)
First Draft – The main indicators of online automation, co-ordination and inauthentic activity. “First Draft has put together a number of indicators that might suggest — but not proof — automated activity online. Bot detection is no simple task…From talking with academics and researchers, studying the work of others, and carrying out our owninvestigations, First Draft has put together a list of indicators to help anyone identify suspicious online activity. The list of indicators is broken down by category: the account’s pattern of activity, account information, content posted by the account, and network of other accounts it may be a part of. Within each category are different metrics which are red flags for automation…”
The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing BuzzFeedNews: “…The internet of the 2010s will be defined by social media’s role in the 2016 election, the rise of extremism, and the fallout from privacy scandals like Cambridge Analytica. But there’s another, more minor theme to the decade: the gradual dismantling and dissolution of an older internet culture. This purge comes in two forms: sites or services shutting down or transforming their business models. Despite the constant flurries of social startups (Vine! Snapchat! TikTok! Ello! Meerkat! Peach! Path! Yo!), when the dust was blown off the chisel, the 2010s revealed that the content you made — your photos, your writing, your texts, emails, and DMs — is almost exclusively in the hands of the biggest tech companies: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or Apple…”
New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof was one of the first to start blogging for one of the most well-known media companies in the world. Yet on December 8th, he declared his blog was being shut down, writing, “we’ve decided that the world has moved on from blogs—so this is the last post here.”
The death knell of blogs might seem surprising to anyone who was around during their heyday. Back in 2008, Daniel W. Drezner and Henry Farrell wrote in Public Choice, “Blogs appear to be a staple of political commentary, legal analysis, celebrity gossip, and high school angst.” A Mother Jones writer who “flat out declared, ‘I hate blogs’…also admitted, ‘I gorge myself on these hundreds of pieces of commentary like so much candy.'”
Blogs exploded in popularity fast. According to Drezner and Farrell, in 1999, there were an estimated 50 blogs dotted around the internet. By 2007, a blog tracker theorized there were around seventy million. Yet, a popular question today is whether blogs still have any relevance. A quick Google search will yield suggested results, “are blogs still relevant 2016,” “are blogs still relevant 2017,” and “is blogging dead.”
28 Little-Known Blogging Statistics to Help Shape Your Strategy in 2019
As someone who runs a blogging company I am always very curious about the trends that blogging itself is undergoing.
This is especially important to me as a lot of people look to this website for information about best practices when it comes to our much-loved medium.
And something that has been popping up more and more over the last few years is whether or not blogging is finally dead (or at least dying).
Today I want to show you some interesting data that might help you determine for yourself whether or not you want to keep putting time, money and effort into your blog.
Let’s take a look.
Is blogging dead? That depends…
IS BLOGGING FINALLY DEAD?