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As the Vice President of Strategy at Xebia Microsoft Services, Rocky leads the vision and direction of the company's software development solutions and services. He brings extensive expertise in framework design and implementation, distributed systems architecture, and cloud and container technologies, helping clients achieve their business goals and deliver value to their customers.   He is also the creator of CSLA .NET, an open-source development framework that enables developers to build scalable, maintainable, and secure object-oriented applications. As an accomplished author, he has written multiple books on the subject and frequently shares his insights at major conferences worldwide. He is honored to be a member of the Microsoft Regional Director and MVP programs and serves as co-chair of Visual Studio Live! as well as chair of the Cloud & Containers Live conferences. His passion lies in advancing the software industry and empowering developers to create better software.   Topics of Discussion: [3:30] Rockford shares his first job experience at an independent software vendor (ISV) building software to dispatch and manage the delivery of ready-mix concrete trucks. [8:30] The evolution of software and its connection to real-world processes. [9:53] The impact of technology advancements, such as miniaturization and material science, on modern software applications. [12:40] The influence of AI on software architecture and decision making. [19:15] Rockford about the importance of open-source libraries and personal projects in software development. [21:35] How does one become aware of what's available these days? [23:14] Rockford suggests using RSS readers, curated feeds, and platforms like Feedly and Mastodon to stay informed about industry developments. [27:06] The upside to blogging and microblogging. [28:25] Importance of sharing knowledge and expertise. [29:19] Expertise through teaching and sharing. [32:19] Impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on Coding. [38:22] Infrastructure challenges with AI. [40:21] Legacy software modernization. [40:52] Career advice for leaders and recognizing it as its own career path.   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo Azure & DevOps Podcast: Rocky Lhotka: CSLA - Episode 210 CSLA.NET Rockford on LinkedIn Rockford Lhotka Rockford's Blog Feedly Morning Dew — Alvin Ashcroft Drive by Daniel Pink  Visual Studio Live! Tunisia DevDays   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

Today I'm speaking with Ryan Pearcy, founder of Digital Transformers and co-host of DigiTools in a Cruel World Background: From theoretical physicist to chartered accountant with a passion for cloud technology From Theory to Tech: Ryan shares his journey from theoretical physics to founding Digital Transformers, helping accounting firms streamline systems and gain smarter insights Digital Transformation vs. App Advisory: Why true transformation is about processes, not just plugging in apps Fixing the Wild West: Ryan's mission to bring quality, accreditation, and structure to digital advisory services within the profession Partnering with ICAEW: Efforts to integrate digital transformation into formal accounting practice standards AI's Impact: How AI is reshaping client relationships—from advice to assurance—and why pricing models need to evolve Top Tools Mentioned:  FYI, FuseSign, Xero – for practice and financial management ApprovalMax – to streamline approvals and bring in purchase order controls Addfin – flexible payment options Fathom – advanced reporting Active Workpapers – modernising workpaper processes Pro Tips for Firms: Start with expense management automation, consider phased system rollouts, and never underestimate the value of post-implementation support Stay Ahead: Ryan recommends using tools like Feedly and following communities like Digital Disruptors to keep pace with evolving tech Get Involved: Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%8E%99%EF%B8%8F-ryan-pearcy-a3883a34/  Follow the Digital Disruptors newsletter and live sessions Listen to the DigiTools in ACCruel World podcast   Accounting Apps newsletter: http://accountingapps.io/ Accounting Apps Mastermind: https://www.facebook.com/groups/XeroMasterMind  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/HeatherSmithAU/  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ANISEConsulting   

In today's episode, Sarah shares her top 10 (plus maybe a bonus!) Planning + Planning Adjacent Tools! For specific links, visit https://theshubox.com/organize! 1) Kokuyo Campus Notebooks 2) Uniball Jetstream Pens (0.5 and 0.38 size) 3) Zebra Mildliners in pastel colors - especially used to create little squares for checkboxes! 4) Apple's Screen Time App + Widget 5) Stalogy Short Sticky Notes (plus bonus mention: Midori Sticky Notes Monthly Block) 6) The Essential Calendar (Sarah is an affiliate, so you can use code BESTLAIDPLANS or visit https://www.theessentialcalendar.com/BESTLAIDPLANS for 10% off) 7) Apple Notes, especially for tracking travel docs and kid-related frequent reference 8) Strava to track running 9) Feedly for blog reading 10) Creating podcast playlists 11) Erin Condren Whiteboard (Custom Color Weekly Schedule Wall Organization Center) SPONSORS: Prose: Custom skin and haircare that works! For an exclusive trial offer of 50% off your first haircare subscription order, visit prose.com/plans. Green Chef: Thrive all year with clean, easy meals from Green Chef. Visit greenchef.com/bestlaidfree and use code bestlaidfree for free salads for 2 months plus 50% off your first box! PrepDish: Convenient meal plans, recipes, and shopping lists to reduce your weekly mental load! Visit prepdish.com/plans for your first 2 weeks, FREE Mint Mobile: Low-cost wireless phone service – a great way to save every single month! Learn more at mintmobile.com/BLP IXL: Tailored and effective online learning (my kids have used this for years as part of their school curriculum)! Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at IXL.com/PLANS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Dave Sobel dives into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI) and its practical applications in content creation. He shares insights from a recent presentation on how managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers are leveraging AI. Sobel emphasizes the importance of AI as a tool that enhances his workflow, allowing him to produce a daily news show efficiently while maintaining a personal touch in content curation. Sobel outlines his workflow for preparing the daily news show, which includes gathering news stories through RSS feeds and utilizing AI tools like Feedly for story grouping and translation. He explains how he organizes the stories in Notion, where AI assists in summarizing content according to his specific preferences. This meticulous process ensures that the stories are presented in a readable format, making it easier for him to create scripts for the show. The episode also highlights Sobel's use of various AI tools throughout the content creation process, including Grammarly for language refinement and custom GPT models for generating headlines and crafting the "why do we care" segments. He discusses the importance of human oversight in the AI-assisted workflow, ensuring that every piece of content aligns with his standards and voice. This collaborative approach allows him to maintain quality while benefiting from the speed and efficiency that AI provides. Towards the end of the episode, Sobel introduces an intriguing experiment involving AI-generated video and voice. He challenges his producer, Sharon, to identify which of three video segments features his real voice versus AI-generated content. This engaging segment not only showcases the advancements in AI technology but also raises important questions about authenticity and transparency in content creation. Sobel concludes by inviting audience feedback on the appropriate use of AI in his work, emphasizing his commitment to maintaining a human element in all his content. Jump to the AI Taste Test: https://www.youtube.com/live/nJPMIV0hP-Y?si=kP9fxhvg0SgFbS8I&t=598 All our Sponsors: https://businessof.tech/sponsors/ Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/Looking for a link from the stories? The entire script of the show, with links to articles, are posted in each story on https://www.businessof.tech/ Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mspradio/ Want to be a guest on Business of Tech: Daily 10-Minute IT Services Insights? Send Dave Sobel a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/businessoftech Want our stuff? Cool Merch? Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com Follow us on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/YouTube: https://youtube.com/mspradio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessoftechBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/businessof.tech

**One of the best ways to ignite your own cozy FIRE is to live life as a lazy digital nomad. And all you need to do is browse the Internet and type things on your keyboard. We're lighting a FIRE the easy way on the ProcrastiN8r Podcast 2 weeks ago (lvl 11. I said 10 but it's 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record the whole thing) we talked about how to FIND your niche. Today we're looking at.... Top 10 Ways on  how to WRITE CONTENT for your niche...with as little effort as possible Without further ado, let's BURN...right into it You can't just blog to everybody! Blogging to everybody is blogging to nobody. Find. Your. Niche. NEWSJACKING (or as I call it “Procrasi-logging) involves finding a relevant trending topic and repurposing it for your own blog 10. Look at Your Competition AppSumo Look up a topic, then see the top articles related to that keyword View social media share stats for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit as well as Total Engagement. Evergreen score (how long after it's published is it still being shared?) Take a look at magazine websites (headlines, images, language/slang used) Subscribe to top content creators in your niche. To find blogs, get an RSS Reader like Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, or Flipboard Listen to podcasts. Watch YouTube and Twitch. 9. Read the News Search Google News for a topic related to your niche and look at the top articles. Go to a site like AllTop or Reddit to find topic specific news (niche specific) Look at an article, video, or podcasts as if you're in the room talking to them in a conversation. What can you add to the conversation? What insight is missing? Can you add a joke or something funny? 8.See What People Are Talking About and How They Are Engaging RedditList Type keyword related to niche, find relevant subreddits You could look at the official Reddit as well to find But Redditlist includes Subscriber rank (compared to other subreddits) and subscriber growth. Reddit list does NOT include all subreddits. Search relevant hashtags on Twitter, groups or Pages on Facebook, Pins on Pinterest, stories and posts on Instagram. See which posts are getting the most engagement and what type of emotional reaction the commenters are having. Write content that purposely sparks that emotion in your language (anger, sadness, joy, laughter, fear, etc.) Look at the comments of what people are saying on reddit, blog posts, and news sites. Pay attention to what's happening in the conversation. Are there points you agree with and could build upon with your own spin or maybe something you disagree with. 7. Find Out What People Are ASKING About What do people in your niche want to know? What are some common problems or concerns? Attend Livestreams and Webinars. Take notes not only on the content itself but What are people asking? What kind of comments are they saying? Look at FAQs of sites within your niche  and build content answering them in your own words. (eg. There might be “How do I get rid of background noise like fans in my audio?” on a software like Audacity or Adobe Audition or “How do I promote my brand on Facebook” on a site related to online marketing or “How do I receive dividends?” on a stock exchange site/app) 6. Always C&P Participate in forums and Reddit discussions yourself. Comment on FB posts, YouTube videos, Instagram photos. Answer questions on Quora, ehow, or Yahoo Answers. Amazon and other shopping sites are great if your niche is more product focused; you can look at the reviews and asked questions. Copy and Paste your own comments into a note taking app like Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Dropbox Paper,  or Google Keep. Tag it with relevant tags and give it a title so you'll remember the gist of what you're saying at a glance. Include a link to the comments. Color code it to make it easy to find in the future Remember: it's important to ALWAYS copy & paste your comment BEFORE you even post it, maybe even create a note first and copy it from there. Because if someone deletes your comment or their post  or changes the privacy settings or blocks you (or shuts down the website altogether if it's a forum/blog), it's gone FOREVER. You can't necessarily rely on the Web Archive.org. Keep your own records of the thing you say online related to your niche. You'll thank me later. 5. Save It For Later Take advantage of Pinterest's “secret boards” to collect ideas for blogs or craft projects in the future Similarly, you can save links, images, and videos on FB's Save for Later feature. You can change your privacy settings for a specific post you create so “Only You” can see it then just save it for later. You can Save Reddit posts and comments. Save articles you find on the web & you plan to re-write or read/comment on with the click of a button  using a bookmarking app like Evernote Webclipper, Pocket, Pinboard, or Instapaper. You can also just use the built-in bookmarking feature in your browser, since nowadays you can signin to Chrome or FireFox or Edge or whatever and sync your bookmarks and history across multiple devices. 4. Chat it up! In your daily life, you talk to your friends and family about the things you like. Take note of the points made in the conversation or use the recording app on your phone. The note apps (google Keep, etc) also allows to save voice notes. Or heck, record the conversation (with permission, don't be a creep) on your phone. Start a forum topic and see where the discussion leads. Repurpose it for a blog post. When you reach enough notoriety and level of trust and authority, people will come to you with questions on social media. Actually reach out and talk to people. Hit them up in their DMs. Note the type of questions they're asking you. And if you're not established as a source of authority in your niche yet: Find people that are. Interview guests. Record it then transcribe it, using the autotranscibe tool Scribie. All you do is ask questions and they give answers. You don't even have to know anything. 3. Share It Write a quick blurb about a video or photo or infographic and share it as a post You can even re-word top rated comments already said on other sites. This is one of the laziest ways to create content. Find something already being liked and shared then make a comment similar to one that's also being liked/upvoted/gilded in your blog post. 2. Rinse & Repeat it Find a way to recycle old content, dig it back up and make it look a bit different by re-wording it. This works well if your in a niche that requires advice. You'll find yourself repeating the same advice over and over again. But that's okay, our brains learn from repeated information and stimuli. Use an online thesaurus to get suggestions for alternative words to use in your writing. You can also take a specific quote from an interview and do a deep dive/analysis of it. All that is is rewording what the person said in several different ways. The only thing you are doing is taking previously written or spoken words and rearranging them or replacing them with similar words. You simply express the content using different vocabulary. See what I did there? 1. Go Behind the Scenes Show pictures of your office, recording setup, gear, etc. Show things from your personally life (the game you're playing, the movie you're watching, the pizza you're eating, etc.) You should only do this on occasion. The site is about your niche and not your personal diary. 0. Talk about what you already talked about but do it a bit different Self explanatory. You get the point now. What to Avoid Writing: Verbatim (word for word) Fake News (unless that's your niche) Sounding boring How to Find Your Niche the Easy Way I said this episode was Lvl 10, but it's actually Lvl 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record and fix it. Meh whatever. You'll figure it out. Get Free Images for Your Blog: FreePik NeedPix**

This is the final episode of our So Easy Social Media series. Learn how to automatically post to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram so you don't have to login each day What we'll cover:Automate your social media accounts so you can be “passively active” on social media. Be active for your followers without even thinking about or worrying about what to post next. Gather Posts The memes, the quotes, the questions, the answers on Pocket, Google Bookmarks Remember to provide value Don't make posts just to post. Make post that engage Your goal is not to have presence on social media, but to have influence Should you cross post? You could set up an autoschedule for ONE platform then just have it auto cross post across the rest of them Lazy, easy BUT...a post effective on one platform may not go so well on others In general, Be on the platform you are posting. You can cross post some posts though, and there's an easy an automatic way to do that we'll get to with the IFTTT app Setting up Cross-Posting Facebook.com/Twitter Anything you post on FB (you can link your page on FB or profile) will auto-tweet To cross post FROM Instagram, just connect your account; there's a toggle option when you post Cross post from Instagram to FB works well actually, but don't cross post every post in case people follow you on multiple platforms. Instagram to Twitter though does NOT show pic and only gives (shortened) caption & a link, terrible engagement. You have to manually create a Tweet & re-upload the pic, unless you use software, which we'll get to. You can also autoshare your YouTube likes, comments, and uploads https://www.youtube.com/account_sharing Scheduling Posts: Be consistent (without the obligation of actually being consistent). Keep your post time around the same time You can procrastinate, wait until the last minute to do all your post for the next month or two in about an hour Downside of Autoscheduled Posts: Cannot post multiple photos or albums in posts Cannot post stories Cannot schedule retweets or Facebook “shares” (you have to use a 3rd party app) There's a LIMIT to the amount of auto scheduled posts (varies per platform or third party app used) Facebook Scheduled Posts Built in option on FB (to the left of the post button) On your Group: Moderate > Scheduled Posts On your Page: Publishing Tools > Scheduled Posts Facebook only (cross-post from Twitter does not pick up scheduled posts) Cannot post albums (multiple photos) or events Min of 30 mins. Max 2 months. Twitter Scheduled Posts (Tweet Deck) http://www.tweetdeck.com Official Twitter autoschedule Go to Tweetdeck.com and it'll redirect you to Tweetdeck.Twitter.com Basically, Twitter with a different interface (for marketers or Twitter addicts) Create a new tweet and click “schedule Tweet” This will open a new panel where you can view all your current scheduled Tweets Alternatively… Alpha Post Android Only Twitter Only Instagram No first party/built-in scheduled/auto post. Bettr Social Some “Instagram “scheduling apps” only send you a notification to post at the time you schedule. You then MANUALLY post it. But this one is fully automated. App only (both Android & iOS). No computer browser. PreviewApp Unlimited Posts Basic Analytics Repost Browse 50,000 stock images schedule video schedule albums Requirements of tSocial media Management apps Available for FREE Allows you to autpost on multiple platforms Recur Post: Up to 3 total Accounts Slack Social Unlimited Social profiles Limit 10 posts per day Buffer 3 total accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram LinkedIn) Up to 10 posts in queue Works with IFTTT Later 1 Profile per platform No video, multi photos, or tagging in free plan https://later.com/pricing/ HootSuite Limit of 30 scheduled posts 3 social media accounts Crowdfire 1 account per platform 10 scheduled posts limit Blog2Social Wordpress plugin 1 account per platform IFTTT - THE automation app Alternative: Zapier, Huginn Open Source on GitHub Create “recipes” (basically programming 101) to automate things 1. How to Create a Recipe Browse suggested recipes. Connect to different channels/apps Then choose a Trigger Finally choose an Action The Social Media services that work with IFTTT: Facebook (profiles, pages, and groups) Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Reddit Tumblr YouTube Pinterest Some channels Pocket Soundcloud Gmail Google Calendar Evernote Buffer Craigslist Dropbox Feedly 2. Recommended IFTT Recipes to Make Social Media So Easy Share/Tweet after uploading a podcast episode to your feed Share/Tweet after posting a blog (WordPress, Weebly) Build Twitter lists of people using a specific hash tag Auto tweet/share when a certain article of a hashtag on Feedly (or other RSS reader) posts Thank new followers for following you and include a link to your most recent artcile or video or ebook - requires Buffer Auto cross post when using a specific hash tag. This is great so you don't cross post everything. Get notified via e-mail or text when a specific influencer or competitor or news source posts Get a text/e-mail when someone comments on your post or tags you Upload videos from YouTube to Facebook (or create a new Weebly/WordPress site post) Archive your FB posts and Tweets... Backup blog posts, videos, or podcasts on Evernote or Google Drive Save your likes in a Google Spreadsheet Tweet your IG posts natively automatically Keep your profile pictures in sync (in case you update it for a holiday or special event) by making adding to a certain photo album a Trigger Save popular posts from a specific (niche) subreddit to Pocket (bookmarks) If you're using Buffer you can create a #FollowFriday tweet to give a shout out to people's posts you liked in the past week Schedule posts using Google calendar within IFTTT Set up an e-mail or text alert when a specific key word is posted on a website, blog or subreddit title My personal favorite: Upvote Reddit Save to pocket (Reddit only saves 1000 of your most recent likes and there is no way to search the content. You have to manually click through each page) 3. Important Notes & Practices to get the most out of IFTTT You can have multiple social media accounts for each platform on IFTTT Name the recipe to what exactly it's doing, otherwise you will have multiple of the same exact default name and it gets confusing You can use this app to do other things unrelated to online marketing, like finances mentioned in lvl 5: The Top ProcrastiN8 Apps to Easily and Automatically Put Money Towards Your Savings Goals. You can have it automatically order pizza, turn on the lights, blast some Led Zeppelin, and boot up your computer when you get home, if you connect it to your smart devices. In sum… Gather posts while browsing the Internet Cross post, but don't do it for every single post Use Facebook Scheduled Posts feature auto post on FB Use TweetDeck to auto tweet Use BettrSocial or Previw App to schedule Instagram Use a third party app to integrate all social media accounts in one dashboard Create recipes to automate posts and tweets as well as gather news, info & content in your niche Sign up for the ProcrastiN8r Newsletter and get the FREE So Easy Social Media E-book: www.ProcrastiN8r.com Autoscheduling posts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram Social Media Manager options Automating posts with IFTTT

Episode 22: How can AI revolutionize business ideas in 2024? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Nathan Lands (https://x.com/NathanLands) are joined by Siqi Chen (https://x.com/blader), CEO of Runway.com and a seasoned entrepreneur and investor in AI-related ventures. This episode delves into innovative AI business ideas that entrepreneurs can pursue in 2024. Siqi shares his insights on professional-grade AI tools for video production, the use of generative models, the impact of augmented reality, the potential ethical concerns, and unique concepts like AI email categorization systems. The discussion is light and conversational, touching on practical applications and futuristic ideas alike. Check out The Next Wave YouTube Channel if you want to see Matt and Nathan on screen: https://lnk.to/thenextwavepd — Show Notes: (00:00)Entertaining conversation about business ideas and creativity. (04:27) AI as a tool for thought, not doing. (09:50) Automatically categorizing emails based on specific criteria. (12:59) Custom newsletter curates content from various sources. (16:18) Brilliant Labs offers camera glasses with display. (17:08) Remember people's faces with AI image recognition. (21:12) Create hallucinated Wikipedia through generative model. (23:36) AI art tool generates infinite images from prompts. (29:18) Creating AI girlfriends through realistic interaction tech. (32:23) AI connecting people through incentives and apps. (34:25) Encouraging audience to subscribe and tune in. — Mentions: Siqi Chen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siqic/ Runway: https://runway.com/ Sanebox: https://www.sanebox.com/ Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ Feedly: https://feedly.com/ Jellypod: https://jellypod.ai/ — Check Out Matt's Stuff: • Future Tools - https://futuretools.beehiiv.com/ • Blog - https://www.mattwolfe.com/ • YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow — Check Out Nathan's Stuff: Newsletter: https://news.lore.com/ Blog - https://lore.com/ The Next Wave is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Darren Clarke // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Sei stufo di quello che ti propone Google News o l'algoritmo dei vari social?Vuoi informarti da fonti diverse?Devi organizzare le tue "ispirazioni"?Ti dico come faccio io*****************Un podcast quotidiano su società, culture, filosofie, digital marketing, tecnologie e spiritualità.Ideato e condotto da Fabio Mattis alias lo Sciamano Digitale———————-☑️ Entra nel canale Telegram https://t.me/wearethenet

Keeping up with AI is Nathaniel Whittemore's full-time job—and I spent an hour with him to understand how he does it. Nathaniel is the host of a top-ranked AI podcast on the technology charts, The AI Daily Brief, which breaks down the most important news in AI every day. He is also the founder and CEO of Superintelligent, a platform that teaches you how to use AI for work and fun through interactive video tutorials.  We talked about how he curates information with X bookmarks, Google News, news aggregator Feedly, and research tool Perplexity; the workflow that helps him record and produce two daily podcasts; and why he thinks optimizing your processes with AI remains one of its most underrated applications. Here's what you'll learn if you listen to or watch this episode: How to curates AI news using X bookmarks, Google News, Perplexity, and other specialized tools Nathaniel's insights from producing 300-plus episodes of a top-ranked podcast The granular details of the workflow that helps Nathaniel produce two daily podcasts Actionable advice on how to get the most out of AI right now  If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!  Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It's usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe  Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper  Timestamps: Introduction: 00:00:51 How you can get value of AI right now: 00:02:15 Nathaniel goes through his X bookmarks: 00:14:07 Why content should have a point of view: 00:20:25 Tools that Nathaniel uses to curate news about AI: 00:23:47 How to use LLMs to structure your thoughts: 00:31:27 Why the history of Excel is a good way to understand AI's progress: 00:38:40 The AI features in Descript that Nathaniel uses: 00:45:46 AI-powered tools to help you generate content:00:49:11 Nathaniel's tips on using Midjourney to generate YouTube thumbnails: 00:58:32 Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Nathaniel Whittemore: https://twitter.com/⁠nlw The podcasts Nathaniel hosts: The AI Daily Brief, The Breakdown Podcast Nathaniel's AI education platform: Superintelligent The tools Nathaniel uses to curate AI news: Google News, Feedly, Perplexity The AI-powered content generation tools Nathaniel likes: Hoppy Copy, SEO.ai

Send us a Text Message.Shownotes can be found at https://www.profitwithlaw.com/441.Welcome to the Profit with Law Podcast! In today's episode, Moshe Amsel and Mitch Asser explore the game-changing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in business, particularly for law firm owners. Discover how tools like Feedly, Zapier, and Chat GPT can transform your business processes, enhancing efficiency and saving time. Mitch shares his journey from marketing struggles to success and offers practical tips on automating recurring tasks and learning from other industries. Don't miss this episode packed with insights to future-proof your practice –  tune in now!Chapters:[00:00] Introduction to Mitch Asser[08:49] Leveraging AI - Where to start[14:20] AI and Time Management[17:51] AI Automation Tools: Feedly, Zapier, and ChatGPT[22:56] How to Find Automation Opportunities[25:09] How to Stay Relevant in the World of AI[33:09] Mitch's Parting Piece of AdviceResources mentioned:The Law Firm Growth Summit has passed, but if you missed it, you can get lifetime access to the recordings here: https://www.lawfirmgrowthsummit.com/VIPTake the Law Firm Growth Assessment and find out how you rate as a law firm owner! Check out our Profit with Law YouTube channel!Learn more about the Profit with Law Elite Coaching Program hereConnect with Mitch Asser: Website | Facebook | TikTok | InstagramSign Up for Mitch's NewsletterFeedlyZapierDoNotPayJoin our Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lawfirmgrowthsummit/To request a show topic, recommend a guest or ask a question for the show, please send an email to info@dreambuilderfinancial.com.Connect with Moshe on:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/moshe.amselLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosheamsel/

Can Threat Detection be enhanced with AI? Ashish sat down with Dave Johnson, Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Feedly, at BSides SF 2024, where Dave also presented a talk. Dave shares his journey in cyber threat intelligence, including his 15-year career with the FBI and his transition to the private sector. The conversation focuses on the innovative use of large language models (LLMs) to create Sigma rules for threat detection and the challenges faced along the way. Dave spoke about his four approaches to creating Sigma rules with AI, ultimately highlighting the benefits of prompt chaining and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Guest Socials:⁠ ⁠Dave's Linkedin Podcast Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CloudSecPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Podcast- Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security BootCamp Questions asked: (00:00) Introduction (01:44) A word for our episode sponsor, Panoptica (02:39) A bit about Dave Johnson (03:33) What are Sigma Rules? (04:36) Where to get started with Sigma Rules? (05:27) Skills required to work with Sigma Rules (06:32) The four approaches Dave took to Sigma Rules (11:29) Are Sigma Rules complimentary to existing log systems? (12:18) Challenges Dave had during his research (14:09) Validating Sigma Rules (16:01) Working on Sigma Rule Projects (18:54) The Fun Section Resources spoken about during the episode: Dave's Website SigmaHQ GitHub

Hi there and welcome back to another edition of ScaleUp Radio, the podcast inspired by the Entrepreneurial ScaleUp System and designed to make navigating our ScaleUp journeys that little bit easier by learning from others' experiences. I'm Kevin Brent and In today's episode, we're joined by Zahra Jawad, the CEO of Creasallis, a pioneering biotech startup. Zahra shares her journey of developing innovative antibody solutions to enhance cancer treatments. With over 18 years of experience in drug development, she sheds light on the lengthy and costly process of bringing a drug to market, the importance of negotiation skills, and the critical role of building a skilled team. Make sure you don't miss any future episodes by subscribing to ScaleUp Radio wherever you like to listen to your podcasts. Keep listening to learn about Creasallis' groundbreaking work in antibody engineering and Zahra's inspiring entrepreneurial path. Let's dive in! Scaling up your business isn't easy, and can be a little daunting. Let ScaleUp Radio make it a little easier for you. With guests who have been where you are now, and can offer their thoughts and advice on several aspects of business. ScaleUp Radio is the business podcast you've been waiting for. If you would like to be a guest on ScaleUp Radio, please click here: https://bizsmarts.co.uk/scaleupradio/kevin   You can get in touch with Kevin here: kevin@biz-smart.co.uk   Kevin's Latest Book Is Available! Drawing on BizSmart's own research and experiences of working with hundreds of owner-managers, Kevin Brent explores the key reasons why most organisations do not scale and how the challenges change as they reach different milestones on the ScaleUp Journey. He then details a practical step by step guide to successfully navigate between the milestones in the form of ESUS - a proven system for entrepreneurs to scale up. More on the Book HERE - https://www.esusgroup.co.uk/   Zahra can be found here: https://creasallis.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahra-jawad-724a2716/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/creasallis/   Resources: Crucial Conversations - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/crucial-conversations-tools-for-talking-when-stakes-are-high-third-edition-joseph-grenny/6198176?ean=9781260474183 Brave New Work - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brave-new-work-are-you-ready-to-reinvent-your-organization-aaron-dignan/1840358?ean=9780241998731 Feedly - https://feedly.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/nhome/

#RealisticRegenAg | I love reading and staying up to date with agriculture news. I use Feedly, an RSS feed reader, that keeps track of news stories from over 75 agriculture news sites. I also employ an AI bot to help me find relevant information in climate and regenerative news from other sources that I might have missed. With that being said, I've been thinking about how to refresh my newsletter. I've been sending it out for over five years now. It has changed over the years but lately it has primarily focused on my content and my business. However, I've decided to shift the focus more towards the regenerative agriculture news space, while reducing the emphasis on my business. Welcome to the sixth season of Plants Dig Soil, a podcast about #RealisticRegenAg. I'm your host, Scott Gillespie, and I'm an agronomist from the western Canadian prairies specializing in climate-smart agriculture. I discuss scientifically proven practices that benefit the planet and, just as importantly, farmers' economic sustainability. Be sure to visit my website, www.plantsdigsoil.com, for resources and information about the services I that I offer for farmers and agribusiness. I've updated my website to more clearly list everything on the home page. In each monthly email I'll highlight just one aspect of my business at the top, with the rest dedicated to sharing interesting content I come across. If you'd like near-daily updates on what I'm seeing, you can check out my WhatsApp channel. Almost everything I share there will also be included in this newsletter, although I aim to keep the email length manageable. Transcript: https://www.plantsdigsoil.com/podcast/putting-the-news-back-in-newsletter Newsletter signup: https://mailchi.mp/plantsdigsoil/newsletter  https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6944029544697802752 Realistic Regen Ag Channel (WhatsApp): https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaBofw37NoZxtgHSRl3S Practical Regeneration: Realistic Strategies for Climate Smart Agriculture https://www.plantsdigsoil.com/books My consulting packages: https://www.plantsdigsoil.com/pricing/#consulting Speaking, Teaching, & Workshop Design: https://www.plantsdigsoil.com/speaking My funding service offerings: https://www.plantsdigsoil.com/pricing/#paperwork SCAP program details https://www.alberta.ca/sustainable-cap.aspx OFCAF program details https://rdar.ca/funding-opportunities/ofcaf My course: Profitable From the Start: Cover Crops for the Prairies: https://plantsdigsoil.thinkific.com/courses/cover-crops-prairies Email: scott@plantsdigsoil.com  X (aka Twitter) (Scott): https://twitter.com/scottcgillespie X (aka Twitter) (Company): https://twitter.com/PlantsDigSoil LinkedIn (Scott): https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottcgillespie/ LinkedIn (Company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/plants-dig-soil YouTube: (Company): https://www.youtube.com/@scottcgillespie Podcast Subscription Apps: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scottcgillespie --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scottcgillespie/message

Dejo atrás Feedly.com para guardar mis feeds RSS favoritos y me paso a esta alternativa autoalojada. Se integra perfectamente con Reeder, mi lector de feeds en iPhone, iPad y Mac, así que muy contento.

The second brain is a source of carefully curated information, but what's the best way to access and interact with that wealth of content day to day? Dennis and Tom unpack the concept of “The Daily Me”—customized daily news—and whether it could be a solution for keeping up with content stored in a second brain.  In their next segment, the guys prompt ChatGPT to ask them a question. This time, this leads them to ponder the 18-year evolution of the podcast and potential updates to freshen up the intro.   As always, stay tuned for the parting shots, that one tip, website, or observation that you can use the second the podcast ends. Have a technology question for Dennis and Tom? Call their Tech Question Hotline at 720-441-6820 for the answers to your most burning tech questions.   Show Notes - Kennedy-Mighell Report #363 A Segment: Second Brain Project: The Daily Me The Daily Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Me  My Yahoo: https://my.yahoo.com  Feedly: https://feedly.com   Notion https://www.notion.so  Stoop Inbox: https://stoopinbox.com  Readwise Reader: https://readwise.io/read  Notta.ai: https://www.notta.ai  B Segment: A Question from ChatGPT Parting Shots: PowerOutage.us: https://poweroutage.us

The second brain is a source of carefully curated information, but what's the best way to access and interact with that wealth of content day to day? Dennis and Tom unpack the concept of “The Daily Me”—customized daily news—and whether it could be a solution for keeping up with content stored in a second brain.  In their next segment, the guys prompt ChatGPT to ask them a question. This time, this leads them to ponder the 18-year evolution of the podcast and potential updates to freshen up the intro.   As always, stay tuned for the parting shots, that one tip, website, or observation that you can use the second the podcast ends. Have a technology question for Dennis and Tom? Call their Tech Question Hotline at 720-441-6820 for the answers to your most burning tech questions.   Show Notes - Kennedy-Mighell Report #363 A Segment: Second Brain Project: The Daily Me The Daily Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Me  My Yahoo: https://my.yahoo.com  Feedly: https://feedly.com   Notion https://www.notion.so  Stoop Inbox: https://stoopinbox.com  Readwise Reader: https://readwise.io/read  Notta.ai: https://www.notta.ai  B Segment: A Question from ChatGPT Parting Shots: PowerOutage.us: https://poweroutage.us

Laura López, de "Actualizados Comunicación", empresa que se adica á xestión da comunicación dixital. Hoxe falamos de que podemos facer para combater os bloqueos creativos en redes sociais? Cando se fala de Community Managers ou da xestión de redes sociais dalgún negocio sempre se di que estas persoas deben ser creativas, ao tanto da actualidade e das tendencias e, por suposto, con capacidade de adaptación aos cambios rápidos e abruptos que se poden manifestar na comunicación en plataformas dixitais. Aínda que a teoría sona relativamente sinxela, cabe a posibilidade de que nos enfrontemos a bloqueos creativos ou que non saibamos como manternos ao tanto das noticias do noso sector ou de tendencias globais das que poidamos aproveitarnos para crear contido. Así que hoxe imos intentar poñerlle solucións ou, polo menos, ter remendos á man para cando nos aconteza isto. "Cabe a posibilidade de que nos enfrontemos a bloqueos creativos ou que non saibamos como manternos ao tanto das noticias do noso sector ou de tendencias globais das que poidamos aproveitarnos para crear contido". "Aínda que sempre estamos falando de crear contido, a curación de contido é tan importante ou mais". "Se queremos saber que hai de novo sobre un tema concreto, podemos crear unha alerta de noticias en Google". A creatividade defínese como a capacidade ou habilidade para inventar ou crear cousas, dende obxectos físicos a ideas. E, aínda que quizais se asocia con maior facilidade á arte, como a pintura, a escultura, literatura, música ou calquera outra expresión, tamén ten moito que ver coa ciencia, a tecnoloxía ou a publicidade. A fin de contas, a creatividade fai referencia á posibilidade de crear algo novo ⚠️Para fomentar esta capacidade de crear, en termos xerais, podemos recomentar facer un consumo de cultura, dende ler vinte páxinas dun libro cada día, ir ao cine no día do espectador ou visitar museos e exposicións. Se, pola contra, o que necesitamos é unha idea, aquí e agora, podemos darlle ao brainstorming, isto é, unha tormenta de ideas que se pode facer de maneira individual ou en grupo para traer ao exterior ideas relacionadas de algunha maneira cun concepto en concreto. Como curiosidade, o brainstorming xurdiu no ámbito da publicidade a mediados do século XX, momento no que o publicista e teórico da publicidade, Alex F- Osborn, recurreu a ela para salvar a súa axencia durante un período de crise. As regras do xogo, neste caso, eran fáciles: reuníase a un grupo de persoas (e, canta maior diversidade de perfís, mellor) para reflexionar sobre un único tema, non había filtros e contaba cunha duración determinada, non máis alá dos 60 ou 90 minutos. Agora ben, se estamos falando dun bloqueo creativo en canto a redes sociais, podemos atopar inspiración de outras moitas maneiras. ✔️ Benchmarking. O benckmarking é o punto de referencia do que debemos partir en redes sociais. Este refírese ao proceso de avaliación e análise da competencia de procesos, produtos, servizos, comunicación ou calquera outro aspecto que nos interese. É dicir, é unha especie de guía que nos permite estar ao tanto do que fai a nosa competencia, que lles funciona ben ou cales son os seus puntos débiles. É o punto de referencia para a nosa acción en redes sociais. Podemos seleccionar 3 ou 4 empresas do noso sector, tanto sexan competencia como referentes, e analizar determinados aspectos que nos interesan deles: o contido que publican e a súa frecuencia, o formato elixido, en que redes sociais están presentes, que é o que demanda máis a súa audiencia, como interactúan coa súa comunidade, etc. ✔️ Google Trends. É unha ferramenta de Google que nos permite coñecer os temas que os usuarios están seguindo practicamente en tempo real en Google ou Youtube. Podemos facer as nosas propias buscas e comparar a popularidade de varios termos pero tamén podemos adicarnos a ler o contido curado polo propio equipo de Google News, que nos conta os temas principais por países. O interesante agora mesmo desta ferramenta é que está a mostrar un resumo das tendencias de todo o ano 2023. Así, por exemplo, atópamos en España con que Chat GPT, as eleccións, a Copa Mundial de Fútbol Feminino, Rubiales e Israel foron algunhas das buscas máis populares. ✔️ Answer The Public. É unha ferramenta que permite atopar as palabras chave para unha estratexia de contidos pero tamén para inspirarnos. O emprego da plataforma é doado. Debemos engadir un termo, seleccionar o país e odioma e, a partir de aí, mostraranos as diferentes preguntas que se fai un usuario en relación a este en formato de roda, lista ou táboas. Por exemplo, se queremos ter algunha que outra idea relacionada coa radio, introducimos o termo e este danos preguntas que fan os usuarios tan variadas e dispares como “quen foi o inventor da radio?”, “que radio transmite este partido?”, “por que a radio do coche non se escoita?” ou “como sintonizar radio?” ✔️ Curación de contidos. Aínda que sempre estamos falando de crear contido, a curación de contido é tan importante ou mais. Este termo fai referencia ao proceso no que se busca e recompila contido en liña doutros medios para compartilos nos nosos propios. A curación sería, por exemplo, compartir nas stories de Instagram o enlace dunha noticia ou a publicación doutra conta sobre tendencias en moda se somos unha tenda de roupa. Para realizar unha boa curación de contidos (e inspirarnos) ha varias ferramentas que poderemos empregar. ✔️ Feedly. Permite buscar, filtrar e organizar blogs, webs e noticias por diferentes categorías e agrupar contidos que nos interesan para ver máis tarde nun só lugar. ✔️ Menéame. É un agregador de noticias que permite aos usuarios enviar historias ou novas interesantes para que o resto da comunidade os vote. Estas novas aparecen primeiro na cola de pendentes ata que conten con suficientes votos e o algoritmo, chamado karma, o leve ata a páxina principal. ✔️ Alertas de Google. Se queremos saber que hai de novo sobre un tema concreto, podemos crear unha alerta de noticias en Google, que nos enviará un mail á nosa bandexa de entrada coas ligazóns novas ao respecto.. Poderemos elixir a frecuencia coa que queremos que nos envíen as alertas, pero tamén seleccionar o tipo de fonte (noticias, blogs, webs, foros, etc.), o idioma, a rexión e a cantidade de resultados. ✔️ Tendencias en redes sociais. Ademais destas ferramentas de monitorización de contidos, non haberá mellor maneira de inspirarse e de coñecer as tendencias que estando presente en redes sociais e explorando os diferentes hashtags coas palabras chave que máis nos interesen. Por suposto que imos atoparnos con máis ferramentas e máis técnicas, pero con estes pequenos pasos conseguiremos non só fomentar a creatividade e desterrar os bloques creativos, senón tamén estar ao tanto da actualidade que nos rodea. Máis Información ACTUALIZADOS COMUNICACIÓN: ✔️Páxina Web: https://actualizadoscomunicacion.com/ ✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/actualizadoscomunicacion ✔️Twitter: https://twitter.com/actualizadoscom ✔️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/actualizados_comunicacion/ ️"SUSCRÍBETE" ao podcast. MÁIS ENTREVISTAS: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-salta-da-cama_sq_f1323089_1.html Máis Información e outros contidos: ✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PabloChichas ✔️Twitter: https://twitter.com/pablochichas ✔️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pablochichas/ ✔️Clubhouse: @pablochichas ✔️Twich: https://www.twitch.tv/pablochichas

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 1226: Erin Blaskie shares practical tips for overcoming writer's block by tapping into curiosity and leveraging tools like Feedly, Quora, and UberSuggest to generate fresh content ideas. By asking herself what she'd like to know about a subject, Blaskie finds inspiration in everything from industry trends to direct audience questions, showcasing a proactive approach to content creation that keeps her and her clients' work relevant and engaging. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.erinblaskie.com/blog/have-writers-block-3-easy-ways-to-generate-ideas-for-your-content Episode references: Feedly (https://feedly.com) for curating content inspiration. Quora (https://www.quora.com) for identifying trending questions in your niche. UberSuggest (https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/) for competitive keyword research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 1226: Erin Blaskie shares practical tips for overcoming writer's block by tapping into curiosity and leveraging tools like Feedly, Quora, and UberSuggest to generate fresh content ideas. By asking herself what she'd like to know about a subject, Blaskie finds inspiration in everything from industry trends to direct audience questions, showcasing a proactive approach to content creation that keeps her and her clients' work relevant and engaging. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.erinblaskie.com/blog/have-writers-block-3-easy-ways-to-generate-ideas-for-your-content Episode references: Feedly (https://feedly.com) for curating content inspiration. Quora (https://www.quora.com) for identifying trending questions in your niche. UberSuggest (https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/) for competitive keyword research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 1170: Erin Blaskie shares valuable insights in her article "Have Writer's Block? 3 Easy Ways to Generate Ideas for Your Content," guiding content creators through effective strategies for overcoming writer's block. She introduces tools like Feedly, Quora, and UberSuggest, each offering unique ways to curate, discover, and leverage content ideas for blogs, vlogs, and more, while keeping pace with industry trends and improving SEO strategies. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.erinblaskie.com/blog/have-writers-block-3-easy-ways-to-generate-ideas-for-your-content Quotes to ponder: "Quora is another fantastic source of content inspiration. I use Quora to search up topics in my niche and review the questions that people are asking." "With UberSuggest, put in the domain name of one of your competitors... These are the words that you'll want to start creating content around for your website in an effort to rank higher than they do for those search terms." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 1170: Erin Blaskie shares valuable insights in her article "Have Writer's Block? 3 Easy Ways to Generate Ideas for Your Content," guiding content creators through effective strategies for overcoming writer's block. She introduces tools like Feedly, Quora, and UberSuggest, each offering unique ways to curate, discover, and leverage content ideas for blogs, vlogs, and more, while keeping pace with industry trends and improving SEO strategies. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.erinblaskie.com/blog/have-writers-block-3-easy-ways-to-generate-ideas-for-your-content Quotes to ponder: "Quora is another fantastic source of content inspiration. I use Quora to search up topics in my niche and review the questions that people are asking." "With UberSuggest, put in the domain name of one of your competitors... These are the words that you'll want to start creating content around for your website in an effort to rank higher than they do for those search terms." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Boostly Podcast Episode 657. On today's episode we sit down to discuss 4 AI tools you will actually use. You Don't Want To Miss It! Resources From Today's Video: Poe.com All of the bots in one place Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/ Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/my MyMind: https://mymind.com/ • https://Boostly.co.uk • https://Boostly.co.uk/5steps • https://instagram.com/boostlyuk • https://Boostly.co.uk/guidebook • https://Boostly.co.uk/website • https://Boostly.co.uk/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever have that dream of waking up and finding that your most recent video got hundreds of thousands of views while you were sleeping? I have. I have yet to experience this personally, but that's exactly what happened to my guest, Matt Wolfe. In this conversation with Matt, we'll talk about his sudden boom (9 years after launching his channel) - What caused it? How have things changed? What opportunities has it made possible? Matt is a passionate student of A.I. and it shows in his videos. We'll discuss the importance of creating the content you're passionate about, what role A.I. (and humans) play in the future of content creation, and why Matt thinks the human brain is not yet obsolete. [00:00] Matt and I discuss his popularity increase after chat GPT became public, his journey of creating videos, gaining traction, and finding success with AI-related content. ​Overnight success? Hardly. Matt started his YouTube channel in 2009, focusing on WordPress and teaching people how to build websites ​Matt discovered that his videos about AI gained more popularity than his marketing content, leading him to shift his channel's focus. One of his A.I videos has now hit 1.2 million views. ​[04:36] Matt shares his 14-year journey to success and how he is monetizing his business. ​​Matt created his website, futuretools.io, to organize and access useful tools he discovered. This site now serves as an A.I. resource for thousands of visitors each day. ​Lots of copycat sites have emerged since Matt's launch of futuretools.io, but that doesn't bother him. He originally built this site as a resource for himself and not as a business model. ​Matt sees himself as an enthusiastic user of AI technology rather than pretending to be an expert. He believes (and I agree) that has played an important role in his success. ​Matt's revenue streams include: affiliate links, featured listings, sponsorships, a weekly newsletter, a YouTube channel, and a podcast. ​[12:35]  Will A.I. take over content creation? Matt believes that real people creating content on YouTube will always win because the audience connects with a genuine creator. ​[19:46] Creating authentic and passionate content that resonates with you is more valuable than focusing on data-driven strategies, spammy content, or trying to please the algorithm or audience. ​Be real...Let your personality shine through in your content. Focus on creating content that excites and interests you. ​[22:56]  Use AI as a tool to enhance content creation ​Feedly is an AI-powered RSS feed reader that allows users to find and filter articles and news on specific topics. ​[27:54]  What about AI's  potential to create fake content and undermine the credibility of video and photographic evidence What does Matt think about AI replacing jobs? ​[33:19]  Do we still need people? Of course. But not for everything... AI will potentially replace manual labor jobs, but humans will adapt and find new ways to add value. ​[36:47]  Where to find Matt...and when do we get the new podcast? Links ​futuretools.io : Matt's site that "Collects & Organizes All The Best AI Tools So YOU Too Can Become Superhuman!" ​Matt's YouTube Channel : Definitely worth subbing and binging How You Can Help Subscribe to the show in Apple Podcasts or on Spotify, and give us a rating and review. Make sure you put your real name and website in the text of the review itself. We will definitely mention you on this show. Questions or comments? Connect with Ray on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Visit Ray's community on Facebook – This is a friendly group of writers, entrepreneurs, and coaches who share ideas and helpful advice. Get The Transcript and Video https://www.rayedwards.com/635  

In this episode of the Get Socially Inclined Podcast, we dive deep into the world of content creation and reveal powerful strategies that will revolutionize your approach. If you've ever felt stuck, unsure of how to create engaging content without having to write a single word, this is the episode for you! Content is king, and we all know it. But what if writing isn't your forte? Fear not! We take you on a journey beyond traditional written content, exploring innovative ways to captivate your audience and deliver results. Here's a sneak peek of what you'll learn:

Why it was selected for "CBNation Architects": In this episode of the I AM CEO podcast, host Gresham Harkless interviews Chris Jackson, the founder of Lionshare Partners, a financial planning firm that helps high-net-worth individuals and small business owners solve their financial challenges. Chris draws on his decade of multidisciplinary experience to provide valuable insights into financial planning and management. Throughout the interview, Chris emphasizes the importance of building relationships and understanding the unique needs of each client. He also discusses the challenges of managing individual and institutional assets and the benefits of working with a trusted financial advisor. Chris shares his CEO hacks and nuggets, which include using Feedly and Buffer for content curation and social media management, respectively. He defines being a CEO as having personal intellectual property and creating a unique value proposition for clients. Overall, the episode provides valuable insights into the importance of financial planning and the benefits of working with a trusted financial advisor. Chris's experience and expertise in the field make this episode a must-listen for anyone interested in improving their financial well-being. Check out one of our favorite CEO Hack's CEO Web Shop. Get your free audiobook and check out more of our favorite CEO Hacks HERE. I AM CEO Handbook Volume 3 is HERE and it's FREE. Get your copy here: http://cbnation.co/iamceo3. Get the 100+ things that you can learn from 1600 business podcasts we recorded. Hear Gresh's story, learn the 16 business pillars from the podcast, find out about CBNation Architects and why you might be one and so much more. Did we mention it was FREE? Download it today! Previous Episode: https://iamceo.co/2019/07/03/iam-324-entrepreneur-helps-people-to-solve-financial-problems/

FilmBookCast Ep. 207 FilmBookCast is the official podcast of FilmBook. FilmBookCast is an entertainment news podcast on the latest movie and television show news. Each week, FilmBook contributor Chris Banks discusses that breaking Hollywood news. Shownotes Movie News (0:55) TV Show News (2:29) International News (3:32) Home Release News (5:30) Movie Trailers (7:11) TV Show Trailers (8:56) Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once. Or, please visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list “FilmBookCast” in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Listen below and leave your thoughts on this edition of FilmBookCast below in the comments section. Readers seeking more FilmBookCast podcasts can visit our FilmBookCast Page, our FilmBookCast Facebook Page, and our FilmBookCast YouTube Playlist. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast YouTube Page, and our Podcast Tumblr Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, and Flipboard. FilmBookCast Ep. 207 on YouTube FilmBookCast Ep. 207 via Podcast Stream

Here's a special episode for all of you lovely marketers out there! In this interview, I chat with my mentor Maurice Bretzfield about AI and how marketers can get started using tools like ChatGPT. Maurice is an AI and Marketing Consultant. He helps organizations increase revenue and decrease costs using the power of AI and MarTech.  Maurice has been a digital marketer for nearly three decades and today enjoys working with organizations to integrate MarTech into their marketing strategies and operations. He is the founder of digiquation.io, a Digital Marketing Consultancy and publisher of content about MarTech.  He is also the co-founder of digiquationHIRE, an outsourcing firm dedicated to supporting marketing teams with highly trained and affordable remote employees. Topics we discussed include:  The evolution of AI and ChatGPT technology Crafting effective ChatGPT prompts: how to unlock the power of conversational AI AI, ChatGPT, and image generators: transforming marketing with intelligent creativity What is the role of AI in a marketer's career? Utilizing remote employees to power up your marketing efforts while increasing efficiency and reducing costs And more! You can learn more about Maurice's services here - digiquation.io Connect with Maurice via LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretzfield/ If you enjoyed listening to this episode, don't forget to check out Maurice's first appearance on the podcast here - https://www.kennysoto.com/podcast/interview-with-maurice-bretzfield-the-man-who-introduced-me-to-digital-marketing-ep-50/ Resources he mentioned on the podcast: The AI Warehouse - https://www.thewarehouse.ai Feedly - https://feedly.com Search Engine Land - https://searchengineland.com

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Bramus Van Damme all about CSS, what the CSS Working Group is, how he got good at blogging, setting custom property types in CSS, view transition API, and so much more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome Bramus Van Damme 02:29 Who is Bramus? Bramus Van Damme - Developer Relations Engineer - LinkedIn Original Content – Bram.us Bramus on Twitter (@bramus) bramus on GitHub (Bramus!) 03:33 What is the CSS Working Group? CSS WG Blog w3c/csswg-drafts: CSS Working Group Editor Drafts 11:18 How did you get so good at blogging? CSS Trig functions 14:02 Scroll Driven Animations Bram.us: Scroll linked animations with scrolltimeline and viewtimeline/ Chrome Dev blog: Scroll driven animations/ MDN Animation timeline Scroll-driven-animations.style 25:53 What's going on with Houdini? IsHoudiniReadyYet.com CSS Props and Vals 27:09 Why do you need to set a custom property type in CSS? 29:08 How do you debug values in CSS? 30:12 What is Scope Styling? 34:50 But when can I use it? 36:18 What's the status of the view transition API? View Transitions 40:53 What are you looking forward to in CSS? 42:19 Would CSS ever get a strict mode? 47:05 Supper Club Questions ZSH - THE Z SHELL zsh-users/antigen: The plugin manager for zsh. web.dev Blog - Chrome Developers Welcome to Feedly 52:40 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Meetups Shameless Plugs Scroll-driven-animations.style Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

Lists of 1000s of AI tools abound, but here are the 9 I actually use every day (with a watchlist with 3 more I'm experimenting with). The list includes: 1. Feedly 2. ChatGPT 3. Perplexity 4. Descript 5. Midjourney 6. Photoshop 7. Deepfloyd 8. Canva 9. TubeBuddy 10. Vidyo.ai (watchlist) 11. Wondercraft (watchlist) 12. Elevenlabs (watchlist) The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.  Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/  

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Tools that fast-track or reduce the costs of video production have been around for many years - often based on templates that can be brought into design software or extended to cloud platforms. These kinds of tools make it possible to produce a professional-looking video spot quickly, or with a newer breed of them, produce dozens, hundreds or thousands of videos really quickly. An Italian motion design studio saw both the demands and possibilities for video automation, and launched a sister company in Turin called Algo. It has some similarities to what's out there, but takes what you might call a hybrid approach. The design process is very much like a traditional agency, with briefs and storyboards. But once that phase is completed, Algo's customers use the platform as a service. If you have an electric vehicle and have used a Volta charging station, you may have seen motion infographics on the screen that used real-time data from Bloomberg to visually show local air quality conditions on the charging totem screen. Johns Hopkins University used Algo to develop a daily COVID tracker during the pandemic. Algo's main market is the business side of social media - so more Linkedin than TikTok. But it has already done and expects to see more work coming for digital signage and Digital Out Of Home screens. Automated spots can run on screens in much the same way as digital signage platforms tap into subscription news, weather and entertainment feeds. I chatted with Luca Gonnelli, one of Algo's founders. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Luca, thank you for joining me. We've not met in person and I've never been to Torino, but maybe one time, I'll get there. Can you tell me what Algo does?  Luca Gonnelli: Sure. Hi, Dave, it's my pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. So Algo is a design studio, basically, it's a creative studio specialized in data visualization and in particular in what we call video automation, which is basically software or a dashboard to create videos. Okay, and what does that mean in real terms? So if I'm a digital signage network operator, obviously we're talking about digital signage part of this, and you're doing all kinds of work for different end users, but what's that gonna mean for that person, for that end user? Luca Gonnelli: Sure. We are working on different types of campaigns and it's super interesting to talk to you about digital advertising, out-of-home, et cetera. That's normal, not often, but sometimes that's part of the equation, while, of course, the other part of the equation is social media and digital overall. So yeah, we really like to work on campaigns where we help our clients showcase data in a very meaningful way, and possibly very easy to understand for the end user, and also it's a kind of way for companies to avoid sensationalism and try to communicate to their users in a respectful and positive matter about data. But of course, it's a way for companies to profit from their data, and use data in their day-to-day communication, which is not often very common.  In terms of the types of campaigns we work on, it's gone from completely autonomous ones like the campaign we did for John Hopkins University tracking the COVID pandemic where we were creating a video every day that was automatically tracking COVID based on the data, and this was only for online, but in some other projects Where we lean more towards the manual input of data. So sometimes we work with teams with our clients to empower them to create videos effortlessly without having to have video knowledge within the whole organization. And so yeah, in some cases, for example, in a project for Volta and Bloomberg Green, we did just that, and the output was of course on digital advertising.  Would it be fair to say this isn't necessarily what a listener might think of as a conventional video? It's not people or landscapes or that sort of thing moving around. It's more dynamic/motion infographics. Is that a more accurate way of saying it?  Luca Gonnelli: Yeah, that's correct. Before being Algo, we also ran a motion design studio called illo. So Algo is a kind of a technological sister studio, and of course, our background is very much in motion design, but at the same time, Algo really can work with any type of medium, even footage, for example. So of course we tend to go towards a look, which is more graphic-oriented and more based on graphic design but at the same time, in some projects, we also have footage and photos and yeah, that's of course less live-action than maybe average. But, of course, that can be part of the equation.  So when you're using video assets they're like an element within a presentation as opposed to you're generating original video out of it. This isn't an early-stage AI, MidJourney thing, or whatever, right?  Luca Gonnelli: No, but at the same time, we use AI a lot for many different things. So we really tend to define ourselves as Video + AI, because we are not a kind of stable diffusion type of algorithm. But we use many different tools for doing different things from the simplest ones, like transcribing an audio to even generative things like generating a picture or generating audio. This is, for example, a really good use case that we are doing right now quite a lot.  You mentioned that you have or this is a sister company to a more conventional motion design studio. Did you create Algo because this was work that kept coming up, and you thought, okay, we need to set up its own initiative to do this? Luca Gonnelli: Yeah, absolutely. A few years back, we were seeing that communication, the social media world especially were asking for more and more video every day, and our clients could not anymore rely on one piece of advertising every six months, but they needed to be always on and always communicating so that's definitely something that's starting from our technological background, both me and my co-founder and some of them earlier team members have a technological background at the same time, it's coming of course, from the needs of the market.  We were seeing that this was something that was coming in more and more frequently, and of course, also with out-of-home advertising, it's great because you can have different content for different cities for different times and update everything across time and locations, which is great. There have been video automation platforms around for a good 10 years, arguably longer than that, depending on how you look at it. But a lot of the early ones were template based and you would put inputs in and hit a button and it would render something and give you something back in five minutes or half an hour, or whatever it may be. What's distinct about this?  Luca Gonnelli: We are very different in a way given that we decided to approach this from a very studio point of view, rather than being a product or a platform, which we are not. When a client works with us at the end, they have access to a dashboard. So there's a kind of a product part of it, but really we don't believe in the one size fits all template solution, and so what happens is that we want to remove the humans, the animators, the interns that are doing these things from the equation. But at the same time, we think that the designers and the animators at the very beginning of the project when you're building something tailored made to the specific use case and to the specific location or to a specific client are really important aspects. So yeah, we just tackle this as a service business and of course, it's a service and then turns into a product because then the client has access to a dashboard and can create videos really like it, just like they would do on a SaaS kinda platform, but yeah, it always starts with a service. So if I'm a financial services company and I want to do something like what Bloomberg did, I would come to your company and there would be a brief and everything else, but you would basically design a template that would be the working wireframe or armature to produce videos as often as needed and quickly or even automated. Is that accurate? Luca Gonnelli: That's super accurate, and yeah, most of the time, the starting point is really understanding what data can be used and what data the client has available and what's their objective in their communication. So what they want to obtain from communicating, and so yeah that's really it's a work that we do together with the client. It's rare that we get a brief and we start working. It's more like, I have an interest in automating something. I have the data about this and what, what can we do together? And so it's really about helping them sketch out concepts and understand exactly how this could work. But yeah, then, of course, we get into the data analysis phase, the conception and storyboarding phase, then design, animation, and then all of the technical phase later to make this possible.  Do your clients have their heads around how all this works? Do they understand what's possible, or do you get into these discussions and say actually we could do a lot more than that?  Luca Gonnelli: Since it's not yet a super common thing to work on automated videos, we definitely help our clients understand what's possible. For example, could be the fact that maybe financial clients know that we can create a campaign with a weekly video that's doing a recap of the financial markets, but then what they don't know and what we try to tell them is that you can also trigger a video when something happens, so for example, if Bitcoin is up right now, plus 20% compared to yesterday, that's the moment where you want to communicate. So we can automatically trigger and generate a video at that moment. That's one example of how we try to make our clients understand the possibilities. How much pre-planning and rules and everything else do you have to put into making that scenario happen? It's not a smart thing where it's just going to know “Bitcoin's up so I better generate a video” - there are parameters, and everything is set, right?  Luca Gonnelli: Yeah. We connect to different sources of data. I think over the course of the last few years, we connected to really hundreds of different APIs and data points. But yeah, of course, what you do with the data is the interesting part, and so each time is really about deciding what these rules are and what rules are meant for the specific client. So it's definitely a process and it's definitely an iterative process.  So we start with an idea but maybe 20% up is not the best because maybe it won't trigger very often. So we want to put that at plus 7%, and so yeah, that's definitely a lot of back and forth, but it's super interesting and it's super meaningful when you start to see that videos coming out are really talking about the important stuff for the client are on top of the news. It's super interesting.  Another example of this would be we are using an AI called Feedly to basically select articles that are relevant in a specific sector and create videos on top of those articles, basically transforming those articles into videos, and that's another similar but very interesting approach where you completely give the AI the ability to create videos on different topics. The only thing you do is basically say, okay, I want to follow these new sources, I want to follow Bloomberg and the New York Times and the Financial Times, and then I will track these topics: Crypto, NFTs, and so at that point the AI will come out with videos that are trending and that has just been published and are interesting. So you completely give the AI the ability to create videos, which I think is very fun and interesting.  Is there any kind of gatekeeping in there? What I mean by that is let's say you're using an AI tool and it decides it can generate a video about something and it's not correct, which can happen, I think they call AI hallucinations or something like that, and it's the wrong thing. So if I'm a financial services company, I obviously don't wanna be putting out inaccurate information. Can they review everything before it goes up?  Luca Gonnelli: Exactly. So the first thing that happens in this particular kind of project is the fact that of course the video gets generated and the editorial team on the client's side can review the video and can both edit the video if something just needs a little bit of correction or can skip the video completely. So there's an option too, if it's not connected straight away to posting. We have a connection to posting, but it's normally after human review, which is always needed at this point.  So if you had really trusted lockdown data sources, like the financial numbers for a company or whatever that you know is secure. Those could be automated, but other things you'd want that just checks and balances on.  Luca Gonnelli: Exactly. When the AI comes in, it's accurate 97% of the time, but of course, you want to make sure that 3% don't get published so there's always a manual check, which is needed. But actually, the interesting thing for the client is that you can have a kind of newsroom producing video content for you in really high numbers per day, and the only job remaining on your side is to just watch the videos and approve them or edit them in case you want to add something. You're in this interesting position where you're a creative agency, but you're working a lot with AI and you have all the discussion right now about what AI means for the creative process, does it remove the creator process to some degree, or is this good or bad, or you have a somewhat unique perspective?  Luca Gonnelli: Yeah, it's been quite a lot, actually. Since we started Algo, we also have had animators and designers coming to us and saying, Algo is trying to replace my job, and we are always replying to them, the first project we did started because we wanted to work with a client in the sports sector for the Italian football league, which is a very huge topic, and basically, they wanted videos coming out every weekend for the whole season, and it was like a nightmare of a brief, and we decided to tackle it with automation. So we tried to save ourselves from doing this project manually, and so yeah, in the end, what I'm always say to people that are scared about Algo replacing them is basically the human needs to do the job of the human, which is the conception or the design, and thinking about the, how the design changes in the function of the data. While, of course, updating the content, the template and super quickly and putting it out on social media, it's something that our machine can do better and so we can get rid of that part of the job, which I don't think people like, and on the AI side probably is something similar like of course, it's crazy because you see these super high-quality images coming out and it's getting to the video also quite quickly. I'm very positive towards technology as a person, and so I think that this will be a huge change but at the same time, it's somehow very interesting and manageable in terms of what you can build with it. The whole change that's happening is super fast and so it's scary, but at the same, I feel that we are in a good position. I believe every market around design, around creativity, is going to be much more saturated because many more people can access it, but at the same time, we've seen that in other markets. For example, if you think about it, creating a website that's a super-saturated market compared to maybe video today. But of course, the most interesting and the most high-end shops producing amazing websites are still there even if all these Webflow or Squarespace or all these platforms came out to make it easy for anyone to get a website. So I really hope that there will be, of course, a much more saturated market, but at the same time, if you are in the high-end space, that's probably going to be more a value add than something negative. When making notes ahead of this, I was trying to get a sense of the big attraction would be and I wrote down speed, scale, recency, and relevancy. The fact that you can have something that just happened up on a screen 15 minutes later or whatever it may be. What are the main attractions to this that you're hearing from customers?  Luca Gonnelli: No, that's definitely correct. The ability to scale up your production, so for example, coming to our Volta project I was talking early, the project that was being distributed to digital screens across the US with EV charging stations. The objective of the campaign was to provide a way for people that are charging their cars to not only see ads but also see this additional content, which is basically an air quality forecast of their city, so it's connecting the objective which is living in a city with cleaner air with what you're doing. So by being there and using the charging station, you're participating in improving your city's air.  It was a really interesting project. The videos were super short, and it was challenging to think about them in a way that they could work for people just passing by. From social media, for example, because of course on social media, people are scrolling all the time and it's really difficult to get their attention the same, in a similar way, but it's similar but different. So yeah, we try to work with that. But definitely, in this case, we work creating content every day for the 12 different cities. So this is an example of the scale that we require maybe a few different people to work on this constantly just to produce this while Algo was working completely autonomously and yeah, the speed, that's definitely, sometimes especially when working with sports or finance data, speed is important, and so yeah, we can get to have a video out maybe 30 seconds later than something happened, and so it's really almost real-time in a way that that's crazy, and so it's also very interesting in some projects.  Is it reducing the costs of production?  I realize that you're able to knock out a lot more stuff than you would normally, and a company like Volta or whatever, probably, even if Shell owns them, probably can't afford just to have original videos produced for 200 locations every day or whatever it may be. But is cost a factor here?  Luca Gonnelli: It's definitely a factor. Of course, we are positioning ourselves as a high-end solution. It works when there's an opportunity to use a format and communicate through a reusable specific format. We work a lot to ensure the format is not perceived easily and yeah, when working on a video campaign, our objective is always to try to make it so that the end user doesn't understand that it's automated content. So yeah, becoming transparent. It's always our goal. But cost optimization compared to working manually, it's definitely an element of it. And the more you produce, the bigger the output you have and the more that is fundamental, for example, sometimes we even work with campaigns where we produce content for a specific person. So imagine the kind of Spotify Wrapped type of campaigns, where you're providing content specific for every single user of an application, and in that case, we're talking about millions of assets, and so it's definitely worth and basically the only way to produce these kinds of campaigns through Algo.  So you can do that kind of industrial-scale stuff then? Luca Gonnelli: Yeah, absolutely. We use different technologies and one of them, which is based on a library called Lottie which Airbnb creates to incorporate animations into mobile apps and the web. We use that and with that, scale up to potentially create millions of videos per month. Yeah, I saw on your website the reference to Lottie, and went a little cross-eye, what is that? And how about you explain it? Luca Gonnelli: It's super interesting. That's an open-source library that was created by Hernan Torrisi and co-developed by Airbnb and basically, it's a way for animators that are working inside of After Effects, which is the software that we are using daily together with others. But yeah, it allows you to animate in After Effects, and you do that with all of the best tools that animators are used to working with, and then you output that as an SVG animation. So it's code-based, web animation that can run in the browser or inside of a mobile app, a native iOS or Android app. So it's a great way to come out with the tool that every motion designer loves and uses and gets to code and so that's a super amazing way to scale things up and to reach numbers that, for us, were impossible by using only After Effects.  What are the file formats that you're outputting?  Luca Gonnelli: All of the video file formats. So it can be mp4, it can sometimes be when working with TV can be MXF or anything, literally, so anything that can be exported from Adobe software. So static PDFs or GIFs, that's also another format that maybe sometimes it's not so useful maybe on digital advertising, but it can be exported. So yeah, we have many options.  So there's nothing proprietary about it? You don't need to write some sort of player software, or something like that to make it work? Luca Gonnelli: No, Lottie is basically a JSON file with a JavaScript player, it's open source, and it's amazing. It's nothing proprietary on that front. So if I'm a digital out-of-home network operator or a digital signage solutions provider, software company, that sort of thing. How would I work with your company?  Luca Gonnelli: We could work on a project together either for a client or for themself, but basically, it's about understanding what kind of data they want to talk about and what kind of solution, so it can be very free and pretty open, and then, of course, we would work on design animation and then on the output side, for example, for the Volta project, we were delivering those automatically to the screens directly. So we integrated it into the platform that they were using to deliver the videos to their screens but I remember that we also evaluated other options like going as a video directly or of course the Lottie thing can be a good solution as well, because of course, it's outputting a very lightweight web animation. We could of course start the project from maybe our dashboard that we built. Where the client can input the data and change and see how the design changes in the function of the data, and then yeah you just click a button for creating video, and the video gets generated in a few seconds and gets potentially delivered to the distribution servers so that, yeah, that things can proceeds mostly directly to the screen. So it doesn't sound at all like you get into a situation or a conversation with somebody who says, yes, we'd love to work with you, but it has to be done this specific way. It sounds like it's pretty flexible. Luca Gonnelli: Yeah, we tailor the solution for every project. We build something custom, and so yeah, there's no particular way of doing things that it must be done in that way. We can really adapt, and we change technology, and we change the way we work, so that's also part of the complexity. We are trying to make people on our clients understand that there are a lot of potential solutions that could happen.  But at the same time, of course, we have some previous examples which we can share. So it's easy to see some real-life examples.  I have a feeling when you get the question of how much it costs that there has to be inevitably the qualifier of: well, it depends.  Luca Gonnelli: Yeah, it really depends a lot on the needs of the client. But yeah, the pricing works normally through a setup fee, which covers the whole project setup. Normally we start from a couple of months of work, and yeah, the pricing can also vary a lot in function of what kind of data we are using. There's licensing of this data, or how complex the output is, if it's more generative so we are actually designing our, creating an output, which is changing every time or if it's that more relying on some rules that we'd predefined.  But we normally start with this kind of two months of collaboration where with our design team and animation team and technical team to build a project, and that's a one-time fee covering all that, and then when the project after testing, a lot of testing after testing when things are going live you subscribe to a much smaller but recurring fee based on the function of how many videos you need to create or how many animations web animations, and so also that is very variable, but yeah, it's a closer to SaaS kind of approach.  So typically, you might have a significant, depending on the brief, upfront cost to put it together, but after that, it's just it just becomes an operating line item?  Luca Gonnelli: Exactly. The first year, you're investing in creating this format, and the more you use it later, the more it's going to be cost-effective. Of course, the one-time fee, it's only due the first time. Normally Algo projects are running for around maybe two or three years and of course, sometimes we also do updates and work on refreshing the project after a while since it's a video project, so we can always do that later. But yeah, normally it's an investment in the first year, but then it's paying off in the following ones.  With AI and all the generative stuff emerging at a dizzyingly fast pace, is it worrying or confusing or whatever to try to stay on top of this and stay relevant to when you've got all these little apps coming out saying, you can do all of this automatically. You don't even need to have a photo library anymore, you can just generate it.  Luca Gonnelli: I really find it super, super exciting because I'm trying to follow it as much as possible. Of course, it's moving very fast. But how the way we are approaching this is really to see which tool is the most effective in helping us obtain what we want to obtain for projects.  So just to give you an example we are using GPT4 right now on a project to basically summarize an article and turn an article into a video, and that's amazing how you can just simply use the summarization feature which is super well done and so yeah, we are actually making GPT4 write the script for the video based on just a long-form article which we're passing to it, and that's the only suggestion. So you copy-paste the URL of the article, you click a button and you will see structures adapting function of the content that's been analyzed by GPT4, and so that's super interesting to see how this can evolve and how to use, for example, the next step could be using another AI service which is called Play.HD, which would be love, which is voice synthesis. It's like creating human-sounding voices, really super realistic voices that are almost indistinguishable from voiceover actors to basically record voiceovers for the videos so they sound warm. So just with those two things you've written a script based on a long, preexisting, long-form article and you have a voiceover for that, and so then we focus on the design side. But yeah, that's super exciting. Of course, we're not developing ourselves. We're a small team, and we're not developing our own machine-learning algorithms, but we're literally using all the interesting ones that are coming our way for all the projects. Really interesting. Luca, thank you so much for spending some time with me.  Just before we go, where do people find you online?  Luca Gonnelli: Sure. Our website is algo.tv and most of our socials are also @algo.tv.  Very simple. All right. Thanks again.  Luca Gonnelli: Thanks to you. 

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  FilmBookCast Ep. 205 FilmBookCast is the official podcast of FilmBook. FilmBookCast is an entertainment news podcast on the latest movie and television show news. Each week, FilmBook contributor Chris Banks discusses that breaking Hollywood news. Shownotes Movie News (0:54) TV Show News (3:10) International News (5:13) Movie Trailers (7:16) TV Show Trailers (8:23) Movie Review (9:38) Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once. Or, please visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list “FilmBookCast” in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Listen below and leave your thoughts on this edition of FilmBookCast below in the comments section. Readers seeking more FilmBookCast podcasts can visit our FilmBookCast Page, our FilmBookCast Facebook Page, and our FilmBookCast YouTube Playlist. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast YouTube Page, and our Podcast Tumblr Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, and Flipboard. FilmBookCast Ep. 205 on YouTube FilmBookCast Ep. 205 via Podcast Stream

Aujourd'hui je vous propose un épisode un peu spécial… Stars Solidaires, vous connaissez ? C'est la grande Tombola du Téléthon, organisée chaque année, à laquelle j'ai eu l'honneur de participer en 2022. En donnant 10 euros, vous pouviez être tiré au sort et me faire l'honneur d'enregistrer un épisode avec moi. Je suis très fier d'avoir participé à ce projet génial impulsé par Natacha Benabou, que je remercie, car cela m'a permis de rencontrer Sami Terki, grand gagnant de cette tombola. Un épisode qui ne devait initialement pas être diffusé, mais après ma conversation avec Sami, mon équipe et moi avons décidé qu'il fallait vraiment le publier. Déjà parce que Sami Terki est un véritable “Doer” et fait le pari - entre autres - à la question : peut-on vraiment réussir en suivant des formations payantes ? Après une année difficile, entre Celsa et confinement, le jeune homme de 20 ans décide de prendre une année de césure. Il met ses parents devant le fait accompli. Qu'ils le veuillent ou non, à la rentrée prochaine, il ne retournera pas sur les bancs de l'école. Sami veut passer à l'action et lancer les projets dont il a toujours rêvés. Passionné de course à pied, il développe d'abord une formation de coaching audio, mais ne parvient pas à percer sur le marché. Tant pis. Rien ne l'arrête. Il se remotive et décide de se former en ligne sur tous les sujets qui l'intéressent, quitte à payer. Il a soif de savoir. Après plusieurs projets tests, il lance sa dernière boîte en octobre 2022 : Smartr.club. Une newsletter quotidienne qui résume en 3 minutes, l'essentiel de l'actu tech du moment, sur un ton fun. En parallèle, il devient freelance en copywriting et ghostwriting dans le domaine du sport. Un profil loin des strass et des paillettes de l'entrepreneuriat. Sami a bien cerné les enjeux de ce monde-là. Dans cet épisode, nous avons parlé : De production de contenu sur les réseaux sociaux et notamment sur LinkedIn ; Des outils à utiliser pour se faciliter la vie lorsqu'on est une petite boîte ; Des limites de l'IA ; De l'hyperconnexion sur les réseaux sociaux ; De la culture du coaching ; Et du statut de freelance. Vous pouvez soutenir Sami en vous abonnant à sa newsletter : smartr.club. TIMELINE : 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:58 - Présentation de Sami 00:36:30 - Son premier projet et les outils utilisés 00:47:43 - L'IA et l'hyperconnexion 01:08:18 - Se former en autodidacte 01:19:35 - Être freelance rédaction 01:27:02 - Focus sur LinkedIn 01:38:38 - L'industrie du podcast 01:43:30 - Analyse de la newsletter de Sami 01:52:20 - Outro On a cité avec Sami plusieurs anciens épisodes de GDIY : #118 - Stan Leloup - Marketing Mania - Comment convaincre des inconnus de vous envoyer de l'argent ? #297 - Adrien Labastire - Kessel - Faire 7 années d'études supérieures, puis percer sur YouTube #300 - Mathieu Blanchard - Ultratrail et Aventure - Commencer le running à 26 ans et devenir une légende de l'ultratrail #302 - Thierry Pick - Clinitex - Les secrets de management d'un laveur de carreaux #305 - Paul Mouginot - Stabler.tech - Repousser les limites de l'imagination grâce à l'IA : chronique d'un entrepreneur visionnaire #308 - Martin Solveig - Alma Studio - Faire danser les foules et émerveiller les enfants : la double vie d'un DJ superstar #313 - Michaël Cohen - Bagel Corner - Monter un réseau de franchise et perdurer dans le monde de la restauration rapide Avec Sami, on a parlé de : Le Celsa Jellysmack La vidéo “Alors Peut-être” David Guetta utilise l'IA pour faire un “feat” avec Eminem La série Fauda sur Netflix Le podcast Guerre de Business / Business Wars Pour suivre des formations payantes : Coursera, Antoine BM, Marketing Mania Ma formation: Entreprendre un podcast Les outils que Sami utilise : Substack, Kessel, Shine, Superindep, Beehiiv, WeMind, Feedly, Google Workplace, Canva Les IA citées : DALL-E, MidJourney, ChatGPT, IA de Bing Les newsletters citées : Magma, Snowball, Morning Brew, 5 Bullet Friday Les boss de LinkedIn : Théo Lion, Nina Ramen, Thibault Louis Les infopreneurs : Antoine BM, Stan Leloup Malt Big Up à notre freelance rédaction Maxime Blasco qui travaille avec nous depuis près d'un an. La musique du générique vous plaît ? C'est à Morgan Prudhomme que je la dois ! Contactez-le sur : https://studio-module.com. Vous souhaitez sponsoriser Génération Do It Yourself ou nous proposer un partenariat ? Contactez mon label Orso Media via ce formulaire. Pour contacter Sami Terki, rendez-vous sur LinkedIn, ou sur Strava.

FilmBookCast Ep. 203 FilmBookCast is the official podcast of FilmBook. FilmBookCast is an entertainment news podcast on the latest movie and television show news. Each week, FilmBook contributor Chris Banks discusses that breaking Hollywood news. Shownotes Movie News (0:52) TV Show News (2:50) International News (5:06) Home Release News (6:40) Movie Trailers (7:38) TV Show Trailers (8:59) Movie Review (10:21) Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once. Or, please visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list “FilmBookCast” in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Listen below and leave your thoughts on this edition of FilmBookCast below in the comments section. Readers seeking more FilmBookCast podcasts can visit our FilmBookCast Page, our FilmBookCast Facebook Page, and our FilmBookCast YouTube Playlist. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast YouTube Page, and our Podcast Tumblr Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, and Flipboard. FilmBookCast Ep. 203 on YouTube FilmBookCast Ep. 203 via Podcast Stream

FilmBookCast Ep. 202 FilmBookCast is the official podcast of FilmBook. FilmBookCast is an entertainment news podcast on the latest movie and television show news. Each week, FilmBook contributor Chris Banks discusses that breaking Hollywood news. Shownotes Movie News (0:52) TV Show News (2:25) International News (4:25) Home Release News (6:02) Movie Trailers (7:29) TV Show Trailers (8:50) Movie Review (10:06) Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once. Or, please visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list “FilmBookCast” in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Listen below and leave your thoughts on this edition of FilmBookCast below in the comments section. Readers seeking more FilmBookCast podcasts can visit our FilmBookCast Page, our FilmBookCast Facebook Page, and our FilmBookCast YouTube Playlist. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast YouTube Page, and our Podcast Tumblr Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, and Flipboard. FilmBookCast Ep. 202 on YouTube FilmBookCast Ep. 202 via Podcast Stream

In this week's episode of the Better Events podcast, we talk with Will Curran about this year's event trends and trends of the future. He shares a refreshing perspective on some trends you might have heard of before and new ones that weren't even on our radar. Learn who sets these trends, why event trends are important, and how you can apply them to your event. —— SHOW NOTES: Submit Your Answers for the 100th Episode Submission Form: https://forms.gle/WycG4uzoTgd75jwZ8 Join the Event Profs Community that Will created, via our affiliate link: https://www.eventprofscommunity.com/?via=bettereventspod Will's Event Trends Blog: https://helloendless.com/event-trends-2023/ Feedly: https://feedly.com/ Connect with Will Website: www.helloendless.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/willcurran Instagram: @itswillcurran —— SUPPORT THE PODCAST: Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bettereventspod THANKS FOR THE LOVE! Love this podcast? Please share with your event friends, tag us, and leave a review! Leave us a rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04ivq77TMgF5HhJHJOMe1V Leave us a review on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-events/id1561944117 —— FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @bettereventspod @loganstrategygroup_events (Logan) @epeventsllc (Mary)

FilmBookCast Ep. 201 FilmBookCast is the official podcast of FilmBook. FilmBookCast is an entertainment news podcast on the latest movie and television show news. Each week, FilmBook contributor Chris Banks discusses that breaking Hollywood news. Shownotes Movie News (0:52) TV Show News (2:55) Home Release News (4:53) Movie Trailers (6:15) TV Show Trailers (7:55) Movie Review (9:21) Credits and contact If you'd like to advertise within this podcast as a sponsor, please email advertise[AT]film-book[DOT]com. You can donate and support this FilmBook podcast by clicking this Paypal Donate link to contribute once. Or, please visit our Patreon page to contribute every month. Thanks to all our donors this week. You keep us going. Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list “FilmBookCast” in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show. Listen below and leave your thoughts on this edition of FilmBookCast below in the comments section. Readers seeking more FilmBookCast podcasts can visit our FilmBookCast Page, our FilmBookCast Facebook Page, and our FilmBookCast YouTube Playlist. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast YouTube Page, and our Podcast Tumblr Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Feedly, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Mastodon, and Flipboard. FilmBookCast Ep. 201 on YouTube FilmBookCast Ep. 201 via Podcast Stream

Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub. Connect with us Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/stream/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: PEP 703 - Making the GIL Optional in CPython Author: Sam Gross Sponsor: Łukasz Langa Draft status, but on Standards Track, targeting Python 3.12 Suggested by: Will Shanks “The GIL is a major obstacle to concurrency.” Especially for scientific computing. PEP 703 proposes adding a --without-gil build configuration to CPython to let it run code without the global interpreter lock and with the necessary changes needed to make the interpreter thread-safe. PEP includes several issues with GIL and sckikit-learn, PyTorch, Numpy, Pillow, and other numerically intensive libraries. Python's GIL makes it difficult to use modern multi-core CPUs efficiently for many scientific and numeric computing applications. There's also a section on how the GIL makes many types of parallelism difficult to express. Changes primarily in internals, and not much exposed to public Python and C APIs: Reference counting Memory management Container thread-safety Locking and atomic APIs Includes information on all of these challenges. Distribution C-API extension authors will need access to a --without-gil Python to modify their projects and supply --without-gil versions. Sam is proposing “To mitigate this, the author will work with Anaconda to distribute a --without-gil version of Python together with compatible packages from conda channels. This centralizes the challenges of building extensions, and the author believes this will enable more people to use Python without the GIL sooner than they would otherwise be able to.” Michael #2: FerretDB Via Jon Bultmeyer A truly Open Source MongoDB alternative MongoDB abandoned its Open-Source roots, changing the license to SSPL making it unusable for many Open Source and Commercial Projects. The core of our solution is a stateless proxy, which converts MongoDB protocol queries to SQL, and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine. FerretDB will be compatible with MongoDB drivers and will strive to serve as a drop-in replacement for MongoDB 6.0+. First release back in Nov 2022 I still love you MongoDB ;) Brian #3: Four tips for structuring your research group's Python packages David Aaron Nicholson Not PyPI packages, but, you know, directories with __init__.py in them. Corrections for mistakes I see frequently Give your packages and modules terse, single-word names whenever possible. Import modules internally, instead of importing everything from modules. Make use of sub-packages. Prefer modules with very specific names containing single functions over modules with very general names like utils, helpers, or support that contain many functions. Michael #4: Quibbler Quibbler is a toolset for building highly interactive, yet reproducible, transparent and efficient data analysis pipelines. One import statement and matplotlib becomes interactive. Check out the video on the repo page. Extras Brian: And now for something completely different: turtles talk Michael: More RSS recommendations FreshRSS a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. Feedly (for AI) Flym for Android Readwise is very interesting RSS for courses at Talk Python New article: Dev on the Road Joke: Testing the program Joke: Every Cloud Architecture

Desde esta semana volvemos con los episodios formativos, más cortos pero más prácticos para que sigas aprendiendo marketing, estrategias y recursos que te ayuden a mejorar tus proyectos digitales.Voy a enseñarte las páginas web que más utilizo y que, si te dedicas al marketing digital, te recomiendo añadir al “Marcadores” de tu Google Chrome.Son herramientas que te van a gustar mucho sobre todo por la cantidad de trabajo que te quitan en el día a día.Trello: https://trello.com/esDeepl: https://www.deepl.com/es/translatorSquoosh: https://squoosh.app/MindMeister: https://www.mindmeister.com/esCampaign URL Builder: https://ga-dev-tools.web.app/campaign-url-builder/Also Asked: https://alsoasked.com/Smart Mockups: https://smartmockups.com/esFlaticon: https://www.flaticon.es/Freepik: https://www.freepik.es/Metricool: https://metricool.com/Lorca Editor: https://lorcaeditor.com/Loom: https://www.loom.com/esRemovebg: https://www.remove.bg/esTinypng: https://tinypng.com/Coolors.co: https://coolors.co/Smash: https://fromsmash.com/Cloud Convert: https://cloudconvert.com/Motionmail: http://motionmailapp.com/Feedly: https://feedly.com/

With Gareth Myles and Ted SalmonJoin us on Mewe RSS Link: https://techaddicts.libsyn.com/rss iTunes | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Tunein | Spotify  Amazon | Pocket Casts | Castbox | PodHubUK   Feedback and Contributions Matt Jones on Harkback Being an 80's throwback, I do enjoy your Harkbark feature. Strangely, I don't recall the Codemasters games, but I do remember a brand called Mastertronic, who sold mostly garbage, but occasionally really good games for £1.99. The interesting thing was that these were sold not in Computer shops, but in Newsagents and Petrol Stations, making them accessible and affordable for kids. They were terrific value. Phil Dawson on RSS Readers Which RSS Readers would we recommend? Feedly (cross-platform, 100 feeds free) Opera Browser with Built-In Reader (cross-platform) InoReader (cross-platform, 150 feeds free) News Explorer (iOS) Unread (iOS)   Hardline on the hardware AMD announces 7900 XTX and 7900 XT graphics cards with FSR 3 Beaming Clean Energy From Space – Caltech's “Extraordinary and Unprecedented Project” Google and Amazon reach an agreement to let Fire TV OS thrive Fax for the memories: Ofcom backs death warrant for 80s office staple HaptX Haptic Gloves G1 from $4,500 This Xiaomi concept lets you use a full-blown camera lens on a phone Samsung 'K Series' of phones could be returning as 3 models get BIS green signa Listing reveals almost all of the details of Motorola's next flagship Matter officially launches with strong support from Amazon, Samsung, Philips, and others Huawei Pocket S folding smartphone unveiled   The Name of the Game Steam for ChromeOS hits beta, just in time for Stadia to bite the dust The Google Play Games PC beta is now rolling out to more regions AYANEO 2 Indie Gogo - Retro game Corps Video   Flap your trap about an App Telegram briefly flirts with pay-to-view posts Tumblr allows nudes again, but porn remains off-limits Long Awaited Roku Update Is Coming To The UK Amazon Music opens up its entire library to every Prime subscriber, with one major catch Easily track your packages with new Gmail features Netflix's new Basic with ads plan won't support these devices Look to Speak   Chrome Corner Tracking prices just got a lot easier with Google Chrome You can now share Google Drive files temporarily thanks to a new expiration date feature Samsung's Internet browser can now sync bookmarks with Google Chrome   Hark Back The Flashcube - An Overview and History   Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Processor (12C/24T, 70MB Cache, up to 4.8 GHz Max Boost) - £359.99 Motorola Edge 30 Neo Was £349, now £319 ASUS Vivobook 15 X515JA 15.6" Full HD Laptop - £229.99 ELEPHAS Phone Projector 1080P 8500 Lux, 200” projection, 71% off! Was £227 (though usually £90!) now £67 Lenovo Tab P11 Plus 11 Inch 2K Tablet - £229.00 Another page of Samsung Deals - this week, phones   Main Show URL: http://www.techaddicts.uk | PodHubUK Contact:: gareth@techaddicts.uk | @techaddictsuk Gareth - @garethmyles | garethmyles.com | Gareth's Ko-Fi Ted - tedsalmon.com | Ted's PayPal | Ted's Amazon | tedsalmon@post.com YouTube: Tech Addicts

Alvin Ashcraft has over 27 years of programming experience in the healthcare, financial, and manufacturing industries. He is a Content Developer for Microsoft, creating docs for Windows developers on Microsoft Docs. He has authored a book for Packt Publishing titled Learn WinUI 3, and has just published his second book, Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6, out now.   Alvin is one of the founders and organizers of the TechBash developer conference held annually at the Kalahari Resort in Pocono Manor, PA. In his previous life, he worked for consulting firms as a software developer. During those years Alvin developed solutions for clients in the manufacturing, financial, and healthcare industries. Alvin is a blogger, technology geek, family guy, and former Microsoft MVP. He has a wonderful wife and three amazing daughters.   Topics of Discussion: [3:18] How Alvin got started with his blog, and how blogging made RSS a thing. [5:48] What exactly does NewsBlur do for you? [10:10] Are we overstating it when we say that people who work in development need to become expert users of all the frameworks and tools they intend to use? [12:20] Alvin talks about the inspiration behind his new book, and why he chose parallel programming and concurrency as the topics. [16:35] Okay, what is it really like having TechBash at the beautiful Kalahari resort? [22:00] What does the future hold for Windows development? [24:03] How else can we best be prepared for the future?   Mentioned in this Episode: Architect Tips — New video podcast! Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Programming with Palermo programming@palermo.network Alvin's main blog Alvin's WinUI blog Twitter TechBash Twitter TechBash site Alvin's GitHub OpenLiveWriter plugin The Documentation landing page on MS Learn: Learn.microsoft.com/docs/ The landing page for Windows developer docs: Learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/ A list of sample apps and samples repos for Windows developers Learn WinUI 3 book: Parallel Programming  and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 book Newsblur.com/ Feedly.com/ Openlivewriter.com/ Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/win32 Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api TPL Data Flow library   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

Épisode 846 : La veille, c'est la charnière de nos métiers et pourtant on l'oublie trop souvent... Fastidieuse, chronophage, complexe, on a tendance à la laisser de côté alors qu'elle est indispensable. Aujourd'hui on vous aide à vous organiser pour votre veille !Etape 1 : Définir son périmètre de veilleBen oui, faire de la veille ça prend déjà du temps alors si en plus on doit tout surveiller laisse tomber.Une bonne veille bien efficace c'est déjà 15 à 30 min par jour alors il faut bien cibler son sujet .Est-ce que je fais une veille sectorielle, métier, sur l'actualité de mon secteur, les derniers outils, les dernières innovations.Est-ce que je fais une veille concurrentielle, analyse direct et watching de mes concurrents Est-ce que je fais une veille tendancielle plus large sur les formats qui marchent, les sons à la mode, les outils pour communiquer. Ou alors je fais une veille 360º et je passe tout au tamis après coup ?Déjà là le spectre est assez large Etape 2 : Identifier ses sources et collecterPour identifier les sources, là tout de suite il va falloir se remonter les manches. Une bonne veille, même si vous êtes équipés en outils commence toujours par une bonne recherche à la Mano.Quels sont les sites d'actualité qui parlent de mon secteur, est-ce qu'ils publient encore, est-ce que j'aime la manière dont ils présentent les news ?Avec des sites d'actus : En Social Media vous avez les célèbres Blog du modérateur, Siècle digital, Social Media today, The Verge ou encore Presse Citron par exemple.Avec des POdcasts ; On peut aussi partir de Podcast, comme Le Super Daily par exemple, ou des podcasts comme Marketing Mania ou The Story Line, un podcast dédié à la création de contenu.Si tu es un peu vintage, tu te fais de jolis favoris dans ton google Chrome et tu ouvres chaque site des que tu en as besoin ;)Social Listening >Pour la veille Social Media on peut aussi aller jusqu'au Social Listening ou Social Monitoring.Ces méthodes consistent à écouter ce qui se dit autour de mots clefs, liés à la marque ou liés à mon secteur par exemple.Des outils comme Talkwalker, Digiming ou MentionComment collecter et réunir toutes ces sources ?Avec un outil d'agrégation / de curation de contenu.Les outils les plus célèbres pour les faire sont Buffer, Altop, ou encore Feedly que nous utilisons.A l'intérieur des outils vous pouvez créer des flux spécifiques par mot clefs ou par thématiquesEtape 3 : Archiver les bonnes idéesPour les conserver vous pouvez :enregistrer vos idées sous forme de posts sur Les réseaux, sur Instagram simplement avec la fonction enregistrer ou sur Facebook ou Linkedin en vous les envoyant via message privé.Les stocker dans un Board Trello dans une colonne spécifique pour les « bonnes idées »Si tu es dans la recherche visuelle, fais toi des boards Pinterest !Etape 4 : Partager sa veilleUne fois qu'on a trouvé de bonnes idées, on aura envie de les partager avec nos clients, avec nos collaborateurs et pour ça plusieurs solutions. Vous pouvez vous les transmettre via des messageries comme Hangout ou Whatsapp mais vous pouvez aussi les archiver dans un board Trello par exemple.Si t'es un peu geek, tu peux aussi te faire une mini newsletter automatique sur la base de ces flux RSS pour nourrir tes collègues !. . .Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. Il est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs.Nous sommes une agence social media basée à Lyon : https://supernatifs.com/. Ensemble, nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Ensemble, nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs.

我在节目里对比了11种网页标记（高亮和笔记）工具，包括 Matter,Raindrop,Hypothesis,Instapaper,Pocket,Inoreader,Cubox,Devonthink,Feedly,Apple Notes,简悦，并在一开始就告诉你，我推荐哪两种免费的标记工具。 接着，我分享了为什么我要更少地使用推特，以及把两份 newsletter 改名的原因。 链接 Matter app Raindrop 为什么我选择用 Hypothesis 做网页标记 happy collection Instapaper Feedly Pocket Inoreader Cubox Devonthink Take notes about a web page in Safari on Mac 简悦

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Una vuelta a los orígenes, un reducto del Internet que ha ido menguando en favor de las grandes plataformas. Reeder: https://reederapp.com. ReadKit: https://readkit.app. Feedly: https://feedly.com. *** Loop Infinito es un podcast de Applesfera, presentado por Javier Lacort y editado por Santi Araújo. Contacta con el autor en Twitter (@jlacort) o por correo (lacort@xataka.com). Gracias por escuchar este podcast.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Nudging My Way Out Of The Intellectual Mosh Pit, published by Elizabeth on January 15, 2022 on LessWrong. As part of my ongoing effort to improve my cost/benefit ratio on social media, I'm nudging myself away from intellectual mosh pit platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and towards blog posts, articles, videos essays, etc. Really longform consumption (e.g. books) remains about the same, my limitations on that are mostly my insistence on fact-checking nonfiction and very narrow tastes in fiction, this post is about changing what I reach for when I'm bored in a line. Towards that goal I have made a few changes, which I list here roughly in ascending order of how much effort they were: Put all of my screens in greyscale. If you only try one thing on this list, make it this one. It takes five seconds to test once you have instructions, and the relief for me was immediate and has lasted days so far. Every time I have to turn color on to look at graphs I resent it. Instructions for OS X. Instructions for iPhone and older Android (untested). Instructions for modern Android. Windows users: you're on your own I only use Windows for games. Discovered the existence of Focus Mode for android, which allows you to use the internet but disables notifications. All of the Focus Mode instructions require several clicks into a deep menu. You can access it more easily by enabling the relevant fast-access card, using the instructions for older Android phones above. Moved all my short-OODA-loop apps off my phone home in favor of long-OODA-loop apps. The newly defavored apps include obvious candidates like Twitter, but also all messaging apps and Chrome itself. The new stars include my article aggregator, as well as very long-form content like Kindle, Audible, and PodCatcher. The home screen continues to hold non-content-consumption apps I want to access quickly, like Maps, Calendar, etc. Resumed use of a read-it-later tool, which lets me save cool articles I see on social media to be consumed when I'm in a better head space (I can't switch between reading microblogs and regular blogs quickly – different headspace ). Switched to an RSS reader that lets me read things out of order without marking earlier articles as Read. Combined my RSS feeds, email newsletters, and saved articles in a single service (that lets me read in any order) so I can choose from all my essay-length options at once. This was a stupid amount of effort and yak shaving and it's not pretty but I got it working. Most of this post will be about that. How to Combine All Article-Length Content The following instructions work with both Inoreader and Feedly. I eventually chose Inoreader but it was a close call and your mileage may vary. Import your existing RSS feeds to Inoreader. Feedly instructions. You have two options for saving arbitrary content to your new aggregator. Inoreader has a built-in feature to do this with a Chrome plugin, but there's no way to see saved articles and RSS articles in the same list. So if that's important for you. Sign up for Pocket, the leading read-it-later app, and configure Pocket to put your saved articles on an RSS Feed, then add that RSS feed to Inoreader per normal. Install the save to Pocket extension in your browser to make it easy to add to the feed as you come across things you want to read at some point (note: not available for Android, so I have to manually copy the URL and open the Pocket app). All articles in the saved-to-Pocket feed will show in Inoreader as having the same author (“my content feed”) and they won't have the body of the article, only the title and header image. I really care about having all of my articles in the exact same place, but if you don't, just using save-to-Inoreader will save you several steps. You also have two options for newsletters. Set up forwar...

WordPress news is hard. I mean, it's hard to turn it into a real business. I get away with covering WordPress here on the Matt Report because our guests share lessons on how they built their business or spend time telling us how they navigated the community, until they found their way. But news? Well, that's why The WP Tavern has been the only name in town for a while, loaded with two critical components: A dedicated staff and they are funded. If you want to make it, you do things differently, you do things like Rae Morey‘s The Repository newsletter. Today we'll chat about building her WordPress news newsletter, background as a journalist, and explore what it really takes to make all of this work. Thanks goes out to Malcare today for sponsoring a month of Matt Report and The WP Minute. You can help us by visiting buymeacoffee.com/mattrpeort Episode transcript [00:00:00] Rae: It's a completely not in the WordPress world at all. So our processes is, as you said, an experiential design and creative technology company, and we develop experiences for cultural and tourism organizations. [00:00:14] So, you might go into a gallery or museum and experience an audio tour and we create immersive experiences where you can. Wander around a space and he audio that that's designed, especially for that space. It moves with you around, around the gallery or exhibition. We do precinct technology, virtual queuing, augmented reality experiences, and we do exhibition design in. [00:00:40] A lot of different spaces, for example we're doing a a brand new exhibition smack bang in the middle of Montana at the moment for there for first street project there. We do we do the audio guide for the Getty in Los Angeles. So that's an example of the kind of thing I do for my, my day job. [00:00:58] There is communications manager. So I look after Publicity marketing anything to do with words, I guess, on the website? Yeah. That's, that's kind of what I do for a day.  [00:01:09] Matt: Does anybody ever give you like a side eye when maybe a customer comes in and they're like, we have a WordPress website that they look at you and be like, Hey, we think we know somebody who kind of knows this to implement whatever project we might have. [00:01:23] Rae: I don't know. I, I, to be honest, I kind of played down what to do with WordPress, because I don't want to be that person that people kind of like go to asking for, help me with my website. Yeah. [00:01:33] Oh, I I hate to say, but our website and our process is actually uses Drupal. So I've had to learn that this year not, not my decision, but yeah, it's been interesting seeing what the competitions.  [00:01:44] Matt: Yeah, that was the, the second, most serious application I used to build websites was Drupal before or slightly after a front page. [00:01:51] Well, I guess throw Dreamweaver in there too, but we went front page Dreamweaver and then Drupal and then WordPress triples, fantastic platform. I think I wouldn't use it today, but I th I still think it's a very powerful  [00:02:04] Rae: platform using it compared to WordPress at the moment. Very different platforms. [00:02:10] Matt: How do you find time to to do the repository and works by birds and you have a family? How do you, how do you structure your day with all of this stuff?  [00:02:20] Rae: The honest answer is I have no idea. [00:02:21] I, I think over the past couple of years I don't know if you're aware, but Melbourne where I live here in Australia has been the most locked down city in the world. We've had the most restrictions lockdowns out of everywhere. It's just the circumstances I guess, here, but it's given me a lot of time to look at. [00:02:36] To spend on side projects, I guess. So when so the, the repository I started that with came guest star from male poet back in November, 2019. And that was just before the pandemic. And so I guess the repository in a way became a bit of a handy pandemic passion project that I was working on while in locked down and has continued through to now. [00:02:59] And. [00:03:00] Yeah, I was, I was also on maternity leave from my day job throughout 2020. So that gave me a lot of time and focus on building up the newsletter and yeah, since returning to my day job part-time I've, I've just I guess structure my week so that, Part time work and also have the repository for a Dane half a week. [00:03:21] So just try to split up the weight to fit everything in. And also I'm very fortunate to have a partner who. Who I cope? Well, shouldn't say co-parent with where to very much together, but we split our parenting duties 40, 50, 50, which is we're very modern family in that respect. So yeah, we both prioritize our careers, but also our son. [00:03:44] So, yeah. So there, there is a way for moms with a lot of things on to, to do all the things that they are passionate.  [00:03:53] Matt: Do you have a certain structure and I can, I can share mine as well for, for the WP minute, but you have a certain structure that you would, you wouldn't mind sharing on how you keep track of all of the news. [00:04:05] And this obviously is happening throughout the week. Are you jotting things down and the to-do lists in a notion document. And then at the end you go to write up the email and you just sit down with all of those notes in front of you. How does this all come curated?  [00:04:18] Rae: Yeah, look, there's no pulling back the curtain. [00:04:21] There's no special, fancy way that I do it. My background is, is in journalism. I studied journalism at uni and so I naturally just do a lot of note-taking all the time because I'm just every time I see something, I think, oh, that's really cool. And I use apple notes on my my medical kit or my iPhone, I'm an apple person and everything sinks. [00:04:44] And so I'm constantly taking notes. And I guess with the repository I use feedly.com to track something like 70 or 80 different websites and blogs. And so I go through that periodically throughout the week just to track what what's happening and keep on top of everybody's latest updates. I'm also checking Twitter all the time on my phone. [00:05:06] And it's a bit harder to save tweets, so I have to yeah. Finding a way to do that really well, but I'm always checking Twitter, whether I'm No throughout the day or in the evening while I'm watching TV, having having a scroll. And that's mostly, I guess my research for the pository just between those two, just seeing what's going on. [00:05:27] And I guess also just catching up with people throughout the week in the WordPress community, whether it's just aiming on on Twitter or chats over emails and Coles. Those are the kinds of ways that I keep in touch with what's going.  [00:05:42] Matt: Sure the the newsletter there's. So there's a, you just said that there, you're probably tracking 70 to 80 sources of, of news or at least new news that you can throw into an RSS feed and put into. [00:05:53] Feedly probably 20% of them. I would reckon are [00:06:00] our newsletters or have a newsletter component to them. Your newsletter is unique to, to me, by the way, or listen, let me take a step. I'm honored for you to be here. I'm not a journalist, I'm not a great writer. I struggled with words, in fact and I look at your piece as something that is it's fantastic. [00:06:19] It's unique. It's creative. I look at it as a conversation that, that ends up in my inbox. Before I knew who you were. I had some other voice in my head, but then I realized that then I found out who you were. And I was like, oh, now it's your voice. Every time I read the newsletter, like I'm hearing it with this Australian accent. [00:06:37] And it's fantastic. But it's, it's much more of to me anyway, like a S a conversation, maybe a story. Was that on purpose? Is that a strategy? I don't want to slap strategy on art, but is that a strategy of yours to make it different than.  [00:06:53] Rae: When when Kim and I originally started the repository, or at least before, actually before we started the repository and we were talking about ideas because Kim and I are both journalists in previous life. [00:07:05] And we wanted to bring something to the WordPress community. Then I guess, in a way there was an ulterior motive of showing off male poet platform, but also. Well, as, as former journalists, we just wanted to put something together that brought the WordPress news in a way that was, I guess, a lot of new stories in WordPress tend to include a lot of opinion, but we wanted to bring other people's opinions to the fore as well. [00:07:27] We wanted to increase the diversity in the news, but not just by having lots of different new sources, but bringing people's opinions that you might. You might not otherwise see. So the, the format that we came up with and, we still have to this day was looking for looking at a particular issue from a lot of different perspectives. [00:07:52] So we, like a story recently, like I know the word, it's not just the actual state of the word video, but lots of different blog posts in opinions, from different people and what they make. Of the state of the word. So you can kind of, read about read about a new story, but also get the context of where that story fits within the WordPress world and then varying opinions on what people thought about that. [00:08:15] So, you can get that kind of more nuanced viewpoint from, from different people and, and have that way of understanding any issue. From different viewpoints because not everybody looks at things the same way. It's nice to kind of read something, but then understand where, where it fits in the ecosystem. [00:08:31] And that's, that's the approach that we were going for.  [00:08:34] Matt: This is a huge question and I'll let you dissect it and define it and pull pieces out of it as you see fit.  [00:08:41] WordPress news, like what is somebody with a journalistic background? What does that really mean? Or what should it really mean? And maybe even before you answer that, can you help clarify, like what at journalists [00:09:00] produces versus let's say an opinion piece or a commentator might produce, because to be honest with you I didn't discover this recently, but for many years I was just like, oh, I don't know the difference. [00:09:12] I didn't know that you, that a journalist doesn't really put opinion into their, into their piece. And there are certain guidelines that one should approach journalism with versus, I would say like somebody like a Kara Swisher, who's what I would say is maybe a celebrity journalist, but no longer a journalist I think is much more on the commentator side. [00:09:33] For probably many different reasons, but anyway, could you help us define what journalists means to you should mean in the WordPress space?  [00:09:41] Rae: Yeah, it's interesting because there's definitely. Of everything in the WordPress community. I worked in, in newspaper journalism, and so it was very, and I guess the newspaper I worked for, it was very straight in that it was, new stories to get one report on one side of the debate and the other side. [00:09:58] Of the debate. You make sure you have balanced views on a topic and you present that and that's purely without any kind of opinion. And you try to be as objective as possible in the way that you present it. So that's, I guess, very traditional old fashioned old school journalism. That's kind of where my background is, I guess, in that, in the WordPress community. [00:10:22] I don't really have anything, I guess the closest to that would probably be Sarah Gooding at WP Tavern. And even then some of her pieces can have some opinion inserted here and there for, for her context. She's, she's been in the community for a really long time. So her opinions, I, I find it fairly valid, but but yeah, that's not really, I guess, old school journalism as, as a lot of people would say it And then you get. [00:10:47] Yeah, I think blog, blog posts and things like that, where people offering an opinion that's I wouldn't really class that as news, so much as it's opinion and people adding their perspectives to the debate. It's, it's an interesting one in the WordPress community. We don't have a lot of new sources. [00:11:03] A lot of people have tried to start WordPress news over the years. Haven't been, haven't been that successful because it's. It's not a business that is profitable as we've seen more broadly in, in the news industry with the rise of the internet and, the fighting for advertising and paywalls and, and all of, all of that kind of thing. [00:11:23] In in WordPress, we could, we could definitely use more new sources, that the greater diversity you have with news the more accountability businesses have to have to operate in this environment. The more and more scrutiny, the better, I think, in terms of, businesses operating and, and making sure that they're operating above board It would certainly be nice to have more new sources. [00:11:45] It's, it's certainly great that there are a lot of people who, who blog and share their opinion. But yeah, I think there's definitely room for, for more harder news in the WordPress community, particularly, over the past year, how we've had so many [00:12:00] acquisitions, right. And we were going from an ecosystem full of, I guess, small to medium businesses to, we've got big corporates and multinationals, I guess, like Google that are operating in, in our in our ecosystem. [00:12:12] And, we want to keep those businesses to. No, around what they're doing. And I, I'm not saying way to, to scare them, that they shouldn't be in our ecosystem, but, just to, people want to know what's what's going on and, and, and make sure that they're operating in a, in a fair. [00:12:27] Matt: Let's say news article or piece or research even if you went to an acquisition that happened a year, two years ago we might be checking in on, let's say something like an eye themes was probably the one that I can think of at least off the top of my head, that dates pretty far back, big company getting picked up by a hosting company. [00:12:46] And now Corey who started that company now runs both status. One might say. Let's take a look at what happened with these acquisitions in terms of employment. Are the people still there? Is the products. What it was when they acquired it. What is the price point look like? Have these, big hosting companies, which catch a lot of heat because they are big hosting companies. [00:13:08] Did they just roll it into their mega solution? And the once artismal piece of themes is just gone and it's just another toggle, it's just another toggle on the dashboard, right? Is that a fair assessment to say that's the kind of news that we were journalism that we would want to see in the space, or at least maybe you would want to see in the space, not trying to put words in your mouth, but  [00:13:30] Rae: yeah, I think that kind of journalism would be good. [00:13:32] I guess, It's interesting because we work in a space with some really big companies and there are lots of acquisitions going on. It's it's it's, that would be interesting to say, the, the, the the quality and the end product that's offered to, to users is that being maintained, as I know there's been a bit of angst with also motive of buying out people plugin, Sandhills development it'd be interesting to go back in, as you say, in 12 months time. [00:13:56] And from looking at that story as a journalist, you'd probably want to Find long-term users and get their perspectives, whether that's on the record or as background for a story and maybe speak to stuff. If they're happy to speak, even anonymously, get their, their views on how they think the. [00:14:16] Transition has been yeah, those are the kinds of interesting stories that we're not really seeing so much, we're saying the, the, the acquisition and the sale, but we're not really seeing the I guess the journey of how acquisitions are tracking. We're not seeing what's happening to, particularly with automatic buying out so many distances, what are happening to those businesses? [00:14:36] They bought quite a few in the, in the past year and the past few years have been interesting to say, what's, what's happened to the end product house has been absorbed into it, automatic and wordpress.com and, and it has it, has it been for, I guess, the greater good in supporting those employees and, and the businesses, but also providing a a more polished product for the end user. [00:14:57] If that, if that was the purpose of the, of the equity.[00:15:00]  [00:15:01] Matt: I think another, another topic would be something like a core, core contributors, which companies are funding core contribution to the WordPress core. I think in Matt's state of the word, which I do have the slides on the WP minute. [00:15:15] So I'll try to link up in the show notes. I think he showed a graphic of automatic somewhere in the seventies. Person, mark a Yoast coming in again, this is just off the top of my head. I think second place with maybe 14 people. And then it's like GoDaddy who just acquired Pagely who's a multi-billion dollar publicly public. [00:15:36] Are they publicly traded? I better not see, this is what, this is what makes a real journalist. They don't just say things like, I think they're a publicly traded company. If they're not, they're really big. And they've got billions and billions of dollars, but I think only four or five people. Actually contributes to core and word press is a massive part of their business. [00:15:53] Why aren't they doing? Why aren't they doing more for, for WordPress what's, what's the reason. And how much are they really benefiting off of open source? I think a lot of people give Matt an automatic, a lot of heat around the fact that, well, this is an open source product and, and this is just all funneling to the top of wordpress.com to make wordpress.com more money, but it's oh, by the way, There are billion dollar hosting companies leveraging this to who are not giving back. [00:16:20] Yeah. And don't  [00:16:21] Rae: forget Google as well. They're, they're pretty massive company. And, and I'm not sure exactly how many people they've contributed to the, how are they contributing to WordPress 5.9. But. Yeah, it'd be interesting, but you also mentioned Yost in there and I wonder if they'll increase their contributed the numbers now that new fold digital has acquired them. [00:16:39] It'd be interesting to say, how that contribution space changes and, and also in the state of the word Matt shared how he liked to see that landscape of contribution change in the coming years. So, Yeah, it would be, it would be great to see those big businesses putting back more in as far as five for the five, five for the future goes it's great to see so many smaller individuals and businesses contributing. [00:17:04] But also another interesting story I think is over the, over the past year, there's been a drop in, in volunteers and contributors to the project. And an automatic is picked up the lion's share of that work, which, you can't fault automatic for, stepping in and, and supporting the project in that way. [00:17:22] It would be great to say. Nice. Some of the bigger businesses stepping in and putting out resources for that too. I was really pleased to say XW pays as has, has put up contributors for the performance team and it'd be great to see more businesses like that who have that kind of expertise to be able to, to. [00:17:39] Could contribute their people to different parts of the project. Would that help? Because it's not really just about developers. It's also about marketing and design and mobile. There, there are a lot of different end-to-end education. There are a lot of different spaces that need country. [00:17:54] Matt: And what we've I've hoped we've just done is illustrate how important WordPress news [00:18:00] is and could be if there was more funding in the space. So how do we make money doing this? Ray, I wanna, I wanna pivot and talk about that a little bit because you, you, you have. The, what I'm going to say, the only vehicle for content you put out for WordPress is the newsletter, the repository. [00:18:17] You're just sending out email. You're not doing a blog, you're not doing a YouTube channel. You're not doing a podcast yet. And you monetize that through through sponsorship. It's. Well, I'll let you, I'm not, you don't have to say any numbers. It's not a full-time job for you. In other words, it's not supporting you. [00:18:34] Full-time compared to your day job. Maybe one day will like, what do you think it's going to take to make the repository of full-time job? Is there another. Of an audience in the WordPress news space to build a true air quotes, air quotes business, or should it be selling NFTs to support this  [00:18:55] Rae: maybe, but who knows how long that's going to be around for? [00:18:58] To be honest, I don't see their positories a full full-time job for me. I started it as a bit of a side gig. I thought that would take four, maybe four hours a week. And, and how it's more like a donor. So it does take a bit of time to put together because it's, it's solo single stories, reading everything. [00:19:16] And in making sure that, I don't want to just pick any, tweets to include in the newsletter. I want to make sure that I'm trying to find as many views as possible. And the ones that I'm including in the newsletter, a representative of, of the, of the views that you know, are in the community as well as any of that. [00:19:32] It might be a bit unusual. The, I think that it's an interesting one funding. I'm very lucky to have GoDaddy in element or sponsor sponsoring the newsletter this year. They'd been fantastic sponsors. One thing I do is when I enter into an agreement with a sponsor, I make it clear that. [00:19:52] If that, I want to retain editorial independence. So if there are any stories that involve them good or bad, I'm going to include them in the newsletter. Even earlier in the year when automatic mail poll was sponsoring the newsletter for the all of last year and, and And that was fantastic. [00:20:10] It allowed the newsletter to really great. But then when automatic bought out male poet automatic began took over sponsorship of the newsletter for the first quarter of 2021. And that was part of the agreement as well. I made sure that any stories involving automatic rules, you were going to report on those. [00:20:28] I think it's really important. If any publications have sponsorship agreements of that type, that it is very clear that editorial independence is important and, and that's separate from sponsorship. There are lots of other different models as we've discussed before as well, of the podcast. [00:20:48] There are lots of different models for, for funding use. It's, it's a bit of experimentation, I think there's philanthropy as we've seen that philanthropic or philanthropic funding [00:21:00] model. There are a crowdsourced kind of funding models. It's, it's an interesting one because at the end of the day, P everybody wants news, but not everybody's willing to pay for it. [00:21:10] And that's, that's the struggle is real there. It's really hard to overcome that because for a long time, these is. Well, my speed. Well, it's been free on the internet. It's easy to find sources. A lot of people think that they can find it themselves, but the convenience of having a newsletter letter, like the repository brings it all together and makes it more accessible. [00:21:30] Yeah.  [00:21:31] Matt: How do we encourage, ah, I'll I'll fall on this grenade. You don't have to agree with me. Okay. I'll be, I'll be the guy who says it out loud, but. How do we encourage better content? To be made. And I say content specifically, because I know not every, not everyone doesn't want to cover the inside baseball of, of WordPress. [00:21:58] They don't want to dive deep into stories. I get it because it's a very small audience. And maybe we'll talk about that in a moment. Like it's kind of a small audience who really cares about this stuff versus like, how do I build this element or site to make a thousand dollars a month? That's a much larger audience who cares. [00:22:16] Again, air quotes cares about WordPress. How do we encourage others to create better content? Or do you have any, any words of wisdom on how to create better content so that we all the content creators in WordPress, whether it's a journalist, a, an opinion piece, or maybe even a tutorial. That businesses take us a little bit brands that sponsor us or donate to us. [00:22:39] Take us a little bit more serious because I've overseen. I've. What I've seen is the over-saturation of asking for like donor donations and sponsorships, and then the content never gets made. And what I feel like is that kind of hurts us. Maybe not, I don't know, but it kind of hurts us where we knock on that, that brand's door. [00:23:02] And we say, Hey, we got this great thing. We're pouring so much effort into it. And they go, yeah, that other person burned me for $5,000. And they didn't really, they didn't do the ad read. Right. Or they didn't create the amount of content that we thought, or, the content didn't bring us that much traction. [00:23:18] So, you have this, I'm giving you 5,000. I want 5,000 in one. Any words of wisdom for elevating the quality of content or is it just like survival of the fittest?  [00:23:29] Rae: Yeah, that's a really interesting topic. In the good question. The only way I guess I can answer that is, is from my own experience. [00:23:36] When. I started the ripples of trails or, really fortunate that I guess I was the writer for the project. It was a collaboration between myself and Kim. So I was writing, Kim was basically bankrolling. He didn't, he was, running his own company, didn't have the time. So, there was a collaboration between the two of us. [00:23:53] We talked, discussed the news and, and made the website and we kicked it off with, I think, seven subscribers. I [00:24:00] can't remember in the first issue, not many And we got, got up to about a hundred subscribers and it kind of just plateaued for a while, but we kept on going and slowly and it snowballed, but it took probably a good year of, of the newsletter to really get into. [00:24:21] To really start growing our subscribers. I think by that stage, we might've had two or 300 subscribers by the end of the first year, we were a bit deflated. We thought we'd have more subscribers. And we were trying to try to, become more well known and, and get more people reading. But it's a, it's a pretty hard thing. [00:24:39] And so. When it, when it came time for came to step away when male Paul was acquired and then automatic finished sponsoring after they acquired male poet. I was kind of in a spot where I didn't know where I was going to go next with sponsorship. And it was that, that good year of very slow growth and just focusing on writing something quality that attracted GoDaddy to, to sponsor they would, at their hour, they were our first sponsor who really saw what we were, what we were aiming for with the newsletter or by that stage. [00:25:14] No. I was really luckily. So, Laura Nelson, who works at a male poet in their marketing, she's now at world commerce. She was absolutely critical in helping develop that relationship. She's a fantastic member in the WordPress community, so she helped introduce us and yet he's still a sponsor and it's, it's there. [00:25:34] Adam and Courtney and their belief in the newsletter and, and, and wanting to, they also have a sponsor section in the newsletter that allows them to share events and, and, and other pieces with the community. That's, that's been critical in the, the ongoing. Publishing of the newsletter. [00:25:51] Yeah, these kinds of projects can't really can't happen without money family to support. So it's, it's an interesting one in terms of, how do we keep these kinds of things afloat? And as far as going back to your question about quality content, I think I think a lot of people want to make money really quickly. [00:26:10] And yeah, of course, who doesn't, everyone wants to make money, but sometimes it does take a slow burn and working on something with the aim of producing something high quality. Is going to make some money in the end. And I'm happy to say the, and happy to share that. Then the repository is profitable for me. [00:26:27] It's not going to be a full-time job, but for what it, what it is at the moment. And I don't have plans for, major expansion, but it is not well, I, I don't have big plans to have a podcast or a big website and do lots of reporting. People subscribe the same, pretty happy with what it is at the moment. [00:26:48] And, and I am happy to share that in, in the new year, Allie Emmons is coming on board to help with community outreach and in increasing the number of voices that are in the newsletter. That's really important for me to make sure we not just, rinse [00:27:00] and repeating the same voices over and over again, the newsletter. [00:27:03] We want to make sure that people. Who are doing awesome things and they might not be as vocal. We want to make sure that they're included as well. And, and I want the newsletter to be a source of, of amazing work that's happening across the community, not just the same things over and over again as can happen in, in some spaces. [00:27:22] Yeah. Other than  [00:27:25] Matt: one of the things that I think is a challenge is, is that I think. What we want is we want the, maybe not even average WordPress user, but maybe above average WordPress user to want to turn into the news, like turn excuse me, tune into the news. Right? Because Hey, maybe the above average WordPress user is an it professional and she manages a hundred multi-sites for a university. [00:27:53] And. Not in the WordPress community, but my God, wouldn't you like to know when awesome motive buys those, the suite of plugins that you use, and suddenly you're like who the heck is awesome motive. And if I was tuning into a news coverage, maybe somebody doing a piece on who automotive is and the background and the history, et cetera, et cetera Yeah. [00:28:13] I don't know if you've thought about this. I don't know if this is something that maybe you even plan to go into with the newsletter is like, how do we, how do we dip into that segment of the reader of the demographic? I think of a local newspaper, all of a sudden. We're doing fashion week and it's I know what's going on here. [00:28:32] Right? One, you have advertisement that to hope. You're, you're hoping that you're doing fashion week and you're getting some new eyeballs on the, the, the baseline publication, maybe at that it raises more readers in the long run. Is there something like that that we can do without, selling ourselves to affiliate links  [00:28:49] Rae: in? [00:28:50] That's a tough question. How do you, how do you broaden your own. It's a hard one because we're pressing uses so smaller niche and how you reach that kind of other level of, of, users is a, is a tough one. I don't know if I have any answers today. I'd be interested to hear from other people who might've done it successfully, because I can't think of how it, it just feels like there's a, almost like a Seton barrier between. [00:29:18] The people who, who read S I guess, serious WordPress knees that, core contributors and developers and small business owners and people who are very involved in the community. And then everybody else, it just seems like a big step. And Yeah, I don't know. I just don't feel that they're that necessarily interested in, in how WordPress comes together or if people who you use a platform like that, every will be. [00:29:47] That's a, that's a really interesting area to explore.  [00:29:50] Matt: I'm going to say, I'm going to say something in hopes that Sarah Gooding is listening to this and she, and she uses this in the, in the headline. But I think that the cap on the audience [00:30:00] and you could probably. Again, you don't have to reveal anything from your side, but I think the cap on the audience of people who really care about the inside WordPress news is probably right around 3000 human beings on the face of this earth is the number that I would say of people who actually care about. [00:30:21] What Matt says in the state of the word and how it impacts WordPress, for, for, for years, I was gonna say most months, years to come or really care about, themes getting acquired. I think my number is about 3000, maybe on a good day, 3,500, but I'd say 3000 is the global reach of WordPress news. [00:30:41] Yeah, I can use that, Sarah, if you want.  [00:30:45] Rae: Well, I'll tell ya. I don't have that many subscribers to the newsletter. It's it's, it's an interesting one. Like how, how many people are really interested in WordPress news because I've spoken to. People who work at automatic and some other WordPress businesses who work with the community, but aren't necessarily interested in the community or kind of want to be kind of that stick away because they don't want to be too involved in it. [00:31:12] So it, it, it is an interesting number, but also, we've got the English speaking people who are involved in the community, and then we've got the non-English speaking people who have communities in other parts of the world. So who knows, if I assume that number, you're thinking probably English speakers. [00:31:29] So if we think about the people who are non-English speakers and are very involved in WordPress, like you can see all the amazing work that Mary job is doing in Africa. And, The amazing word camp that was held would would camp Spain recently, and the community's just so passionate over there that they even produce a live late night a late night show pre recorded. [00:31:52] But. There, there are people really passionate about WordPress and the community. Oh WordPress the recent word camp in in Portugal, Portugal recently. Yeah, looking at just their their daily schedule of, of, of. Throughout the the two days it was all very community-based and the events I had on day two, where, where everybody getting together and doing things in person together the whole cop that, that whole event was around community and nurturing, connections with people. [00:32:22] And, and so there. You, it could be 3003 and a half thousand people who are really just in WordPress and, and know knowing more about WordPress news. But I would say that number would be. A lot bigger. Once we start thinking about non-English speakers. And I think that's an interesting area to explore that. [00:32:42] How do we kind of bring the, those communities together, the English non-English speakers? How do we bring those people? As just, people who interested in WordPress regardless of language, and that'd be an interesting one to explore the next year or two, as we get closer to exploring when, [00:33:00] when language and translation becomes the, the dominant focus of the program. [00:33:06] Matt: Piggyback off of this conversation of how many max amount of audience I might have the WB minute who has only been around for about six ish months. The biggest piece that it saw was big story that it, so I was Paul Lacey story about Gutenberg and how that Gutenberg has impacted himself, but also his, his opinion on how it impacted. [00:33:25] The community at one saw about 2200 2300 views to the, to the article and about almost 400 downloads to the podcast episode. And of course, anything that you bring up around Gutenberg and. It's impact on whatever mean Gutenberg's impact on whatever the community, the software performance is always going to get a look or view. [00:33:51] Are there any other hard hitting topics you think that might be that we haven't explored yet? By the time this episode goes out, it will be 20, 22 something this year you think, which is kind of interesting that folks should be paying attention to, or the next time.  [00:34:07] Rae: Oh, yeah. I'm interested to see how the acquisition train goes next year in terms of more acquisitions in the space. [00:34:16] And also you can't really get away from Gutenberg. That's going to be a big focus of next year. It really jumped out at me during the state of the word. When Matt was saying, we only have a handful of, of block themes and you'd like to see 3000 by the end of next year. So, interesting to see, I, I guess one of the interesting stories will be how, how blockchains become more commercialized as well. [00:34:39] Are we going to see. More, same authors once w 5.9 comes out are they going to feel ready to really explore that space? We're going to see a lot more of those themes on, on ThemeForest and other kinds of Marketplaces like that. Be interesting to say how that rolls out next year, because after that Matt was talking about, venturing into collaboration as the focus of the next phase of the roadmap for, for WordPress. [00:35:03] So are we going to see blocks wrap up next year or continue, kind of fall into the, into the following year? Yeah. And I, I think the, the other thing is also probably most seriously thinking about volunteers and contributors to WordPress, that was a big focus of the state of the word. [00:35:18] And, and with the lack of volunteers, thanks to you, the pandemic, that'd be an interesting thing to watch next year. Where are we? It's, it's mostly sponsored people who are contributing to WordPress. We, we see a lot, a lot of that. I was going to say, more of a drive to have more sponsored people working on the project, or, we're trying to recruit more people who, who aren't sponsored. [00:35:40] That'd be interesting thing to watch next year, as far as contributions go and how that increases or potentially decreases, I guess.  [00:35:49] Matt: Gutenberg everywhere blocks. Give me all the blocks. Ray, this has been a fantastic conversation. I really can't. Thank you enough. I could go on for another hour, but I'm sure you're sick and sick and tired of hearing me. [00:35:59] Where can folks [00:36:00] go to sign up to the newsletter and say, thanks online.  [00:36:03] Rae: Well, if you interested in joining the repository, it's it comes out every Friday, go to the repository.email to sign up. Thank you so much for having me on the podcast. Matt. I've been listening for years and yeah, it's, it's really an honor to, to  [00:36:18] Matt: be feeding. [00:36:19] No, I, I, I, it's a pleasure and an honor having you here as well. I also love the repository. Go sign up the show. The links will be in the show notes. 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