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This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, August 3rd, 2023. Isn’t it about time to take action on how you're going to give your children and grandchildren a good music education? Moses, David, and all the Saints of the church have worshiped God with musical might, so let’s be confidently found doing the same. Bohnet Music Academy instructs children and adults in how to be musically literate. That’s everything you need to know and do as the musician God made you to be. Lessons are available locally in Moscow, ID and online. What’s great is that in addition to getting vocal training, you can also study the piano, guitar, violin, cello, drums, or the trumpet. Visit Bohnetma.com/crosspolitic for more information on how to equip your family to serve God’s musical commands. B-O-H-N-E-T MA.com/crosspolitic http://bohnetma.com/crosspolitic Listen to this! Some good education news… https://www.theblaze.com/news/hs-seniors-con-vs-lib High school senior boys nearly twice as likely to be conservative as liberal: Survey A University of Michigan survey found that boys in their senior year of high school are almost two times more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. However, for twelfth-grade girls, they are even more likely to consider themselves liberal than conservative. On the Monitoring the Future survey, which is considered a scholarly endeavor that dates back to the 1970s, according to The Hill, political differences that were once somewhat close have drifted farther apart. For high school senior boys, the shares of conservative versus liberal were nearly identical between 2014 and 2016, around 19% for both factions. By 2022, that number had shifted to 23% for conservative, which was actually down three points from 2020. Since that 2016 marker, boys identifying as liberal in grade twelve have plummeted to 13%. The 2020-2023 numbers are the highest they've been for conservatives since the early 1990s, although the figures have nearly always hovered around the 20% mark, save for 1998-2002. Just a reminder that while this is positive, conservatism without Christ is what got us to this point where we are now. Now an update from Budlight. https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/31/distributors-bud-light-beer-dylan-mulvaney-anheuser-busch/ Distributors Giving up on Bud Light - No Longer Expect Beer Giant to Recover The embarrassment is real for Bud Light. Several distributors of Anheuser-Busch beer say they have accepted the fact they’ve lost money — and a lot of it — due to consumers boycotting Bud Light. And not just that, but they’ve also given up completely on trying to win back customers who have been negatively affected by the anti-American beer’s Dylan Mulvaney campaign, according to the New York Post. Hiring freezes and layoffs have been going on for four months, while some beer truck drivers have been slammed with hecklers and other harassment while Bud Light’s sales have tanked over 25%. As a result, wholesalers of Anheuser-Busch have resigned to the large number of customers they’ve lost permanently, and in response, they need to focus on a new set of beer drinkers. “Consumers have made a choice,” an unidentified executive from a Texas-based beer distributor told the New York Post. “They have left [Bud Light] and that’s how it’s going to be. I don’t envision a big percentage of them coming back.” Other Anheuser-Busch branded beers such as Budweiser, Busch Light and Michelob Ultra have also been tanking in sales since Bud Light decided to disastrously partner with Mulvaney. The executive went on to say that customers have most likely found out that Bud Light competitors including Miller Lite and Coors Light “are a very similar product.” Reigning victorious in the beer war all comes down to “whoever is best at marketing,” the executive told The Post. https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/meta-starts-blocking-canadian-news-content-5437258?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Meta Starts Blocking Canadian News Content Meta has announced it has started blocking news content for Canadian users on its platforms, following months of threats to strike back against the Online News Act, which mandates that major tech companies pay Canadian media outlets for news content linked on their platforms. Starting Aug. 1, Meta begins the process of ending news availability in Canada, the company said in a statement. Over the next few weeks, all users accessing Facebook and Instagram in Canada will no longer be able to view news links and content posted by Canadian news publishers and broadcasters. Meta said the news outlets to be affected will be identified based on legislative definitions and guidance from the Online News Act, also known as Bill C-18. The bill received royal assent on June 22. Tech giant Google also said it would retaliate against the the new law. The company announced on June 29 it would remove links to Canadian news from its Search, News, and Discover products, while users in Canada will no longer be able to operate the Google News Showcase. After being appointed the new heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge said her door is "always open" to negotiate with the tech companies, but that her government would not back down. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the issue a "dispute over democracy." On July 10, Heritage Canada said it would propose regulations to implement the act, which would include establishing a financial threshold for the contributions of tech companies. The Epoch Times reached out to Heritage Canada for comment but didn't immediately hear back. Meta says the new legislation is based on an "incorrect premise," that the company gains unfair benefits from news content shared on its platforms. The company also emphasized that the primary usage of its platforms doesn't revolve around news consumption, arguing instead that news outlets voluntarily share content on Facebook and Instagram to expand their audiences and bolster their financial standing. "The Online News Act is fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work, the preferences of the people who use them, and the value we provide news publishers," Meta said. "As the Minister of Canadian Heritage has said, how we choose to comply with the legislation is a business decision we must make, and we have made our choice." The company assured users that despite the changes regarding news content availability in Canada, their products and services would remain unaffected. Users will continue to have the ability to connect with friends and family, grow their businesses, and support their local communities as before, Meta says. Speaking of Canada… https://www.foxnews.com/world/canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-wife-18-years-announce-separation Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, wife of 18 years announce separation Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday announced that he and his wife Sophie are separating after 18 years of marriage. Trudeau made the announcement in an Instagram post. "Sophie and I would like to share the fact that after many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have made the decision to separate," Trudeau wrote. Sophie Grégoire, a former television reporter in Quebec, married Trudeau in 2005. They have three children together. In an interview with Maclean's magazine in 2005, Trudeau shared that he and Grégoire-Trudeau met as adults two years prior, when they co-hosted the Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix ball. Before, Grégoire had been a childhood friend of Trudeau's youngest brother, Michel — who died in an avalanche in 1998 at the age of 23 — and had spent time at the Trudeau family's home. The couple became engaged in October 2004 and married on May 28, 2005, at a ceremony at Montreal's Sainte-Madeleine Church. Trudeau has spoken glowingly of his wife in public in the years since. In April, the prime minister posted a pair of selfies with his wife on social media on her birthday. "From this, to this, and everything in between, there’s no one I’d rather have by my side," he wrote. He also praised her on Mother's Day in May, calling Sophie and his mother "two of the strongest, bravest, and greatest people we know." The prime minister's office said in a statement that Trudeau, 51, and Sophie, 48, have signed a legal agreement making their separation official. https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/russia-ukraine-war/2023/08/01/id/1129190/ Russia Accuses Ukraine of Moscow Drone Attack Russian authorities accused Kyiv early Tuesday of yet another attack on Moscow and its surroundings with drones, one of which hit the same building in the capital that was damaged by a drone just days ago in a similar attack. Russian officials have claimed that the intensified attacks on the capital region reflect failures in Ukraine's counteroffensive, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said over the weekend that "the war is gradually coming back to Russian territory," but stopped short of taking responsibility for the attacks. The repeated drone strikes underscore Moscow's vulnerability as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month. The Russian military also said that Ukrainian forces tried to attack two of its warships in the Black Sea overnight, using maritime drones. Three drones targeted two patrol vessels, Sergei Kotov and Vasily Bykov, 340 kilometers (210 miles) southwest of the Russian-controlled city of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula, the Defense Ministry reported. All three drones were destroyed, the report said. https://www.outkick.com/los-angeles-dodgers-host-faith-night-after-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-disaster-chris-pratt-clayton-kershaw-attend/ LOS ANGELES DODGERS HOST FAITH NIGHT AFTER ‘SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE’ DISASTER; CHRIS PRATT, CLAYTON KERSHAW ATTEND On Sunday, the L.A. Dodgers hosted their first “Christian Faith and Family Day” at Chavez Ravine since 2019 and nearly two months since LA honored “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” an LGBT group whose past digs at religion drew criticism. Following a loss to the Cincinnati Reds, hundreds of Dodgers fans remained seated to partake in the team’s “Christian Family and Faith” event. Sunday’s postgame festivities included testimonies — emphasizing the importance of faith in God — from Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, third baseman Max Muncy, utility player Chris Taylor and movie star Chris Pratt. Pratt was in charge of throwing Sunday’s ceremonial first pitch. Dodgers skipper Dave Roberts also made an appearance. Roberts, like much of the Dodgers personnel in attendance for the event, identifies as Christian. “My relationship w/ Christ is the most important thing in my life,” Roberts previously shared, when discussing the impact of faith on his life. Kershaw drew the most attention from the media once the event was announced. The Dodgers pitcher objected to the celebration of the “Sisters” when the Pride Night event was first publicized in May. Clayton Kershaw’s critics saw the revival of “Christian Faith and Family Night” — originally canceled due to COVID in 2020 — as a countermeasure to the Pride Night event featuring the “Sisters.” The ace called it coincidental timing. OutKick’s Ian Miller attended the event on June 16 and noted that the Dodgers seemingly buried noise around it as 2,000 or so Dodgers fans showed up to protest. While June’s event was met with backlash due to the “Sister’s” mockery of the Christian and Catholic faith, Sunday’s event was met with delight. The LA team has long been worshipped by the Latino community of Southern California, so naturally the fanbase has a strong Catholic representation. As detailed by Los Angeles Times’ Helene Elliott, fans in attendance for the event adamantly cheered Dave Roberts for his appearance at the faith-based event. Elliott called it a “very forgiving crowd,” considering the team had just lost, 9-0, to Elly De La Cruz and the Cincinnati Reds. To a degree, the Dodgers fans’ adoration after a deflating loss was emblematic of the idea of “grace”.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, August 3rd, 2023. Isn’t it about time to take action on how you're going to give your children and grandchildren a good music education? Moses, David, and all the Saints of the church have worshiped God with musical might, so let’s be confidently found doing the same. Bohnet Music Academy instructs children and adults in how to be musically literate. That’s everything you need to know and do as the musician God made you to be. Lessons are available locally in Moscow, ID and online. What’s great is that in addition to getting vocal training, you can also study the piano, guitar, violin, cello, drums, or the trumpet. Visit Bohnetma.com/crosspolitic for more information on how to equip your family to serve God’s musical commands. B-O-H-N-E-T MA.com/crosspolitic http://bohnetma.com/crosspolitic Listen to this! Some good education news… https://www.theblaze.com/news/hs-seniors-con-vs-lib High school senior boys nearly twice as likely to be conservative as liberal: Survey A University of Michigan survey found that boys in their senior year of high school are almost two times more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. However, for twelfth-grade girls, they are even more likely to consider themselves liberal than conservative. On the Monitoring the Future survey, which is considered a scholarly endeavor that dates back to the 1970s, according to The Hill, political differences that were once somewhat close have drifted farther apart. For high school senior boys, the shares of conservative versus liberal were nearly identical between 2014 and 2016, around 19% for both factions. By 2022, that number had shifted to 23% for conservative, which was actually down three points from 2020. Since that 2016 marker, boys identifying as liberal in grade twelve have plummeted to 13%. The 2020-2023 numbers are the highest they've been for conservatives since the early 1990s, although the figures have nearly always hovered around the 20% mark, save for 1998-2002. Just a reminder that while this is positive, conservatism without Christ is what got us to this point where we are now. Now an update from Budlight. https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/31/distributors-bud-light-beer-dylan-mulvaney-anheuser-busch/ Distributors Giving up on Bud Light - No Longer Expect Beer Giant to Recover The embarrassment is real for Bud Light. Several distributors of Anheuser-Busch beer say they have accepted the fact they’ve lost money — and a lot of it — due to consumers boycotting Bud Light. And not just that, but they’ve also given up completely on trying to win back customers who have been negatively affected by the anti-American beer’s Dylan Mulvaney campaign, according to the New York Post. Hiring freezes and layoffs have been going on for four months, while some beer truck drivers have been slammed with hecklers and other harassment while Bud Light’s sales have tanked over 25%. As a result, wholesalers of Anheuser-Busch have resigned to the large number of customers they’ve lost permanently, and in response, they need to focus on a new set of beer drinkers. “Consumers have made a choice,” an unidentified executive from a Texas-based beer distributor told the New York Post. “They have left [Bud Light] and that’s how it’s going to be. I don’t envision a big percentage of them coming back.” Other Anheuser-Busch branded beers such as Budweiser, Busch Light and Michelob Ultra have also been tanking in sales since Bud Light decided to disastrously partner with Mulvaney. The executive went on to say that customers have most likely found out that Bud Light competitors including Miller Lite and Coors Light “are a very similar product.” Reigning victorious in the beer war all comes down to “whoever is best at marketing,” the executive told The Post. https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/meta-starts-blocking-canadian-news-content-5437258?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Meta Starts Blocking Canadian News Content Meta has announced it has started blocking news content for Canadian users on its platforms, following months of threats to strike back against the Online News Act, which mandates that major tech companies pay Canadian media outlets for news content linked on their platforms. Starting Aug. 1, Meta begins the process of ending news availability in Canada, the company said in a statement. Over the next few weeks, all users accessing Facebook and Instagram in Canada will no longer be able to view news links and content posted by Canadian news publishers and broadcasters. Meta said the news outlets to be affected will be identified based on legislative definitions and guidance from the Online News Act, also known as Bill C-18. The bill received royal assent on June 22. Tech giant Google also said it would retaliate against the the new law. The company announced on June 29 it would remove links to Canadian news from its Search, News, and Discover products, while users in Canada will no longer be able to operate the Google News Showcase. After being appointed the new heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge said her door is "always open" to negotiate with the tech companies, but that her government would not back down. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the issue a "dispute over democracy." On July 10, Heritage Canada said it would propose regulations to implement the act, which would include establishing a financial threshold for the contributions of tech companies. The Epoch Times reached out to Heritage Canada for comment but didn't immediately hear back. Meta says the new legislation is based on an "incorrect premise," that the company gains unfair benefits from news content shared on its platforms. The company also emphasized that the primary usage of its platforms doesn't revolve around news consumption, arguing instead that news outlets voluntarily share content on Facebook and Instagram to expand their audiences and bolster their financial standing. "The Online News Act is fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work, the preferences of the people who use them, and the value we provide news publishers," Meta said. "As the Minister of Canadian Heritage has said, how we choose to comply with the legislation is a business decision we must make, and we have made our choice." The company assured users that despite the changes regarding news content availability in Canada, their products and services would remain unaffected. Users will continue to have the ability to connect with friends and family, grow their businesses, and support their local communities as before, Meta says. Speaking of Canada… https://www.foxnews.com/world/canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-wife-18-years-announce-separation Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, wife of 18 years announce separation Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday announced that he and his wife Sophie are separating after 18 years of marriage. Trudeau made the announcement in an Instagram post. "Sophie and I would like to share the fact that after many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have made the decision to separate," Trudeau wrote. Sophie Grégoire, a former television reporter in Quebec, married Trudeau in 2005. They have three children together. In an interview with Maclean's magazine in 2005, Trudeau shared that he and Grégoire-Trudeau met as adults two years prior, when they co-hosted the Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix ball. Before, Grégoire had been a childhood friend of Trudeau's youngest brother, Michel — who died in an avalanche in 1998 at the age of 23 — and had spent time at the Trudeau family's home. The couple became engaged in October 2004 and married on May 28, 2005, at a ceremony at Montreal's Sainte-Madeleine Church. Trudeau has spoken glowingly of his wife in public in the years since. In April, the prime minister posted a pair of selfies with his wife on social media on her birthday. "From this, to this, and everything in between, there’s no one I’d rather have by my side," he wrote. He also praised her on Mother's Day in May, calling Sophie and his mother "two of the strongest, bravest, and greatest people we know." The prime minister's office said in a statement that Trudeau, 51, and Sophie, 48, have signed a legal agreement making their separation official. https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/russia-ukraine-war/2023/08/01/id/1129190/ Russia Accuses Ukraine of Moscow Drone Attack Russian authorities accused Kyiv early Tuesday of yet another attack on Moscow and its surroundings with drones, one of which hit the same building in the capital that was damaged by a drone just days ago in a similar attack. Russian officials have claimed that the intensified attacks on the capital region reflect failures in Ukraine's counteroffensive, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said over the weekend that "the war is gradually coming back to Russian territory," but stopped short of taking responsibility for the attacks. The repeated drone strikes underscore Moscow's vulnerability as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month. The Russian military also said that Ukrainian forces tried to attack two of its warships in the Black Sea overnight, using maritime drones. Three drones targeted two patrol vessels, Sergei Kotov and Vasily Bykov, 340 kilometers (210 miles) southwest of the Russian-controlled city of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula, the Defense Ministry reported. All three drones were destroyed, the report said. https://www.outkick.com/los-angeles-dodgers-host-faith-night-after-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-disaster-chris-pratt-clayton-kershaw-attend/ LOS ANGELES DODGERS HOST FAITH NIGHT AFTER ‘SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE’ DISASTER; CHRIS PRATT, CLAYTON KERSHAW ATTEND On Sunday, the L.A. Dodgers hosted their first “Christian Faith and Family Day” at Chavez Ravine since 2019 and nearly two months since LA honored “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” an LGBT group whose past digs at religion drew criticism. Following a loss to the Cincinnati Reds, hundreds of Dodgers fans remained seated to partake in the team’s “Christian Family and Faith” event. Sunday’s postgame festivities included testimonies — emphasizing the importance of faith in God — from Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, third baseman Max Muncy, utility player Chris Taylor and movie star Chris Pratt. Pratt was in charge of throwing Sunday’s ceremonial first pitch. Dodgers skipper Dave Roberts also made an appearance. Roberts, like much of the Dodgers personnel in attendance for the event, identifies as Christian. “My relationship w/ Christ is the most important thing in my life,” Roberts previously shared, when discussing the impact of faith on his life. Kershaw drew the most attention from the media once the event was announced. The Dodgers pitcher objected to the celebration of the “Sisters” when the Pride Night event was first publicized in May. Clayton Kershaw’s critics saw the revival of “Christian Faith and Family Night” — originally canceled due to COVID in 2020 — as a countermeasure to the Pride Night event featuring the “Sisters.” The ace called it coincidental timing. OutKick’s Ian Miller attended the event on June 16 and noted that the Dodgers seemingly buried noise around it as 2,000 or so Dodgers fans showed up to protest. While June’s event was met with backlash due to the “Sister’s” mockery of the Christian and Catholic faith, Sunday’s event was met with delight. The LA team has long been worshipped by the Latino community of Southern California, so naturally the fanbase has a strong Catholic representation. As detailed by Los Angeles Times’ Helene Elliott, fans in attendance for the event adamantly cheered Dave Roberts for his appearance at the faith-based event. Elliott called it a “very forgiving crowd,” considering the team had just lost, 9-0, to Elly De La Cruz and the Cincinnati Reds. To a degree, the Dodgers fans’ adoration after a deflating loss was emblematic of the idea of “grace”.

Some might say that one of the most important dates to affect the future of the North American local news media industry was June 22, 2023. On that day, Canada's Senate passed Bill C-18, a law requiring Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms. Many pundits are now blogging and editorializing about the upside and downside of C-18's passage and how it will likely impact pending similar legislation currently being discussed in committee in the U.S. Senate. The 2023 Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) — a law very similar to Canada's — will allow small and mid-sized news organizations to negotiate jointly for compensation from digital platforms that access their content without allowing them to profit from their journalism. The legislation (like C-18) also allows news publishers to demand arbitration if they reach an impasse in negotiations with digital platforms. And if anyone doubts how important this ruling is to Big Tech, just look at what happened almost immediately once C-18 became law. Two days after passage, Meta announced it would end access to news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada. And a few days after that, Google's president of Global Affairs, Kent Walker, announced in a blog that it would remove links to Canadian news from Search, News and Discover products and would no longer operate Google News Showcase in Canada. Not to be topped, shortly after Google and Facebook's actions, the Canadian government announced they would stop buying ads on Facebook and Instagram in return. To offer some background, the Canadian local news media industry has experienced some of the same significant challenges their U.S. counterparts have in maintaining "top line" revenues impacted by digital disruption. Jobs, homes and cars, the three main "pillars" of the classified advertising category, have virtually disappeared from newspapers over the last 10 years. Inserts, and pre-press, which used to be a huge revenue stream for news publishers, are no longer being placed within the printed newspaper for local distribution, as major retailers prefer less expensive online couponing and digital loyalty programs. But there's no question that, just like in the U.S., Canadian news publishers have lost the lion's share of local advertising dollars to platforms like Google and Facebook, which garner a good deal of their audience through the news content they access for free from the local news media, and then monetize it. In this episode of "E&P Reports," we look at the last few weeks in the life of Canadian news publishing through the eyes of Paul Deegan, president and CEO of the country's largest industry trade organization, News Media Canada. Deegan unpacks the similarities and differences between Canada and the U.S. in national advocacy of Big Tech compensation legislation. He also discusses the battles that are now going on between Google /Facebook and the Canadian government as the digital platforms threaten to remove news content within the country, and Ottawa fights back by pulling ad dollars from the platforms.  

En colaboración Ricardo Zamora, experto en tecnología, "Google presentó la semana pasada un conjunto de esfuerzo en México", dijoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

En el top tecnología de hoy te contamos sobre el nuevo programa de Google llamado “Google News Showcase”, donde buscan prevenir las fake news en las elecciones presidenciales de 2024. Por otro lado, te contamos que ChatGPT y Bard también están generando noticias falsas y sobre un nuevo proyecto entre la CFE y SES para conectar a la población mexicana.    Si quieres saber más sobre estas noticias, suscríbete a los newsletters de Expansión, entra a Expansión.mx/tecnologia y síguenos en nuestras redes @ExpansionMx, @SoyLaGinGin, @Guarolf_  y @Eresinaeresina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Die Medien-Woche Ausgabe 185 vom 14. Januar 2022 mit diesen Themen: 1. Google News Showcase, die Verlage und das Kartellamt 2. YouTube und die Faktenchecker 3. Das neue RTL +++ Werbung+++ Diese Folge wird unterstützt von Facebook. Erfahre, wie Facebook Gemeinschaften und Unternehmen in Europa hilft, mehr zu erreichen auf [About Facebook](https://about.facebook.com/de/actions/europe)

Hello tribe,Many Crawford Media readers work inside the companies I write about, and today that is particularly relevant. Some of you will have much better knowledge of the deals for news content made in the shadow the Australian News Bargaining Code than both me and this week's podcast interviewee, William Turvill. These deals are something we need to talk about, because around the globe, two of the world's most powerful companies, Google and Facebook, are handing over cash to news media.The terms of the deals are confidential.Turvill, who is the UK Press Gazette's North American Editor, recently conducted an investigation into Google News Showcase. News Showcase is a strange product, announced in 2020, that lives within the Google News interface and presents stories grouped by publisher. This distinguishes it from the normal Google News experience which groups news by story.In announcing the product in June 2020, Google News VP Brad Bender described Showcase as “an enhanced storytelling experience that lets people go deeper into more complex stories”.So far, there is no indication of any enhancing or deepening. If you come at Showcase in a mobile or desktop browser, it's just a link hiding a poor interface. In my version, the mastheads are arranged in no particular order - it seems vaguely alphabetical - and the page stretches on and on. You can follow mastheads, but then it's not clear where Showcase ends and the normal Google News product begins. Showcase apparently provides free access to some paywalled content and may also be fuelling the Google News app. But it doesn't feel like a product that is vital to Google, and I would be concerned if this was an indication of the search giant's design expertise.Rather than a serious news product in its own right, it seems that Showcase is a way for Google to give money to news publishers without setting the disastrous precedent of paying for content links. It's a “licensing program”, as Google described it in the launch announcement, not really a product. This would explain why news publications who are part of the program are not seeing a great deal of traffic from Showcase. This is what Turvill found in his investigation.“You do wonder whether there are lots of people using it or not. It doesn't seem like it. And certainly the publishers I've spoken to for this investigation, a lot of them said, we're getting a bit of traffic from this, but often it's not much.”After my conversation with Turvill, I wrote an opinion piece for the Press Gazette about how the News Bargaining Code is a poor global precedent. It was prompted by the fact that Turvill and his colleagues at the Gazette think the Code is a good thing, because it has caused money to flow into news. I don't see it like that.News Showcase is just one symptom of the inauthenticity that the Australian media and governments' “playing dirty” has encouraged within the ecosystem. Now we have a news product that's not really a news product, and payments for news content that aren't primarily payments for news content. It's not surprising that in this situation the loudest media voices in the most troublesome market are getting paid the most. That's another one of Turvill's findings: big Australian media are receiving something like 10x the global rate.Where do we think all this will end? If you are running a news business anywhere, the lesson is clear: lean on your politicians hard, complain loud, investigate platforms zealously, and wait for your deposit.News of things to comeI have spoken to some wonderful people recently, and in the next couple of weeks I'll be able to share these conversations with you as podcasts. Margy Vary, former marketing director at Guardian Australia, will shine some light on the best way to ask people for money for nothing.Gautam Mishra, the charismatic founder of Australian news aggregator Inkl, will give us an insight into the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into his startup. Finally, there's Jonah Sachs, who I promised you last week. Sachs has written a couple of books I consider to be compulsory reading for anyone in our industry: “Winning The Story Wars” and “Unsafe Thinking”.One thing I've learned is that you're only as good as the data going into your system … which is why it's so important to keep listening to the right people.Have a great weekend,HalThe Crawford Media podcast music is”Ethernight Club” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halcrawford.substack.com

Marcelo Liberini, vicepresidente Digital de Caracol Televisión, habla de Google News Showcase, la nueva experiencia de noticias que contará con la participación de BLU Radio, El Espectador y Noticias Caracol. Colombia es el tercer país de América Latina donde el gigante informático da el importante paso "Es separar un poco la paja del trigo, tener una sección especial dentro de la plataforma de Google News para los contenidos periodísticos profesionales de primer nivel, de medios serios. Y separar un poco las noticias falsas de las noticias con elaboración periodística", declaró Liberini. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Después de estar 10 años en el país, Google celebra su permanencia con la llegada de News Showcase. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Colombia es el tercer país de Latinoamérica al que llega Google News Showcase en alianza con Caracol Televisión, BLU Radio y El Espectador. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heute u.a. mit folgenden Nachrichten: Erfolgreiches Börsendebüt von About You Börsengang Made.com gefloppt Emmanuel Macron kündigt Startup-Masterplan an Spotify veröffentlicht Live-Audio-App Greenroom Apple laut Wall Street Journal eigene Erstversorgungskliniken einzurichten. Regulierer überprüfen Google News Showcase Starlink-Internet-Nutzer klagen über Hitzeprobleme Glassdoor-Ranking der beliebtesten CEOs veröffentlicht Und für den Experten-Check in der Rubrik "Investments & Exits" begrüßen wir heute Paula Hübner, Associate bei La Famiglia.

Die Medien-Woche 166 vom 4. Juni 2021 mit folgenden Themen: Die Rückkehr des Claas Relotius. Die Leiden des Ikke Hüftgold. Die Beschwerde gegen Google News Showcase. Das Jubiläum der "Titanic".

European officials are conducting their first in-depth investigation into Facebook. The European Commission has stated that it will look into whether Facebook is misusing data collected from advertising. The investigation is the latest in a series of moves to curb large tech industry domination throughout the continent. At the same time, the United Kingdom stated that it was investigating Facebook's Marketplace and Dating services, only hours after Germany's antitrust agency opened a case against the Google News Showcase program.

Aujourd'hui, je reviens avec vous sur la semaine du 26 mai au 1er juin 2021. On va parler des résultats enrichis, de Google News Showcase, des pénalités manuelles, de babbar et de yourtextguru. Veille SEO du 1er juin : https://www.abondance.com/20210526-45552-google-supprime-le-filtre-sur-les-resultats-enrichis-dans-le-rapport-de-performances-de-la-search-console.html https://www.abondance.com/20210527-45565-google-news-showcase-dorenavant-disponible-sur-desktop-dans-8-pays.html https://www.abondance.com/20210528-45576-infographie-perception-et-impact-de-la-publicite-en-ligne-en-2021.html https://www.abondance.com/20210528-45580-pres-de-3-millions-dactions-manuelles-pour-google-en-2020-un-nombre-en-forte-baisse.html https://www.abondance.com/20210531-45599-babbar-leve-2-millions-deuros-3-questions-a-sylvain-peyronnet.html https://www.abondance.com/20210531-45596-goossips-core-web-vitals-et-redirection-index-mobile-first.html Qui suis-je ? Je m'appelle Thomas CUBEL, je suis Consultant SEO et Formateur. J'accompagne les entreprises dans l'élaboration de stratégies de visibilité sur le web, et plus précisément sur Google. Mon site web : https://www.thomascubel.com Pour poser vos questions : https://www.thomascubel.com/podcasts/ Mon Tipeee : https://fr.tipeee.com/thomas-cubel Vous pouvez me retrouver sur ces réseaux sociaux : Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/thomascubelseo LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomascubel/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/thomascubel YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/user/thomascubel Canal Telegram : https://t.me/thomascubelpush Groupe Telegram : https://t.me/EntraideEtVisibiliteWeb N'hésitez pas à me poser vos questions et à vous abonner :)

Riviviamo l'evento che abbiamo tenuto su Clubhouse per discutere di copyright nell'era digitale. In questo podcast sono intervenuti Gualtiero Dragotti e Roberto Valenti dello Studio Legale DLA Piper, Sabina Ciccolo di Mondadori, Andrea Garantola e Felice Florio di OPEN e Marco Giovannelli di VareseNews, moderati da Lara Mastrangelo di DLA Piper.La discussione è iniziata sull'impatto di Google News Showcase sul mondo dell'editoria, sulla sua operatività e condizioni contrattuali applicabili, di come i giornali devono accogliere questa novità e di cosa significa per loro, e di come il modello di business di Google News Showcase potrebbe dover cambiare con l'implementazione della nuova Direttiva Copyright.Il dibattito poi si incentra sui cambiamenti che saranno introdotti dalla nuova Direttiva Copyright, sui nuovi strumenti a disposizione dei titolari dei diritti e di come è possibile raggiungere un giusto equilibrio tra i diversi stakeholders.Su di un simile argomento, è possibile ascoltare il podcast "Perchè durante l’emergenza Covid-19 la responsabilità degli ISP è così importante" e potete seguire il podcast “Diritto al Digitale” sulle principali piattaforme ai link disponibili QUI 

Google announced that it has signed licensing deals with numerous Italian media publishers to pay for news content, in the US tech giant’s latest move to tamp down media anger over lost advertising revenue.The deal will give the Italian publishers access to the Google News Showcase programme, which sees its pay outlets for a selection of enriched content.Google News Showcase will be available in Italy in the coming months, it added.Fabio Vaccarono, CEO of Google Italy, says these agreements represent an important step forward and confirm Google’s commitment to Italian publishers.

FastLetter - Una fonte buona dalla quale aggiornarsia cura di Giorgio TavernitiN.10 - 16 Marzo 2021Di cosa parliamo* Addio alla Democrazia nella SEO* Google ci prova nel Turismo?* Alcuni approfondimenti SEO* Instagram e il suo programma di Affiliazione* Twitter lancia la funzione E-commerce* La Realtà di Microsoft* YouTube e l'Audience* Analytics e Altro* Altre segnalazioni importanti* L'ultima puntata di FastForward* SalutiPremessa: è vero, è passato un mese dall'ultima FastLetter. Ma ho deciso di pubblicarla solo quando ho il tempo necessario per raggiungere la qualità che mi sono prefissato.Non sono riuscito a dedicare il tempo necessario. Tutto qui :)Tra le altre cose vi annuncio una cosa importante: sui canali YouTube FastForward e Creator Pro sto iniziando a collaborare. Ovvero sto iniziando a invitare persone, come ho fatto con Marco Carovana e il video su https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPwWgIILYA. E saranno video sia registrati che live.Per le live ve ne annuncio cinque:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3alZ_xg7_0: giovedì 18 alle ore 16:00. Con Martino Mosna, Alessio Pomaro e Matteo Monari.* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZb1hg6rYLM: mercoledì 24 alle ore 18:00. Con Rossella Pivanti e Alessio Pomaro. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7zBGTwql0: giovedì 25 alle ore 16:00. Con Laura Copelli.* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjYbKzPJwGE: mercoledì 30 marzo alle 18:00. Con Francesco Agostinis.* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmCurAfrH48: giovedì 31 marzo alle 18:00. Con Andrea Dragotta e Salvino Fidacaro.Qui le trovi tutte su FastForward e puoi https://www.youtube.com/user/giorgiotave/videos?view=2&live_view=502. Se vuoi condividere con me un modo semplice per creare da una live di YouTube un link di invito su Calendar https://connect.gt/topic/245506/metodo-per-creare-facilmente-un-link-calendar-da-una-live-di-youtube.Sto progettando anche altri contributi. Tipo con William Sbarzaglia stiamo per fare un video su Google Data Studio, con Giovanni Sacheli su Google Search Console, con Mariachiara Marsella su Google Trends. Saranno registrati.Inoltre: devo scrivere a Enea Scerba per una roba interessante sugli strumenti gratuiti di Google che possono usare tutti, a Andrea Ciraolo per i suoi strumenti di lavoro per professionisti, a Stefano Campetta per una live sui Microfoni. A loro tre, e ai tanti altri con cui sono rimasto appeso per prossime live, chiedo scusa: sono in ritardo, ma sto arrivando! E poi ho altre sorprese, come un Moderatore di TikTok che ci rilascerà un'intervista anonima. La domanda è: tutte queste cose interessanti perché vengono condivise così poco? :)Me lo sto chiedendo da un po'. Detto questo se vuoi condividere idee e conoscenza in live o con un video registrato io ci sono: rispondi pure a questa newsletter. ADDIO ALLA DEMOCRAZIA NELLA SEOOramai è un ricordo.A ottobre del 2020 ho fatto una https://connect.gt/topic/243067/7-ottobre-2020-internet-deepnews-la-rassegna-stampa-per-i-professionisti dove ho messo in fila le cose che Google sta evidenziando nei suoi risultati di ricerca. Senza che queste abbiano meriti qualitativi.Nell'ultima FastLetter ho ripresentato e aggiornato la lista:* AMP è in alto per una questione interna.* Le Web Stories sono spinte per la tecnologia, non per i contenuti. * Discover c'è molta monnezza, è lì perché è Discover.* Molti box sono in rilievo perché di Google, non per merito.* Google News Showcase sarà spinto non per la qualità dei contenutiOra è ufficiale quello che ipotizzavamo un mese fa: arrivano anche i video Shorts da YouTube, Instagram, Facebook e TikTok.Ho visto molti video Shorts e devo affermare che sono di pessima qualità, non pertinenti per l'utente e non validi più di altri contenuti in quelle SERP.La visibilità democratica di Google è oramai un lontano ricordo.GOOGLE CI PROVA NEL TURISMO?Tu che ne pensi?Come ha fatto nel mondo e-commerce rendendo Google Shopping gratuito ora lo fa nel mondo del Turismo con Free Hotel Booking List. Il prezzo ben esposto, l'etichetta sito ufficiale, senza pagare.Luca Bove https://www.facebook.com/groups/LocalStrategy/permalink/4391124324250219 Local StrategyQuesta è una grossissima novità su Google Travel, in pratica sta portando nel turismo la rivoluzione avuta su Google Shopping, ovvero avere una esposizione gratuita dei prezzi degli hotel.Armando Travaglini https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalmarketingturistico/permalink/3973972909327192 dice:Mai vista tanta attenzione da parte degli albergatori come quella che stanno riservando al Free Listing di Google Hotel Ads! C'è poco da fare: le prenotazioni "gratis" piacciono a tutti! Prima o poi capiremo se saranno veramente gratis o se c'è il trucchetto.Tu che ne pensi? https://connect.gt/topic/245495/cosa-ne-pensare-del-free-hotel-booking-list.Intanto Riccardo Mares c'è stato un un https://connect.gt/topic/245458/google-local-tagad%C3%A0 nel mondo local.ALCUNI APPROFONDIMENTI SEONon male direiIl sistema predittivo di https://connect.gt/topic/245431/google-riesce-a-stabilire-la-tua-possibile-ricerca. È probabile che questa sia una cosa molto vecchia. Nei risultati di ricerca lo fa da almeno 10 anni. Ma nel suggest io ancora non l'avevo riconosciuta e siccome ha molto a che fare con la sessione di ricerca, direi che è un approfondimento importante da fare. Per esempio, Martino Mosna, nota che nell'url c'è un parametro che si chiama previous query. È da approfondire, segui la discussione.Da segnalare inoltre una guida a https://www.stateofdigitalpublishing.com/seo/google-news-seo/ in lingua inglese messa in evidenza dalla newsletter di https://www.editoreinformato.it/. Non male direi.Invece dalla newsletter di https://www.seofomo.co/ (ma tanto le newsletter sono morte no?) segnalo https://tamethebots.com/blog-n-bits/monitoring-search-console-core-web-vitals. Giusto per alzare il livello delle segnalazioni SEO NERD.Questa settimana c'è stato anche un update al report di Search Console per i dati strutturati riguardanti https://searchengineland.com/google-search-console-rich-results-report-updated-346818.INSTAGRAM E IL SUO PROGRAMMA DI AFFILIAZIONEArriva la prima grande rivoluzione.Mentre tutti tentano di accaparrarsi i Creator in un modo o nell'altro, Instagram fa la mossa giusta che cambia il mercato, ancora una volta. E che sarà copiata.Sta per irrompere negli equilibri tra Aziende e Influencer in modo diretto, usando il sistema delle Affiliazioni per tenersi i Creator che si stanno guardando in giro.Lo ha mostrato Alessandro Paluzzi su Twitter e ho https://connect.gt/topic/245410/il-programma-di-affiliazione-di-instagram-monetizzazione-di-stories-e-posts su Connect.gtSarà possibile quindi monetizzare post e stories. Sarà possibile collegare i brand ai contenuti, direttamente.Questa è la prima grande rivoluzione.Per tutti quelli che pensano che sia un vantaggio scavalcare le agenzie: guardate che quando i creator saranno pagati di meno sarà troppo tardi per porsi domande.Anche TikTok sta lavorando a qualcosa di simile, ma non è così chiaro. Si parla di Shoppable video, di tag, di influencer. Ma non di affiliazione. Comunque sia è troppo interessante vedere come oramai e-commerce e social siano a braccetto, sempre di più.TWITTER LANCIA LA FUNZIONE E-COMMERCESta per arrivare.Eccola qua, una bella card:L'ho riportata https://connect.gt/topic/245473/twitter-nel-mondo-e-commerce.Trovo molto interessante che Twitter si stia muovendo a questa velocità: Newsletter, SuperFollow, Spaces e tanto altro. Questa flessibilità e semplicità è incredibile. Hanno cambiato pelle velocemente come quando giochi a Scacchi e sconvolgi il gioco facendo l'arrocco lungo.E la novità forte è il Business Profile: un profilo che contiene sito internet, orari, telefono e tutto il resto per essere contattati. Sta per arrivare.LA REALTÀ DI MICROSOFTUna grande novitàChe sia virtuale o aumentata o entrambe poco importa. Perché è una roba forte. In pratica mette in connessione persone e cose per poter essere connessi anche a distanza. Così, per esempio, puoi disegnare vicino alla tua maestra o al tuo maestro. Sembra il futuro. Invece è il presente.E su FastForward sto raccontando il resto: da Facebook a Apple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viy16qMolnQ

Google busca un acuerdo con los medios españoles con el objetivo de recuperar Google News en España, según Reuters A finales de 2014 Google News cerró sus operaciones en España. Se trataba de la respuesta de Google al Canon AEDE que se introdujo con la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual. Siete años después las cosas pueden cambiar de nuevo, el gigante del buscador está en conversaciones con los medios españoles para poder llegar a un acuerdo de nuevo. Según indica Reuters, Google está negociando acuerdos de licencia individual con cada medio. Con ello el servicio presumiblemente puede mostrar de nuevo las noticias recopiladas en su agregador de noticias, Google News. Un movimiento que llega a meses de que España implemente la directiva de los derechos de copyright de la Unión Europea, que requiere a los agregadores compartir parte de sus ingresos com los medios. En otras partes del mundo Google ya ha comenzado a implementar su programa Google News Showcase, que esencialmente implica llegar a acuerdos con medios para mostrar una vista previa de sus noticias en Google News. Modo oscuro en Google Maps, verificación de contraseñas y más: estas son las características que llegan a Android desde hoy Los usuarios de Android están recibiendo una serie de nuevas características disponibles desde hoy mismo para las últimas versiones del sistema operativo. Google ha puesto a disposición de los usuarios funciones como un modo oscuro para Google Maps, novedades en Android Auto, capacidad de programar mensajes o avisos si una contraseña se ha visto comprometida. A pesar de que Android 12 llegará pronto ahora que se ha lanzado la primera vista previa para desarrolladores, las nuevas características anunciadas no se limitan a Android 12. Por el contrario, estarán disponibles desde hoy mismo en varias de las versiones lanzadas durante los últimos años. Siguiendo con la accesibilidad, Google dice que ahora su funcionalidad TalkBack incluye gestos más intuitivos, un menú unificado y nuevos controles de lectura. Para aquellos que no estén al tanto, TalkBack es la funcionalidad que permite leer la información mostrada en la pantalla y navegar utilizando la voz, especialmente util para personas con una vista limitada o nula. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elgordocircuito/message

Recent, Autoritatea italiană pentru protecția datelor (DPA) a ordonat Tik Tok să nu mai prelucreze datele personale ale utilizatorilor a căror vârstă nu a putut fi verificată exact de companie. Decizia vine după ce un copil de 10 ani ar fi murit după ce a luat parte la o provocare pe TikTok. Decizia stârnit o dezbatere intensă asupra propunerilor tehnice menite să identifice soluții la o problemă veche: cum să ne asigurăm că tinerii și copiii nu vor accesa anumite conținuturi online decât dacă supravegheați de parinti. -- Două amenzi au fost aplicate în Norvegia, care, deși nu e parte a Uniunii Europene, aplică GDPR ca urmare a integrării Regulamentului în Acordul privind Spațiul Economic European. Amenzile, potrivit unor comunicate recente ale Comitetului European pentru Protecția Datelor, au fost destul de mari: 20.000 eur (pentru redirecționarea mesajelor primite de un fost salariat), respectiv 40.000 euro (pentru redirecționarea mesajelor primite de un angajat care și-a luat concediu pentru că era bolnav). -- Facebook a anunțat ieri că intenționează să investească 1 miliard de dolari pentru a „sprijini industria știrilor” în următorii trei ani și admite că a exagerat actiunile sale interzicând linkurile de știri in Australia. Facebook urmează astfel pasii Google, după ce în octombrie anul trecut Google s-a angajat să plătească editorilor peste 1 miliard de dolari în următorii trei ani pentru a crea și a organiza jurnalism de înaltă calitate prin intermediul platformei Google News Showcase. Intre timp, Facebook si autoritatile australiene s-au inteles, stirile au revenit in tara cangurilor si, mai important, legea despre care va spuneam data trecuta ca e proiect a intrat in vigoare, cu niste modificari minimale. una dintre modificari impune autoritatilor ia în considerare „contribuția semnificativă” pe care o companie o aduce la industria știrilor din țară, prin acorduri cu editorii, înainte ca această companie să fie desemnată oficial ca „platformă digitală” si sa i se aplice obligatiile din lege. -- altele

This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at Ad-Auris. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.- RSJGoogle and the Australian government are on a warpath. There is a proposed new law - the News Media Bargaining Code - that forces Google and Facebook to pay media publishers for links to the news on their sites. While other countries have tried to regulate and make Google and Facebook pay for the content they freely use from news sites, this law is a global first.The CodeHere’s a brief summary of the Code from the Australian government press release:The Code will support a diverse and sustainable Australian news media sector, including Australia’s public broadcasters, by:encouraging the parties to undertake commercial negotiations outside the Code;enabling digital platforms to publish standard offers, which provides smaller news media businesses with an efficient pathway to finalising agreements with digital platforms;establishing a negotiation framework under the Code that allows both parties to bargain in good faith and reach binding agreements;ensuring that an independent arbiter is able to determine the level of remuneration that should be paid under a fair and balanced final offer arbitration model should the parties be unable to reach agreement; andsetting clear and workable minimum standards for digital platforms including requiring 14 days advance notice of deliberate algorithm changes that impact news media businesses.The Code will initially apply to Facebook NewsFeed and Google Search. Other digital platform services can be added to the Code in future if there is sufficient evidence to establish that they give rise to a bargaining power imbalance.  404 ErrorGoogle’s reaction was swift. It went for broke in its open letter addressed to Australians:The ability to link freely between websites is fundamental to Search. This code creates an unreasonable and unmanageable financial and operational risk to our business. If the Code were to become law in its current form, we would have no real choice but to stop making Google Search available in Australia.  For Google, search is free and neutral. Its proprietary algorithm takes your search term, trawls the net, ranks the relevant sites and presents to you a million search results in order of what it thinks will be most useful to you. This is free because that’s Google’s mission - to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Along with your search results, it throws up a few relevant ads that might be of interest to you based on your search. These are clearly identified and highlighted as ads. It makes money through them. Search and ads are different silos for it. There’s a separation (or so Google would have us believe) between the church and the state For Google, paying news publishers to link people to their websites is a slippery slope. Other businesses will soon demand for the same. The search algorithm will no longer be pristine. Soon there will be bidding wars to appear higher on the search ranks. The whole principle of open internet will be vitiated. The Australian government responded to Google’s open letter with PM Morrison indulging in some plain speaking:“We don't respond to threats. Australia makes our rules for things you can do in Australia. That's done in our parliament. It's done by our government. And that's how things work here in Australia." Meanwhile, Facebook decided yesterday it will block its users and news publishers from posting links to news sites because of the Code. Best Of Both Worlds?So, how should we think about this?Well, first let’s get all the good that Google has done for the world out of the way. Google has been the among the most transformational tools ever made available to humankind. It deserves its extraordinary profits and market cap. But there have been unintended effects of its dominance especially for news media. News publishers have lost customers as print has fallen out of favour. Their digital properties don’t draw in as much ad revenues and most traffic to them is routed through Google or Facebook. Classifieds which were the other source of their revenues have also gone online. The subscription model might be the way forward but no one has really seen it scale. It still looks like a niche game. There’s hardly a viable business model to run a mainstream newspaper with extensive ground reporting, investigative pieces and deeply researched stories. What has replaced these are free websites with commoditised news from the wire, paid articles masquerading as news, listicles with clickbait-ey headlines and, of course, fake news or disinformation sites with specific political agenda. Poor quality news for free will drive away good quality reportage - that’s the Gresham’s Law for media.The downstream impact of this in culture and politics has been huge. If this were to continue and the price for news nudges towards zero, the supply of news will also be eventually zero. All we will be left with is views, opinions, hearsay and manufactured disinformation. The question therefore is this. Does the bargaining code like that’s being taken to the Australian parliament solve this problem? Sure, Google will be forced to come to the table and negotiate a deal with the publishers. This will mean some additional revenues for them to support journalism that matters to them. But let’s play this out a bit. Different media houses will have different bargaining power. The smaller ones who might be doing cutting edge work won’t have any power to cut a deal for themselves. Google will now have an incentive to push certain types of links over others. Maybe it will present the links from sites whom it doesn’t have to pay on top of its results. You might have the cheaper, low quality journalism being promoted. More Gresham’s Law in action. Will that be a good outcome? Or, will Google play arbiter in ranking the results based on what’s the best commercial deal for it? It will interfere in the search results. Remember it is a publicly listed company. It will do what’s in the best long-term interests of its shareholders. Lastly, there’s a more fundamental shift in the business model of the traditional news publisher that’s needed for them to survive in the long run. An annual boost of income from Google is welcome but not enough. The ability to unbundle their core product, using digital tools to deliver news beyond the written form, flexible subscription options and continuing to invest in content are all steps many of them have taken to remain relevant. They will have to continue investing in them and thinking beyond to fight the good fight. Google itself has worked on a solution to compensate publishers through its platform called Google News Showcase. As the Google open letter said:“With News Showcase, we would pay for publishers’ editorial expertise and for beyond-the-paywall access to news content for users—not for links to news content.”  But the hitch here is the News Showcase doesn’t exactly even the playing field between Google and media outlets. Google has unilaterally decided this is a model that works best for others and it’s now their way or the highway. It’s a bit odd that an organisation that wants to convince the world it isn’t a bully should use a one-size-fits-all model for all publishers or threaten exiting a country because it doesn’t like a proposed new law. It does the exact opposite. The natural question that comes up is if every other country follows the Australian model, will Google exit them all?A more flexible and negotiable News Showcase model is possibly a better option than the News Media Bargaining Code approach that’s being thrust upon Google in Australia. The principles of open internet and free search are too critical to be compromised. It is in Google’s interest to continue to make its model more palatable to publishers than have governments interfere in a space where there’s no real market failure. It appears that’s the way it is going after the strong response it received from the Australian PM. The deal it struck with Nine Entertainment yesterday seems to suggest that. This wasn’t possible even two weeks back:A fortnight ago Nine was dismissive about the Showcase product, insisting it would not negotiate with Google until the law was passed.“This is what monopolies do, they put an offer, in the form of Google Showcase, but not offer to negotiate,” a Nine spokesperson said at the time.“It has to be all on their terms and that is not an approach we will participate in. We support the legislation the government is proposing as the best way to secure a fair payment for our content.” The impending law seems to have got Google back to the negotiating table. If that’s what the law intended to do, it is a good lesson for Google to be proactive about offering flexibility to media platforms world over. We need good quality journalism that’s financially viable and we need an open internet. There shouldn’t be a trade-off between them. HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy mattersA quick primer by The Guardian on the proposed Australian law and its background Tim Berners-Lee in The Guardian: “Australia's proposed media code could break the world wide web” Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

FastLetter - Una fonte buona dalla quale aggiornarsia cura di Giorgio TavernitiN.9 - 16 Febbraio 2021Di cosa parliamo* Contenuti, Monetizzazione e Consapevolezza* Riflessioni serie sul futuro* SEO* YouTube* Social* Audio e Strumenti* Safer Internet Day* SalutiPremessa: ogni tanto ripenso a tutto l'impegno che in questi anni abbiamo messo nella condivisione di idee e conoscenza. È veramente tanto. Ha sicuramente influenzato molti luoghi di Internet: non per merito delle piattaforme, ma per merito delle persone che hanno fatto proprio l'ideale della condivisione. E della qualità.Quanta qualità tutti insieme, come community, siamo riusciti a produrre? Tanta.E poi mi viene in mente quando ci sentivamo pionieri, con quel Google che non era altro che un elenco di 10 link blu. E man mano che cresceva ero felice. Sì, ero felice di fare parte di quel pezzo di storia, di viverlo. Di vedere come gli algoritmi stavano, anno dopo anno, puntando sulla qualità.Allora arrivarono le linee guida per i Quality Rater. Anni di diffusione, spiegazione. Tanti interventi, discussioni: ricordo ancora il primo intervento di Mariachiara Marsella al Web Marketing Festival. All'inizio c'era diffidenza, qualche insulto anche. Il picco fu proprio il momento in cui nelle linee guida spuntò la spiegazione precisa della qualità. Personalmente mi sono speso molto e i primi mesi me ne hanno dette di tutti i colori. Google non può calcolare la qualità. Ma come fa? Ma come è possibile?Oggi tutti fanno riferimento a quei documenti. Sia ben chiaro: tradurre un documento senza essere veramente esperto del tema è un bel problema. Ma figuratevi se qualcuno, in Italia, cita le fonti. Non so, forse le persone hanno paura di citare. Scherzo, è che si credono furbe.Ci farò un video questa settimana su FastForward (tra le altre cose sono usciti i Winner e Loser di Gennaio: ho spiegato il mio punto di vista sulla questione de La Molisana come esempio di cosa non fare).Ah, scusate. Sì, la Qualità.No, niente, è che da un po' Google mi ha stancato. Da quando Google ha iniziato a mettere in evidenza i suoi prodotti, ha sacrificato la Qualità in nome della Tecnologia.* AMP è in alto per una questione interna.* Le Web Stories sono spinte per la tecnologia, non per i contenuti (che lasciano a desiderare).* Discover c'è molta monnezza, è lì perché è Discover.* Molti box sono in rilievo perché di Google, non per merito.* Google News Showcase sarà spinto non per la qualità dei contenutiNon è spingere le sue cose e basta: è spingere cose che usano una determinata tecnologia.Non è più una questione di meritocrazia e qualità.p.s.Ho appena pubblicato la puntata di oggi di FastForward, il TG, un bel riassunto da guardare.CONTENUTI, MONETIZZAZIONE E CONSAPEVOLEZZAL'indipendenza dalle piattaforme: ti stai facendo fregare?Prima è stato Linkedin, poi Twitter e ora Facebook. A fare cosa? A voler puntare sulla newsletter. Infatti il Co-founder di Substack ha dato loro il benvenuto.Gli ambienti sociali si combattono da sempre le funzionalità. O da quasi sempre.Su Connect.gt già da Dicembre vi parlavamo di Twitter Spaces, per esempio. Un Social Audio, oggi in tanti direbbero il Cloubhouse di Twitter.Newsletter e Social Audio. Non tarderà ad arrivare una funzionalità di Linkedin (che sta lavorando, per ultimo, ad un programma per i Creator).La cosa che appare più evidente, sempre di più, è che non si può essere ovunque. Se prima qualcuno aveva la scusa di poter ripostare lo stesso contenuto in giro, ora diventa più complesso essere in diretta su Twitch e YouTube, gestire Clubhouse e Twitter Spaces. Non impossibile: sempre più complesso. A breve sarà impossibile.Finalmente i guru arriveranno al punto di non farcela più: così li sentiremo dire “scegliete bene gli ambienti in cui esserci”.Ora però, è il momento della monetizzazione.Come farai a monetizzare i contenuti sui social?Ebbene. Substack ha un suo sistema che ti consente di creare delle newsletter a pagamento. Linkedin lo ha?Su Clubhouse per ora puoi fare solo delle sponsorizzate. Arriveranno altre opportunità?Siccome in questo momento c'è tanto hype, lasciatemi ricordare una cavolo di cosa a tutti: è sempre meglio avere il controllo di quello che produciamo.Attenzione, questa frase potrebbe creare fraintendimenti. Io intendo il controllo rispetto alle piattaforme. Ho scelto Substack perché è veramente open.Se voglio mi porto tutto su un mio dominio domani.Quindi non è il controllo nei confronti delle persone, dove da 20 anni reputo la condivisione il punto centrale di quello che faccio. Ma è il controllo su piattaforme di altri che ci danno sempre l'illusione della visibilità.Quindi, usa il cervello. Qualsiasi attività decidi di portare su Internet, fai in modo che ci sia un luogo tuo dove almeno aggreghi. Contenuti e contatti. E che ti farà essere indipendente dalle piattaforme.Patreon, Medium, Twitch: non sono Open.Substack, Ghost: sì.In questo sito c'è il confronto.Alle piattaforme social, di te, di me e degli altri non frega niente. Ho ascoltato in tante Room di Clubhouse il buonismo classico dei luoghi dove c'è un hype a mille che ti toglie la lucidità. Fino a quando ci sarà un determinato approccio un ambiente sociale non cambia le persone. Siamo sempre gli stessi. Con gli stessi obiettivi. Però quando entro nelle room ho la sensazione che non sia così.L'hype finirà e tornerà la lucidità umana.Così come è finito per Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. No, Facebook no, non c'è mai stato. O forse fu molto leggero.I problemi di ieri rimangono. Usa gli ambienti social con consapevolezza, che oggi, per esempio, è cosa rara.Non farti fregare. È importante ogni tanto ricordarsi perché stiamo passando il tempo sui social. Se ci stiamo solo divertendo va bene, ma cerchiamo di ricordarci perché. Cerchiamo di capire se davvero è importante. Cerchiamo di capire se è in linea con quello che vogliamo fare. Se lo è: va benissimo.Ma se non lo è: attenzione. Perché poi non si può criticare un Padre o una Madre che non si informa sull'uso dei social da parte dei figli e figlie. Sempre di consapevolezza parliamo.Vedo in tanti essere lì solo perché, all'improvviso, qualcuno li ascolta di nuovo. Una sorta di rivalsa. Una sorta oh: finalmente. Ho più numeri.Siamo sicuri che la moneta di scambio, ancora una volta, non sia questo tipo di soddisfazione legata sempre alle stesse solite cose?Io, per me stesso, me lo chiedo.RIFLESSIONI SERIE SUL FUTUROLa condivisione del pensiero è importante.Ho aperto qualche discussione su Connect.gt. Discussioni di ampio respiro sul futuro di alcuni aspetti che ci riguardano:* Internet: è arrivato il momento del Creator ID* Il Minimo Sindacale: le regole di base per gli ambienti sociali* Un Manifesto Etico per i Creatori di ContenutiMi piacerebbe avere il tuo parere su questi tre temi. La condivisione del pensiero è importante.SEOCausa contro il Knowledge GraphDopo l'annuncio di Google sulle immagini che comunica la riduzione di quelle duplicate, John Mueller fornisce dettagli su come ottimizzare le tue immagini e noi abbiamo aggiunto le nostre considerazioni. Invece qui alcune letture che ti faranno aggiornare e riflettere. Le reputo obbligatorie per chi fa SEO:* Passage Ranking attivo in USA in lingua inglese* Le Penalità Manuali di Google News e Google Discover* Google e il dark mode* Google e le sfide dei SEO* Google non capisce i testi* Lo sapevate che Google effettua la ricerca solo fino a 32 parole chiave?Merita una riflessione questo: Germania: tribunale vieta la cooperazione tra Google e il ministero della salute. In pratica dal ministero hanno fatto un accordo per farsi mettere nel Knowledge Graph. Bello, ma hanno diminuito la visibilità degli altri. Che hanno fatto causa. E vinto.

In the UK, Google has signed partnerships with over 120 publishers for Google News Showcase. Elsewhere, a researcher claims to have managed to breach the internal IT systems of at least 35 companies, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Yelp, Tesla, & Uber by exploiting a vulnerability in open-source programming languages. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whatsnewonthenet/message

Google está trabajando en una nueva propuesta donde poder encontrar las noticias de los medios asociados. Que además recibirán una retribución económica por aportar sus contenidos. Y podrán acceder a las métricas para tener más datos que permitan entender mejor a qué artículos y temas están respondiendo los usuarios.

No podcast A Vida Secreta dos Blogs #26, saiba das notícias mais importantes da nossa área. Nesta semana, nós falamos sobre o Clubhouse, nova rede social de áudio disponível inicialmente só no iPhone, o Google News Showcase pagando por conteúdo na Austrália, o Telegram no topo do ranking e mais. ————— Para ouvir? É só dar o play! Leia mais em: http://avidasecretadosblogs.com.br/podcast-clubhouse-google-news-showcase-pagando-por-conteudo-telegram-topo-ranking APOIE NOSSO PROJETO Chave Pix - liviabergo@gmail.com Catarse - https://www.catarse.me/avidasecretadosblogs PARTICIPANTES Edson Amorina Jr - Twitter - Pinterest - Blog Lívia Bergo - Instagram - Pinterest - Blog MANDE SUA MENSAGEM E-mail pergunte@avidasecretadosblogs.com.br EQUIPE TÉCNICA Produção - Lívia Bergo, Edson Amorina Jr Pesquisa e roteiro - Lívia Bergo Edição - Edson Amorina Jr Arte e layout do site - Cadu Silva Piadas - estagiário não-creditado

Queensland trial uses Spotify to slow down drivers near school zones Spotify is creating special songs that encourage users to slow down around school zones, as part of a trial in Queensland. Spotify will use the geolocation information from a user's phone to identify when they're within 5kms of a school zone, and sneak in a track with messages to slow down, and watch out for school crossingsThe audio has been created by local Brisbane artists, and the song will slot into a playlist once the current playing song is finished. The trial officially launched in Brisbane on Wednesday, but will run state-wide. It will aim to cover all school traffic zones, at both primary and secondary campuses. As it's using Spotify's advertising insertion, the slow down tracks will only play for Spotify users on the free tier, premium subscribers will not hear the messages. Google News Showcase launch to go ahead after backflip amid political battleGoogle is planning on rolling out a new product, called News Showcase, in Australia as soon as next month. The service aims to bundle up a bunch of news services under a single paywall, and share the revenue with publishers. Google first announced the product back in June last year, but pulled the launch but pulled the plug when the Media Code was first introduced, telling partners “ it would not launch until it had a better idea of how the proposed laws would affect it financially.”The announcement that News Showcase is back comes just a few days after Google threatened to pull search from Australia, in retaliation to the code. Is this Google saying “take me back, i can change?” Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company RevueTwitter is getting into the newsletter as a service game, after acquiring the newsletter start up Revue. Revue will continue as a stand alone product separate to Twitter, but will be “closely integrated” into the service, and fees will be lowered to 5%, the same cut Substack charges for its service. Twitter says journalists are one of the most important groups using twitter and "are a valuable part of the conversation and it's critical we offer new ways for them to create and share their content, and importantly, help them grow and better connect with their audience," Apple fixes another three iOS zero-days exploited in the wildApple has released iOS 14.4, an update that patches 3 security issues discovered with its mobile operating system Apple has shared little detail of what the exploits could do, but did say all 3 were discovered by an anonymous researcher, suggesting the bugs may have been discovered by nefarious actors as well. If you have an iPhone, you should update it as soon as possible. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google is launching a news aggregation and curation product called Google News Showcase and has already signed deals with 200 publications to provide content for the new offering, WSJ reports. The program will launch in Germany and Brazil, and Google is in talks with publishers in other countries, including the U.S. This is really interesting because they are trying to become the news summarizer and aggregator to rule them all, and they have a good shot at pulling it off. Google takes the lion share of advertising dollars because they are and control the “homepage of the internet.” It's been rough on publishers because they make internet content and rely on Google's search traffic, but don't share meaningfully with Google's advertising revenues. In some ways, this looks similar to the massively successful YouTube playbook, where content creators get paid for providing Google's platform with content, which maintains dominance, content relevancy, and mindshare for Google, but also keeps content creators happy. As $GOOG shareholders, we hope this initiative will do the same between Google (News) and Big Media. Subscribe to our free email newsletter, Morning Cents, with daily business news & investing insights! acouplecents.com/morningcents --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/acouplecents/message

Google has long had a frenemy position with regards to the world of news: it can direct a lot of traffic to online publishers, but that's only if people bother to click on links after getting the gist of the story from Google itself (and that's before considering Google's AMP approach on mobile that keeps […]