Deborah Carver is the publisher of The Content Technologist. She is an independent consultant on all things digital publishing, specializing in large content-driven websites.
In many email clients, that Spotify embed didn't work (although they work fine if you view in browser. But if you don't want to work even that hard, here are the playlists as boring regular links instead.
* Best songs of 2024
* Christmas Goodies
Have a lovely...
In lieu of a year in review, a survey, or any original content because I know you're all itching to log off, here's a playlist of my favorite songs from 2024, roughly tiered.
If you're in the mood for something a bit more seasonal,...
You can't predict the future, especially in publishing. You never know exactly which pieces of content will be hits and which will be a waste of time and money. But you can, as the finance folks have taught us, forecast your impact.
Even in the face of "black box" algorithms, the history of artificial intelligence—natural language processing, more specifically—has left plenty of clues. While we can't understand the full equation, we can see how building blocks create common patterns in how current algorithms process language.
Infrastructure, no matter how solid or planned or continuously improved, gets messy. Observing humanity in July feels like the ultimate UX research experiment.
