Ian Betteridge

This is the first post-Substack edition of my newsletter, the first one delivered via WordPress. At some point in the...

I was going to write a sort of yearnote last week, summing up 2023. I didn’t, in the end,...

Technically, I should have written this yesterday, but somehow Christmas Eve feels like an even less appropriate time to be...

It’s quite ironic that I spend part of my professional life warning publishers and content creators about platform risk...

One of Apple’s most annoying habits is changing things to make them harder for users to “make mistakes”. Almost...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how I use computers this week. As I have written before (at great...

A games company and a search giant tussling over Fortnight doesn’t sound like it has much to do with...

On Tuesday, I attended (virtually, of course) an International Association of News Media (INMA) talk given by Benedict Evans on...

How did it get to be December already? And how did it get so cold? The Byte archive I was...

What does the search engine of the future look like? Forget 10 blue links… You can break down the creative...

Between getting ridiculously excited about the goings-on OpenAI, I didn’t get a lot of writing done this week. There...

Confused? You should be. I’m deliberately not looking at Techmeme so I don’t have to update this post...

Remembering the craft and process of original reporting can help build a loyal audience. So far this week, I have...

The second area where humans can do a better job than an LLM: real life storytelling One of the best...

Sometimes, you just need the human touch… What kinds of content can humans do better than AI? The last few...