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Gadgets Now
Instagram has evolved as a major platform for connecting with people by putting out content in the form of stories, pictures and videos. In the early days, Instagram did not have a story and video sharing feature. Only pictures were shared and people across the world connected by liking, commenting and "direct messaging" other people. Instagram has added new features very often and has become the No. 1 social media platform that people use today, followed by Snapchat.
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BBC
I was a freshman at Indiana University in 2004 when I first heard about a new website for people my age. I was chatting with some friends on AOL Instant Messenger in my dorm room, at the start of a new semester.
"Have you heard of The Facebook," a couple of them asked. "You should sign up. It's this new site for college kids."
Fast forward to April 2018: founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat before Congress trying to convince lawmakers his social network does not pose a threat to the stability of Western democracy.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook is trying to be more transparent about political ads, as a way of dealing with the outrage over Russian trolls using the network to try and influence the 2016 election. But its attempts are causing friction with news outlets. Why? Because as it was originally designed, Facebook's new policy would require any advertising of a political nature to be verified and placed in a public database — including ads used by publishers trying to promote their news stories.
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Columbia Journalism Review
In March, Google announced with much fanfare the launch of the Google News Initiative, a $300 million program aimed at "building a strong future for journalism," as the company put it. That came on top of the previous Digital News Initiative, which was set up by Google in 2015 and included a $170 million innovation fund aimed at the European media industry.
Facebook, too, has been funneling money into journalism projects.
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Writer's Digest
After my novel was rejected by 35 editors, year four eleven for my WIP, it became clear that publication wasn't as close as I had dreamed. I was committed to this story, to making it better, to having it published — eventually. But being in it for the long-haul meant retooling my definition of success from publication to continual forward motion.
I needed to find kernels of success in my daily writing life.
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The Nerd Daily
In a world full of writers and literature junkies, it can be easy to get caught up in the charade of standstills with your latest written piece. A novel, a book of poetry and that last book report all left you with your mind full of anger and you just want to vanquish the roadblocks in every meaning of the word "writing."
I took to the world of Instagram and Twitter to ask some self-published and traditionally published authors on the advice they would give to someone who needs some motivation toward their next literary work of art.
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Recode
The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it to consumers.
Now things are up for grabs: Netflix buys stuff from the studios, but it's making its own stuff, too, and it's selling it directly to consumers. That's one of the reasons older media companies are trying to compete by consolidating.
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Wired
Almost exactly 20 years ago, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years. The Act was the 11th extension in the prior 40 years, timed perfectly to assure that certain famous works, including Mickey Mouse, would not pass into the public domain. Immediately after the law came into force, a digital publisher of public domain works, Eric Eldred, filed a lawsuit challenging the act.
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Editor & Publisher
Reddit, the self-described "front page of the internet," has been historically leery of brands and advertisers, which has quietly allowed its niche-friendly patchwork of content verticals (known as subreddits) to grow into the fourth most trafficked website in the U.S (with more time on site than even Facebook, according to Alexa).
This has left reporters and editors in newsrooms across the country in a particularly tricky spot.
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WFPL-FM
Meredith Jensen is doing some gardening on a sunny day in a secluded part of Athens, Ohio.
"I'm working on our pollinator garden beds," she said. "Which are a bunch of fun flowers that'll help attract butterflies, bumble bees, you name it."
Her partner Jamie Betit pushes a full wheelbarrow to fill the other raised beds. “"e've got horse and goat compost here that's packed full of nutrients, topsoil and ash," he said.
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The New York Times
I was pretty proud of myself the spring I planted my first organic garden. It was the mid-1980s, and I was a first-year graduate student in creative writing, a program entirely unrelated to horticultural mastery. But I had taken a college course in environmental biology, and I knew the basics: The more chemicals you use in a garden, the more chemicals you'll need in the garden. It's a self-perpetuating cycle, more reliable than the seasons.
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KGTV-TV
The oldest tree at North County's San Diego Botanic Garden is finding new life as a work of art.
The Eucalyptus cladocalyx was planted 100 years ago at the Encinitas garden. It had to be euthanized last year because it was leaning and posing a threat to visitors, officials said.
Artist Erwin Young "Mitch" Mitchell IV took the 30-foot stump and transformed it into a replica of a baobab tree.
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