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AI News Brief 🧞‍♀️: How Publishers Can Leverage Machine Learning for Success

AI News Brief 🧞‍♀️: How Publishers Can Leverage Machine Learning for Success

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AI News Brief 🧞‍♀️: How Publishers Can Leverage Machine Learning for Success

 AI News Brief 🧞‍♀️: Explore the impact of AI on content creation and what it means for the future of publishingHey, cyberbeatniks! It's you

AI News Brief 🧞‍♀️: How Publishers Can Leverage Machine Learning for Success

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From Pixels to Power: Orchestrating a Video-First Symphony in Online Publishing

The internet used to be a library, a sprawling archive of text and images. Now, it's an amphitheater, alive with the dynamic rhythm of video. Online publishers, once confined to the static page, are now maestros composing symphonies of sight and sound, captivating audiences and rewriting the rules of engagement. This is the era of the video-first strategy, a paradigm shift where pixels become power, weaving narratives that resonate, inspire, and ignite action.The Allure of the Moving ImageWhy does video reign supreme? It's an assault on the senses, a sensory feast that stimulates our brains in ways text never could. Imagine a complex scientific concept explained not through dry paragraphs, but through a mesmerizing animation, its vibrant colors and playful visuals dancing across the screen. That's video's magic – it bypasses the cognitive firewall and lodges information directly into our emotional memory, making learning an exhilarating adventure.Continue reading at https://digitrendz.blog/digital-publishing/4424/from-pixels-to-power-orchestrating-a-video-first-symphony-in-online-publishing/ Read the full article

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ModMag14 – Thank you

A huge thank you to everyone involved in making last week’s The Modern Magazine 2014 such a success. The LCC theatre was full to hear some great lectures and discussions about the state of our industry.

Thank you to all the speakers for putting so much energy into the day, to everyone at the London College of Communication, to the student volunteers, the magCulture team (Lesley, Steph, Jese, and Raechel) and to Liv Siddall for smart hosting. Supporters Park Communications,Sappi and  Commercial Type deserve a thank you too, as does Tyler Brulé and Monocle for providing the drinks at the end of the day. Thank you all!

But it would be nothing without an audience, so thnaks as well are due to everyone who took a day out of their work and/or studies to join us. I hope you enoyed the day too.

There’s plenty more to share; for now have a listen to me and some of the speakers on the weekend’s edition of The Stack on Monocle24.

Look out here for a series of video interviews from the day over the next few weeks, along with more photos.  And read Sarah Snaith’s series of live posts form the event:

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Speaker at The Modern Magazine 2014

Adam Moss, New York, (US)

Adam was named editor-in-chief of New York magazine in March 2004. During his tenure the magazine has been widely recognized for editorial excellence, and he has overseen an ambitious digital expansion (including the creation of Vulture, an entertainment site; The Cut, a fashion site; Grub Street, on restaurants; Science of Us, on social science; and Daily Intelligencer, on politics and general news) in his role as editor-in-chief of parent company New York Media.

Before joining New York magazine, Moss was the editor of the New York Times Magazine, as well as assistant managing editor of the paper, overseeing the magazine, Book Review, culture and style. He was also the editor of 7 Days, a short-lived magazine in the eighties. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Esquire and two at Rolling Stone. New York has twice won the Society  of Publication Designers’ Magazine of the Year under his tenure; the New York Times Magazine won the same award when he was editor. He has twice been named Ad Age’s editor of the year, once for the New York Times Magazine and once for New York.

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Kindle, how do I love thee?

Let me count the ways.

If you know me, you know I’ve wanted a Kindle for at least 3 years now. I’ve dropped hint after hint on Twitter and Facebook around the holidays, on my birthday, on Jesus's birthday, but no one ever bit. I finally resigned myself to biting the bullet and buying it myself. Tax season was right around the corner anyway.

BEST DECISION EVER.

My Kindle is literally the best purchase I’ve ever made. Better than my Mac Book, my vintage Prada pants, my favorite lipstick (MAC Heroine) or my many, MANY curly hair products. It’s completely revolutionized my most beloved activity. I've been saying for a while that I don't believe in the demise of the publishing industry, only in its revolution. Indeed, people will never stop reading (at least I hope not, for everyone's sake), but the way they consume literature has to. The Kindle is only a part of the changes that are bound to happen in the book world. Here are a few ways my Kindle has changed my life:

1 - Nothing will make you read more into a quote than seeing the dashed line telling you that 43,550 more people highlighted a quote. I can't help but think: if all these people highlighted this sentence, it has to be deep and meaningful. The Kindle has made reading an activity that allows for connection - not only with the characters, but with your fellow readers.

2 - If I didn't find time to read in college, imagine how difficult it is now that I have a full time job and am a member of two book clubs. After getting a Kindle, I found that I was grossly overestimating my reading speed. Turns out I cannot finish those last 300 pages of The Corrections in 2 days. Go figure. Nothing will light a fire under your ass more than seeing that you're only 5% through the book and that you still have another 2 hours and 24 minutes to finish the chapter.

3 - The search functions inform my reading in ways a dictionary never could. I was never the type to look up words while I was reading; it's so disruptive to have to put the book down, search for the word you don't know and then apply it in context. With the Kindle, you can search while you're reading - and not only for words, but for characters (imagine reading Game of Thrones and actually knowing who's who!) as well as cultural references or events (on Wikipedia).

Don't get me wrong, there is definitely room for improvement: sometimes the reaction time is slow when I'm writing notes or highlighting text, the keyboard isn't incredibly accurate - but the pros far outweigh the cons. Having it be a device strictly for reading, with no distractions like apps or fancy features, makes it feel almost like reading a 'real' book. The Kindle modernizes and enhances reading without taking away from the escapism that made me fall in love with books to begin with.

~C