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☆ Elon Musk's resuscitated Twitter Notes feature sure sounds a lot like something Facebook did in 2006
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Sirena Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Originally called Twitter Notes, and now called Articles, it's currently being tested among a small group of users, according to Twitter's website. Musk may not remember this (I don't think that many people do) but Facebook also had a feature called Notes. Facebook Notes was introduced in 2006. Basically, it was the exact same thing as Twitter Notes, but 17 years earlier. All in all, it doesn't seem like the opportune time to roll out a long-form writing feature.

Persons: Elon Musk, it's, Musk, I'd, tweeting, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

☆ Henry Kissinger is a trending topic right now in China because so many people are surprised he's 100, alive, and going on business trips
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

People on China's social media are awestruck by Henry Kissinger's stamina at 100. "This is the Kissinger from the history books?" "This is the Kissinger from the history books?" I thought he was dead because people in the history books basically are," wrote another Weibo user. Others marveled at Kissinger's stamina at 100.

Persons: Henry Kissinger's, Li Shangfu, Kissinger, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger's, he's Organizations: Service, Twitter, Weibo Locations: China, Wall, Silicon, Beijing, China's, Weibo

☆ Why US Treasury Secretary Yellen’s visit to a Beijing restaurant set off a wild mushroom craze
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Maggie Wong | Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Among the dishes the food blogger claimed to have spotted were grilled fish with herbs, stir-fried pickled Yunnan wild greens with potato slices and cold rice noodles. She ordered four portions of jian shou qing (a Yunnan wild mushroom species). But the most heated discussions were focused on the multiple orders of the mushroom dish – jian shou qing. Jian shou qing, Yunnan’s mysterious mushroomsBaskets of jian shou qing mushrooms, foraged from a Yunnan forest. Chieu Luu/CNNThe fact that Yellen and her team visited a Yunnan restaurant shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN — It’s, Janet Yellen, jian shou qing, Yi Zuo Yi Wang, ”, Pan Pan Mao, ” Pan Pan Mao, Yellen, Mark Schiefelbein, Yellen’s, Jian shou qing, Colin Domnauer Jian shou qing, “, Peter Mortimer, Mortimer, Jun Xu, they’re, Luu, Dian Cai –, Ng Mung Lam, Ng, Yellen's, Leisa Tyler, LightRocket Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Weibo, CNN, Kunming Institute of Botany, African, Getty, Botanical Society of, Xinhua, CNN Travel Locations: Hong Kong, Beijing, China, Yunnan, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Weibo, India, Yunnan Province, Botanical Society of Yunnan, China’s, Shenzhen, Chuxiong prefecture, pu’er

☆ It's a huge win for Zuckerberg if Threads steals Twitter's lost charm and serendipity
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Shona Ghosh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But making it more popular than Twitter would be a big win for Mark Zuckerberg. Most Twitter users know that the platform comes alive during a breaking news event, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Those paying average Joes are now prioritized in the feed, devaluing Twitter as a place to discover interesting people. A recurring theme on Threads: It's a nice place to hang out (for now...) Insider/Shona Ghosh/ThreadsThat niceness could be fragile and temporary. Threads may go the same way since, as the internet loves to say, we can't have nice things.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, TikTok's, Zuckerberg, Samuel Beckett, beery louts, Paul Graham, Paul Graham Zuckerberg, Shona Ghosh, Twitter, he'll Organizations: Twitter, Meta, ICE Locations: Ukraine

☆ Bloggers who turned their side hustle into their main income share 6 ways they make more than $100,000 from their blogs
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

To find her audience, North created a Facebook group, called Get US Citizenship, where she shared blog posts from her website. "Then you could write 10 blog posts on one topic cluster and another 10 blog posts around another cluster." She said that using affiliate platforms such as ShareASale helped keep affiliate marketing passive. Reach out to brands for partnershipsNorth said brand partnerships could be more lucrative than affiliate marketing. "It's more labor-intensive than affiliate marketing, but it's more tailored as well,"she said.

Persons: Samantha North, she'd, Jasper, ChatGPT, Bonds, Whitney Bonds, Jobs, North, who'd, ShareASale, — Organizations: Union, Google, Facebook, North Locations: Portugal, Europe

☆ Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's 'sure' Instagram's new Twitter alternative will be a 'Marxist style social media experience' used to 'steal elections'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Instagram launched "Threads" — a new alternative to Twitter — on Thursday. But the platform's already drawing criticism from the right, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. She argues that the new platform will be a "Marxist style social media experience." —Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 6, 2023The Georgia Republican added that the "Marxist style social media experience" would entail "social experimentation serving Big Pharma, the Intelligence Community, and DEI Initiatives to strengthen corporate stocks supporting garbage DEI issues and steal elections." In criticizing Threads right out of the gate, Greene is drawing on long-standing antipathies on the right towards both Meta and Zuckerberg.

Persons: Instagram, Marjorie Taylor Greene, —, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump Jr, — Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 ( Organizations: Twitter, Service

☆ I make 6 figures working 20-hour weeks as a freelance writer. Here's what my typical day looks like hour by hour.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Zulie Rane | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Zulie Rane is a freelance writer who earns six figures a year while working around 20 hours a week. At the end of this article, you should have a solid idea of what it's like to be a freelance writer. 7:00 - 8:00 a.m: Start the day (for real this time)I start a day in the life of a freelance writer with an alarm. After all, it's not just a day in the life of a freelance writer — it's a day in the life of a freelance writer and her two cats. Hopefully this snapshot of my Mondays gives you a good idea of what it's like to be a freelance writer.

Persons: Zulie Rane, —, Astrid, dislodging, it's, Sally, — it's, Slack, I've, I'm, you've, there's, Here's Organizations: Service, Twitter Locations: Boston, Salem, Euronews, Spain

☆ I'm the 'Car Mom' and review family cars for a living. Here's my favorite models and why 100,000-mile vehicles shouldn't scare you.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Alexa St. John | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Kelly Stumpe, also known as the Car Mom, has test-driven and toured 65 family cars. The problem with buying a family car is, it's not just a matter of: "I don't like the drive." It is not as simple as if it has a seatbelt, it can fit a car seat. In the Sequoia, I can only put it in the middle seat, so I could not have another child in this car who would still be in a car seat. It actually allows you to access the third row when a car seat is still installed.

Persons: Kelly Stumpe, Alexa St, Stumpe reevaluated, St . Louis, there's, I've, shouldn't, Joe Raedle, it's, Stumpe, It's, they're, I'm, Sienna Organizations: Morning, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, Ford Expedition, Toyota Sequoia, Leasing, Ford The Ford Expedition, General Motors, Honda, VW Locations: John, St, Louis , Missouri, St ., Florida, Hyundai Santa Fe, Autotrader, Edmunds, Yukon

☆ Gail Collins on ‘The Most of Nora Ephron’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Gail Collins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Enter writers like Nora Ephron, a fighter for the cause who was a genius at using wit to handle any woe. “The Most of Nora Ephron” is a tome that includes so much of what she published, from current affairs journalism to food blogging to Broadway plays. “I hope that you choose not to be a lady,” she told the 1996 graduates at her alma mater, Wellesley. “I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. Pointing out how ridiculous the status quo is breaks its spell and gives us the freedom to dream up something better.

Persons: topick, Nora Ephron, Nora Ephron ”, Nora, “, Carl Bernstein, Gail Collins, ”, ” Doris Lessing’s, Miss, Nick Pileggi, Clarence Thomas, it’s Organizations: Broadway, White, Disney Locations: America, Washington, mater, Wellesley, “

☆ How DashCon gave us one of the most important social media lessons of the 2010s
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The result was DashCon, an attempt to bring together Tumblr users from different interests and fandoms for a single event. For all its (somewhat hilarious) failures, DashCon immediately became a core parable of our social media lore. Like so many other Tumblr users, O’Neil was just a nerdy teenager with cool interests looking for other people like her. A view of the iconic DashCon ball pit at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois. She said people still send her cosplays of the infamous ball pit, almost 10 years later.

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☆ I'm a mom that's test-driven or toured 65 family cars — these are my favorite models and top tips for buying
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Alexa St. John | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

☆ I make more than $5000 a month with writing side hustles. Here's how you can get started.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Jenn Leach | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She makes more than $5,000 a month with writing side hustles. I personally do many of these side hustles every month and they help me earn an extra $5,250+ per month from them. Blogging is something I'd do alongside platform writing or some of the other writing side hustles on this list. First, I'd get set up on Fiverr and Upwork to do some freelance resume writing. You're writing to persuade and compel the reader to take action, like clicking a link, joining an email list, or purchasing something online.

Persons: Jenn Leach, Leach, —, more.Let's, I've, You'll, I'd, Instagram, Tik, It's, Ghostwriting Organizations: Service, Twitter, Creative, Jobs Locations: Texas

☆ I make more than $5000 a month with writing side hustles. Here's how you can started.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Jenn Leach | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Persons: Jenn Leach, Leach, —, more.Let's, I've, You'll, I'd, Instagram, Tik, It's, Ghostwriting Organizations: Service, Twitter, Creative, Jobs Locations: Texas

Then, a deep dive into MrBeast and what his YouTube empire says about the future of the internet. Reddit came along and said, oh, we need to protect Reddit from the rise of these large language models. So I don’t think they’re totally out of the woods. But I don’t think people would say it was a golden age for how safe the platforms fell to use. But I want to challenge you on this, because I don’t necessarily think that it’s a bad thing if we have past peak trust and safety.

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☆ A step-by-step guide on how to create and monetize an e-book in as little as one weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Corrie Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Alexander says that with the right tools you can create a book in as little as a weekend. Canva has a ton of free book cover templates that you can use as a springboard for your own design. To create your e-book, I would recommend one of two options:Canva: The first option is to create your e-book within Canva. However, there is still a lot of work you'll need to do to get the e-book ready. For instance, you'll need to manually add in your table of contents, page numbers, and any other visual elements.

Persons: Corrie Alexander, Alexander, —, caan, Jasper, Jasper Jumpstart, You'll, Grammarly, Speechify, Canva, Jasper Art, you've, It's, you'll Organizations: Service, Google, PayPal, YouTube Locations: Jasper, Canva

☆ The first 5 steps that helped me become a 6-figure content creator after being fired from my tech job
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Zulie Rane | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Since starting my journey as a content creator in 2018 after getting fired from my tech job, I've made over six-figures doing what I love. A content plan is going to be the skeleton of your content creator income. Post this call-to-action at the end of all the content you post, with a hyperlink to your mailing list. Roundup : A list of all the content you created this week, an easy way to keep fans up to date. : A list of all the content you created this week, an easy way to keep fans up to date.

☆ ‘Focus on unsexy problems’: 3 millennial freelancers on how to build a successful career
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Eventually, Burton learned people were offering their rapping skills for hire on Fiverr and decided to give the freelance platform a shot himself. In 2015, Jen Glantz, now 35, posted an ad as a bridesmaid for hire on Craigslist. When it comes to career advice, figure out what skills you already have and how you can optimize them. And "not just skills related to your degree," she says, "but also personality skills, character skills, hobbies." "I was asked to be a bridesmaid so many times by so many people," says Glantz about her 20s.

☆ I got laid off from Twitter in November, but now I'm making six figures as a food influencer. Here's how.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

This is an as-told-to story based on a conversation with Priyanka Naik, the food blogger behind the brand Chef Priyanka. All the while, I was building my brand: Chef Priyanka. Eventually, I started getting recognition from various food media sites. Twitter gave me flexibilityOne of the reasons I stayed so long at Twitter was because of the reach and flexibility it gave me to grow Chef Priyanka. And in some ways, it was the nudge I needed to turn Chef Priyanka into a full-time gig.

☆ Y Combinator CEO on leaving Palantir: 'I'm working like a dog for Peter Thiel... Who's the real chump?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan discussed his time at Palantir during its early days at the Axios BFD summit. "I'm working like a dog for Peter Thiel ... Who's the real chump?" He went on to explain that at Palantir he was "working like a dog for Peter Thiel." "I'm working like a dog for Peter Thiel... Who's the real chump?" He returned to Y Combinator as a partner from 2010 to 2015, and as its CEO in January.

☆ Musk says Twitter to soon allow calls, encrypted messaging
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

May 9 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday revealed details about new features including adding calls and encrypted messaging coming to the platform. Last year, Musk flagged plans for "Twitter 2.0 The Everything App", which he said would have features such as encrypted direct messages (DMs), longform tweets and payments. The call feature on Twitter will bring the micro-blogging platform into line with the likes of Meta's (META.O) social media applications, Facebook and Instagram, which have similar features. Musk said a version of encrypted direct messages will be available on Twitter starting Wednesday, but did not say if calls will be encrypted. Twitter this week said it will start a cleansing process by removing and archiving accounts that have been inactive for several years.

☆ Heather Armstrong, mommy blogger also known as Dooce, dies at 47
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Heather Armstrong, an influential writer whose blog Dooce helped popularize mommy blogging, has died, her partner, Pete Ashdown, confirmed to CNN. “Heather B. Hamilton (Armstrong) was a brilliant, funny, compassionate writer who struggled with mental-health and alcoholism,” Ashdown said in a statement to CNN. In 2004, Dooce became the first personal website to start accepting a notable number of paid ads, the New York Times said. Toward the end of her life, Armstrong was characteristically frank with readers about her struggles with alcoholism. “Calling Dooce a mommy blogger was always an inadequate description of her breadth, her style and her early influence on blogging,” New York Times reporter Katie Rogers tweeted.

☆ Twitter to remove idle accounts, archive them
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

May 8 (Reuters) - Social media platform Twitter Inc will remove accounts that have been inactive for several years, CEO Elon Musk announced in a tweet on Monday, saying that the action is "important to free up abandoned handles." loadingTwitter's billionaire owner in a separate tweet said inactive accounts will be archived, Musk did not add any details on when the process will begin. It was not immediately known if or how Twitter users will be able to access archived accounts. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationMusk also said users on the micro-blogging platform could see a drop in follower count, as several inactive accounts might get removed. Earlier this month, Musk "threatened" to reassign National Public Radio's Twitter account to another company, after the public broadcaster stopped posting content to its 52 official Twitter feeds in protest against a Twitter label that implied government involvement in its editorial content.

☆ Chinese police arrest man who allegedly used ChatGPT to spread fake news in first case of its kind
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

This photo illustration shows the ChatGPT logo at an office in Washington, DC, on March 15, 2023. Chinese police arrested a man they allege used ChatGPT to create a fake news article about a train crash, in what appears to be the first case of enforcement action being taken in China under an unprecedented law related to artificial intelligence. The case highlights Chinese authorities' push to regulate and control uses of AI as the technology gets more advanced. Hong allegedly used ChatGPT to create slightly different versions of the fake news article to pass duplication checks on the Baidu-owned platform. For example, users can ask ChatGPT to come up with a story based on specific instructions.

☆ Twitter to remove inactive accounts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

May 8 (Reuters) - Social media platform Twitter Inc will remove accounts that have been inactive for several years, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday. loadingMusk added that users on the micro-blogging platform could see a drop in follower count. Earlier this month, Musk "threatened" to reassign National Public Radio's Twitter account to another company, after the public broadcaster stopped posting content to its 52 official Twitter feeds in protest against a Twitter label that implied government involvement in its editorial content. Twitter last month removed the legacy verified blue tick from the profile of thousands of people, including celebrities, journalists and prominent politicians. Musk has made account verification a part of Twitter's Blue subscription, a move he said would tackle the issue of bot accounts on the social media platform.

☆ Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer admits the company should have bought Netflix instead of Tumblr as it 'would have been a better acquisition'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Yahoo should have acquired Netflix or Hulu instead of blogging platform Tumblr, she told Tech Brew. Morning Brew Insider recommends waking up with, a daily newsletter. In an interview with Tech Brew, Mayer reiterated that one of her regrets was hiring the wrong chief operating officer, Henrique De Castro, whom she fired after 15 months on the job. A source at the time told Insider Mayer was "very personally engaged in this deal," working late into numerous evenings. Mayer's biggest regret, however, was not making "the tax-free Alibaba spinoff to separate the assets of the company," she told Tech Brew.

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