WTF is taking 8 seconds?
At the core of Facebook’s case is that the average article takes eight seconds to load. We’ve known forever that users don’t like slow loading pages. So why have publishers ignored this? Why did it take Facebook to take action? Is it all the…

BuzzFeed and BBC Radio’s File on 4 collaborated on an investigation into match-fixing in tennis and found that 16 top-50 players have likely deliberately lost so that gamblers could profit.

Some observations:

1. This was a…

I’m still trying to figure out some theories around content distribution and discovery. Notes on… is a collection of some of my work towards that.

Oxford University’s Reuters Institute has just published its annual report into Digital News consumption: an impressively big study of 20+ thousand online news consumers in 12 countries. Here are some of the things that struck me as…