FIR #189: The First Thing We Do, Let’s Ease Timekeeping for All The Lawyers

The November episode of "The Hobson and Holtz Report" features Neville and Shel discussing these topics: MeWe and WT:Social are among the latest crop of social networks offering serious privacy in an attempt to dethrone Facebook; a new tool lets brands remove negative comments from paid social media posts; QR codes have made a comeback; AI writer completes writing what you started; telcos hope RCS will inspire you to give up WhatsApp, Messenger, and other third-party tools; Ping raises $13 million to make timekeeping easier for lawyers; Dan York reports on NewsPack from WordPress, the Google Site Kit, PRX and Google podcasts, National Podcast Month, and the New York Times' look at the internet's future.
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The November episode of “The Hobson and Holtz Report” features Neville and Shel discussing these topics:

MeWe and WT:Social are among the latest crop of social networks offering serious privacy in an attempt to dethrone Facebook
A new tool lets brands remove negative comments from paid social media posts
QR codes have made a comeback
AI writer completes writing what you started
Telcos hope RCS will inspire you to give up WhatsApp, Messenger, and other third-party tools
Ping raises $13 million to make timekeeping easier for lawyers
Dan York reports on NewsPack from WordPress, the Google Site Kit, PRX and Google podcasts, National Podcast Month, and the New York Times’ look at the internet’s future

Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog.

The next episode of For Immediate Release will be posted on Monday, December 16.

Links from This Week’s Episode

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales launches Twitter and Facebook rival
Privacy Social Network MeWe Reaches 4 Million Members
Inside MeWe, Where Anti-Vaxxers and Conspiracy Theorists Thrive
Facebook Alternatives 2019 – Social Networks That Won’t Sell Your Data
These 5 alternative social networks are the cure for Facebook fatigue
Brands Can Remove Negative Comments on Paid Social Posts With This New Tool
Chick-fil-A boosts app downloads 14% with QR codes, analysis finds
QR Codes and the Holiday Spirit
Mysterious QR codes showing up on car windows help stop burglaries
The Time of the AI Writer
OpenAI Releases Fake Text AI Initially Deemed Too Dangerous Into the World
Talk to Transformer
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard
How to Check If You Have Access to Google’s RCS Messaging
What is RCS messaging? Here’s all you need to know about the successor to SMS
Lawyers hate timekeeping — Ping raises $13M to fix it with AI

Links from Dan York’s Report

Our Early Review of the Newspack Project from Automattic
Newspack Blog
Newspack FAQ
Chilean News Publication El Soberano First to Launch on Newspack
Newspack announces second set of pilot newsrooms; first U.S. site relaunches on new platform
Google Releases its Site Kit WordPress Plugin Out of Beta
Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites
Podcasting 101
Want to make a podcast? 5 tips to get you started
Podcasting 101: An interview with Sean Rameswaram
National Podcast Post Month
So the internet didn’t turn out the way we hoped. Where do we go from here?

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