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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. But is this a signal that people are growing weary of the “and you won’t believe what happened next” headlines? What about Facebook?

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Report: Substack, the highly hyped newsletter platform, has ditched plans for a Series C

TechCrunch

Still, if Substack’s broader fortunes should change, it would be the second, highly hyped consumer company in a16z’s portfolio to have truly captured the public’s imagination, then lost momentum. Substack declined to comment when reached earlier this afternoon.

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Spotify’s exclusive Michelle Obama podcast will be available on other platforms starting tomorrow

The Verge

Spotify made major headlines last year when it announced an exclusive podcast deal with the Obamas’ production studio Higher Ground. It’s also unclear if the Higher Ground deal always accounted for a wider release — a Spotify spokesperson wouldn’t comment. Today, the company made a perplexing about-face. What will happen to season 2?

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How to Promote an Event on Instagram to Boost Attendance

Bloomerang

When you book a headliner act or keynote speaker, feature them in a sneak preview of your lineup. Allow event headliners or speakers to do an Instagram takeover. Give one of your event headliners or emcees the reins of your Instagram story for the day. Tag friends in a post or comment on one of your posts.

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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

Care2

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. With over 80M views on Youtube, the video is still being shared and talked about.

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The Verge Awards at CES 2021: can’t touch this

The Verge

(If you don’t believe it was “highly anticipated”, just go back and look at the YouTube comments for other keynotes, where everyone kept asking “when is AMD?”) The headliner, the Ryzen 9 5980HX, has eight cores, 16 threads, and high hopes. Honorable Mentions: Most Hype: Mercedes-Benz Hyperscreen. Su made some big claims.

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lamb links to another story: "wireless network might be used by terrorists," the headline screams. If you read down the comments on the flickr post, Darcy Norman says. despite the hype that ???everybody Well, yeah. But "Terrorists might also use our bus service to move about the city undetected."