In This Episode: January Surprises: TikTok Ban, Media Shifts, and Independent Journalism Trends
Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:00 — 52.2MB)
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
- 1:00 LN: Impending TikTok ban
- Last minute: Senator Markey to Introduce Bill to Extend Deadline for TikTok Ban, Takes to Senate Floor in Support of Vibrant Online Communities – unclear how/when/whatnext
- 3:20 Affecting real people’s careers
- Lots of goodbyes of late
- Instagram & YouTube
- 4:50 Lemon8? Not so fast.
- 5:12 RedNote? Another Chinese-owned company.
- 6:54 VPN seems to work, but
- 8:30 Rumor: sale to Musk? (TikTok says fiction)
- 9:50 Shark tank
- 13:00 What data is being collected?
- 16:00 Influencing and propoganda
- 21:00 What is TikTok going to be like?
- 25: Why no competition?
- 30:00 GR: More on the great online media migration
- People leaving FB, Instagram, Threads
- To: Bluesky, Pixelfed?, more?
- 31:35 Leaving WaPo, others
- To: The Atlantic, The Contrarian, SubStack
- Kara Swisher
- 45:00 Are we going back to an age of lots of outlets with lots of diversification?
- 50:00 AI
- People leaving FB, Instagram, Threads
Ain’t it Cool
- 50:00 LN: Part way through American Primeval. Western, during time of migration into Utah. Violent, but fascinating story. (Netflix)
- 52:00 GR: Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
- 53:00 LN: Yet Another Way to Install Windows 11 Without a TPM – https://askleo.com/177093
- 54:20 GR: How To Use the Redesigned iOS 18 Photos App https://macmost.com/how-to-use-the-redesigned-ios-18-photos-app.html
Instagram Reels replaced Tiktok in India back when it was banned.
I wonder why most Americans are not seeing Instagram as a replacement and instead are flocking to another chinese app.
Leo: You may not have a degree that says “Journalism” but you are higher on the spectrum of journalists (from horrible to great) than many with degrees.
Journalism is about telling people what is, rather than what their personal feelings say they would prefer. It is called integrity.
Kind of like a Dilbert cartoon about a sales call with the customer saying that he wanted the engineer to talk rather than the sales guy because he will tell the truth.
Your objectivity is what has made me a reader of your columns for many years and what lead me to stay with TEH because of the attitudes of the hosts. (I miss Randy as part of TEH)
Thanks for the kind words. For some reason it’s important to me not to overstep and consider myself a journalist. I’m just a computer geek (with opinions!) that can apparently express himself. To me calling myself a journalist would be an odd insult to actual journalists who’ve done the work to earn the “title”. Perhaps I’m trying to avoid the equivalent to those who can barely cobble together a python script, however successfully, suddenly calling themselves “coders” or, heaven help us, “software engineers”.