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Ep. 241: The Virality Trap

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Advantages of Live Blogs Over Twitter

The Washington Post switched to a live blog format to cover the game. It makes so much sense to cover your games this way as compared to on Twitter. Tweets are short and you have to do tweet threads with these one out of N where you have multiple different threads that go together. This is a microcosm of the broader issue that Twitter creates for journalists getting obsessed about being first on scoops.

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