Hacker News with Generative AI: Digital Media

Don't Call It a Substack (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.

Substack, Email Marketing, Content Creation, Digital Media, Ownership

15 points by marban 23 hours ago | 3 comments

Textcasting: Applying the Philosophy of Podcasting to Text (2022) (textcasting.org)

Content Creation, Philosophy, Digital Media, Writing

25 points by surprisetalk 23 days ago | 0 comments

Adobe will remotely kill Adobe Elements 2025 three years after purchase (ghacks.net)
Adobe announced new Adobe Elements 2025 Family releases this week. The two products, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 and Adobe Premiere Elements 2025, come with "Ai magic" according to Adobe and several other improvements.

Software, Adobe, Photography, Digital Media

5 points by speckx 48 days ago | 0 comments

CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some users to read articles (cnn.com)

CNN, Media, Paywalls, Digital Media, News

10 points by hentrep 49 days ago | 3 comments

Communicating with Interactive Articles (2020) (distill.pub)
Computing has changed how people communicate. The transmission of news, messages, and ideas is instant. Anyone’s voice can be heard. In fact, access to digital communication technologies such as the Internet is so fundamental to daily life that their disruption by government is condemned by the United Nations Human Rights Council . But while the technology to distribute our ideas has grown in leaps and bounds, the interfaces have remained largely the same.

Communication, Technology, User Interfaces, Digital Media, Human Rights

28 points by wallflower 60 days ago | 0 comments

YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (theverge.com)
It’s been nearly six years since we warned you that ads were coming for your pause button and 18 months since Google revealed that YouTube would serve them up, too.

YouTube, Advertising, Digital Media, Online Video

67 points by MBCook 63 days ago | 64 comments

YouTube starts showing ads when you pause a video on TV (9to5google.com)
YouTube is adding a new format for ads on your TV which shows up when you pause the video, and that’s starting to roll out to users.

YouTube, Advertising, Television, Digital Media, User Experience

6 points by thunderbong 68 days ago | 0 comments

What do people do with thier pictures? (modern life, media and backing up) (ycombinator.com)

Photography, Digital Media, Data Storage

7 points by bbyford 85 days ago | 23 comments

Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible (ieee.org)

Computer Science, Digital Media

238 points by Brajeshwar 93 days ago | 60 comments

The Winamp Era [audio] (changelog.com)

Music, Nostalgia, Digital Media, Software, History

6 points by Bluestein 94 days ago | 2 comments

Effective YouTube Kids: Quality Content in Small Doses (abparenting.substack.com)