Technology • Innovation • Publishing - Issue #158

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Photographer Sam Binding experimented, uploading pics to Instagram & Twitter. On Insta, only ½ of his 11K followers saw it. On Twitter, 5,611 people did, despite the fact he has just 333 followers on Twitter.

Since at least early 2017, an unknown person with knowledge of the book business and dealmaking has persistently impersonated a number of people in attempts to steal unpublished manuscripts for no discernible reason. The suspect is strangely persistent.

HT @nycmedialab What do CNET, Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, and Healthline all have in common? They’re all owned by Red Ventures - a digital media company with virtually no name recognition, that, according to the NY Times, is maybe the biggest digital publisher in America: “A 4,500-employee juggernaut that says it has roughly $2 billion in annual revenues, a conservative valuation earlier this year of more than $11 billion, and more readers, as measured by Comscore, than any media brand you’ve ever heard of — an average of 751 million visits a month.”

Talks between Politico and Berlin-based Axel Springer also include the possibility of a full buyout.

HT @TheTiltNews The social Q&A website now has added a plus to its lineup. Quora+ is similar to Medium. Readers pay $5 a month. Most of the earnings go to writers based on member reading time. via @startitup_ h/t @katairobi #contentwriter #contententrepreneur

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Future Imperfect conference from @nycmedialab - to explore the future of media and tech in New York City and beyond.

HT @LZSundayPaper Interactive tool features more than 500 women who are often forgotten in the classical music world

HT @MarkLevineNYC City-run vax sites in NYC began offering 3rd doses of Pfizer/Moderna to immunocompromised NYers. Via walk-in and appointment.