Matt ‘TK’ Taylor

Jun 8, 2021

Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection is lazy and hurts small publishers

At WWDC yesterday Apple announced Mail Privacy Protection, an initiative seeking to bring blocking of Superhuman style tracking pixels to Apple’s Mail app. In the video demo Katie Skinner, Manager of User Privacy Software, introduced marketing emails as using invisible pixels to collect your activity, such as your IP address…

WWDC

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Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection is lazy and hurts small publishers

Feb 14, 2021

How to build your own Twilio-powered voicemail inbox for readers

The New York Times recently produced an awesome article series called Primal Scream, where a published phone number allowed readers to call in and talk about their experience raising children during the pandemic. Listening to your readers, however you can, is crucially important in evolving your delivery of digital journalism…

Programming

5 min read

How to build your own Twilio-powered voicemail inbox for readers

Published in Digital Times

·Aug 3, 2020

What we learned from rebuilding our editions CMS for The Times

In the last post I took you through a short summary of what it took to get Edition Builder live at The Times and Sunday Times. If you haven’t read it, you should, it’s pretty good background. (In the last post I also mentioned I’d be writing this in a…

Digital Product

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What we learned from rebuilding our editions CMS for The Times

Published in Digital Times

·Jan 23, 2020

Building Editions at The Times

Internal tools never get enough attention. Building them can be a thankless, unseen task that’s rarely prioritised, as it is not immediately obvious how to tie investment in them back to the bottom line. …

Journalism

6 min read

Oct 23, 2017

Matt’s Monday digital digest — Issue #76

Imported from Revue, sign up here. Hey hey, good morning, I know it says Issue #1 up there. I will fix that. You are not in a time warp. Do not panic. You might have also noticed some other things have changed. …

Social Media

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Matt’s Monday digital digest — Issue #76

Sep 18, 2017

Digital Digest 72

So I am sure that by now everyone has heard and has a plan for what of the latest wave of i-brand gadgetry (sorry Apple Watch) they will be lusting after this Autumn. There are two big things to pick out of the announcements: Apple’s pricing strategy on the iPhone…

Apple

4 min read

Published in Digital Times

·Jun 3, 2016

Digital digest: Dorsey and Bezos open up at Code Conf

The three comma club at #Code A lot of the links in this week’s email are going to be to Recode.net. The tech blog’s essential ‘Code conference’ was this week, and far from the nerdy geekfest you might consider it to be given the title, #Code (as it will henceforth be known) is known for seeing…

Newsletter

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Digital digest: Dorsey and Bezos open up at Code Conf

Published in Digital Times

·May 27, 2016

Your weekly digital media digest

Hi everyone, This is your weekly digest of digital media news from the Times Digital team, including more information on some of the things we talk about in conference, and some of the things we missed out. Follow me on Twitter @MattieTK. Gawker’s nemesis It’s been a big week for Nick Denton…

Newsletter

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Published in Digital Times

·May 13, 2016

Your weekly digital media digest

Facebook’s human censorship Gizmodo have been leading the charge against Facebook as a news provider this week, just shortly after the internet giant announced swathes of new features to entice publishers onto their platform. …

Newsletter

4 min read

Published in Digital Times

·Apr 29, 2016

Your weekly digital media digest

Hi everyone, This is your weekly digest of digital media news from the Times Digital team. Please forward this email to anyone that might be interested. Follow me on Twitter @MattieTK. Let me know what you think by replying. I’m off next week so this is a long summary with…

Newsletter

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