Behind The Blog

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Behind the Blog: Cycles of Access and Sensitive Sourcing
Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Cycles of Access and Sensitive Sourcing

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss getting people to talk to us, and collapsing civilizations on the internet.
Behind the Blog: Google's Excuses and Facing Reality
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Behind the Blog: Google's Excuses and Facing Reality

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Google's excuses for its terrible AI product, clicking aimlessly around the internet, and encrypted criminal communications.
Behind the Blog: Puzzle Pieces and Paying for Labor
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Behind the Blog: Puzzle Pieces and Paying for Labor

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss how people find our articles, Nutella as thermal paste, and putting together the puzzle pieces.
Behind the Blog: Screwed-Up Telecoms and Tech Sermons
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Behind the Blog: Screwed-Up Telecoms and Tech Sermons

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss screwed-up telecom systems, tech exec sermons, and TikTok trends.
Behind the Blog: Killing Stories and Copyright Hypocrisy
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Behind the Blog: Killing Stories and Copyright Hypocrisy

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss killing stories, CEO saying wild things, how the OpenAI copyright story came together, and tech-powered shortcuts out of discomfort.
Behind the Blog: Learning to Code and How the Merch Gets Made
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Behind the Blog: Learning to Code and How the Merch Gets Made

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss learning to code, merch, and gaming journalism.
Behind the Blog: Protests and Real-Life Repercussions
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Behind the Blog: Protests and Real-Life Repercussions

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss feeling like a hamster on a treadmill, reporting that leads to real-life change, and reflecting on protest.
Behind the Blog: Overhyped Tech and Valuing Journalism
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Behind the Blog: Overhyped Tech and Valuing Journalism

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss journalism that has value, the business ballgame, and soft AI boosters.
Behind the Blog: Serious Science and Hanging Out With Hackers
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Behind the Blog: Serious Science and Hanging Out With Hackers

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss big science and hanging out with hackers.
Behind the Blog: Posting, and Pissed Off About Art
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Behind the Blog: Posting, and Pissed Off About Art

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss posting through it, art that pisses people off, and convos with the FBI.
Behind the Blog: Amplification and Heavy Breathing
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Behind the Blog: Amplification and Heavy Breathing

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss weirdness in the FOIA world, the idea of "amplification," and breathing heavily.
Behind the Blog: Coffee in Keyboards and Venture Capitalists
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Behind the Blog: Coffee in Keyboards and Venture Capitalists

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss coffee in keyboards, OSINT and cybersecurity tools, and what venture capitalists will be left with once they've bought up all the good websites.