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TEH 239: January Surprises: TikTok Ban, Media Shifts, and Independent Journalism Trends

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In This Episode: January Surprises: TikTok Ban, Media Shifts, and Independent Journalism Trends

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

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  • 1:00 LN: Impending TikTok ban
    • Last minute: Senator Markey to Introduce Bill to Extend Deadline for TikTok Ban, Takes to Senate Floor in Support of Vibrant Online Communities – unclear how/when/whatnext 
    • 3:20 Affecting real people’s careers
      • Lots of goodbyes of late
      • Instagram & YouTube
      • 4:50 Lemon8? Not so fast.
      • 5:12 RedNote? Another Chinese-owned company.
        • https://www.xiaohongshu.com
        • https://www.reuters.com/technology/over-half-million-tiktok-refugees-flock-chinas-rednote-2025-01-14/
        • 6:54 VPN seems to work, but
        • 8:30 Rumor: sale to Musk? (TikTok says fiction)
        • 9:50 Shark tank 
        • 13:00 What data is being collected?
        • 16:00 Influencing and propoganda
        • 21:00 What is TikTok going to be like?
        • 25: Why no competition?
        • 30:00 GR: More on the great online media migration
          • People leaving FB, Instagram, Threads
            • To: Bluesky, Pixelfed?, more?
            • 31:35 Leaving WaPo, others
              • To: The Atlantic, The Contrarian, SubStack
              • Kara Swisher
              • 45:00 Are we going back to an age of lots of outlets with lots of diversification?
              • 50:00 AI

                • https://www.theindex.media/

                Ain’t it Cool
                • 50:00 LN: Part way through American Primeval. Western, during time of migration into Utah. Violent, but fascinating story. (Netflix)
                • 52:00 GR: Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
                  • BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
                  • 53:00 LN: Yet Another Way to Install Windows 11 Without a TPM – https://askleo.com/177093
                  • 54:20 GR: How To Use the Redesigned iOS 18 Photos App https://macmost.com/how-to-use-the-redesigned-ios-18-photos-app.html
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