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  New this week: Instagram’s ranking algorithms, social media versus news media, paid Newsletters on WordPress.com, plus updates for YouTubers, web publishers and more. And of course AI updates. Subscribe to get the Creator Weekly by email. Creator Weekly Live Join me on Sunday for a live recap of this week’s top updates! It’s live at 10:30AM Pacific time (5:30 UTC).  Set a reminder or join on YouTube here . Watch last week’s episode . What do you think of this week’s updates? Join the live chat. Chat about Blogging  I’m hosting this week’s #OnEBoardChat on Twitter on Sunday immediately after Creator Weekly Live (11AM Pacific time).   The topic is blogging and these will be the discussion questions: Q1: What are important features for blogging or for following blogs? Q2: Where and how do you read blogs? Q3: What kinds of topics are good for blogging? The discussion is open to everyone whether you are a blogger, a blog reader, or are just interested in the topic.  Visit my Twitter pro

Google Chat’s Spaces used to have two options when they were created: allow individual topics for threaded conversations within the Space, or just one long conversation. Spaces with threaded topics will be converted into unthreaded Spaces later this year, and Google shared  more details about this change . There have been several significant improvements for Spaces. In 2022 Google introduced in-line replies, so that you can have a side conversation without adding to the main group discussion.  And a few weeks ago , Google added the option to quote a previous Chat post, making it easier to call back to an earlier discussion when the conversation has moved on.  The current timeline for Spaces:  March 2023: It is no longer possible to create a new Space with threaded topics July 5, 2023: Migration of Currents Communities to Chat Spaces is complete and Currents shuts down. Early Q4 2023:   All Spaces use in-line threading, and Sp

Monday is Memorial Day in the US, honoring those who died while serving in the US military. A bit incongruously, it’s also the unofficial start of summer, with backyard BBQs, and, of course, so many sales. If you’re in the US, I hope you can have a short remembrance of those who died, before your celebration of summer with friends and family. This week YouTube announced that Stories will be going away in June (having never left beta), there are more AI-based image editing tools, Google demoed ads in the new AI search results (so many ads!), WordPress turned 20 and more. Subscribe to get the Creator Weekly by email. Creator Weekly Live Join me on Sunday for a live recap of this week’s top updates! It’s live at 10:30AM Pacific time (5:30 UTC). Set a reminder or join on YouTube here . Watch last week’s episode . What do you think of this week’s updates? Join the live chat. Asian and Pacific Islander Month May is Asian and Pacific Islander Month, and platforms are highlighting their

This week there are a bunch of updates for YouTubers, Instagrammers, web publishers, writers and more. Of particular note are Google’s new policy on inactive accounts (they may delete them), AdSense Consent Management Platform requirements, new tools to set up Shopping on your YouTube videos and more. Last week , Google announced “ Duet AI ”, with generative AI integrated with Google Workspace products. I just got access to the “help me write” AI in Gmail and Docs. I may write it up with more details next week, but my first impression is that it’s an interesting tool, but not ready for real work (yet). You can sign up to try it here . Subscribe to get the Creator Weekly by email. Creator Weekly Live Join me on Sunday for a live recap of this wee’s top updates! It’s live at 10:30AM Pacific time (5:30 UTC). Set a reminder or join on YouTube here . Watch last week’s episode . I’d love to see you in the live chat! Google will start deleting inactive