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By Emma Fitzpatrick
 Ah, remember the good ol' days when social feeds were chronological. Then, all you needed to do to create a stellar post was submit it at the right time. Since then, the algorithms shaping news feeds have gotten much more complex. But when you post still has a huge impact on how your content performs. When you research the best times to post on social, you can make smarter decisions. Note: All data is compiled and cross-checked using multiple recent sources.
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Venture Beat
While anyone who has spent time on Twitter knows it's full of automated accounts, a report from the Pew Research Center sheds new light on the degree to which bots dominate the conversation on the social media platform.
According to the Pew study, a whopping 66 percent of tweeted links to the web's most popular sites are shared by bots. Pew researchers compiled a list of the 2,315 most popular sites and then analyzed 1.2 million tweets that included links to those sites over a six-week period.
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U.S. News & World Report
The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal has opened up a Pandora's box on privacy and has people engaging in passionate conversations about the worldwide impact social media platforms have on the quality of our lives, our thoughts, and ultimately our decisions. It casts a new light on tools such as Facebook and Twitter and revitalized the discussion of how addicted we are to instruments that seem to manipulate us into oversharing information in a poorly protected space.
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Recode
When the Financial Times began putting its online content behind a paywall, John Ridding recalls that reactions in the tech world ranged from skeptical to "pretty hostile." After all, the conventional wisdom of the time went, "the internet wants to be free."
"Which I always thought was kind of weird and a little ridiculous because, clearly, the internet doesn't want anything," Ridding said on the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
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Plagiarism Today
Earlier this month, Ashley Cullins at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire published a piece entitled "Has This Man Sued You? A 'Copyright Troll' Takes on Hollywood."
The story focuses on New York attorney Richard Liebowitz, who has found a niche in helping photographers sue those who use their images without a license. Liebowitz, a photographer himself, has filed hundreds of lawsuits on behalf of more than 350 photographers.
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Adweek
As innovation in mobile changes how society operates, women are using their phones to assist them in practically every aspect of their lives, from consuming news to budgeting to waking up in the morning. Almost half of women ages 18 to 34 check their phones as soon as they wake up, and another 36 percent check them within five minutes. Screens have become so ingrained that over 60 percent of women own two or more mobile devices and use them on a daily basis.
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The Week
It sounds like the start of a bad joke: How can you tell the difference between what a human wrote and what a robot wrote?
The punchline isn't particularly funny: You might not be able to.
Robo-writing systems are rapidly edging their way into journalism. As of September 2017, The Washington Post had relied on its artificial intelligence to generate an astounding 850 pieces of content over the previous year.
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Media Shift
Matt Carlson, an associate professor of communication at Saint Louis University, was set to announce a collaborative research project that would "connect a lot of dots surrounding news metrics and digital distribution platforms." He wanted to examine journalism's embrace of real-time audience data by shining a spotlight on "all the different actors involved, from reporters and editors and news management to engineers and salespersons at data analytic firms to the audience on the other end."
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Search Engine Journal
As we all write about the best tactics to get our content discovered or the best practices for SEO and branding, there’s one valuable component that’s left out of the conversation.
I’d argue that authentic content marketing, above all, is the most effective way to market to millennials, younger audiences, and prospective customers not immediately interested in your products or services.
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CNBC
Franklin Robotics developed an autonomous robot named Tertill that weeds your garden.
Tertill is an autonomous, weatherproof and solar-powered robot. It was created by Franklin's chief technology officer Joe Jones, who also invented the Roomba. Tertill roams your garden looking for plants that are less than an inch tall. It trims the weeds using a spinning string simmer, similar to a weed whacker.
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Fosters.com
The appearance of seed catalogues in the mail heralds in a new growing season. Spring has finally arrived! In addition to all the flower seeds, there are an array of mouth-watering photos of colorful fruits and vegetables. Growing your own fruit and vegetables means they are at their peak of freshness and nutritional value when you eat them. You do not have to be a seasoned gardener with a lot of real estate devoted to growing fruits, vegetables or herbs.
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Greenhouse Grower
Vertical farming is receiving nearly as much attention in the news lately as the conundrum on how to feed a mushrooming world population in the 21st century. And rightly so, as this practice of growing produce in vertically stacked layers, usually through hydroponic or aeroponic growing methods, may be one solution to the problem — or not. As vertical farming continues to develop, it's worth looking beyond the hype to see what growth in this sector of the horticulture market means for you.
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