Imagine posting to your favorite social network, the one you want your brand to be associated with, and having it appear for all of your followers in the social networks of their choice. It could be possible if the ActivityPub standard continues to spread the way it has been lately. And that could be an important evolution given the meltdown that Twitter is undergoing. Those are just two of the stories in the April long-form edition of the “For Immediate Release” podcast. Also in this episode…

• The “have a go” era of podcasting could be coming to an end, depending on how you interpret the data
• LinkedIn is going through some changes that not everyone likes
• A coalition of 500-plus ad agencies is taking a stand against fossil fuels
• A song reportedly produced using AI imitated the voices of some A-list artists, and the music industry isn’t happy
• Dan York reports on the demise of Spotify Live, some Twitter news, Wikipedia’s one-minute video, and more

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The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, May 22.

We host a Communicators Zoom Chat each Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials needed to participate, contact Shel or Neville directly, request the credentials in our Facebook group, or email fircomments@gmail.com.

Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog. Shel has started a metaverse-focused Flipboard magazine. Neville’s Asides blog is also available.

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