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Media Briefing: ‘Cloudflare is locking the door’: Publishers celebrate victory against AI bot crawlers
This week’s Media Briefing looks into Cloudflare’s new tool that lets publishers block all AI crawlers – at the click of a button – and why publishers are celebrating. An end to publishers’ AI crawler Whack-a-Mole Google ends tests of a feature that previewed recipes, Forbes CEO shares AI strategy, and more. Cloudflare’s red-button blocker…
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Here are the biggest misconceptions about AI content scraping
AI bots scraping publishers’ sites for real-time information are now scraping publishers’ sites more than the bots used to train large language models. And they’re harder to detect. That’s according to the latest report from TollBit, a data marketplace for publishers and AI companies. From Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, bot scrapes used for Retrieval…
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I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She…
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I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She…
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I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She…
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I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She…
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I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She…
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I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She…
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I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She…
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I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
In today’s culture, responsiveness is a proxy for care. But being in constant rotation, always logging into another version of myself? I’m tired A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this. She…