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I write about tech and media from my kayak somewhere in Canada. Also @mathewi on Mastodon, BlueSky and Threads

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Mathew Ingram’s Biography

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Mathew is a senior writer with GigaOM, where he covers media in all its forms -- social and otherwise -- as well as web culture and related issues. He is an award-winning journalist who has spent the past 15 years writing about business, technology and new media as a reporter, columnist and blogger. Prior to joining GigaOM, he was a blogger and technology writer for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, and was also the paper's first online Communities Editor. Mathew is also one of the found…

Mathew Ingram’s Journalist Portfolio

Newspapers need to stop lying to themselves -- and to advertisers -- about their circulation

Newspapers need to stop lying to themselves -- and to advertisers -- about their circulation

There has been much hue and cry about the New York Times passing USA Today in circulation to become the secon…

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Three things that Reddit did right during the Boston bombings and why that matters

Three things that Reddit did right during the Boston bombings and why that matters

Although mainstream media outlets like CNN and the New York Post have come under plenty of fire for the way t…

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Takeaways from paidContent Live: Paywalls, sponsored content and massive disruption

Takeaways from paidContent Live: Paywalls, sponsored content and massive disruption

The world of media is being disrupted at an even faster rate than ever, it seems - both the content side and …

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Twitter shows how the news is made, and it's not pretty -- but it's better that we see it

Twitter shows how the news is made, and it's not pretty -- but it's better that we see it

Not long after the Boston Marathon bombings occurred on Monday afternoon, several Twitter users noted that th…

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Two charts that tell you everything you need to know about the future of newspapers

Two charts that tell you everything you need to know about the future of newspapers

There are a number of different aspects to the debate over the future of newspapers: the social impact of onl…

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One downside of paywalls: Where does your growth come from?

One downside of paywalls: Where does your growth come from?

Anyone who has been following the debate around newspaper paywalls probably knows I am not a big fan of them …

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Anthropic discovers that Claude has a secret spot for thinking

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By Mathew Ingram Verified
| mathewingram.com
As longtime Torment Nexus readers probably know, I have a minor obsession with the topic of artificial intelligence engines and consciousness — in part because such discussions inevitably reveal how little we know about human consciousness, let alone the machine kind. What is consciousness? Where does it reside? How does it emerge? How do we know that Atlantic writer Ted Chiang is conscious, let alone anyone else? And so on.
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Is there a new quantum processor or is Microsoft lying?

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By Mathew Ingram Verified
| mathewingram.com
I’ve been writing a lot about artificial intelligence lately, and I wanted to break that cycle by writing about something that’s been bugging me for a little while now: namely, the controversy over Microsoft’s claim that it has developed a new and improved version of a quantum microprocessor based on the theoretical “Majorana” particle. What is said particle, you ask?
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Om Malik 1966-2026

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By Mathew Ingram Verified
| mathewingram.com
I first met Om Malik in 2006, when we invited him to be a panelist at the web conference that some friends and I had just started in Toronto called Mesh (despite having literally no clue what we were doing). The idea was to bring smart folks together to talk about the wonderful future that blogs and live chat software and other magical Web 2.0 creations were surely going to bring about (LOL).
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