Ben Guttmann

This year’s college students on social, mobile, and more

Last night in class, I turned the room around for one of my favorite parts of the semester, our focus group class. Every year, instead of standing up front droning on, I spend a session asking my students about their digital lives – and every year, I learn something new.

March 25, 2025

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Websites aren’t technical projects anymore

A generation ago, it took a lot of technical know-how to build a website. So, the people that built and managed them were technical people. And, despite a parade of advances in the years between, things just kind of stayed that way.

February 18, 2025

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Some recent AI questions

In a few weeks, I’ll be heading down to Austin to speak at SXSW about communicating in the age of AI. As I’m preparing my notes for this conversation, I’ve recently come across a few questions that have been nagging at me. Figure I’d share them.

January 27, 2025

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TikTok was never social media

Well, they did it. After years of will-they-won’t-they, TikTok went dark in the US on Sunday. I’m kind of amazed it actually happened. But then it unhappened. But either way, there’s one thought about TikTok that I could never shake: it wasn’t really social media.

January 21, 2025

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Some predictions for 2025

With 2025 dawning tomorrow, here is my final entry into list season: An unscientific set of predictions, along with my confidence level in each.

December 31, 2024

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