Notable links: October 16, 2026

Most Fridays, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.Did someone forward this to you? Subscribe for free.I've been blogging since 1998. A while back, I was very privileged to be interviewed about my journey writing on the web for 28 years as part of the Wonders of Web Weaving series. I think it's a great audio conversation; here it is in its entirety.Two 23-year-olds used AI to create a daily audio briefing. It’s now the top news app in Argentina.I think there are several notable things about this story.The first, most obvious one is that two 23 year olds were able to create a news app that rose to become the top-ranked news app in their country, using AI. There is no way they would have been able to build this with the time, team, and resources at their disposal otherwise. From an engagement perspective, this is a bona-fide AI-in-journalism-distribution success story.The second is that it’s not a success story for…