Behind The Blog
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![Behind the Blog: Getting Political](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/02/nl2.6-1.png)
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Getting Political
This week: getting "political" and what it means to be technology journalists in this day and age.
![Behind the Blog: Boom, Bust, and Big Ideas](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/nl1.31--2--1.png)
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Behind the Blog: Boom, Bust, and Big Ideas
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss AI's boom or bust, trying Github's Copilot, and making time for good ideas.
![Behind the Blog: Zuckerberg's Kook-ness and Trump Week One](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/nl1.24-1.png)
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Behind the Blog: Zuckerberg's Kook-ness and Trump Week One
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Nazis celebrating Elon Musk’s salute, Zuckerberg as a kook, dictating your own threat model and a good block/mute ethos.
![Behind the Blog: The TikTok Ban and Joyless AI](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/nl-1.17.png)
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Behind the Blog: The TikTok Ban and Joyless AI
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss joylessness in the AI industry and the TikTok ban.
![Behind the Blog: What Is Real?](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/nl-110.png)
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Behind the Blog: What Is Real?
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss weird fake furniture and shared reality (or the lack thereof).
![Behind the Blog: Magic Links and Building Shelves](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/btb-jan-3.png)
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Behind the Blog: Magic Links and Building Shelves
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we talk more about magic links and building shelves offline. A light Behind the Blog today but we're back from the holiday on Monday.
![Behind the Blog: Posting Through It](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/12/nl12.30.png)
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Behind the Blog: Posting Through It
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss our top games of the year, air traffic control, and posting through it.
![Behind the Blog: Nostalgia and Newsworthiness](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/12/nl12.13-1.png)
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Behind the Blog: Nostalgia and Newsworthiness
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss archiving nostalgia, newsworthiness, and plans for 2025.
![Behind the Blog: Healthcare and its Stakeholders](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/12/nl12.6.png)
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Behind the Blog: Healthcare and its Stakeholders
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we talk about health insurance.
![Behind the Blog: How About Them Eggs](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/11/nl11.29.png)
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Behind the Blog: How About Them Eggs
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we talk about traffic, a return to Azeroth, egg prices and bullying.
![Behind the Blog: 'I Reject It!'](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/11/nl-11.22.png)
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Behind the Blog: 'I Reject It!'
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we talk about conjuring gaming memories, AI-generated Birkin bags, and a rejection of a certain type of criticism.
![Behind the Blog: Political Perspectives and Platforms](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/11/nl1115.png)
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Political Perspectives and Platforms
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we talk about data storage, political perspectives and platforms.