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      <title>A follow is not a blank cheque</title>
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      <description>Your follower count records who said yes once. It says nothing about who is still paying attention, and the gap grows silently.</description>
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      <title>The medium is the message, and the feed’s message is interruption</title>
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      <description>In 1969, McLuhan described a world-pool of information that reads like a social feed. Its message to your audience: you’re interrupting.</description>
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      <title>The SLOPP Test: five checks before you publish</title>
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      <description>Five pass/fail checks that catch content that wastes your audience’s time, with examples that pass and fail.</description>
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