An annual journal of literature made to exist on the web.

Three of the biggest changes in my life all stemmed, in part, from cold outreach.

Every AI problem you chase (hallucinations, wrong answers, poor retrieval) traces back to the IA projects you never funded.

Judge a book by its writing. Read first pages blind. No cover, no name, no hype. Find out what you actually fall for.

How a handwritten blog is actually written.

Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin.

Teaching the world to type at the speed of thought! Typing lessons that work.

You can play piano (unless you can’t play piano).

By mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted.

Texts as products, or texts as means to something very different.

Turn your cherished words into a beautiful, printed word search puzzle.

Well-written informational microcopy should be clear, concise, and have character.

Any LLM can put together plausible docs with some context and a simple prompt.

Components are dead. Use your words.

The irony of this: Make content natural to bypass AI detection and feel truly human.

Making changes that actually work instead of optically sounding impressive.

This project takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.

With certain skills you have to "use it or lose it" seems intuitively and empirically sound.

Originally named after the person it was meant to replace.

Each year, NiemanLab asks some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead.