Be in The Know
🎧 Apple has gone from the top spot in podcast listening to #3.
🗣️TikTok now lets you to create your own AI voice for text-to-speech in videos.
🧩 Puzzle fans lined up around the block for New York Times Games’ first live event.
🥣 General Mills teams up with the Kelce brothers for Cereal Training Camp.
🛋️ ISO Billy: Ikea takes on Craigslist with classifieds site for its used furniture.
👻 Ghost posts! Disappearing updates are now available to selected Threads users.
🤫 Olipop made a hoodie big enough to sneak cans into the movie theater.
How to save your online writing from disappearing forever
Maybe the Internet is forever, but publishers migrate systems or un-publish content or flat-out fold all the time, resulting in dead links throughout your portfolio of online writing.
To protect your work, you can save PDFs, republish work on your personal website, use paid bookmarking services like Pocket Premium to save copies of webpages, or rely on archiving tools designed for creatives to exhibit your work.
The Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine has been archiving webpages since 1996. You can request a page be saved using a browser extension, though archived pages can be removed by site owners.
Cost: It’s free to use, with optional donations.
Authory
Authory automatically backs up your content from specified sites, preserving both links and text. It also serves as a portfolio where you can showcase your work, even if the original source disappears.
Cost: A free plan allows for 10 items, with no auto-import. The Standard plan ($15/month or $144/year) includes unlimited items and automated import, and the Professional plan ($24/month or $216/year) adds features like custom domain support.
Journo Portfolio
Journo Portfolio builds personalized portfolio sites for creatives. It offers themes, customizable content blocks, and e-commerce features. Higher plans include automatic article backups and archiving.
Cost: A free plan includes one page with 10 portfolio items. The Plus plan ($8/month or $60/year) offers a 5-page site with 50 items. The Pro plan ($12/month or $96/year) supports 1,000 items, backups, and two collaborators. An Unlimited plan ($18/month or $168/year) provides unlimited pages, items, and collaborators.
Conifer
Conifer, managed by Rhizome, saves pages as interactive sessions with working links and organizes them into collections. It’s less user-friendly and lacks automation but offers extensive free storage.
Cost: A free Plan offers 5GB of storage. For $20/month, you get 40GB, with additional storage available. Annual plans are available for $200/year with extra storage for $50/year.
If you’re a digital writer, it’s time to safeguard and showcase your work so it’s accessible no matter what happens to the original platform.
Q for You
QRCode.ing
Can a QR code be cute? Yeah!
This tool lets you customize your QR codes to turn heads with branded images, fun GIFs, or AI-generated designs—your pick.
Putting in the extra effort can boost scan rates by 30% on average, so more people pick up what you’re putting down.
Classifieds
Place a Classified Ad in a Friday edition of The Daily Carnage for just $99.
What you get:
- 200 characters 📣
- An internal link 🔗
- Your ad lives on our site indefinitely 💛
Let’s get it on the calendar.
Watch
BeetleMax
Used car dealership CarMax has partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures in support of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, in theaters September 6.
The spooky 90-second spot brings us back into the beloved cinematic universe, thanks to a dream team behind the camera, including Academy Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood.
A family of three drives down a country road in a beater. They come upon a BeetleMax dealership, where they’re greeted by Shrinker, a shrunken-head ghoul who tricks them into the forbidden chant. Well, you know the rest.
“With his mischievous and unpredictable antics, Beetlejuice is the perfect character to show you how car buying shouldn’t be, and why CarMax is the way to go,” says CarMax SVP and CMO, Sarah Lane.
