Ben Moe

Podcasts are the largest source of untapped data on the internet. But searching audio is still broken. Today, we're launching a product to fix that. Meet the Particle Podcast Intelligence API. Track mentions or topics, get shareable clips, uncover ad intelligence, and get access to rich metadata. Tell your agent: "Go to docs.particle.pro" 🛠️

I'm really excited to share what we've been working on since last summer: Frame Labs, a learning tool that generates visual, interactive articles on any topic you want to learn about. framelabs.ai Here’s an example below of what the output looks like when you ask it to teach you about Ernest Shackleton's treacherous Endurance expedition to Antarctica. We find Frame Labs great at teaching us about art, science, or history, but we’re excited for you to explore what you want to use it for. Here are some more prompts you can try: - Give me an art historical analysis of Michelangelo’s greatest works. - Teach me about the Siege of Stalingrad. - Describe how stars form. Happy exploring! (PS if the story doesn’t load on the first try, try refreshing the page and inputting the prompt again).

"Teach me how the Pyramids of Giza were built."

I’m thrilled to announce that Frame won a @TheWebbyAwards Award for Website in News & Politics! In 2024, we launched a new interactive article format that incorporated six years of lessons learned from creating multimedia journalism at Frame. The new article format features multimedia slides with text, images, videos, and graphics that form a story landscape, designed to immerse readers in a memory palace of information. Throughout the story, “Detours” allow readers to dive below the story and explore a tangent, providing context and asides that add depth to the topic. Here are two of my favorite pieces we put out last year: 🔹 The Fight to Save Philadelphia’s Chinatown: How developers' plans to build a sports arena left one of the U.S.' great Chinatowns at a crossroads — beta.frame.media/experimental/c… 🔹 Into the Gap: How the most dangerous jungle in the world became a perilous rite of passage for migrant children — beta.frame.media/experimental/c… Huge congrats to our team, Kelly Kimball, Jeremy Siwik, Tom Barnes, and Aloma Antao, and all our journalist contributors. Thanks as well to the people who have advised us along the way including Katherine Maher, Andrew Budkofsky, Biz Stone, and many more. Our hope with these stories is to provide a sense of digital “place” that helps readers feel present, less distracted, and more receptive to learning and exploring a new topic. I’m excited to announce that for the better part of the last year, we have been incorporating this format into the next iteration of Frame, Frame Labs. You can think of Frame Labs as a more visual version of ChatGPT or Claude, where you can ask any question and receive a multimedia, magazine-style article on the topic. We’re first rolling out Frame Labs to students to help them learn and retain information. Then we’ll be releasing Frame Labs to you all as a general multimedia search engine. Comment with a Frame emoji 🖼️ below to get early access to Frame Labs before our launch in the coming weeks!

Introducing The Endangered Mind: a podcast investigating what’s happening to our inner lives in the age of screens, notifications, and endless feeds. On the show, I have conversations with professors, artists, philosophers, and activists who are thinking about how technology is rewiring our minds — how it’s changing our capacity to be reflective, think deeply, and relate to one another. In the first episode, I speak with D. Graham Burnett. Burnett is a professor of history at Princeton and the co-founder of the Strother School of Radical Attention, an experimental school exploring how we can reclaim our attention in the age of constant technological stimulation. We discuss how social media companies have commodified our attention, the impact the attention economy has on human faculties such as reflection, creativity, and curiosity, and how the Strother School is creating a movement around attention activism. Listen to the episode now on Spotify (open.spotify.com/episode/0AHnww…) or Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…), and subscribe for new episodes.

Was great speaking at @WebSummit in Lisbon last week on new forms of digital news and how to redesign social media to sap our souls less, and instead facilitate depth, creativity, and reflection. Here are a few ideas we discussed on the panels: 🤳 Never before in human history have we had so much information, from wildly different contexts, put in front of us so rapidly. Social media creates a state of being where we switch between topics every five seconds or so, without entering deeply into any of them. It short-circuits our ability to really pay attention to something. When we pay attention to something without being rushed to the next topic, curiosity develops, we explore different parts of it, and new ideas form. How can we redesign social media and our phones to allow for that? 🏷 This state of being in our digital lives is affecting our real-life relationships. On our devices and social media, most things become 2-dimensional. We label something in seconds instead of exploring it the way we would a neighborhood in a city we’ve never been before. This digital lack of interest and quick-jerk thinking is starting to manifest in our real-life relationships. I’m noticing we are becoming quicker to label people and less able to hold space and explore different sides of them. We want quick answers, even from our relationships. ⛺ Technology can be used to facilitate human faculties like depth, creativity, exploration, and connection. In our current digital news ecosystem too much of the news we consume is knee-jerk reactions and soundbites. It’s hard to focus on a 1,000-word article. What if we created articles that felt like spaces, with rich visual landscapes filled with text, audio, and video? What if these articles had buttons that allowed you to dive below the story and dive into a rabbit hole, exploring a concept in more detail or learning a random fact about the story you’re reading? That’s what we’re working on at Frame; a software tool that allows any organization or publication to transform text into an article that encourages you to get lost in it, go on an educational adventure, and really pay attention. Here’s an example of what that can look like: bit.ly/3ZdAYSN Lots more to come on @exploreframe and how we can reform our relationship with tech. Stay tuned here! Really wonderful to be in conversation on redesigning social media with @JoshLowenthal, Keegan Lee, @benarroch_joe, @janemartinson, and discussing the future of digital news with @lucyblakiston and @gravache. Thank you @ShaunaKiely_, Antonnette Smith, and the Web Summit team for the invitation! 📷 Photo credit: Willian Prado / Agência HARIO @ClintonShauna31 / Web Summit via Sportsfile

Excited to announce Frame is a nominee for the Shorty Impact Award in News & Media. Please cast your vote for us before the deadline on Thursday!

In our latest Undercovered, reporter @zinyasalfitii explains why Iran’s controversial morality police is back just months after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini — and what the proposal of a new law might mean for Iranian women fighting for their rights: frame.media/undercovered/m…

We're building some really cool new stuff and want to hear from you!!

In our latest Undercovered, reporter @zinyasalfitii explains why Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster, “Barbie,” has been postponed and even banned in some parts of the Middle East — and what it says about the mired relationship between Hollywood and the Arab World: frame.media/undercovered/b…

@JSKstanford @kimbui @azcentral @degarciaknight @pamaples @AlbertoBMendoza Congrats @kimbui!!

Please welcome P. Kim Bui, the senior director of product and audience innovation at The Arizona Republic. Welcome to the fellowship, @kimbui! #jsk24 @azcentral @degarciaknight @pamaples @AlbertoBMendoza

The surprising history behind free school breakfast in the U.S. bit.ly/3Nifxut

We are thrilled to announce @newmediaventure's funding in Frame! NMV’s support will help Frame scale new, visual and immersive journalism formats that deepen readers’ understanding of the news and help illuminate unseen sides of the biggest issues of our time.

We’re excited to announce Frame has received funding from @GoogleNewsInit's News Equity Fund to expand our reporting on undercovered issues and communities.

How PragerU is creating a new generation of radical conservatives. bit.ly/3S3urmQ

Very excited to share Frame's new messaging service, which we designed as a more immersive and interactive way to receive news via SMS.

We’re excited to announce Frame was nominated for a @TheWebbyAwards for General Website in News & Politics, alongside publications like PBS NewsHour and CNN! bit.ly/3ugbJA0

In our latest piece, how Russia's crackdown on Crimean Tatars exposes what might come next in Ukraine.

People marching through central Moscow this evening chanting “No to War!”