One Man's Notes

It’s really hard to find a theme for most of the big blogging platforms that supports the old-style “all of the last few posts on the homepage” approach to blogging.

They all seem to assume that every post will have a title, a lead image, and that people will click through to read everything.

I’m glad micro.blog still supports that approach.


I’m having one of those days where good news in the journalism/tech/publishing space is remarkably hard to find.


OK, the experiment is done. Let’s just shut down the internet now:

The “Young Indian Method” is a term that has been circulating among TikTok and YouTube hustler bros for the last year or so, and there are now various content influencers who use the term as an explanation for how they are able to make tons of money off of the back of low-wage workers in developing countries.

Source: 404 Media


Is Elon Musk getting bored of X/Twitter?

With a bold prediction that Xitter will change hands by year end…


The tale of the credulous publishers and the AI Pied Piper: a cautionary fairy tale for grown-ups everywhere.


The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.

The Burnside, Dollar in 1989, looking North to the OchilsThe Burnside, Dollar, looking south in 1989.


Can young audiences be recaptured by broadcast from social video?

Betteridge’s Law applies…


AI is going down great at SXSW:

“The incredibly pro-AI sizzle reel today at SXSW being loudly booed and told to fuck off by roughly a thousand people in the Paramount was heartwarming,” RogerEbert.com editor Brian Tallerico tweeted. “Read the room, people.”


A quick round-up of #podcasting news, initially gathered for our MA Podcasting students, but now shared to everyone.


Saw an article that looked interesting. Saw that the first subhead was “Synergy”. Bailed on that article.


Huh. Just discovered that I still had AMP turned on for Coffee & Complexity. Another Google project that went nowhere.

It’s off now.


It must be an utterly thankless life being an Apple rumour-monger, even a Bloomberg-employed one.


Time Travel, via scanner.


I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.

An unwritten caption in Outdoor Swimmer Magazine.

Early morning mist over the Adur.

Mist sitting in the Adur valley, seen from Lancing College.

The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983.

Even these ruins are gone now, apparently, replaced by a modern new house. My friends and I used to play in and around the ruin as pre-teens.

The ruin of Hillfoot House, in Dollar, Clackmanannshire, circa early 1983.

Mum, March 1983.

Ann Tinworth, out for dinner on 11th March 1983.

Yikes. I need to do better than that.

A graph from Apple Health showing my average sleep at 5 hours 50 minutes.

Well, who doesn’t?

Graffiti in a railway siding reading “I ❤️ eggs”.

Today I have been moving over 30Gb of videos around my network, archiving footage from livestreams and other events.

Every single file I’m moving is many, many times the size of the hard drives of my first few Macs.


Ah, who can fail to love one of these?

An a-frame backboard with “secondhand bookshop” written in chalk.

Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.

A whiteboard with the following written on it: “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and responsibly to pick youself up&10;- May Holloway”

Started reading: Local by Alastair Humphreys 📚


A sign of spring.

A bud forming at Nymans in Sussex.

Living at the coast takes a special kind of stoicism and hardiness. And a readiness to make hay while the sun shines. If you are born to it then it’s just a part of life. But if you are new to it, or plan to make a life of it, it’s good to remember that it’s not all plain sailing. And you might need some waterproof trousers.

— Martin Dorey in Coast magazine