One Man's Notes

OK. Let’s talk about that bloody egg — and why it does matter.

Yes, it’s come to that.


Now, that’s my kind of article.


Despite the cold, it’s a really lovely day here on the coast.


Even a little snow makes a three year old joyful.


The mighty thaw is well underway on the Sussex Coast.


That’s looking more like snow.


Apple kills Google’s internal apps as well.


If you want to convert me to a viewpoint, you’ll succeed much more often by highlighting the virtues of your position rather than by denigrating everyone else’s views.


Facebook has officially passed beyond parody.


If you come up with a business idea, and multiple ways of expressing that idea - and then fabulous domain name for an element of that - and that dotcom is available - you have to buy it, right?


I like the ceiling in here.


Well, this makes me a happy GoPro user: GoPro Plus now offers unlimited uncompressed video storage

And yes, that includes 4K.


If you squint, you can see the snow. Just.


Apple News has more users than you might expect.


Crikey - my blog had more mobile and tablet viewers than desktop ones for the first time ever. I know I’m on the trailing edge of the switch, but interesting that it’s coming even to journalism-related sites.


There’s far too much truth in this:

How digital media killed itself


I love the neologism “memeocracy” to describe the impact of influencer culture in the attention economy. I love the impact of it significantly less.


Apple’s mobile journalism porn - I love the way Apple keeps making the #mojo case for us.


A calmer moment in a stormy day by the sea:


Shoreham may be blessed with one of the best library views out there.


Just when you think Facebook can’t go lower — it manages it


Well, that’s one way of stopping regulators from breaking up your company, I suppose.

Zuckerberg speeds up assimilation of Instagram and WhatsApp into Facebook


Upscale NYC restaurant bans lone women from sitting at the bar

This is… extraordinary:

“I perched at my favourite seat at the bar and started to respond to all the emails that had arrived on the flight over,” she explains. “A waiter approached – a familiar face, but oddly hesitant on this occasion. He advised – with evident embarrassment – that I was no longer permitted to eat at my usual spot and that I must now sit down at a table.”

Essentially, they’re working on the assumption that single women sitting at the bar are hookers — or, at least, are treating their lone female customers as less important that making prostitution less obvious.

Sexist obliviousness is still sexism.


Daddy/daughter baking day.


The latest issue of @anxymag is here - all about masculinity. Time for a coffee and a read.