Guide’s badges in the 21st century: vlogging
Your regular Internet of creepy things update.
Here’s my takeaways from the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 report that launched this morning.
Media Trends 2019: an earthquake in audience engagement, and openness to new business models
Does anyone else find the phrase “innovation hub” faintly depressing? “This - here - is where we do innovation. Nowhere else, mind. Just here.”
Joe Manganiello and D&D in the 80s.
From Joe Manganiello, Super Geek: Owns Dungeon, Dead Guy’s Dice:
Those of us that have been around long enough remember all too well the panicked out-cry against role playing games in the 1980’s, spurred on by religious groups that stigmatized Dungeons and Dragons as a gateway to Satanism and drug abuse, when the truth was that most of us actually managed to stay out of trouble since we were too busy trying to get a game in.
That is basically a chunk of my teenage years in the 80s.
Today, I find myself wondering how my Facebook experience would change if I pared my number of friends down to around Dunbar’s number?
I have finally learned to write algorithm without having to look up the spelling. Yay.
The internet has opened up whole new avenues of psychological and sociological research hasn’t it?
What makes men send dick pics?
(It’s an interesting read.)
I admit this might be a sign that parenthood has rotted my brain - but I believe Babs Seed from My Little Pony is a slice of perfect bubblegum pop.
Don’t @ me.
Still a great and apposite piece: How to get human time back from technology.
This is my regular reminder to myself that actually posting to One Man & His Blog does wonders for my traffic…
One day I will come across an example of “MSM won’t report on this!!!!" which I can’t disprove with 20 seconds of Googling. But today is not that day.
Well, I’ve been enjoying great battery life on my MacBook Pro since it came back from a battery replacement, but now I have to open Chrome, so I better go find the power cable.
Facebook is trying to achieve global scale without paying the local price - and that’s hindering its attempts to combat misinformation.
China is making podcasts pay - big time. And it’s not based on advertising.
Today, I forgot the cardinal rule of marriage: I let my wife know that something annoyed me, and now she’s doing it whenever she can…
Nice morning down by the river.
I have tidied up and modernised every post on my blog tagged Doctor Who in a burst of pointless busy work. :-)
Iris: “Daddy, chair are for sitting in, not putting laptops on.” Busted by a 3 year old.
The culture wars in one tweet.
I’m not sure that, even seven years on, that I’ve really adjusted to being self-employed. I don’t have to put in a full working week if I don’t need to — or want to.
First proper day back at my desk since mid-December. The email is soul-crushing.
Playing with the 4k option on the DJI Osmo Pocket:
Bedrock rock beds.
Moody day in the beach. (Can you spot the Iris?)
