The new raincoat passes muster.
Friday’s End
Stunning weather up on the South Downs today.
Selfies Have Led to 259+ Deaths Since 2011
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I’ve run out of Aeropress filters 😱
What a stunning morning,
Hello, micro.blog. Show me nice things to remind me why I like social media…
The two basics of digital #journalism that too many people forget: Attention and Atomisation
Much as I love Wikipedia, its process for assessing the notability of people is seriously flawed, and far too depended on coverage in the mainstream press.
Wikipedia rejected an entry on today’s Nobel Prize winner in May because she wasn’t famous enoug
Oh, hello.
The best single feature in Safari is its ability to search all the open tabs on any device tied to your iCloud account. I use that every single day.
“Hey, Siri. Play something I’ll like.” “OK. Let’s press play. Here’s the Corrs.”
Oh, we’re going straight to the dark place are we, Siri?
What I loved about this #next18 talk by @ecomoliterno — apart from the energy of the delivery — was the focus on digital solving local problems with customised fixes. It felt like an evolution of talks from 8 or 9 years ago, before we all got obsessed with the “unicorns".
My family is actively trying to reduce our use of Amazon. This talk from @t3killer at #NEXT18 was an inspiring look at a possible future for local digitally-driven retailing.
Andrew Keen’s five point plan for fixing digital, from #next18.
New academic research suggests that automated accounts used the film to stoke cultural conflict: Star Wars: Russian Bots May Have Derailed The Last Jedi Blimey.
My September in 32 seconds…
Here’s what my September looked like, in one second of footage from every day…
September in one second every day. #1seme
Just had a PR email suggesting that I write a sponsored post about how I slept while I was pregnant. 🤔🙄
Current status:
I’m reminded today that what I read has a huge impact on my stress levels. Stuff about social media, and publishing and new tech: surprisingly stressful. So, today I have been reading about nature and woodlands. Ahhh. Better. We are what we read.
Stunning day.
Why do I aim to be at the station soon after 7am, when I don’t start lecturing until 11am? This is why:
Interesting interview with Instagram co-founder Systrom in 2012:
Can Instagram live on if its founders leave? The best advice Systrom read was that you should build an organisation that can outlive its founders, as Steve Jobs tried to do with Apple.
Instagram’s founders are leaving, possibly because of increasing interference from Zuckerberg. Insta’s semi-autonomy from the rest of the Big Blue Beast was always an anomaly. That’s now being corrected…