Reading about the floods in Kerala and the clean up afterwards has been sobering. A year ago I visited the region to work with Malayala Manorama the leading newspaper in the region.
Fabulous reminiscences of the Public House Bookshop in Brighton which starts with an attack by the book burners.
Some interesting thoughts about the lack of distinctive richness in our online social profiles: Social networks & the online reality of identity
snigger ‘I Let Everyone Down’: A Blogger Apologizes For Not Posting In A While
Wishing I’d brought a cot to the school “gate”.
“Spray and Pray” is not a viable social media strategy for newsrooms. It’s worrying how often it is the default, though.
Interesting piece on what’s shaping up to be GamerGate’s sibling,a dn another example of the extreme right’s cultural playbook: Figuring Out ComicsGate – The Whos, The Whens, And The WTFs
Starting on this as soon as the girls get home: I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter
Provide something valuable, and people will pay: More than 11,000 people are paying (yes, paying) for email newsletters on Substack’s platform
Nice to see them cracking on with the flood defence work.
One of the faintly depressing things about doing a newsletter is that within moments of pressing “send” you often lose subscribers, as your lists cleans an e-mails address that bounced.
That last post nearly had “kinky goodness” instead of “linky goodness” and now I want to launch a second newsletter TBH.
Prepping the latest issue of my sporadic interesting reading newsletter Commonplace Reading. Sign up for linky goodness in your inbox.
A page that makes me say “thank God for ebook pricing”: The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (Hardback) - Routledge
I was podding about on Twitter last night and was about to do a comment retweet on something when I realised that doing so wouldn’t really benefit anyone, would increase polarisation, and wasn’t something I really wanted to be doing. Deleted it. Be the change you want to see.
Nothing makes a self-employed person’s morning happier than the words “remittance advice” in his e-mail first thing in the morning.
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
I found Zuckerberg straining, not always coherently, to grasp problems for which he was plainly unprepared. These are not technical puzzles to be cracked in the middle of the night but some of the subtlest aspects of human affairs, including the meaning of truth, the limits of free speech, and the origins of violence.
I suspect his absolute control of the company is part of the problem.
The internet is basically a stroppy teenager, getting in trouble with the authorities, and making us all wish it would just hurry up and grow up: Deleting the internet’s innocence
I love blogging. I really do. But it does feel like getting traffic to OM&HB is harder then ever. I can’t recall a time in past 15 years that attracting readers was so very hard.
Part of that is my own fault - I’ve been very inconsistent as a blogger in recent years. And I’d hate to abandon it after all these years of labour.
But my goodness, does it feel like harder work getting the audience than it is getting the content written. And I’m sure that shouldn’t be the case.
Just for my microblog chums, this is the piece I was referring to: Don’t be an influencer, by a grumpy old blogger.
Just spent a couple of hours writing a blog post, which pretty much guarantees nobody will ever read it.
Why is traffic so often inversely proportional to effort?
Gah. Just spend a while constructing a post around a new feature of the CMS I use for One Man & His Blog - and realised that I have to wait for my theme provider to update their theme to support it.
A little thinking on the serious violence and murders in India that follow WhatsApp-spread misinformation. Is our knee-jerk reaction of blaming the technology the most useful approach?
This is a fascinating read: UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440