Psychologists have looked into why “phubbing” is so harmful to our social lives - no big surprises, but it confirms what you might guess. It’s the psychological equivalent of refusing to sit at a lunch table with a child.
Why the heck has Star Wars ended up with such a toxic fandom?
This piece on making retail businesses into experience centres is actually quite depressing. I was writing about this nearly 20 years ago for Estates Gazette, and people are still struggling with it.
Oh, GoPro, you make great cameras, but your marketing is so dumb
The sheer hell of living here on a day like today… 😇
These boats need some TLC, though.
Down by the coast is the best place to be in this heat.
This looks like a good hire - hopefully Apple’s streaming video offering won’t be US-centric by a year or two in: Apple hires BBC Films veteran for its international development team
My inbox is down to 10% of where I started - at 50 e-mails. Coffee time, and then I start catching up on invoices and diary management.
Ugh. I have unanswered email going back six weeks. I really did lose control of my diary.
Now, can I still post?
OK - about to nuke the newer of the two accounts. Hopefully I’ll still be able to post afterwards…
One micro-blog account, twice. A seemingly irresolvable issue.
I’m a bit at a loss as to what to do with my account here. Due to some weirdness, I’m paying for it twice, once as a blog only account, once as a blog+podcast account.
It’s more than just the cash, though, it’s also the fact that I essentially have two accounts under the same name, each building up their own (separate but overlapping) sets of content.
My tickets to support are going unanswered.
I enjoy micro.blog, but not so much that I’m happy to pay twice for one service, which is what’s happening now. And meanwhile, every time I post, I don’t know which content bucket it’s going to end up in. So the pain of untangling the situation gets worse - and that makes me really reluctant to post.
I suspect my only solution now is to backup both accounts, nuke one of them, and try to figure out which one went, and import that one’s back up.
Wish me luck.
If you ever hear from me again.
Nearly done writing several thousand words for an actual book. How delightlyful old-school, in-depth and focused.
Overheard in my local coffee shop: “Oh, dear, we’re out of avocadoes.”
OMG THE MILLENIALS ARE HERE.
How this for slow blogging? I just published a post I wrote in 2008. Going online: be brave
Facebook to small publishers: no Instant Articles for you.
21st century communication: not only am I desperately behind on my correspondence, half the time I an’t remember where it is. Is it Twitter DMs or Messenger or Slack or email or…?
That felt good. I did something that I thought other people might find interesting - and blogged about it straight well. As I used to teach: “Connect the ‘that’s interesting' observation with posting as soon as you can”. I should listen to myself more.
A reminder that Amazon often isn’t nearly as cheap as other options. (And a gentle plug for what looks like a great book.)
Thought for the day: if you rely on Facebook to communicate with your friends, you are literally outsourcing relationship management to an uncaring algorithm. That, my friends, is not friendship.
iOS’s in-built screen recorder is an absolute Godsend for supporting family members.
A long and unusually personal blogpost, which explains why I’ve been absent here, amongst other things.
Why do I find it easier to network to find my former students work, than to get myself more gigs? 🤔
Gah. The result of being with my children for pretty much all of the last 10 days is that I don’t have my Earpods on me, and I am now annoyed.