I’m beginning to get the hang of keeping my Mastodon instance updated. Not as easy as, say, Ghost. But not as bad as I feared.
An awful lot of people on the internet seem to be under the illusion that being nasty to people online makes them a better person. Being nasty does more harm to you than the person you’re targeting, online or offline.
Storm brewing in the deer park.
Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is taking…
Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.
Blimey. Over 16 year of Twitter use has generated a near 1Gb data file.
Reach for the sky.
Probably of marginal interest to the folks here, but I wrote a little about how journalists should be thinking about Mastodon right now.
20 years ago today.
Substack Notes: first impressions
Substack Notes is in a really weird place at the moment. It’s basically just a bunch of newsletter writers trying to persuade each other to subscribe to their newsletters.
It’s a bit like being in an auction house where the buyers and the sellers are all the same people.
They need some stronger incentives for the readers to come over there - but that’s down to the writers. They need to come up with value for their readers - and just endlessly pumping their newsletter is not that.
Early days.
Like father, like daughters.
“Dad, I forgot to add Frozen songs to my playlist. Can I have more iPad time to sort it?”
“Hazel, that idea? Let it go.”
“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! Worst Dad joke ever.”
“Thank you.”
Down by the sea on a blustery day.
Sunrise over Shoreham Beach, during the Easter Sunday dawn service.
Beach life.
Back in your in-boxes: season two of Engaged Reading Time starts here.
358 tabs open on my iPad Pro. I suspect my Easter project should be cleaning them down.
(It was over 400 before my morning coffee.)
This piece from Robin Sloan is looking more prescient by the day: the last decade’s platforms are over.
Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly?
What a fascinating watch.
On GM swapping CarPlay for subscription services.
The arrogance in believing that GM should force people to bend their digital lives in order to fit into their cars is breathtaking. Are users going to be forced to change their podcast app of choice, or streaming music service of choice, or audiobook player of choice, all because General Motors wants to enhance its revenue?
I might need more popcorn for the current Twitter versus Substack squabble.
Possibly a beer, too.
My annual subscriber patch is here from Outdoor Swimmer magazine. I love these.
My train is running late due to… rain.
Completely understandable. I mean, who expects rain in the UK?
I suspect the percentage of the population who know what an owl bear is will go through exponential growth in the next few weeks…
Bit of a shocker: gal-dem magazine is closing. It had a passionate following - I’m genuinely surprised that they couldn’t convert that into a stable business model.