Gunpowder, treason and plot. 💥
While my frantic week isn’t yet done, my reward has arrived. Looking forward to spending time meandering through this: A Year Unfolding 📚
One of the great moral panics of the last few decades debunked: Massive Study Finds No Link Between Time Spent Playing Video Games And Wellbeing – Research Digest
Today, it’s exactly 20 years since I wrote my first blog post.
I’ll write more about this tomorrow. But I just wanted to mark the day.
Two decades under the blog. 👴🏻
Evening walk at Woods Mill.
Interesting. Is anyone else unable to access Quora with iCloud Private Relay on?
🚨 Important discourse. 🚨
Will the Metaverse save journalism?
It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the costs of managing that scale:
Commuting mask watch: down to about 10% of people wearing masks on this Southern train. Very thinly occupied, though.
One day I will manage to swab myself for a lateral flow test without retching.
Today is not that day.
Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log straight back off.
MacOS Monterey is a weirdly bland update — having been using it for a couple of hours, you could have easily persuaded me that the install failed and that I was still in Big Sur.
Om Malik on the iPod 20 years on:
Maybe knowingly (but more likely unknowingly), Apple had made a device that made it easy for normals to understand and embrace our then-new century’s big idea: the abstraction of our physical life into the digital domain.
Let’s do this…
And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.
“But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than braided rivers spreading outward from many sources through countless deltas) is impossible to reduce to any one formal cause.”
Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.
The “Christmas Stocking Fillers” PR emails have started arriving, despite the fact I’ve never once done a gift guide in 18 years of writing my blog.
Maybe this year’s the year? 🤷
What stocking fillers would be appropriate for journalists, anyway?
Well, that was a pretty clear admission that Apple had spend five years going the wrong way with their laptops, wasn’t it?
Climate journalism needs both fixing and expanding. This is a great step in the right direction.
Here we go again: Premature Blogging Death Notice #357.
Today, I had managed the sort of productivity that if I managed every day, my life would be a lot happier and calmer.
I actually think I can spot two reasons why that happened, so… 🤞🏻
Shell game.
Yikes. You might want to change your Twitch passwords — there’s been a huge data leak.
Back at City, ready to teach journalism again. 18 months ago, I walked out of here during one of the production weeks, completely unaware that it would be so long before I’d be back.
But it’s good to be back.
