If you haven’t been paying attention to just how massive the bushfire crisis is in Australia, this set of information and links will open your eyes.
And possibly your bowels.
Oooooh, Matron…
Operio collection by Dead Lotus Couture aims to put latex “in every wardrobe”.
Good morning waves.
Journalism's Facebook narrative
Dave Winer on journalism’s narrative around Facebook:
Saying online is dangerous is like saying the subway is dangerous. But if you live in New York, you probably want to take the subway. Driving is dangerous. Everything is. Life itself isn’t safe. It’s a mix. You have to learn to discern.
The scam of pseudo-attention metrics
Part of the scam is that the pyramid scheme of attention will somehow pay off for a lot of people. It won’t. It can’t. The math doesn’t hold up. Someone is going to win a lottery, but it probably won’t be us. And a bigger part is that the things you need to do to be popular (the only metric the platforms share) aren’t the things you’d be doing if you were trying to be effective, or grounded, or proud of the work you’re doing.
It is quite remarkable that one of the biggest things to happen in UK politics so far this year… is a blog post.
Still, beats US politics and one man’s Twitter account, I suppose.
Who broke journalism?
”I would like to add that greedy and short-sighted executives and media company owners broke the industry because they were too lazy, arrogant and unintelligent to understand the ramifications of the internet to the information ecosystem.”
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Consume Better — recommendations from the team at Hamburg’s NEXT conference (including myself) on digital media you’ll enjoy for the year ahead.
It’s well-known that women are under-represented amongst both Wikipedia editors and biographies, but how about in the citations.
Go on, have a guess.
This is how existing prejudice gets reinforced.
I’ve reached my daily reading goal on Apple Books. I’m using it to try to push myself to spend more time reading long-form, and not just articles on the web.
Currently reading: Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods. Enjoyable short fables about trees. 📚
Found on the beach this morning. Someone’s feeling patriotic, clearly.
Bridge.
Sunset on the Adur.
Buckle up. Here we go again: Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
I included this photo in my latest Engaged Reading Digest because I like it so much. It’s very calming.
Wow. The memory cheats sometimes. I tend to think of my early years in editorial development as largely positive, but back in 2008 I was clearly exhausted from fighting the fight for engaged journalism.
That fight is still on-going.
My children have finally discovered the ability to sleep in…
…2 days before they go back to school. 🙄
I have learnt more about video encoding and transcoding in the last three months than I expected to.
Is it me, or is Gruber a bit pissed (in the British sense) in the latest Talk Show? 🥴
My December in one second every day.
Starting the year as I mean to go on: The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020
Happy New Year, you.
Yes, you.
The year is done — so it’s time from my annual round-up of One Man & His Blog’s top 10 posts of 2019. And there are some genuine surprises in there.
I have reached the point in coffee fussiness where, after being disappointed with a coffee when brewed with Aeropress, I switched to a different brew method - and really enjoyed that coffee.
There’s no hope for me now.
