Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her boyfriend ‘hates’ on Instagram
It’s just been that kind of a day.
Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the selfies…)
Pub sign angles are a surprisingly good guide as to how windy the day is…
The garden was in fine form today, in the few moments I could steal away from work.
The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare.
Sweet dreams. :-)
Bit blowy today.
I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time. Result.
I’m not sure that this acquisition will “produce value”. These are sites with utterly different cultures, and I can’t see Vice adapting its culture to allow Refinery29 to thrive.
Unsurprising to anyone who has lived in Scotland: Scotland generating enough wind energy to power two Scotlands
Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the social web.
The latest Black Hat SEO technique: find articles from defunct sites linked to by major news operations, and grab the URLs.
This could impact the ranking of sites exploited by the technique.
Reasons I love blogging #3478: I spend several minutes Googling “Ted Danson flossing" for a blog post this morning.
Tumblr as we know it is dead, as a pile of corporate obfuscation makes clear. What’s left is a zombie-like shell - and a gap for places where young people can experiment with their identity.
This one still works.
Found some ancient history…
Nothing is more stupid for a country than not educating its children
”For sensible people, it raised the question: what kind of society doesn’t fund its school? What kind of country wants dumber kids? Closes its hospitals and clinics? What the? Does that make any sense?”
Brexit-supporters should be arguing for ever more investment in education - as we’ll need it to compete in international markets.
This is a worthwhile project: Preserve & digitize 30,000 historic New Orleans newspapers
28% funded - and 10 days to go. Can we get some journalists behind this?
There is a particular danger zone for bad sleep decisions. And I am right in it now. 💤
Sea kitty.
Beautiful sunny day in Shoreham by Sea.
Today’s status:
Flipping ‘eck. I can’t wait to use this.
Pixelmator Pro update integrates its entire app inside Apple Photos as a Photos extension