One Man's Notes

Remember all those sessions about how voice and smart speakers would be the future of journalism?

Not so much.


It’s nice seeing the number of serious video recording apps for iPhone proliferating.

The number of occasions when you need to bust out the “real” cameras is diminishing.


An interesting move from The Economist, adding a new subscription tier for podcasts.


We appear to have gone from the height of summer to autumn in four days.

An autumnal churchyard in London’s Farringdon.

📷 September Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: glowing.

A railway light glowing, on a September morning.

TIL that you can screenshot CarPlay.

CarPlay showing the end of my commute. &10;

My wallet is safe from Tim Cook this time.


Currently reading: Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 📚


Breakfast of champions.

A small bottle of vodka on a pedestrian crossing sign in London.

Looks like it’s an “update all the Apple things” evening.

Important security updates out…


Listening to my boss’s inaugural lecture…

Professor Mel Bunce delivering her inaugural lecture.

I spent yesterday at a journalism innovation conference. If you want to know what the news publishers are thinking about at the moment, well, here you go.


These seem like a more plausible scenario as time goes on: The case for Musk driving Twitter to bankruptcy.


Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary people, I present for you the 21st Century, where we microchip cheese.


Just realised that in just over two weeks I’ll be in Hamburg again for NEXT23. The schedule looks great this year.


I’m officially old. Badgers is 20 years old.

Mushroom. Mushroom. Snake.


Begone, miserable doom merchants! Traditional social media’s stumble could actually be good for journalism and audience work.

Honest.


Currently reading: Rewilding the Sea by Charles Clover 📚


This will do.

Enjoying a coffee and a book in a woodland campsite.

Lovely afternoon for a cycle with my youngest.

The sea at Widewater, Shoreham Beach. Dramatic clouds over the cycle patch between Lancing and Shoreham.


This is good news - a new Broken Sword game is coming.


Two of my former students have been added to Russia’s journalist blacklist.

I’m very proud.


Somebody will be very sad about losing this chap.

A lost toy mouse.

Starting my assault on the Wainwright Prize shortlist with A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors 📚


Found a lovely place for breakfast in the port yesterday morning.

The Port Kitchen in Shoreham Port.