blogging
How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
Beach life in Tier 4: where better to take your permitted exercise?
Evening on the beach.
Storm Bella has passed, but it’s still very blowy down on the beach.
Lovely weather for a Christmas Eve beach walk.
Oh, elf. How I hate you.
Oh, do you remember when we used to go to “coffee shops” and other people would make coffee for us?
Kids today wouldn’t believe that.
Oh, my. A year before the Brexit vote and the Trump election, I linked to reporting about how Russian misinformation was sowing discord in US communities.
If only people had taken that a lot more seriously.
I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, upgrading them and correcting problems left over from various platform moves.
But it’s more fun just to chose a random tag — like seashore.
Archive spelunking
Managed to resurrect all but one of the broken links on this 14 year old post. (The reason why is a subject for another post).
Looking back on the 2006 web - pre-social media as we know it today - I can’t help feeling that many aspects of it were better and healthier than what we have now.
We really need to talk about trust in journalism.
Breakfast of champions.
There’s a good reason we should temper the current Substack enthusiasm in journalism circles with a little caution. It wouldn’t take much for the newsletter platform to reinvent itself as an attention gatekeeper.
And there’s VCs lurking the background, wanting their payday…
A restaurant in Île de Ré, from back when I used to travel overseas.
And go to restaurants.
Frost on the roofs this morning. The girls were very excited. The adults, less so.
Didn’t take them long to find the refilled feeders.
I used my new MacBook Pro for an hour this morning to monitor a livestream I was running, dived into a quick Zoom call, have done some emails, edited some photos and worked on a blog post.
And I have 95% battery left. 🤯
Spending far too long looking at video of myself has been one of the major downsides of the pandemic.
Blogging is a discipline: it’s a practice of expressing your thoughts in writing, routinely, and with focus. Writing a post every day for Microblogvember has helped reinforce that.
And…done. 🍾
It was a gorgeously foggy morning this morning:
