Instagram finally gets the repost:
Oh, every time I have to use Google Analytics, I’m reminded of how throughly GA4 ruined it for editorial people.
Meta is an empty husk of a company with no values, no beliefs, other than growth and dominance for the sake of growth and dominance.
No lies detected.
Having lots of interesting conversations about the overlaps of journalism and the so-called creator economy. This is more fodder for those discussions.
I dawned on me yesterday that I’ve been training journalists for 20 years now.
But I’ve also feel that something needs to change. What is training going to look like as the journalism world shifts fundamentally, away from large publishers, and towards many, many more independent creators?
Ghost gets social and analytical: Ghost 6.0 is here
Morning. I’m back at the blogface after a much-needed break. (Well, quasi-break.)
How have you been? Good, I hope?
My daughters have watched this three times. The album is on repeat. It’s the cultural phenomenon of Summer 2025.
It’s Golden.

I am in this photo and I don’t like it:
Geekification of British men almost complete, announces Games Workshop
The future is too important to leave to a bunch of ADHD geeks from California.
Not a lot makes me sadder than seeing a very small child desperately trying to get the attention of a parent who is just staring at their phone.
The one downside of being a contact lens wearer is that, very occasionally, I put them in the wrong eye. And sometimes it takes me a few hours of mild fuzzy-headedness to figure out what’s wrong, and swap them around.
Today has been one of those days.
Cultural whiplash - from a graduation ceremony at the Barbican to watching K-PoP Demon Hunters with my youngest.
Still, it’s a varied life.
