The good folks at Ghost have just ticked off a couple of items on my wishlist, with upgraded comment moderation and management.
Step by step, they’re turning this platform into the perfect audience-centric publishing platform.
Admid all the noise around AI, it’s worth remembering that there are some areas where it is unquestionably creating benefits, like early detection of breast cancer.
I lost both my parents to cancer before I was out of my 30s. I’ll cheer this use of AI every step of the way.
Just discovered that Apple Creator Studio has an education discount: £29 per year, rather than £129. That’s a no brainer.
Life is not a football game. And sometimes we journalists have been guilty of making it one…
Well, this is uncomfortable.
Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. It’s… not bad. But I’m not ecstatic that it exists at all.
That moment when you realise you’re trying to unlock your under-desk pedestal drawers with the key to your car’s roof box, and then you’re seized with an overwhelming desire to fill the box with camping gear and head to the woods.
Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations has turned him into what he never meant to be: a man who goes to parties at the White House while nurses die.
Today is tenuous links: what media publishers can learn about AI from…
Warhammer.
Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in this Times piece.
Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the bailiffs from the door, the family endured a daily struggle to make ends meet. Even a child-sized wheelbarrow, made for the young George by his father, had to be sold; 60 years later he wrote that “I never forgot the boy that had my barrow”.
Substack now has an AppleTV app. But the headline calls it a “newsletter platform”.
It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads.
Oh, brilliant. Ghost has added filters to its web analytics - and full support for UTM parameters. Get in there!
I just discovered the Moodle (and Moodle email) supports Markdown, and I could not be happier. I’ll certainly be more efficient…
Best ever feedback from an in-house training/workshop delivered a few months back:
“He’s a proper journalist, who swears and everything”.
That is so going on my gravestone. It should probably be my LinkedIn bio, too…
When I was a regular at the Barbican in the early 90s, back when the RSC had a residency there, I never dreamed that I’d find myself on that stage twice a year 35 years later…
#CityStGeorgesGrad
Just discovered that I need a 30 year old filling replaced.
Fabulous start to the week. Now I have to decide which day I want to sacrifice to that delight in the coming months…
