2020
My major lesson this year so far is that the right new coat can do wonders for your self-image.
Good night.
Whatever happened to Yahoo’s digital time capsule?
Marie Boran asks if everyone has forgotten about Yahoo’s digital time capsule?:
This was to be opened on the company’s 25th anniversary on March 2nd, 2020, but the webpage looks abandoned; according to the webpage countdown there is still a decade left until the capsule opens.
So much of 90s/00s digital culture is gone. Future historian will lament that we were so careless with the archive of the formative days of our digital culture.
This video might challenge your ideas of what you can do with an iPad: Editing Podcasts with Ferrite and Apple Pencil
The psychology behind Boris's war on the media
Nick Cohen on why Boris Johnson is so suspicious of the media:
I suspect there is a strong element of projection at play. It is because Johnson was a partisan columnist that he is an enemy of press freedom. He assumes all journalists are like him, and that they will twist, distort and censor accordingly.
Good insight that makes a lot of sense.
This is absolutely one of the things that makes me uncomfortable about most newsletter software. It not just tells you how many people opened your email - but exactly who. And that’s creepy: Mailing list software should stop spying on subscribers - Signal v. Noise
The information ecosystem is badly polluted — and journalism is playing its part. We need to clean up our act, and depollute the information ecosystem.
Great newsletter from David Mattin on the creation of the technocratic elite. This is shaping up to be an essential weekly read.
