This is interesting: one of the most interesting news startups in the UK is leaving Substack and heading to Ghost: Mill Media titles to depart newsletter platform Substack.
A spicy panel from yesterday’s Future of Media Technology conference.
Those in and around journalistic publishing are very wary indeed of the AI companies. Should they sign up — or sue?
Started reading: Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill 📚
Getting back to familiar territory with the newsletter, after the sadness of earlier in the week.
A touch of SEO, a pinch of analytics, and some interesting journalism events.
I can’t believe my former student and friend is gone. Ukraine: the latest podcast host dies.
Rest in peace, David. Oh, the journalism you would have done, my friend.
Jony Ive made a button.
So far out of my price range, it’s ludicrous. But so very interesting.
Spot on from @moonmehta:
You don’t have to leave X if you don’t want to for some reason but please take some effort to widen your horizons and connect with diverse people at places you can better control. Blog, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc.
A bird is a poem with wings.
Jeremy Hughes in the essay A Risca Boy’s Birds from Going to Ground, an Anthology of Nature and Place edited by Jon Woolcott 📚
This sums up exactly what I’m feeling as summer wanes:
The end of summer seems like a more significant marker of the passing of time than any other point in the year - another chance to live our best lives slips away, like liquid gold running through our fingers. Did we make the most of it? Did we grasp the opportunity with enough enthusiasm?
Did we?
Very pracitical newsletter today:
- Why doomscrolling is boring - and what works better
- The simple secret of great headlines
- Plus more…
This looks like a good scheme: sell old books for credit and keep them out of the hands of Amazon.
Authors get a cut — and independent bookshops might get something out of it, indirectly…
Lloyd on approaching 20 years of blogging:
I’ve definitely put in a few “10,000 hours”—probably on multiple aspects of creating social media. And by “social media” I just mean media that is social, not just the microblogging, photo-sharing, social network platforms that people think of now. I’ve been doing this for twenty years, man. If I have to point to something I can’t stop doing, it’s writing silly stories on the internet.
Manuel Moreale on a better web:
That is the web I’m arguing for. A web that is intentional, where what you consume is curated by you and you alone, where connections with others happen because you made the conscious effort to connect.
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Today: Comments, Clickbait — and Screen Apnea?
Some thoughts on how AI could improve the organisation of photo libraries from Mark Braggins.