blogging
Quite a day, down on the beachā¦
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My old employer ā RBI ā has all but completed its exit from journalism. Its answer to the problem of making online journalism pay?
Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
Iām trying something new - triggered because I couldnāt get this stuff in my usual links digest if it was going to work in an email. But I think actually capturing and curating investing stuff from social media is worthwhile:
Thereās a slug on the kitchen window this morning. Our kitchen is in the first floor. I canāt decide if this slug is ambitious or has had a lucky escape from a birdā¦
This week has given us a rather ominous look into the future of political #journalism: Dominic Cummingsā blogpost, direct dialogue and its threat to mainstream political journalism
The scam of pseudo-attention metrics
Part of the scam is that the pyramid scheme of attention will somehow pay off for a lot of people. It wonāt. It canāt. The math doesnāt hold up. Someone is going to win a lottery, but it probably wonāt be us. And a bigger part is that the things you need to do to be popular (the only metric the platforms share) arenāt the things youād be doing if you were trying to be effective, or grounded, or proud of the work youāre doing.
It is quite remarkable that one of the biggest things to happen in UK politics so far this yearā¦ is a blog post.
Still, beats US politics and one man’s Twitter account, I suppose.
I’ve reached my daily reading goal on Apple Books. Iām using it to try to push myself to spend more time reading long-form, and not just articles on the web.
Currently reading: Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods. Enjoyable short fables about trees. š
