blogging
How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
Oh, do you remember when we used to go to “coffee shops” and other people would make coffee for us?
Kids today wouldn’t believe that.
Oh, my. A year before the Brexit vote and the Trump election, I linked to reporting about how Russian misinformation was sowing discord in US communities.
If only people had taken that a lot more seriously.
I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, upgrading them and correcting problems left over from various platform moves.
But it’s more fun just to chose a random tag — like seashore.
Archive spelunking
Managed to resurrect all but one of the broken links on this 14 year old post. (The reason why is a subject for another post).
Looking back on the 2006 web - pre-social media as we know it today - I can’t help feeling that many aspects of it were better and healthier than what we have now.
We really need to talk about trust in journalism.
There’s a good reason we should temper the current Substack enthusiasm in journalism circles with a little caution. It wouldn’t take much for the newsletter platform to reinvent itself as an attention gatekeeper.
And there’s VCs lurking the background, wanting their payday…
I used my new MacBook Pro for an hour this morning to monitor a livestream I was running, dived into a quick Zoom call, have done some emails, edited some photos and worked on a blog post.
And I have 95% battery left. 🤯
Spending far too long looking at video of myself has been one of the major downsides of the pandemic.
