blogging
(Country) walking to grow your subscriptions, radicalised on Reddit, and more good reads from the audience engagement mines.
Wow.
Flashback five years to when Hazel and I appeared in a software advert.
I am happy to say I appear to have lost weight since then…
(This was all @tibz’s doing…)
This week I learnt that the Opera browser is now owned by a Chinese investor, that Opera News is huge - and might well be part of a Chinese propaganda campaign.
Yikes.
It’s probably a sign that I’m over-tired and need some sack time, but I’m bloody convinced that this is the most important post on my blog in ages - and that nearly nobody will read it…
Fingers crossed that I am on the final stage of a difficult evening, and will be home for a whisky and bed within the hour. Literally my entire evening wasted on queuing and travelling.
I was initially excited when I found this site for Sussex bloggers, because it felt very like the sort of thing we did in the early 2000s. And then I saw this:
“Join our directory of bloggers based in Sussex, through which we’ll connect bloggers with brands.”
Oh, dear. 🙄
Computational photography raises some serious questions about the nature of reality, and how we represent it.
Some links that are worth your time - from the psychology of social media outrage, to a celebration of RSS…
For those of you on devices that support it, and are in the right time zone, One Man & His Blog now supports dark mode…
Yo dawg we heard you like Moodle so we put some Moodle in your Moodle so you can Moodle while you Moodle.
How to fix your Twitter timeline using this one clever trick…
I’ve been fiddling around with my Ghost templates, and now fixed it so that comments only show on members-only and subscribers-only posts once you are logged in. For example this post.
I love the idea of having conversations that are at least partially protected.
Beautiful Remembrance service at Church of the Good Shepherd this morning. The two minutes’ silence with the waves crashing on the beach is always moving.
