blogging
If you love coffee, this is an essential read on coffee prices - and the threat to producers it poses: Coffee Transaction Guide ☕️
Nice piece from the BBC breaking down how a fact became misinformation through omitted context, and how it then spread: How a misleading story about Jo Swinson went viral.
Mean
Yes, I know that this was yesterday’s prompt, but I didn’t get to it (even though I posted other things) and I did have something I wanted to say:
One thing I try not to be on the internet these days is mean. But it is an effort. I’m good at the snark. I can bring the snark. Some people encourage me to let the snark run free.
Sometime the snark is deserved. I retain the right to be snarky about Zuckerberg and the FaceBorg.
But I don’t think it’s good for me, or the state of discourse on the internet. I don’t think it makes me feel good about myself. It brings me attention, but it’s not attention I value.
10 years ago, I had a long drive to Sutton every morning for work. The one way I could guarantee I’d arrive in a good mood was to go out of my way to be courteous to other road users.
I feel the same way about the internet. Let’s not turn social media into a secondary school environment where the meanest win. Be helpful. Be useful. Don’t associate with those who aren’t.
Be better.
Spending the day liveblogging Open Data Camp 7 in London.
Gotta say, my old school friend the artist is pretty fancy these days…
