One Man's Notes

Lovely sunny day today - but Wednesday was a different story.

Fascinating. I didn’t realise Pinterest did monthly updates on trends across the platform.

What you need to know about yesterday’s Google algorithm news (if you’re a journalist).

This is quite a big point too many journalists miss: Media Literacy will not create trust in journalism

It just tends to reinforce those who already mistrust journalists.

Here’s one great reason to love the DJi Osmo Mobile 3 if you’re involved in social video production:

Scrummy blue skies today.

Living by the sea really bring it home to you how polluted our waters have become with waste.

Oops.

Jane Manchum Wong

”It appears to me that Medium wants to double as a Reader app in an experiment. This unreleased feature is called “Save to Medium”, similar to how Instapaper works.”

Nope. Uh-uh. Not using that.

Having the sort of day where I write what I thought were two thoughtful and useful posts, and the world just shrugs its shoulders at me.

It’s the blogging equivalent of a null result in science.

But it’s that or clickbait…

Politicians love presenting us with apparently simple solutions to complex problems. It’s where the votes are.

But journalists need to stop aiding and abetting them in this.

Does journalism have an understanding problem?

(tl;dr - yes!)

Since the end of my days as RBI’s head of blogging, I don’t really get much change to spend time fiddling around with the technical stuff at the back end of blogs. Just done some of it today - and it’s quite fun! I missed it.

Now, off to fiddle with some DNS records…