One Man's notebook this week.
Down by the sea on a blustery day.
“Dad, I forgot to add Frozen songs to my playlist. Can I have more iPad time to sort it?”
“Hazel, that idea? Let it go.”
“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! Worst Dad joke ever.”
“Thank you.”
2023-04-11
Like father, like daughters.
Substack Notes: first impressions
Substack Notes is in a really weird place at the moment. It’s basically just a bunch of newsletter writers trying to persuade each other to subscribe to their newsletters.
It’s a bit like being in an auction house where the buyers and the sellers are all the same people.
They need some stronger incentives for the readers to come over there - but that’s down to the writers. They need to come up with value for their readers - and just endlessly pumping their newsletter is not that.
Early days.
2023-04-12
20 years ago today.
Probably of marginal interest to the folks here, but I wrote a little about how journalists should be thinking about Mastodon right now.
2023-04-13
Reach for the sky.
Blimey. Over 16 year of Twitter use has generated a near 1Gb data file.
2023-04-14
Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.
2023-04-14
Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is taking…
2023-04-15
Storm brewing in the deer park.
An awful lot of people on the internet seem to be under the illusion that being nasty to people online makes them a better person. Being nasty does more harm to you than the person you’re targeting, online or offline.
2023-04-15