Currently reading: Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods. Enjoyable short fables about trees. 📚
Buckle up. Here we go again: Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
I included this photo in my latest Engaged Reading Digest because I like it so much. It’s very calming.
Wow. The memory cheats sometimes. I tend to think of my early years in editorial development as largely positive, but back in 2008 I was clearly exhausted from fighting the fight for engaged journalism.
That fight is still on-going.
My children have finally discovered the ability to sleep in…
…2 days before they go back to school. 🙄
I have learnt more about video encoding and transcoding in the last three months than I expected to.
Starting the year as I mean to go on: The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020
The year is done — so it’s time from my annual round-up of One Man & His Blog’s top 10 posts of 2019. And there are some genuine surprises in there.
I have reached the point in coffee fussiness where, after being disappointed with a coffee when brewed with Aeropress, I switched to a different brew method - and really enjoyed that coffee.
There’s no hope for me now.
The people’s web could be so much more interesting than the big F
Anil Dash on the people’s web:
If we’re going to build a new web, and a new internet, that respects our privacy and security, that doesn’t amplify abuse and harassment and misinformation, we’re going to need to imagine models of experiences and communities that could provide a better alternative. There’s not going to be a “Facebook killer”. But there could simply be lots of other sites, that focus on a different, more constructive and generative, set of goals.
The great irony of the last decade is that a handful of companies have used a decentralised system to build massive centralised monopolies. You don’t undermine them with a new monopoly, but with a network of smaller, cool and useful stuff.
Interesting thoughts on flow in blogging apps (the same applies to all CMSes, I think):
Scripting News: Flow in WordPress for writers
If you still believe that there’s a discernible formula to a successful podcast: Text adventures make Best Podcasts list
Germany Has Created Dedicated Work Visas For Esports.
(I’m fascinated by how few countries are taking this seriously given how much money is involved.)