It is quite remarkable that one of the biggest things to happen in UK politics so far this year… is a blog post.
Still, beats US politics and one man’s Twitter account, I suppose.
Who broke journalism?
”I would like to add that greedy and short-sighted executives and media company owners broke the industry because they were too lazy, arrogant and unintelligent to understand the ramifications of the internet to the information ecosystem.”
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Consume Better — recommendations from the team at Hamburg’s NEXT conference (including myself) on digital media you’ll enjoy for the year ahead.
It’s well-known that women are under-represented amongst both Wikipedia editors and biographies, but how about in the citations.
Go on, have a guess.
This is how existing prejudice gets reinforced.
I’ve reached my daily reading goal on Apple Books. I’m using it to try to push myself to spend more time reading long-form, and not just articles on the web.
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.
