Strange old story about a social media fantasist making up an entire life of tech influencing from stolen images: Bonkers Post Making Up Stuff About Female Microsoft Developer Advocate Backfires Big Time
It’s just light streaming from glass…
So to go back to the funny little text boxes that so many of us nowadays spend our lives staring at and responding to, we would do well to remember what they are. They are light streaming from a bit of glass. Nothing more, nothing less. What they mean and how we feel about them is made up. It is up to us.
The only thing you really have any control over is you.
I like this: people have got their sense of pace of tech change wrong, simply because they misunderstand how long it took for them to notice the most recent wave of innovations that defined the 2000s.
Making your social media more sane - this is actually a great idea.
On the off chance you missed it - here’s my thoughts on the key findings of the Reuters Institute’s 2019 journalism trends and predictions report.
Your regular Internet of creepy things update.
Here’s my takeaways from the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 report that launched this morning.
Media Trends 2019: an earthquake in audience engagement, and openness to new business models
Does anyone else find the phrase “innovation hub” faintly depressing? “This - here - is where we do innovation. Nowhere else, mind. Just here.”
Joe Manganiello and D&D in the 80s.
From Joe Manganiello, Super Geek: Owns Dungeon, Dead Guy’s Dice:
Those of us that have been around long enough remember all too well the panicked out-cry against role playing games in the 1980’s, spurred on by religious groups that stigmatized Dungeons and Dragons as a gateway to Satanism and drug abuse, when the truth was that most of us actually managed to stay out of trouble since we were too busy trying to get a game in.
That is basically a chunk of my teenage years in the 80s.
Today, I find myself wondering how my Facebook experience would change if I pared my number of friends down to around Dunbar’s number?
The internet has opened up whole new avenues of psychological and sociological research hasn’t it?
What makes men send dick pics?
(It’s an interesting read.)
I admit this might be a sign that parenthood has rotted my brain - but I believe Babs Seed from My Little Pony is a slice of perfect bubblegum pop.
Don’t @ me.
Still a great and apposite piece: How to get human time back from technology.
This is my regular reminder to myself that actually posting to One Man & His Blog does wonders for my traffic…
One day I will come across an example of “MSM won’t report on this!!!!" which I can’t disprove with 20 seconds of Googling. But today is not that day.
Well, I’ve been enjoying great battery life on my MacBook Pro since it came back from a battery replacement, but now I have to open Chrome, so I better go find the power cable.
Facebook is trying to achieve global scale without paying the local price - and that’s hindering its attempts to combat misinformation.