I love the neologism “memeocracy” to describe the impact of influencer culture in the attention economy. I love the impact of it significantly less.
Apple’s mobile journalism porn - I love the way Apple keeps making the #mojo case for us.
Just when you think Facebook can’t go lower — it manages it…
Well, that’s one way of stopping regulators from breaking up your company, I suppose.
Zuckerberg speeds up assimilation of Instagram and WhatsApp into Facebook
Upscale NYC restaurant bans lone women from sitting at the bar
This is… extraordinary:
“I perched at my favourite seat at the bar and started to respond to all the emails that had arrived on the flight over,” she explains. “A waiter approached – a familiar face, but oddly hesitant on this occasion. He advised – with evident embarrassment – that I was no longer permitted to eat at my usual spot and that I must now sit down at a table.”
Essentially, they’re working on the assumption that single women sitting at the bar are hookers — or, at least, are treating their lone female customers as less important that making prostitution less obvious.
Sexist obliviousness is still sexism.
Apple News Expands to Canada in iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4 - Apple’s rolling this out very slowly for them. But taking the time to get the right people in place is good.
Ugh. Buzzfeed is laying off over 200 people. They do great work, and they have some fantastic journalists - but that VC investment burden was always going to be hard for them to carry successfully.
Best wishes to anyone impacted.
“All these potentially powerful attempts at building a new world using new tools being rendered safe by assimilation into the old.”
All too often, the old, hierarchical world has hollowed out social tools, and worn them like a skin.
An epitath for Livejournal
Such is the nature of the erosion of our once-beloved digital spaces: there’s none of the collapsed majesty of a physical space like an abandoned castle, ivy threading its way through the crumbling latticework. Instead, LiveJournal moves forward as an aging pile of code, one day potentially rendered obsolete by something newer and better and remembered by those who lost countless hours to rigging it up in the first place.
It’s where I started blogging over 17 years ago - but I haven’t thought about it in years. It’s now just a Russian zombie of its former self.
January 2018 in photos - looking back at a year ago.
The one thing that disappoints me about most “links" newsletters I follow is that they rarely give me links outside a very narrow circle of obvious sites. Do people really read that narrowly?
Why political posts on Facebook will always be polarising.
This is fascinating, both in its use of cartooning for storytelling and for the way insular communities can breed toxicity: How Pick-Up Artists Morphed Into the Alt-Right