Drinking coffee in Brighton’s Ship Street. It’s been five years since I did this with any frequency. I really need to spend more time in Brighton.
Happy about this - I have at least one new Ghost-hosted project in the works, and I may well start with one of these. All New Free Ghost Themes
Interesting take from Om Malik about the bad Apple trading news:
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A pre-New Year party for the little ones with some wonderful neighbours. Perfect way to end the year.
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Here we go: the top 10 posts on the NEXT Conference blog in 2018. One of them was the very first post I wrote, back in 2012(!).
Digging through the top posts on the Next Conference blog, I found this 2017 piece from Martin Recke - What is Digital Humanism?. This feels like a discussion we should have had more deeply.
Facebook apologists are real – they really are.
Beaver Bombers at work?
Today I learnt of the existence of Beavers Bombers:
While one theory suggests they escaped from a nearby nature reserve, it’s far more likely they were released illegally by what’s known in the trade as “beaver bombers”—in other words, wildlife vigilantes who operate under the cover of night
Hard not to have a sneaking respect for such pro-active environmentalism.
The Danger of Medium
The danger of Medium is two-fold. Without competition, and right now they don’t have any, we’re right back where we were before the web, only it’s worse. And they haven’t made any comittment to keeping their archive accessible, nor do they give people the ability to move their content off Medium without breaking links.
Roach motel.