If you want to convert me to a viewpoint, you’ll succeed much more often by highlighting the virtues of your position rather than by denigrating everyone else’s views.
Facebook has officially passed beyond parody.
If you come up with a business idea, and multiple ways of expressing that idea - and then fabulous domain name for an element of that - and that dotcom is available - you have to buy it, right?
Well, this makes me a happy GoPro user: GoPro Plus now offers unlimited uncompressed video storage
And yes, that includes 4K.
Apple News has more users than you might expect.
Crikey - my blog had more mobile and tablet viewers than desktop ones for the first time ever. I know I’m on the trailing edge of the switch, but interesting that it’s coming even to journalism-related sites.
There’s far too much truth in this:
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.
