Case in point: my two most used blog platforms - ghost and micro.blog - are both new(ish) and have very different ideas of what publishing could look like. Innovation in publishing tech should be interesting to those interested in publishing.
A non-obituary for blogging
The “blogging is dead” meme that seems to have settled into the consciousness of swathes of media is both patently wrong - glance at fashion or travel for a moment - but also rather dangerous for them. Just because the technology is no longer the newest thing, doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. Much like printing presses, really.
Oh, Google. This is shameful.
How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ - The New York Times
Revisiting Next Conference, aurally. 🎧 Oh, to be in a Hamburg coffee shop now!
The Final Days of Johnston Press - and the parlous state of local journalism in the UK.
The conclusion of today’s experiments: my 5 year old MacBook Pro is still good for 4k video editing (with proxy media). But the desktop really isn’t up to it. New iMac in my future, I expect.
Blogging is dead…
…unless you’re in fashion, where you’re influential enough to appear in marketing emails.
How people silence each other on social networks - some useful research.
Government needs to break the tech roach motels.
Data portability FTW.
Firing up Final Cut Pro, and seeing if my aging Mac can actually handle some 4k with decent proxy media settings.
Bloody hell: Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs
Still, he has a consistent pattern of bad partnerships…