The Toxicity At The Top Of Facebook - And How We Need To Move The Social Media Conversation Forward
Some (rambling) thoughts based on yesterday’s NYT piece on Facebook’s senior management and the appalling reaction to the revelations about the site.
There’s some new research out on smart speakers and news - and it’s a mixed bag. Use is growing fast, but people are unenthused by the current news offerings. Is there an opportunity here?
Really nice, measured take on the state of the iPad Pro from Charles Arthur.
I really recommend listening to this talk by Indy Johar from NEXT conference. Challenging and eye-opening.
Writing something to an embargo deadline for the first time in as long as I can remember. I almost feel like a real journalist again.
This is an absolutely brutal takedown of Medium’s UI and on-boarding experience - published on Medium. 🔥🔥🔥
Despite my previous post, I do enjoy binging on @Monday I find immersing myself in the community for a hour to be fun.
Catching up with a backlog of @monday posts is an odd experience - Just been through a run with a couple of people who have essentially left since.
This is super-handy: a Google web tool to optimise images for the web.
It bothers me that people think that Apple’s green initiatives are just “marketing”. It is possible for them to be both genuine, and good marketing, as I tried to explain last week.
A caravan of bots and other updates from the misinformation wars.
Stan Lee has gone to the great bullpen in the sky. RIP, Stan. Thanks for all the hyperbole and superheroics.
Y’know. I just realised - reading blogs used to - and often still does - make me happy, curious and energised. Reading social media rarely does any of those three. You lose something when you erode complexity and replace it with low impact interaction.
The problem with not working between Thursday evening and late Monday afternoon is that your in-box ends up a place of misery and horror. But my children are more important that my in-box, so I survive it…
Remember that Roman thing of having a slave whispering “remember you are mortal" to a triumphing general? We need that for every single person reading the internet - except they should be whispering “you, too, can fall to confirmation bias".
And that includes me.
Fantastic issue of The Discourse, looking at the dynamics of online hostility - you really should be subscribed to this.
Things I am not going to do: take marriage advice from a never-married 23-year old “top writer in love, psychology, and relationships” on Medium.