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…
I, for one, welcome our new Swedish Queen and a return to farcical aquatic ceremonies as a justification for executive power.
This is interesting - despite some of the recent backlash, podcasts are still big enough business that the iTunes rankings are worth manipulating: Chartbreakers: How spammers are gaming the podcast
My brain is a ridiculous place. I have an enforced day off because my youngest is unwell - but I’m still feeling guilty.
I have co-authored books with Chuck. Chuck is a good person. This makes me very cross.
This is an eye-opening read about the biggest issue of the next 15 years: How to deal with despair over climate change - Vox
Barbados, late 2011
I’ve just been pottering around editing some old photos, from our last pre-children holiday. Two days after I got back, my life changed forever in two ways: we agreed to buy a house, and I realised that my time at my old employer was up. I was figuring out what to do next, and so these photos have never had the attention they deserve.
I’m enjoying coming back to them with seven years' distance.
I used to shoot a lot more landscapes back then…