Do you what I like about smart speakers? They just sit quietly, waiting to be called upon, while mobile phones behave like noisy, annoying insecure devices, constantly demanding your attention. Grow the heck up, phone.
Coffee and the latest issue of Standart. Perfect.
Exploring the babychino options in town. This one, from Ginger & Dobschütz, got full marks from Hazel.
This is a sobering read about the dehumanisation deep in the psychology of some Silicon Valley coders. History repeats itself - this mirror the abuses of the early industrial age.
Maybe we can learn from that.
Maybe writing about CMSes isn’t a path to viral content success - but it matters to me. 😎 Content Management Systems: could Vox Media make build a software business alongside its content operation?
I love “less is more" journalism models. This one is from India: The Ken raises $1.5M in its Series A Round
Some rather curious - and possibly co-ordinated - Instagram hacking going on. Worth watching.
The mask slips, just a little: Facebook traffic to publishers is gone - and Campbell Brown just erected its tombstone
How Facebook distorted human interactions on the altar of engagement.
Nice contextualisation: How to get human time back from technology
Really enjoyed editing and prepping for publication a guest post for the Next Conference blog. However, it did remind me yet again how often we ignored warnings in the past about the way we implemented digital technology.