Lloyd on approaching 20 years of blogging:
I’ve definitely put in a few “10,000 hours”—probably on multiple aspects of creating social media. And by “social media” I just mean media that is social, not just the microblogging, photo-sharing, social network platforms that people think of now. I’ve been doing this for twenty years, man. If I have to point to something I can’t stop doing, it’s writing silly stories on the internet.
Manuel Moreale on a better web:
That is the web I’m arguing for. A web that is intentional, where what you consume is curated by you and you alone, where connections with others happen because you made the conscious effort to connect.
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Today: Comments, Clickbait — and Screen Apnea?
Some thoughts on how AI could improve the organisation of photo libraries from Mark Braggins.
The new design for Colossal looks really nice.
Web magazine design seems to be going through a resurgence.
Back from my hols, and back to blogging/newslettering.
Just experienced my first aviation go-around as our EasyJet flight landed at Gatwick. The sudden return to the air wasn’t too bad - the successssion of children vomiting as a result was less easy.
Sometime in the late 50s, my mother did a river trip down the Thames, based on these old negatives.
I wish I could work out what the under-construction building are/were.
Proud to live in Sussex tonight. The extremists who came to Brighton really came to the wrong town.
