I’d love to see this book funded: Parkinson’s and the Tango Effect by Kate Swindlehurst: Unbound Please consider backing it if you’re interested in mental health, dance or that most exquisite of dances, the tango.
This makes me sad. The Guardian was once a genuine innovator in the field of podcasts - and it both abandoned that and then forgot it ever happened.
We need to stop making this mistake.
Reading about the floods in Kerala and the clean up afterwards has been sobering. A year ago I visited the region to work with Malayala Manorama the leading newspaper in the region.
Fabulous reminiscences of the Public House Bookshop in Brighton which starts with an attack by the book burners.
Some interesting thoughts about the lack of distinctive richness in our online social profiles: Social networks & the online reality of identity
“Spray and Pray” is not a viable social media strategy for newsrooms. It’s worrying how often it is the default, though.
Interesting piece on what’s shaping up to be GamerGate’s sibling,a dn another example of the extreme right’s cultural playbook: Figuring Out ComicsGate – The Whos, The Whens, And The WTFs
Starting on this as soon as the girls get home: I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter
Provide something valuable, and people will pay: More than 11,000 people are paying (yes, paying) for email newsletters on Substack’s platform
One of the faintly depressing things about doing a newsletter is that within moments of pressing “send” you often lose subscribers, as your lists cleans an e-mails address that bounced.
That last post nearly had “kinky goodness” instead of “linky goodness” and now I want to launch a second newsletter TBH.
Prepping the latest issue of my sporadic interesting reading newsletter Commonplace Reading. Sign up for linky goodness in your inbox.
A page that makes me say “thank God for ebook pricing”: The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (Hardback) - Routledge
I was podding about on Twitter last night and was about to do a comment retweet on something when I realised that doing so wouldn’t really benefit anyone, would increase polarisation, and wasn’t something I really wanted to be doing. Deleted it. Be the change you want to see.
Nothing makes a self-employed person’s morning happier than the words “remittance advice” in his e-mail first thing in the morning.
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
I found Zuckerberg straining, not always coherently, to grasp problems for which he was plainly unprepared. These are not technical puzzles to be cracked in the middle of the night but some of the subtlest aspects of human affairs, including the meaning of truth, the limits of free speech, and the origins of violence.
I suspect his absolute control of the company is part of the problem.
The internet is basically a stroppy teenager, getting in trouble with the authorities, and making us all wish it would just hurry up and grow up: Deleting the internet’s innocence