RIP StumbleUpon. Once you were a great way of finding stuff to read in a lunch break.
Bitcoin is a massive environmental threat - really
Astonishing. Bitcoin may be undoing decades of progress on renewable energy:
By late next year, bitcoin could be consuming more electricity than all the world’s solar panels currently produce — about 1.8 percent of global electricity, according to a simple extrapolation of the study’s predictions. That would effectively erase decades of progress on renewable energy.
Alas, Livejournal. Even George RR Martin has quit you now.
Lord, this makes me nostalgic: 1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls - Flashbak
Reading this post by a former colleague makes me realise that I’ve really lost the skill of personal blogging over the last decade.
I have to confess, I paid basically zero attention to the royal wedding in the build up to it. But seeing the royals give a hearty two fingers to the racists we’ve seen rise post-Brexit?
Pitch of the day:
I am writing because I would like to write an article reviewing the best fleshlights on the market and then discuss whether they are worth it. I feel the readers of onemanandhisblog.com may find this of interest.
🤔👌🏻
So, it turns out that Storyful journalists could see which videos their newsroom clients were watching… Not the social media verification company’s smartest move.
“I am about to lecture you about…” is always a more accurate description of articles headlined “We need to talk about…”
After 5 years, I’m actually getting good at making a note of what fee was agreed for a project. Makes invoicing a lot swifter…
Hmm. My mobile sessions have shot up to just over half of traffic. That suggests that I hit an audience outside my normal crowd of desk-based journos. I wonder who…?
One of those days when I thought I’d knocked it out of the park with a post — and everyone goes “meh”. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Facebook’s approach to news is getting ever more elitist - and controlling.
Sometimes wasted time is not wasted… On wasting time and triggering new discoveries