The interesting thing not really explored by the article, is that the rating the author puts himself through is just a more extreme version of what happens to us every day on social networks: The World of Rated People: Inside the Dystopian Future of Social Credit Scores | GQ
Love a bit of skyscraper porn: This week, images of Europe’s tallest skyscraper were revealed
Interesting - Slack has shifted their blog off Medium to WordPress. Now at: slackhq.com
Lovely piece about both the incredible potential of computational photography - and the romance of film.
My goodness, this makes me want to visit Sweden. (Especially the cabin/boat thing. Want.)
You have to wonder if anyone at Facebook has ever heard the phrase “when in a hole, stop digging”.
Watching your partner fall in love with someone else - on Strava. Leaky public data and unintended consequences…
I’ve been largely absent from Twitter for months. I’ve been giving a little thought as to why: Twitter’s “them and us" problem
“Civility always; servility never”: In this grim age of Trump and Brexit, online fury is a dead end for the left
It’s getting to the point when I find a corporate or organisation “blog” that actually has an RSS feed, I’m surprised. We’ve fallen a long way on direct engagement tech.
This is not the Beano of my youth - and that’s a good thing: Beano Launches New Comic Strip Focused On Mobile Phones And Kids' Mental Health
This is a really good listen on the social problems of the social web Ellen Pao on Ezra Kelin’s podcast.