I wonder how many sites are publishing RSS feeds but are blissfully unaware of it, just because they use WordPress.
I really like the ideas in this:
Take your time: the seven pillars of a Slow Thought manifesto
Presented without comment: The shop that buys your dead uncle’s porn collection (It’s a surprisingly interesting read)
Getting Sunlit…
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Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.
Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.
Not sure why I’m bothering writing on my blog today, when basically my entire audience is either at news:rewired or The Guardian’s Changing Media Summit.
Seven years ago publishers were dying because they trusted Google for all their traffic. Now the same is happening with Facebook.
Another warning about the ease with which moral certainty can lead to us to slip into stereotyping in our reporting.
Listening to Oasis’s Wonderwall always reminds me of commuting by bus to Croydon to work on Hotel & Restaurant mag on the very early days of my career. I didn’t have any sense yet of how digital was about to upend everything.
Wikipedia is a bit like a sausage: the more you look at how it is made, the less appetising you find it.
I cannot even articulate how wrong this is…
Listening to a 2003 playlist on Apple Music. This was the music of the year I started my blog.
God, I feel old.
My blog is 15 years old today.
I’m not sure if that’s an achievement, or just sheer bloody-mindedness at work…
Are GAFA coming for the news business?
I hope not - but then, who would have seen them getting into TV?
There’s something very British about seeing a couple of hundred families wrapped up against the cold and wet heading off to clean a beach before 10am on a Sunday morning…
A post-mortem on Typed.com, a crowdfunded blogging platform that never really built up any momentum.