Getting some work done in the library of the RSA House. I’ve been a Fellow for years, but I’ve slipped out of the habit of using the venue.
Interesting piece from @lloyddavis on how he integrates micro.blog with WordPress.
And I’m not just linking to it because he calls me an “early blog hero”. Honest.
WP Engine wins the first round in its battle with Automattic.
And the whole WordPress community watches and waits.
Well, this is very disappointing: PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct.
Our annual Christmas tree buying trip to Spithandle Nursery.
It’s a tradition that really marks the beginning of the Christmas season for us.
The last magazine I worked for before moving fully into digital is closing.
RIP Estates Gazette - after more than a century and a half.
I’ve got a full-on day of lectures in today (six hours back-to-back 🤪), so have yesterday’s thoughts on the difference between social media and social netwoks, and why that matters for audience work…
Billionaires: Bozos or begrovellers?
This is more than a little bit disturbing: Why The Faroese Whale Slaughter Must End 🐋
WARNING: graphic footage of whale slaughter.
Just finished my last session with the MA Newspaper journalism students this year. Lively, engaged, questioning, and quite savvy bunch. Some good newsroom talent incoming…
Weird how persistent old ways of thinking are. I saw this headline - Hopes are growing for Bakerloo extension to Lewisham, TfL official says - and thought “About time. That’ll be handy”.
And then I remembered that I haven’t lived in Lewisham for 13 years. (And that the author is a former student.)
Obi-Wan Kenobi is the perfect TV series to watch with my 9 year old on Daddy/Daughter TV nights while her big sister is at Guides.
Today has been a relentlessly local day - delivering the local residents’ association mag, and editing the parish mag.
Print is not dead. It’s just local.