How the year 2000 web reacted to the tense election standoff between Bush and Gore.
Useful historical context for the coming week…
Just spent 30 minutes catching up on newsletters. My, do some well-known journalists suffer without subs and editing. Witticisms that aren’t witty, and blatant errors of fact. 🤦🏼♂️
Happily, many of the indie newsletter people - or the freelances - are much better.
Parole by election
John Naughton on why the US election is consuming his brain, despite the fact he lives in the UK:
Maybe it’s because there’s a possibility that on November 3 something might change in the US, whereas we in the UK are stuck with the worst government in living memory for another four years. So we’re like long-term prisoners serving time and looking enviously over the wall at our fellow-prisoners in the US who might just be paroled on November 4.
Should you turn on your video camera during online training?
Here’s an unexpected pandemic side-effect: after six months of recording online training seasons and editing them for later reference by trainees, I no longer detest the sound of my own voice.
