This sums up exactly what I’m feeling as summer wanes:
The end of summer seems like a more significant marker of the passing of time than any other point in the year - another chance to live our best lives slips away, like liquid gold running through our fingers. Did we make the most of it? Did we grasp the opportunity with enough enthusiasm?
Did we?
Very pracitical newsletter today:
- Why doomscrolling is boring - and what works better
- The simple secret of great headlines
- Plus more…
This looks like a good scheme: sell old books for credit and keep them out of the hands of Amazon.
Authors get a cut — and independent bookshops might get something out of it, indirectly…
Lloyd on approaching 20 years of blogging:
I’ve definitely put in a few “10,000 hours”—probably on multiple aspects of creating social media. And by “social media” I just mean media that is social, not just the microblogging, photo-sharing, social network platforms that people think of now. I’ve been doing this for twenty years, man. If I have to point to something I can’t stop doing, it’s writing silly stories on the internet.
Manuel Moreale on a better web:
That is the web I’m arguing for. A web that is intentional, where what you consume is curated by you and you alone, where connections with others happen because you made the conscious effort to connect.
Daily newsletter: go!
Today: Comments, Clickbait — and Screen Apnea?
Some thoughts on how AI could improve the organisation of photo libraries from Mark Braggins.
The new design for Colossal looks really nice.
Web magazine design seems to be going through a resurgence.
Back from my hols, and back to blogging/newslettering.
Just experienced my first aviation go-around as our EasyJet flight landed at Gatwick. The sudden return to the air wasn’t too bad - the successssion of children vomiting as a result was less easy.
Sometime in the late 50s, my mother did a river trip down the Thames, based on these old negatives.
I wish I could work out what the under-construction building are/were.
