The Comfortably Dumb - Om Malik follows up in his post about his growing discomfort with embedded tech from the big companies in “smart” devices.
This is fascinating - there’s a new visual language evolving around doing drama in vertical videos:
Chinese vertical dramas made for phone viewing show the future of mobile video
Random discoveries via navigation apps
Lovely, random experience this evening. Apple Maps brought me an unexpected route home, showing me a bunch of villages and towns a short drive from where I lived that I’ve never seen before.
At least two of them are now on my “to visit" list for the near future, and another will be the first place I take Hazel on our summer holiday “adventures”.
I’m with Om on this. I’ve replaced our Alexa device with a HomePod as I’m no longer willing to give Google or Amazon audio access to our home:
Well now. I did a vlog from Scotland. Vlogging is really not my thing. What do you think?
ln defence of selfies - an interesting take on the social context of photography and sharing.
The Decline of Historical Perspective - Neil hits the nail on the head here. And yes, it’s worrying.