London at its most London-y

AI can’t kern.

Thesis: AI illustration is now baseline, human art and photography becomes value added. Human creativity becomes a signifier of a premium product.

Thoughts?

One of the things I miss about Livejournal is the ability to follower lock posts.

Some (slightly meandering) thoughts on The Observer’s cracking investigative piece into the truth behind The Salt Path story, and the audience and media reaction to it.

With bonus description of my media theorist’s hat.

Having a big life re-evaluation moment with my wife. My City lecturing and my family are the non-negotiable bits, as is my wife’s (new) job, but we’re putting everything else up in the air: where we live, the rest of my working life. How we spend our free time.

It’s frightening but exhilarating.

It’s difficult to articulate how angry this piece about failed crowdfunding publisher Unbound makes me.

It’s one thing to fail. It’s quite another to lie consistently to authors and backers over what appears to be years.

20 years ago today, my commute was disrupted by the 7/7 bombings in London. And I accidentally stumbled into the beginnings of the “citizen journalism” age of news…

Doing my bit for the City St George’s undergraduate open day - persuading potential students that we’re the best place in the country to do journalism…

A classroom full of potential students is attending a lecture about subjects in the School of Communication and Creativity, as displayed on a large screen.

Doc Searls:

At this point, however, Medium is the pioneer that got Substack’s arrows in its back. And frankly, I don’t like either one of them, because they’re both silos, each with their own quirks and shortcomings.