January 2018 in photos - looking back at a year ago.

A calm waterfront scene features small boats floating on still water with quaint buildings and a partly cloudy sky reflected in the surface.

The one thing that disappoints me about most “links" newsletters I follow is that they rarely give me links outside a very narrow circle of obvious sites. Do people really read that narrowly?

Why political posts on Facebook will always be polarising.

This is fascinating, both in its use of cartooning for storytelling and for the way insular communities can breed toxicity: How Pick-Up Artists Morphed Into the Alt-Right

A cold and frosty morning on my way to London.

Frost-covered plants and grass are visible on the ground, indicating a cold environment.

Gorgeous day on Shoreham Beach. The sun is counteracting the cold nicely.

A calm sea gently meets a pebble beach bordered by rocks under a clear blue sky.

Suffolk coast, January 2001

A few people are walking along a wide, pebbly beach with cliffs on one side and the sea on the other under a clear blue sky.

MG Siegler:

”That is to say, I think this new iTunes announcement finally signals the end of iTunes as we know it.”

I bloody well hope so.

This interview with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is…

painful.

I wrote a very long thing about Facebook, WordPress, CMSes and local journalism. I cater to a very niche market…