It’s just light streaming from glass…
So to go back to the funny little text boxes that so many of us nowadays spend our lives staring at and responding to, we would do well to remember what they are. They are light streaming from a bit of glass. Nothing more, nothing less. What they mean and how we feel about them is made up. It is up to us.
The only thing you really have any control over is you.
I like this: people have got their sense of pace of tech change wrong, simply because they misunderstand how long it took for them to notice the most recent wave of innovations that defined the 2000s.
Making your social media more sane - this is actually a great idea.
On the off chance you missed it - here’s my thoughts on the key findings of the Reuters Institute’s 2019 journalism trends and predictions report.
Your regular Internet of creepy things update.
Here’s my takeaways from the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 report that launched this morning.
Media Trends 2019: an earthquake in audience engagement, and openness to new business models
Does anyone else find the phrase “innovation hub” faintly depressing? “This - here - is where we do innovation. Nowhere else, mind. Just here.”
Joe Manganiello and D&D in the 80s.
From Joe Manganiello, Super Geek: Owns Dungeon, Dead Guy’s Dice:
Those of us that have been around long enough remember all too well the panicked out-cry against role playing games in the 1980’s, spurred on by religious groups that stigmatized Dungeons and Dragons as a gateway to Satanism and drug abuse, when the truth was that most of us actually managed to stay out of trouble since we were too busy trying to get a game in.
That is basically a chunk of my teenage years in the 80s.