Is the second-hand bookshop disappearing? Perhaps not. 📚
Adrian Bell on newspaper experts:
I have been suspicious of them ever since, years ago, I met a gardening expert who wrote for a London paper. ‘And where is your garden?’ I asked innocently. ‘I haven’t got a garden. I live in a flat, he replied.
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So, I’m now on t2 (Twitter alternative from ex-Twitter folks). Anyone else on there?
Staurt Ian Burns on Marvel and its impact on the film industry:
Also, there’s no point blaming a studio which turns out two-four films a year for “ruining cinema” as though the audience is a sheep like mass. Hollywood has had its own hand in this by producing so many average films which strain for mass appeal to the extent they don’t appeal to anyone.
These two muppets are amongst the richest people on the planet, with a global impact on human relationships. And then they do this.
The phrase “deeply unserious” is becoming a thing, isn’t it?
One of those meme-like phrases that we’ll look back on in five years and think was “so 2023”.
Nice work of the day goes to the cyclist who literally rode into me while I was trying to shepherd children across the road on a green man at traffic lights - and then shouted at me.
I love cycling, but…
That’s it. Time to quit Outlook and call it a day.
I’m just not looking forward to a hot train ride home…
Every year, while I’m supervising journalism MA students' final projects, I miss being a commissioning editor. I love the feeling of working with talented journalists to make their copy better.
Recreation is valuable in proportion to the intensity of its experiences, and to the degree to which it differs from and contrasts with workaday life.
— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
Found a nice coffee shop to while away the hours while my daughters are on a Guides and Brownies cinema trip: The Laughing Dog.
Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home as well as abroad, and he who has a little may use it to as good advantage as he who has much. As a search for perception, the recreational stampede is footless and unnecessary.
— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically impaired thereby, nor does any other resource suffer when the rate increases to a hundred. The camera industry is one of the few innocuous parasites on wild nature.
— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating:
“All these advantages meant that the process was heavily biased: but heavily biased in Johnson’s favour.}
“And somehow, Johnson still lost.”
When Zuck says that the Apple Vision Pro isn’t the vision of the future of computing he wants, all I can think about is this photo:
This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.
What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇