Meta is actually going to try to win back young people to Facebook.
Good luck with that. I suspect they have more chance of annoying their current users than persuading teenagers and people in their 20s that Facebook is for them.
Why is Substack’s rival Ghost becoming more and more popular?
Interesting read.
The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with film.
I still have a film camera. One day I shall use it again. One day.
It’s probably fair to say that I love blogging so much that if everybody else gave it up, I’d still continue.
It’d be less fun, obviously. But still worthwhile.
Bloggers and journalists, 20 years on.
Inspired by John Naughton’s Observer column about @dave’s 30 years of blogging…
Today’s newsletter muses on Meta’s inability to recognise that people are messy, contradictory and contain multitudes. The more it tries to shove people into algorithmic boxes, the less compelling its products become.
A simple way to improve the internet.
Headline of the day:
No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons
I was complimented on my hair by a cashier at the supermarket today.
If nothing else, this proves I can still have brand new experiences in my 50s.