I’ve got a full-on day of lectures in today (six hours back-to-back 🤪), so have yesterday’s thoughts on the difference between social media and social netwoks, and why that matters for audience work…

Morning ivy #2

A small ivy with green leaves grows over a rough, textured wall surface.

Billionaires: Bozos or begrovellers?

This is more than a little bit disturbing: Why The Faroese Whale Slaughter Must End 🐋

WARNING: graphic footage of whale slaughter.

Just finished my last session with the MA Newspaper journalism students this year. Lively, engaged, questioning, and quite savvy bunch. Some good newsroom talent incoming…

Morning ivy.

A vine with green leaves grows on a textured stone surface, set against a blurred background of trees, at Hassocks station.

Do you want cybermen? Because this is how you get cybermen.

A person is wearing an LED light therapy mask with visible eye and mouth openings while lying on a bed.

Weird how persistent old ways of thinking are. I saw this headline - Hopes are growing for Bakerloo extension to Lewisham, TfL official says - and thought “About time. That’ll be handy”.

And then I remembered that I haven’t lived in Lewisham for 13 years. (And that the author is a former student.)

Obi-Wan Kenobi is the perfect TV series to watch with my 9 year old on Daddy/Daughter TV nights while her big sister is at Guides.

Today has been a relentlessly local day - delivering the local residents’ association mag, and editing the parish mag.

Print is not dead. It’s just local.