One Man's Notes

Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log straight back off.

MacOS Monterey is a weirdly bland update — having been using it for a couple of hours, you could have easily persuaded me that the install failed and that I was still in Big Sur.

Om Malik on the iPod 20 years on:

Maybe knowingly (but more likely unknowingly), Apple had made a device that made it easy for normals to understand and embrace our then-new century’s big idea: the abstraction of our physical life into the digital domain.

And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.

Doc Searls on supply chains:

“But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than braided rivers spreading outward from many sources through countless deltas) is impossible to reduce to any one formal cause.”

Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.

The “Christmas Stocking Fillers” PR emails have started arriving, despite the fact I’ve never once done a gift guide in 18 years of writing my blog.

Maybe this year’s the year? 🤷

What stocking fillers would be appropriate for journalists, anyway?

Well, that was a pretty clear admission that Apple had spend five years going the wrong way with their laptops, wasn’t it?

Climate journalism needs both fixing and expanding. This is a great step in the right direction.

Here we go again: Premature Blogging Death Notice #357.

Today, I had managed the sort of productivity that if I managed every day, my life would be a lot happier and calmer.

I actually think I can spot two reasons why that happened, so… 🤞🏻

Yikes. You might want to change your Twitch passwords — there’s been a huge data leak.

Zoom fatigue hits women and new hires disproportionally.

We’ve turned Facebook into a single point of failure - and now we’re paying the price.

Let’s all hope @manton knows what he’s doing with border gateway protocol…