Why Substack stealing the big name columnists won’t kill newspapers — and why it might actually be a good thing…
The masked FaceID unlock works great on my iPhone running iOS 14.5. A nice little quality-of-life improvements for Apple Watch users.
I know everyone’s talking about the “paid podcasts” bit of yesterday’s Apple Event, but I do wonder if the sheer multimedia creation power of the new iPad Pro is the bigger story for digital journalists…
So, if M1 Macs can run some iOS apps as well as Mac apps, and the iPad Pro now uses an M1 chip…
…WWDC is going to be really interesting this year, isn’t it?
So, 100 hours on from my first vaccination jab, the side-effects have been negligible. My arm was very sore until yesterday morning. I had a slight headache on Saturday morning, and I was unusually tired for most of the weekend.
Otherwise, all fine. Roll on 💉 #2
So, it turns out that the downside of being married to a woman with a PhD in Immunology is that I get a narrated description of exactly what’s happening in my body in the days since my first Covid vaccination.
It’s fascinating, but a bit disconcerting…
Six thoughts about the Substack local initiative.
Are we losing the fight on content moderation? If so, what should we do instead?
I think the obsession with newsletters is obscuring the bigger story: that the growing prevalence of publishing platforms with built-in member support is going to change the dynamics of publishing over the next 10 years — and more than we expect.
While pulling together this list of weekend reading I remember thinking how often I was linking to Substack in it.
And then I remembered feeling the same about Medium a few years ago.
This too, shall pass, and the web will endure.
Anyone else using a Mac found that their rate of genuine emails filtered to spam has shot up in recent months?
Hiking dates are a thing? Seems like a good way to destruction test your relationship…
I am HERE for headline puns that combine Doctor Who and typography: