Can young audiences be recaptured by broadcast from social video?

Betteridge’s Law applies…


AI is going down great at SXSW:

“The incredibly pro-AI sizzle reel today at SXSW being loudly booed and told to fuck off by roughly a thousand people in the Paramount was heartwarming,” RogerEbert.com editor Brian Tallerico tweeted. “Read the room, people.”


A quick round-up of #podcasting news, initially gathered for our MA Podcasting students, but now shared to everyone.


Saw an article that looked interesting. Saw that the first subhead was “Synergy”. Bailed on that article.


Huh. Just discovered that I still had AMP turned on for Coffee & Complexity. Another Google project that went nowhere.

It’s off now.


It must be an utterly thankless life being an Apple rumour-monger, even a Bloomberg-employed one.


Time Travel, via scanner.


I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.

An unwritten caption in Outdoor Swimmer Magazine.

Early morning mist over the Adur.

Mist sitting in the Adur valley, seen from Lancing College.

The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983.

Even these ruins are gone now, apparently, replaced by a modern new house. My friends and I used to play in and around the ruin as pre-teens.

The ruin of Hillfoot House, in Dollar, Clackmanannshire, circa early 1983.