It was a beautifully misty autumnal commute this morning.

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Finishing the (working) week with a round-up of news from the scrum where AI and journalism meet.

Technology is great. People are idiots.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/ai-friday-3/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


This is great reporting from 404 Media - but I do feel they buried the lead. The Blind stuff is more jaw-dropping than the second buyout offer.

Things are not good inside Automattic.
 https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/


Dashed dreams of better EV batteries are a core disappointment.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/a-core-ev-disappointment/?utm_source=Fediverse&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=First%21


I love Discworld and I like TTRPGs. But I’m not convinced that the combination that’s being Kickstarted is something I’m interested in. What makes Discworld special is Pratchett’s words.

And we ain’t getting any more of them.
 https://bleedingcool.com/games/modiphius-has-successfully-crowdfunded-a-discworld-ttrpg/


This looks worth a watch:

www.youtube.com/watch
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqpk_-rMaU


Not gonna lie, it sometime righteously pisses me off that journalism was going in exactly the right direction with community/audience work 15 years ago — and then we got distracted by Facebook and Google.

Is it too late to change course?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/forget-the-volume-feel-the-community/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Finally had a much-needed trim.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/763b9a94e2.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/67e61ec569.jpg


Y’know, I’m beginning to suspect that it might have been Agatha all along.


A good rule to keep online debate constructive is “play the ball, not the man”. If you attack the poster, not the ideas, you’re playing the man.

Mullenweg’s response to DHH is pure playing the man, not the ball.
 https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/


This is the problem with AI:

“AI can help you create this” is a successful marketing message
“This was created with AI!” isn’t

Far more people want to create with AI than want to consume the results.


The growing tsunami of AI slop is going to force us towards a new wave of trusted curator.

Optimistic? Perhaps. Idealistic? Certainly.

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take this moment of opportunity and need and do something with it.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/why-we-need-new-gatekeepers-to-counter-ai-slop/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Set up author attribution on Mastodon on my Ghost blogs, based on this handy guide.

It’s basically just setting up the meta tag using Ghost’s Code Injection settings, and then adding the domains in Mastodon.
 https://rknight.me/blog/setting-up-mastodon-author-tags/


Now, this is what Sunday evenings are for: a hundred-odd Kathys dancing to Wuthering Heights.

Oh, yes.

youtube.com/...
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_RFT0IYFM?si=XAe67ovQzl3B8MJa


Hey, random guy on Threads. I’ve only been managing large scale blog platform installs on and off for two decades now. I really need you to come and lecture me on how I should chose a platform.


I week ago I was just glad I didn’t use WordPress for any of my sites.

Now? I’m wondering if I need to plan to migrate the journalism department’s sites in the near future.


My rule for living.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/b7d5899acc.jpg


Early morning, South Downs.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/79097e0290.jpg


Late summer rambles at the RSPB Pulborough Brooks nature reserve.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/fb3b263f6a.jpg https://walkingwithdaddy.com/late-summer-at-pulborough-brooks/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=back-blog


Nice image from Hamburg a few weeks backk.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/29b2ec7b27.jpg


So London it hurts.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/1e57e4f8c7.jpg


Another commute begins.

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I spent an interesting evening yesterday at the launch of City St George’s new Institute for Creativity and AI.

How refreshing to see academics pushing forward on this while the technology is still nascent, and before it gets deeply embedded into society.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/launching-the-institute-for-creativity-and-ai/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Well, this is profoundly worrying:

"Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, as humans continue to push ecosystems to the brink of collapse."

 https://apple.news/Af199A8QETRmHTApKdMdW3g


Just made my micro.blog account’s newsletter subscribe page slightly more fancy.
 https://adders.blog/subscribe/


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.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/facebook-woos-the-kids/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Why is Substack’s rival Ghost becoming more and more popular?

Interesting read.
 https://thefix.media/2024/10/3/why-is-substacks-rival-ghost-becoming-more-and-more-popular


Night beach.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/aa3837f053.jpg


"The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with film."

—  @jbaty@social.lol

I still have a film camera. One day I shall use it again. One day.
 https://micro.blog/jbaty@social.lol


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…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/on-bloggers-and-journalists-20-years-on/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share https://micro.blog/dave


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.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/how-many-people-are-you/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


A simple way to improve the internet.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/a-simple-way-to-improve-the-internet/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Headline of the day:

No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons
 https://futurism.com/the-byte/donald-trump-hurricane-ai


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.


A first experiment with Halide’s Process Zero while shooting with my iPhone.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/ded58f2ce7.jpg https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/process-zero-a-first-experiment/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coffeecomplex


The beach huts on Littlehampton beach this morning turned out to be a real photographic gift, as did an unexpectedly shaped café.

I must do more random photography like this.

More images here.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/d51d769669.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/019fa5c48e.jpg https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/20-minutes-on-littlehampton-beach/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=microblog


Cheeky coffee and bap at Edge by the Sea after dropping my youngest at a Brownies day.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/14908a5665.jpg https://www.edgebythesea.co.uk/


The clash between Sober October and London Cocktail Week feels particularly vexing this year.
 https://www.gosober.org.uk https://londoncocktailweek.com


Quite the reverse: challenger digital news brands are now snapping up traditional print media ones. But what should we make of the sale of The Spectator, and the discussions about Tortoise buying The Observer?

I have thoughts.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/when-digital-goes-shopping-for-print/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers - and the site attempt to infect you device with malware.

Moral of the story: don’t be a creep.
 https://www.404media.co/a-network-of-ai-nudify-sites-are-a-front-for-notorious-russian-hackers-2/


Survived the first day of lecturing this academic year. Just 9½ weeks to go…

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Abandoned shoe on the beach.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/a72bc01b81.jpg


Need a POSSE?

I think we all do. And, right now, micro.blog is mine.

This is the way forward, if we want to navigate the social media diaspora in an efficient, feasible way.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/09/we-need-a-social-media-posse/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Another day, another pub. 🍺

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/1369449b3f.jpg


Started reading: Late Light by Michael Malay 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781786581426


Started reading: Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781399401043


Morning from a Kentish pub.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/08dae249ed.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/d4d97e9ee9.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/7c249cc1bf.jpg


Brits: Adventurous Ink, a great book club that sends you books on nature, adventure - and reconnecting with each other and reclaiming our attention — has a relaunch Kickstarter that’s struggling to meet its target.

Please do check it out, and consider backing.
 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/217171643/adventurous-re-think/


Here’s a secret: Fritz Kola is one of the main reasons I love going to Hamburg…

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/7a22522c94.jpg


I sometimes wish I had made photography a bigger part of my professional life. The only time I really get to do it is when I’m doing event liveblogging. And sometimes that turns into gig photography.

I have blogs. I should do more photography projects.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/alli-neumann-opening-next24/


What the hell is happening at Automattic?

It looks like the war for the profits of WordPress has begun…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/09/what-the-hell-is-happening-at-automattic-part-2/?utm_source=Fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Beardy Guy

"Appreciate and take care of your devices. Take pleasure in their longevity. If they get the job done, keep using them. This is the way."

Still happily rocking an iPhone 13 Pro. Not feeling any urgency to upgrade.
 https://beardystarstuff.net/linked/2024-09-25.html


The Bell, the first Mill Media local journalism site to be powered by Ghost, is live.

Glasgow is getting Ghosted…
 https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk


Good news, chums! Coffee is good for you!

(Yes, I am avoiding reading the details, lest they undermine the news I want.)

☕☕
 https://boingboing.net/2024/09/25/study-finds-drinking-plenty-of-coffee-is-good-for-you.html


This Automattic / WP Engine story
is absolutely wild.

If those texts are genuine, I’m going to need a lot of popcorn as this plays out.
 https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/23/wp-engine-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-automattic-over-mullenwegs-comments/


One of the lovely things about NEXT Conference is that, thanks to it happening alongside the Reeperbahn Festival, we get some great musical opening acts.

This year it was Alli Neumann.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/alli-neumann-opening-next24/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=photos


Liking the aesthetic of this coffee shop.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/6850019ff1.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/c6b682a5cd.jpg


Saying goodbye to Hamburg again. Greta trip this year, even if BA seemed reluctant to actually fly any of us home…

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/bd5b9c88fb.jpg


That’s how you start a conference…

#next24

 https://adders.blog/2024/09/19/thats-how-you.html


Good morning from Hamburg and #next24 on Reeperbahn. Busy day ahead…


This tribute to David is touching but a little surreal:

"In Ottawa, Canada, anti-war protestors put up pictures of Knowles on what’s called the Freedom Pole, which sits outside the Russian embassy, with the message “eternal memory”"

I’m used to my students breaking news. Becoming it is something entirely different.
 https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/obituaries/david-knowles-telegraph-journalist-who-made-huge-impact-in-a-short-life/


Lovely autumnal moment in the churchyard.

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This is interesting: one of the most interesting news startups in the UK is leaving Substack and heading to Ghost: Mill Media titles to depart newsletter platform Substack.
 https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/mill-media-leaves-substack-ghost/


A spicy panel from yesterday’s Future of Media Technology conference.

Those in and around journalistic publishing are very wary indeed of the AI companies. Should they sign up — or sue?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/09/ai-should-publishers-sign-up-or-sue/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Started reading: Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9780008619046


Getting back to familiar territory with the newsletter, after the sadness of earlier in the week.

A touch of SEO, a pinch of analytics, and some interesting journalism events.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/09/how-to-get-your-relationship-with-google-back-on-track/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


I can’t believe my former student and friend is gone. Ukraine: the latest podcast host dies.

Rest in peace, David. Oh, the journalism you would have done, my friend.
 https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/telegraph-ukraine-podcast-presenter-david-knowles-dies/


Jony Ive made a button.

So far out of my price range, it’s ludicrous.  But so very interesting.
 https://om.co/2024/09/07/jony-made-a-button/


Spot on from @moonmehta:

"You don’t have to leave X if you don’t want to for some reason but please take some effort to widen your horizons and connect with diverse people at places you can better control. Blog, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc."

 https://micro.blog/moonmehta


Yup. Definitely autumnal.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/862f2f5a17.jpg


Back to the early morning swimming lessons. Summer is truly done.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/39b3b3ffd0.jpg


"A bird is a poem with wings."

Jeremy Hughes in the essay A Risca Boy’s Birds from Going to Ground, an Anthology of Nature and Place edited by Jon Woolcott 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781915068347


Agree 100% with @jack about this:

"I often vigoriously disagree with Freddie deBoer, but I also often love how he puts things."

 https://micro.blog/jack https://baty.net/journal/2024/09/06/today/


This sums up exactly what I’m feeling as summer wanes:

"The end of summer seems like a more significant marker of the passing of time than any other point in the year - another chance to live our best lives slips away, like liquid gold running through our fingers. Did we make the most of it? Did we grasp the opportunity with enough enthusiasm?"

Did we?
 https://miscellaneousadventures.substack.com/p/the-most-melancholic?r=2hwy&triedRedirect=true


Something tells me autumn is on its way.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/7066248c96.jpg


Very pracitical newsletter today:

Why doomscrolling is boring - and what works better
The simple secret of great headlines
Plus more…

Read on.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/09/the-secret-to-a-great-headline-revealed/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


This looks like a good scheme: sell old books for credit and keep them out of the hands of Amazon.

Authors get a cut — and independent bookshops might get something out of it, indirectly…
 https://theecologist.org/2024/aug/28/new-chapter-secondhand-books


Lloyd on approaching 20 years of blogging:
I’ve definitely put in a few “10,000 hours”—probably on multiple aspects of creating social media. And by “social media” I just mean media that is social, not just the microblogging, photo-sharing, social network platforms that people think of now. I’ve been doing this for twenty years, man. If I have to point to something I can’t stop doing, it’s writing silly stories on the internet.
 https://perfectpath.co.uk/2024/08/30/august-30th-2024-morning-notes/


Manuel Moreale on a better web:
That is the web I’m arguing for. A web that is intentional, where what you consume is curated by you and you alone, where connections with others happen because you made the conscious effort to connect.
 https://manuelmoreale.com/the-social-web


Daily newsletter: go!

Today: Comments, Clickbait — and Screen Apnea?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/09/clickbait-comments-and-screen-apnea/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Some thoughts on how AI could improve the organisation of photo libraries from @markbraggins@mastondon.social
 https://markbraggins.com/thoughts-on-how-ai-could-improve-the-organisation-of-photo-libraries/


The new design for Colossal looks really nice.

Web magazine design seems to be going through a resurgence.
 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/09/welcome-to-the-new-colossal/


Back from my hols, and back to blogging/newslettering.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/09/seasonal-publishing/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Making the most of the end of the summer hols.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/437e2d4658.jpg


Acorns, ripening.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/531098226f.jpg


Opening your work emails after 10 days of holiday is terrifying.


Iconic view.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/621daeda92.jpg


Just experienced my first aviation go-around as our EasyJet flight landed at Gatwick. The sudden return to the air wasn’t too bad - the successssion of children vomiting as a result was less easy.


Life is hell.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/4eb73a8e1a.jpg


Sometime in the late 50s, my mother did a river trip down the Thames, based on these old negatives.

I wish I could work out what the under-construction building are/were.

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Proud to live in Sussex tonight. The extremists who came to Brighton really came to the wrong town.
 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3d9e3e573o


☕ on the 🏖

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/99dfe4a592.jpg


Summer, allegedly.

 https://adders.blog/2024/08/07/summer-allegedly.html


Rough time ahead for Google: it has AI challengers eying up its search business, while the DOJ has decided that it’s abusing its search monopoly.

Attacks from two sides…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/08/google-is-on-the-naughty-step/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


This morning’s newsletter is a bit more serious: to what degree has Musk’s loosened moderation on X helped incite the UK riots this weekend?

Alan Rusbridger thinks it has played a significant role. How about you?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/08/x-predicts-a-riot/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Adding or updating some details on Open Library about the slightly obscure books I read is surpringly satisfying.


Started reading: A Countryman’s Summer Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚— working my way through these four seasonal collections, in the appropriate season…
 https://micro.blog/books/9781910898888


Dennis Sellers for Apple World Today: Apple should revive the AirPort line-up with Wi-Fi 6E support

Yes, it damn well should.
 https://appleworld.today/2024/07/apple-should-revive-the-airport-line-up-with-wi-fi-6e-support/


I’m back from our road trip holiday, and getting the daily newsletter back up and running.

Today’s edition is, inevitably, dominated by AI, but there’s also something interesting happening about Apple and Substack open rates…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/08/why-oh-why-oh-ai/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Big Willie style

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/1a9c908f32.jpg


Bardcore

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/fcb0d95cb8.jpg


Burn, baby, burn.

 https://adders.blog/2024/07/29/burn-baby-burn.html


Started reading: Going to Ground, an Anthology of Nature and Place, edited by Jon Woolcott 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781915068347


Scottish sundown

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/6b8f693fa0.jpg


Shark!

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/b59d208af5.jpg


A beautiful example of clickbait that immediately owns up to being clickbait in the first par…
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/confirmed-taylor-swift-is-in-deadpool-and-wolverine-spoilers/


Y’know, if you’re trying to persuade someone to give you something, arguing with and attempting to patronise them seems like a poor tactic to me. I do wonder how much success they’re having with that approach…


"Sticks are fine things. You can dabble in ponds with them. You can throw them for dogs to fetch. And if they’re of the right build - stout, with a hand-snug end - you can stride through the woods using one as an aid, not just for the walking but for the general quality of the experience."

— From Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781783966387


I love the way the MG logo on the front of my EV glows while it’s charging.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/c6751bcdb5.jpg


Don’t you hate it when an old friend starts dating someone you can’t stand?

That’s pretty much exactly how I feel about Apple getting into bed with Taboola, for “native advertising” in Apple News.

What about reader experience, Apple?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/07/bad-news-apple-loves-taboola/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Negative positivity — or why even scanned negatives are worth hanging on to…

📷🎞
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/negative-positivity/


Why being in nature is so good for your mental health:

"We have evolved in nature for thousands of years, and so it’s just intuitive that we are healthiest and the most balanced when we are in nature."

 https://www.advnture.com/features/why-is-nature-so-good-for-mental-health


Surfers Against Sewage:

"Ofwat have championed that water company plans will cut discharges from storm overflows by 44% by 2030. But, this will still allow discharges to occur a massive 200,000 times a year. What really takes this piss is that Ofwat had already told companies to reduce spills by 21% by next year anyway. So when you break it down between 2025-2030 they are only requiring a 23% reduction."

Disgusting, both figuratively and literally.
 https://www.sas.org.uk/updates/our-response-to-todays-ofwat-announcement/


Jodie Whittaker returns to Doctor Who for Big Finish.

Oh, brilliant!
 https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/jodie-whittaker-returns-to-doctor-who?utm_source=bigfinishapp&utm_medium=mobile&utm_campaign=BFRANGE128&utm_content=news


Zak Asgard:

"By January this year, videos about Stanley cups had been viewed a soul-destroying 201.4 million times. Think about that. Videos of people sucking on what is essentially an adult training cup have been viewed more times than Nasa’s YouTube upload of the Apollo 11 mission."

 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-cult-of-the-water-bottle/


Apparently BT have decided that providing us with broadband is a pretty optional thing, so today will be powered by mobile broadband.

Let’s hope it’s up to a Zoom judging session…


If you’re a journalist, everyone’s a critic. @manton’s turn:

"It used to be that opinion sections and letters to the editor were great places to hear a diverse set of perspectives. Now the whole web is that. Journalists are straining their credibility when we most need the facts."

{Link}
 https://micro.blog/manton https://www.manton.org/2024/07/06/the-world-has.html


www.manton.org/2024/07/0…
 https://www.manton.org/2024/07/06/the-world-has.html


"It’s time to stop caring what journalists think."

— @dave, not beating about the bush…
 https://micro.blog/dave


Does a new government open up the chance to refresh the transparency agenda?

A discussion from #ODCamp in Manchester…
 https://www.odcamp.uk/refreshing-our-approach-to-government-transparency/


Uploading the first of my photos from #ODCamp are heading up to Flickr.
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/albums/72177720318539875/


The last #ODCamp session liveblog from Matt and I today: with the Microsoft AI CEO saying all web content is “freeware” and usable for training, how do the Open Data community feel about that?
 https://www.odcamp.uk/ai-and-the-open-web-what-the-hell-is-happening/


Here’s the pitches from the #ODcamp 9 unconference in Manchester today.
 https://www.odcamp.uk/odcamp-9-the-pitches-day-one/


Reservoir #ODCamp dogs.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/8ca57fd210.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/65eb78b89e.jpg


Did a democracy. Took my daughters - this will be the first general election that they really remember.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/bed7f58574.jpg


Blimey. As the other social networks pull away from journalist, Mastodon is embracing it — and even Threads might be warming up to it again.

Interesting times.

(Paradigm shifts always are…)
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/07/mastodon-loves-journalism-and-even-threads-is-warming-to-it/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


This is a pitch for a Doctor Who episode, not a useful journalism notification…

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/0b38cfec1d.jpg


Why didn’t the 100,000 strong march to restore nature get more coverage?

The suggested answer is depressing: the protestors were too well-behaved.
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/24/the-nature-march-had-a-huge-turnout-so-why-didnt-it-make-bigger-news


Escaping tech’s boom/doom cycle requires a nuanced view of risk/reward.

And the global south has something to teach us here.
 https://nextconf.eu/2024/06/the-tech-boom-doom-cycle/?utm_source=Fediverse&utm_medium=microblog-adders&utm_campaign=Reshare-next


Guess which party standing in the UK general election made no commitment to do anything about the sewage going into our rivers and seas?

I bet you can guess…
 https://www.sas.org.uk/updates/political-parties-announce-plans-to-tackle-sewage-pollution/


Things are busy in growing corner.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/99b1abae2a.jpg


This is the week when the UK changes.

But we’ve very little idea of what it will become…
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/the-week-the-uk-changes/


Shoreham Beach, Sunday 30th June

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/913fd11c34.jpg


Church Times reporting on a new CoE report on trust and trustworthiness:

"Social media is also touched on in a section on access to information, with the warning that, “through our indiscriminate use of social media we are in danger of becoming stupid in our judgement of where to place our trust.”"

Amen.
 https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/28-june/news/uk/what-would-jesus-think-if-he-read-your-social-media-posts-church-review-asks


Not coming to this café again…

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/048dae41d8.jpg


Started reading: Cairn by Kathleen Jamie 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781914502019


It’s possible that my childhood bedroom was a bit geeky.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/d19f07c109.jpg


🚨If you have old data in Google Analytics (version 3 / Universal Analytics), you only have until Monday to save it. 🚨

Here’s some suggestions for getting it safely exported and stored.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/06/save-your-old-google-analytics-3-data-now/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


This is a fascinating experiment: use a newsletter to build a (paying) community, and once it’s large enough, launch a print magazine.

I’ll be watching this with interest.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/06/building-a-new-print-magazine-newsletter-first/


Well, I didn’t have Rushi Sunak versus David Tennant on my bingo card for this election.
 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/26/rishi-sunak-kemi-badenoch-david-tennant-trans-row/


"It’s easy enough to dismiss these birds [pigeons] as rats with wings, but if we hate them for their ubiquity, adaptive success and propensity to make life unpleasant for species that want to share their space, then maybe that’s just because they’re stealing our shtick."

— From Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781783966387


"‘There’s no such thing as bad weather,’ Alfred Wainwright once said. ‘Only unsuitable clothing’ He was right, I suppose. Although possibly also a trifle smug."

— from Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781783966387


Cross-posting from micro.blog to Threads via the new API seems to be working perfectly. 👌🏼


Adult bullies are so much worse that child ones. They have much less excuse and no chance of “growing out of it”.

This is the person they have chosen to be.


The old lighthouse, Shoreham.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/1e887eab6a.jpg


Just scrolled through my Facebook feed. In the first 70 posts, there are just two from friends:

No. 5
No. 68.

The rest is all groups, pages and ads.


Interesting piece from Suw about how protestors are slowly strangling the funding of literary festivals. Their campaign is full of good intentions, but the impact is dramatic.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/wordcounting/p/fossil-fuel-activists-attack-literary?r=2hwy&utm_medium=ios


Touching grass, very literally.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/d79e57cc79.jpg


Standing for the seas and #SussexBay.


Time to hear about making the vast Sussex Bay better…

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/f94007d843.jpg


Apple Intelligence = assistive intelligence - with some interesting guardrails.

This is a different approach to AI.
 https://nextconf.eu/2024/06/apple-intelligence-when-ai-becomes-personal-assistive-intelligence/


I’m spending the day at a conference about newsletters for publishers. Here’s some live-blogged notes from a panel about lessons publishers can learn from independent newsletter companies.

Some good insights here.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/06/lessons-from-newsletter-first-publications/


Some good thoughts here from Matt Webb: Observations on Siri, Apple Intelligence, and hiding in plain sight.
 https://interconnected.org/home/2024/06/11/siri


Om Malik: Why Apple Should Support National Parks .

/signed
 https://om.co/2024/06/11/why-apple-should-support-national-parks/


Photographers Don’t Want Their Negatives Back From the Lab Anymore.

Idiots. Physical back up right there.
 https://petapixel.com/2024/06/07/photographers-dont-want-their-negatives-back-from-the-lab-anymore/


I miss the old group blogs that were a big feature of the 2000s internet. Dave Winer thinks we should bring them back, but with a fediverse twist.
 http://scripting.com/2024/06/07/133218.html?title=anInternetForWriters


Typing student feedback, and “the ‘gram” (Instagram) got auto-corrected to “the ‘grim”, and I’m not entirely sure that’s actually wrong.


Could an afternoon in the woods at the rewilded Knepp Estate rewild my child?

My youngest and I went along to find out — and found ourselves fascinated by barn owl pellets…
 https://walkingwithdaddy.com/knepp-rewilding-your-child/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=test-shares


"I don’t need a forest bathing ticket or expensive gear to sit and eat a cheese and pickle sandwich on a fallen tree trunk. I don’t need an end point, a map or a phone."

Dal Kular in Wild Service, edited by Nick Hayes 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781526673299


"When a man begins to turn the earth he finds that spring is not born in the branches of the trees, but down in the cold and dark and damp. Before the first mild morning had stimulated birds to sing, some influence had been felt down here."

— A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781910898765


Finally, the shot I was destineded to take. A wild adder, shot by @adders.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/649b526f30.jpg https://micro.blog/adders


Blimey.


Having one of those moments when you’re happily scanning your way through some old negatives of your parents', and it slowly dawns on you that this set was shot…

…on a nudist beach.


Started reading: A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚

These little hardback editions from Simply Foxed are just gorgeous.
 https://micro.blog/books/9781910898765 https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/adrian-bell-a-countrymans-spring-notebook/


Do electric vehicles use more water than petrol cars? https://open.substack.com/pub/hannahritchie/p/electric-vehicles-water?r=2hwy&utm_medium=ios.

As ever, it’s not just about switching to EVs - it’s about the source of the electricity you use.


Started reading: Wild Service by Nick Hayes 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781526673299


This is where my eldest is camping with the Guides. I am very jealous.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/a0d446db9a.jpg


Started reading: Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781783966387


Om Malik with the headline of the day there.
 https://om.co/2024/05/24/ai-has-an-anus-problem/


We need to collapse context collapse in our online communities.

Good fences and all that…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/05/collapsing-context-collapse/


I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a general election quite as much as this one.


The Rail Riders Club was a marketing thing British Rail did back in the 1980s, before it was broken up and privatised. These images are from a meet they held in Edinburgh, back in the late 80s.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/c4b5030e35.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2024/d6210fedcc.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Riders


Once, a very long time ago, I turned 12.

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Second update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support: Building ActivityPub: Day 1
 https://activitypub.ghost.org/building-activitypub-day-1/


Started reading: Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781035006809


The web is not dying::
Let’s imagine we ban TikTok. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Threads. And all the other huge platforms. There would still be one global town square left. It’s called the web. The web itself IS the global town square.
 https://manuelmoreale.com/the-web-is-not-dying


Captured for posterity, before I recycle them: photo wallets and negative holders from 1980s photo labs.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/cf7e1c2a2c.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/9ad72b6366.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/5dbad6e6be.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/90527bb66c.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/f068cf30ad.jpg


The first update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support.
 https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-0/


Wondering how many readers will get the joke that I called @ianbetteridge “lawfully chaotic” in my latest newsletter/post…
 https://micro.blog/ianbetteridge https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/05/how-publications-get-sloppy/?utm_source=microblog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=joke


Don’t get sloppy with AI — make sure whatever you do is intentional, and audience-focused.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/05/stop-the-slop/?utm_source=microblog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


When a Guardian journalist asked climate experts what they expect to happen. The results are terrifying:

"“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the global south,” said a South African scientist, who chose not to be named. “The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.”"

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature


Why are so many journalists still wary — or even ashamed — of the word “blog” after 25 years?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/05/journalisms-blog-shame/?utm_source=micro-blog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Lovely tribute to CJ Sansom and his quiet faith in the ability of humans who can walk the middle path to improve the world.
 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/c-j-sansoms-tudor-england-is-a-mirror-of-our-divided-world/


If you go down to the woods today…

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UK Bank Holiday Monday on form: it’s tipping it down.

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Flip. I knew the electricity cost of AI was high, but the water cost is awful, too:
For inference (i.e., conversation with ChatGPT), our estimate shows that ChatGPT needs a 500-ml bottle of water for a short conversation of roughly 20 to 50 questions and answers, depending on when and where the model is deployed. Given ChatGPT’s huge user base, the total water footprint for inference can be enormous.
 https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/04/15/the-secret-water-footprint-of-ai-technology


John Naughton in The Observer:
The creative commons of the internet has been gradually and inexorably enclosed, much as agricultural land was by parliamentary acts from 1600 onwards in England.
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/the-internet-is-in-decline-it-needs-rewilding


Good morning from the South Downs.

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The nice thing about EV tech developing so fast is the realisation that my current EV - good though it is — is probably the absolute worst EV I will ever own.

Things will only get better from here.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/petrol-shock-and-charging-into-the-future/


Beware! The link controllers don’t want you soiling their pristine websites with your dirty open web linking behaviour.

(People are really still trying to control who links to them in 2024… Mind-boggling. 🤯)
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/04/weird-linking-policies-on-websites/?utm_source=microblod&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


There’s never 30 to 50 feral hogs around when you need them.


If AI search takes hold, and upends the business model of web publishing and Google itself, the search giant will have been the architect of its own downfall.

By letting search quality decay to maximise profits, it created the perfect conditions for its own disruption.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/04/is-ai-search-a-sideshow-or-a-potential-economic-apocalypse/?utm_source=microblog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


Wild garlic growing by my youngest’s school. I love the smell of it.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/23640373fe.jpg


The US really went and did it. Bytedance faces an ultimatum: sell TikTok - or see it banned in the US.

Now we’ll find out how important the app is to China’s influence operations.

🍿🍿🍿
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/04/one-year-until-tiktok-is-banned-in-the-usa/?utm_source=microblog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


The last post for Post News: a potential Twitter successor that tried to cosy up to the news industry is shutting down.

The field is thinning… I suspect it’ll come down to X, Threads & Mastodon, and Bluesky.

But can Bluesky find its audience in that context, or is the future all ActivityPub?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/04/the-last-post-for-post-news/?utm_source=microblog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


The one cost of AI we don’t talk about nearly enough: it’s seriously energy hungry at a time when we’re both trying together to decarbonise and increase our energy security.

New solutions needed…
 https://nextconf.eu/2024/04/ai-needs-new-energy-and-lots-of-it/?utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=li_blog


The new CEO of Vimeo gets ready to sell your content to the AI companies:

"Over the next few weeks, we will be gathering input via a survey and community outreach to understand the types of controls our creative community wants with respect to AI. We will be asking your opinions about your use of AI, the training you’re comfortable with, the opt-in and opt-out models you prefer, and how you want us to treat your public, private, and freely distributed videos."

So much “nope”.
 https://vimeo.com/blog/post/note-on-ai/


Piper Haywood:

"spewing mediocrity is a pretty strong sweet spot for AI"

 https://piperhaywood.com/ai-is-pretty-much-just-shorthand-for-mediocre/


📷 #mbApr Day 21

The Cairngorms in early 1989.

For day 21 of the April Photoblogging Challenge: mountain, suggested by David, aka @dejus.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/scan-100925-0008.jpg https://micro.blog/dejus


Littlehampton harbour, with gulls.

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I have a courtesy car while my own car is in the coach works. But, oh sweet happiness, much to my surprise, it has CarPlay. Once you’ve had CarPlay, there’s no going back.


This is awesome.

A couple of months ago, researchers found a huge area of ancient seaweed off the Cornish coast. What’s the significance of 900 rugby pitches of maerl? It could be a valuable blue carbon store:

"Blue carbon is carbon that is captured and stored in marine habitats, and is considered by some scientists to be vital in helping balance climate change."

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-68450750


Day 17: transcendence, suggested by Drew, aka @drewbelf. #mbapr

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/64a9867f6d.jpg https://micro.blog/drewbelf


A rare image of my long-gone fencing days. I’m the one on the right.

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The political problems around TikTok will only get worse if it keeps behaving like this.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/04/tiktok-watch/?utm_source=microblog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share


📷 #mbApr Day 15

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/ecd946f1-2cd5-46c7-bd90-cb0b9096c5a4-2024-04-15-at-2.14.11pm.jpeg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/ecd946f1-2cd5-46c7-bd90-cb0b9096c5a4-2024-04-15-at-2.14.11pm.jpeg


Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Birds and trees and bluebells.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/d2d496d40f.jpg https://walkingwithdaddy.com/pulborough-brooks-april-2024/


A sobering find in my Mum’s negatives. This is the original Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, taken in 1989. The bridge was destroyed in the Croat-Bosniak war four years later. The bridge there now is a recreation.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/2024-04-03-0018.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croat%E2%80%93Bosniak_War


Started reading: The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century by Jessica Vincent 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781837990986


OK, why did nobody warn me that Inside Out is such a harrowing watch for a parent?


Cetacean Corner. Videos of our watery mammal friends. Not for the easily offended.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/cetacean-corner/


Starbucks quietly pretends it never fell for the NFT hype.

I think that bubble is well and truly burst now.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/starbucks-quietly-pretends-it-never-fell-for-the-nft-hype/


It’s really hard to find a theme for most of the big blogging platforms that supports the old-style “all of the last few posts on the homepage” approach to blogging.

They all seem to assume that every post will have a title, a lead image, and that people will click through to read everything.

I’m glad mi... adders.blog https://adders.blog/2024/03/18/its-really-hard.html


I’m having one of those days where good news in the journalism/tech/publishing space is remarkably hard to find.


OK, the experiment is done. Let’s just shut down the internet now:

"The “Young Indian Method” is a term that has been circulating among TikTok and YouTube hustler bros for the last year or so, and there are now various content influencers who use the term as an explanation for how they are able to make tons of money off of the back of low-wage workers in developing countries."

Source: 404 Media
 https://www.404media.co/email/859d66c7-c3cd-4e28-9af9-cd064e20e216/


Is Elon Musk getting bored of X/Twitter?

With a bold prediction that Xitter will change hands by year end…
 https://spyglass.org/xhitshow/?ref=adders-blog


The tale of the credulous publishers and the AI Pied Piper: a cautionary fairy tale for grown-ups everywhere.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/03/the-dangerous-lure-of-the-tech-evangelist/?ref=one-man-his-blog-newsletter


The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/d326c8bcd6.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/31dea950a5.jpg


Can young audiences be recaptured by broadcast from social video?

Betteridge’s Law applies…
 https://the-media-leader.com/can-young-audiences-be-recaptured-by-broadcast-from-social-video/


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.”"

 https://futurism.com/the-byte/sxsw-boos-ai


A quick round-up of #podcasting news, initially gathered for our MA Podcasting students, but now shared to everyone.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/03/podcastings-moving-fast-and-possibly-breaking-things/?utm_source=microblog&utm_medium=social-share&utm_campaign=crosspost


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


It must be an utterly thankless life being an Apple rumour-monger, even a Bloomberg-employed one.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/not-an-accessory/


Time Travel, via scanner.
 https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/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.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/c3b27116b6.jpg


Early morning mist over the Adur.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/02a22679c8.jpg


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.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/daeb371537.jpg


Mum, March 1983.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/350ec69295.jpg


Yikes. I need to do better than that.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/01bca762f5.jpg


Well, who doesn’t?

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/ee6d68d31b.jpg


Today I have been moving over 30Gb of videos around my network, archiving footage from livestreams and other events.

Every single file I’m moving is many, many times the size of the hard drives of my first few Macs.


Ah, who can fail to love one of these?

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/589239a2c1.jpg


Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/ebe8f348f5.jpg


Started reading: Local by Alastair Humphreys 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781785633676


7.30am swimming class wisdom for the day.


A sign of spring.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/edc5b3af24.jpg


"Living at the coast takes a special kind of stoicism and hardiness. And a readiness to make hay while the sun shines. If you are born to it then it’s just a part of life. But if you are new to it, or plan to make a life of it, it’s good to remember that it’s not all plain sailing. And you might need some waterproof trousers."

— Martin Dorey in Coast magazine


Sad times for Portuguese D&D fans.
 https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1669-change-to-supported-languages-in-d-d-product


Turns out I can’t spell phoenix to save my life. I have a complete mental block over how to spell it correctly.

Yes, I had to look it up for this post. 🤦🏼♂


So, just starting to get my head around micro.blog’s new premium offer. It took me a while too twig that, when you set up a new blog, you’re the same user., but with an additionalnal blog.

That means that some of the automatically set up things - like an about page - make little sense, because they’re pul... adders.blog https://adders.blog/2024/02/22/so-just-starting.html


So, Reddit is selling all the free labour of its users to an AI company to train its model.

Well, that explains the API changes last year…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/02/reddit-gets-paid-for-ai-training/


Setting up my second blog on micro.blog: @unknownexposures


I hate chasing invoices. But it looks like I’m going to need to do it today or tomorrow.

Ugh.


Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/be7cedfefb.jpg https://www.banff-uk.com/films


One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/d537db6bda.jpg


This duck is stylin’.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/6aa54426af.jpg


Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/fcc78a118f.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/a8d1ab7d39.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/8c99387ccb.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/47e3689ff5.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/a8f3efba44.jpg


Here are the small but dedicated band of protestors in their conspiratorial glory.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/de1bc9d3a2.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/aa9875185a.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/5c70426627.jpg


Bit of a “grab bag” protest in town. They’re against:

Cashless payments
Vaccines
Ultra low emissions zones
The World Economic Forum

I might not mention that I’ve been in the offices of the last one…


My paternal Shrove Tuesday duty is done.

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Friendly wee chaps.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/9be945ad47.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/162d629805.jpg


Evening light at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/0e0a0da478.jpg


Water level a bit on the high side, then.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/e1f6198f92.jpg


"semicolons are a suitably catlike, noncommittal form of punctuation."

— Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9780316426473


Gosh, my daughters love the days out I pick for them!

 https://adders.blog/2024/02/11/gosh-my-daughters.html


Love a bit of crema

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/459c46e3f7.jpg


🔗 Hunter-Gathering For Wimps:

"Making a conscious decision to shut the f* up, not cause the planet bow and crack under the weight of more opinions, and just listen to people sometimes, even if they are talking total crap**

I have realised that, in addition to its many other perks, this is a useful way to conserve energy."

Tom Cox nails it.
 https://tomcox.substack.com/p/hunter-gathering-for-wimps?r=2hwy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post


We’ve just had the world’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit.

What’s it going to take before people treat this seriously?
 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68110310


Looks like Apple has an image editing Generative AI coming. Quite Apple-y to be task specific.
 https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/07/apple-ai-model-edits-images-natural-language/


Never change, Magazine Journalism MA students…

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/161cbd70ea.jpg


Want to feel old? Somebody born when Leeroy Jenkins wiped his raid will turn 19 this year.

You’re welcome.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins


Finding the intro that finally makes the piece you’ve been struggling with work is such a blissful moment.


Let’s get phygital…

Apple’s Vision Pro is a tentative first step towards building a blended digital/physical world. But this is like the launch of the original Mac, not the iPhone.
 https://nextconf.eu/2024/02/apple-vision-pro-a-tentative-first-step-into-a-phygital-world/


Good morning from the Downs.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/31222d06b8.jpg


Haircut achieved.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/915dceb0f8.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/5be8141797.jpg


Today I will be:

a. marking
b. learning about DMARC
c. gettting a hair cut

One big party, my life.


🔗 Return-to-office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study says - The Washington Post

"Now, new research from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh** **suggests that office mandates may not help companies’ financial performances, but they can make workers less satisfied with their jobs and work-life balance."

I will never understand the obsession with getting everyone back into the office. If you want them back, tempt them, don’t order them.
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/24/return-to-office-mandates-company-performance/


Finally, some harbingers of spring.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/2b5c0fb59f.jpg


After nearly a month battling a respiratory virus, today is the first day I’ve woken up and genuinely felt like I was on the mend.

Feels good.


Why are publishers making fools of themselves by deploying generative AI that clearly isn’t ready yet?

They’re terrified of repeating the mistakes of the past…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/01/ai-adoption-and-publishers-what-journalism-history-tells-us/


Started reading: Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9780316426473


A week round-up of podcasting news, derived from my work on the audience strategy module of our new MA in Podcasting.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/01/podcasting-news-round-up/


Last summer danah boyd was still trying to ignore the Metaverse.

It’s only got easier since!
 http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2023/08/06/still-trying-to-ignore-the-metaverse.html


A compelling argumentment from Om Malik that Google has entered the same stage of decline that, for example, Microsoft saw under Steve Ballmer.
 https://om.co/2024/01/22/bell-labs-google-same-sad-story/


I have to say, I’m a little bored of being ill now. I’ve had one illness or another since I caught COVID nearly a month ago.


Whether or not Substack ever had a significant Nazi problem is now a moot point.

It undoubtedly has a Nazi image problem – and that’s not going to easy to shift.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/01/substack-really-has-a-nazi-problem-now/


Platformer leaving Substack for Ghost over the “platforming Nazis” issue.

That’ll be a substantial hit for Substack.
 https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


This is an insanely long, but very detailed and compelling, telling of the Substack story — and how the platform got into its current mess.

Recommended.
 https://ff2f.com/how-to-ghost-substack/


I’m getting a lot of traffic from Russia at the moment.

Not quite sure what to make of that.


My annual look at the most popular posts on my journalism site, One Man & His Blog.

The clearest trend is the real sense of uncertainty surrounding social media right now. If it’s confusing for users, think how challenging it is for professionals…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/01/the-top-10-post-on-om-hb-in-2023/


Dave Winer:

"It would be better if journalists did not gravitate to a Facebook-owned Twitter clone."

Amen.
 http://scripting.com/2024/01/10.html#a201705


One of the (very) small ironies of the “Substackers against Nazis” ruckus is that I’ve ended up spending way more time on Substack than usual, just to track what’s happening.


My inability to remember which is the correct spelling – whether or wether – means I accidentally write about castrated rams rather more than anyone outside Farmers Weekly should ever do so.


Substack launched Notes to steal attention from Twitter.

It succeeded. Right now, I bet they’re regretting that.


This was very interesting to write. It does feel like some models of society and lifepaths have reached their natural end — and are now running on human inertia.

Opportunity lies in spotting what’s dead, and figuring out what should replace it.
 https://nextconf.eu/2024/01/deconstruction-is-the-seed-of-opportunity/


These cactus leather iPhone cases look nice. Still a natural material, but without the environmental costs of cow skin.

Quite tempted to get one in a few months.
 https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/09/ces-2024-otterbox/


Oh, marvellous. The UK government is now making policies based on easily disprovable conspiracy theories.

They’re either idiots, or they think pandering to idiots is the only way they’ll stay in power.
 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/shift-from-15-minute-cities-in-england-partly-due-to-conspiracy-theories


My companion didn’t stay long…

 https://adders.blog/2024/01/10/my-companion-didnt.html


Frosty but beautiful beach walk after school drop off this morning. Starting to feel like I’m finally shaking off the Christmas lurgy.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/07b489983c.jpg


"On the intrigue side, Fieldwork can be relied on to provide the spectacularly weird. Downstream from Richmond we once spotted a polystyrene takeaway tray on which somebody had placed - for no adequately explicable reason - some poo. They had adorned this with a small Union flag, fixed at a jaunty angle, and set the whole thing sailing off down the river. We watched it until it was gone from view."

— From Elegy For a River by Tom Moorhouse 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781473575660


This, and the piece it’s based on, are well worth a read: Dorothy Thompson On Who Goes Nazi

Sad that it feels as relevant today as it did when it was written.
 https://first-draft.com/2024/01/09/dorothy-thompson-on-who-goes-nazi/


Man shocked to discover that two-edged sword does, in fact, have two edges.
 https://www.dailydot.com/debug/bill-ackman-neri-oxman-harvard-plagiarism/


OK, now the snow is getting serious and settling. My daughters are going to be very excited.

 https://adders.blog/2024/01/08/ok-now-the.html


Futurism:

"After a storm and flash flooding knocked out the power in south-east Queensland, Australia, a local woman used her electric car to power her son’s life-saving dialysis machine."

Sometimes having a giant mobile battery is incredibly useful.
 https://futurism.com/the-byte/electric-car-power-dialysis-machine-blackout


I think I may have over-bought Christmas coffee. It’s past twelfth night, and I still have two bags of beans to go.


A brief flurry of snow. We don’t get a lot of this down on the south coast.

 https://adders.blog/2024/01/08/a-brief-flurry.html


Sunset on Old Fort Road.

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Started reading: Saltwater in the Blood by Easkey Britton 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781786785817


This is spectacular even by crypto scam standards:Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist.
 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/04/chief-executive-of-collapsed-crypto-fund-hyperverse-does-not-appear-to-exist


The Festive Silence — or how exhaustion, burn-out and COVID conspired to give me an offline Christmas.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/01/the-festive-silence/


Started reading: A Countryman’s Winter Notebook  by Adrian Bell 📚

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/f5bddf0441.jpg https://micro.blog/books/9781910898581


Took a New Year’s Day beach walk with my eldest, and found somebody’s lost glasses on the strand line. The lenses have been ground into mistiness by the pebbles, and the string tied to one arm suggested a doomed attempt to keep them safe.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2024/64652def3c.jpg


Beach life, December 22nd 2023

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/45f04f3d98.jpg


Term finished yesterday. Today, I have a cold.

Obviously.


The single biggest thing that would improve my AI prompt writing skills: not making typos.


Oh, shit. The dolphins have had enough and are coming for us.
 https://futurism.com/scientists-dolphin-thumbs


Fog on the Adur.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/img-4868.jpeg


What if the real X/Twitter replacement isn’t a Twitter clone at all?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/12/what-if-the-twitter-replacement-isnt-a-twitter-clone/


When the [problem contains the obvious solution](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/03/london-decline-crime-chaos-home-working-ulez/):

> Residential areas are increasingly unaffordable even for the middle classes, while the office districts are being hollowed out by working from home.

So, refu... adders.blog https://adders.blog/2023/12/04/when-the-problem.html


Ah, the horror on my daughter’s face was only matched by the delight on mine when Siri delivered The Wurzels version of I wish it could be Christmas everyday, rather than the original…

Proper job.
 https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-wish-it-could-be-christmas-everyday/1065972578?i=1065972931


Sad to see TinyLetter closing down. It was ahead of the curve on newsletters, but got bought by MailChimp, and was left to wither on the vine.

MailChimp is all about the marketing, and that’s very different from editorial newsletters.
 https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981363/mailchimp-shutting-down-tinyletter


It’s easy to claim you have ethical supply chains. It’s much harder to actually monitor them to check, say, your outdoors costs aren’t being made by Chinese prisoners.
 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/chinese-prisoners-id-card-apparently-found-regatta-coat-lining-derbyshire


OMG: On TikTok, kids are making Christmas wish list PowerPoint decks

My girls will use Keynote, or it’ll a disappointing Christmas. 😉
 https://www.fastcompany.com/90989905/tiktok-kids-christmas-wish-list-slideshow-trend


Started reading: Flourish by Antonia Case 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781472979742


It’s beginning to look a lot like…

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/700a09072e.jpg


"”’Was your world once wild?' a distant intelligence might ask.
Yes, we’d say. Till it went under our ploughs and the hooves of our cattle. Under the weight of our stuff.”"

— Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781908745835


WordPress themes that are dependent on multiple plugins to function are a crime against all that is good and holy in web publishing.


The problem with WordPress’s 100 year plan.

I would absolutely pay for a service to keep my work online after my death. This is not the service for me — and the fact that they haven’t sold a single account in three months makes it clear I’m not alone.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/11/the-problem-with-automattics-100-year-plan/


OpenAI’s interim boss seems… nice. 🤦🏼♂
 https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ceo-edgelord-tweets


Started reading: Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚

It’s this month’s Adventurous Ink book.
 https://micro.blog/books/9781908745835 https://adventurousink.co.uk/


Interesting update from Bluesky:

They’ve hit 2m users, despite still being invite-only
A web view of posts and timelines coming this year
Federation should be working early next year

 https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/11-15-2023-toward-federation


I’m really happy with this little quality of life improvement from the Ghost folks. As a habitual emoji user, anything that makes it easier gets a 👍🏻 from me!
 https://ghost.org/changelog/emoji-picker/


The Gawker brand is coming back — but not the archive or the same approach, it appears.
 https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/gawker-sold-meng-ru-kuok-caldecott-music-group-1235791943/


For years, Twitter was second only to to Google as a source of traffic to my blog. This month, it’s being beaten by… Yandex. LinkedIn is now the top social referrer.


A dalmatian pelican at the Arundel Wetland Centre.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/6e5974e846.jpg https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/arundel/


Sadly, I had no ducks left to give.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/3e4a2141f3.jpg


Lovely to see someone whom I got started in blogging (I ran the network of businessss blogs he alludes to), hit a decade of doing under his own steam.
 https://mjcarty.com/2023/11/11/mjcarty10-my-10th-blogaversary/


Podcast listeners!

I’m looking for podcasts with vibrant and well-managed online communities, be they on Reddit, in Facebook groups, Forums, Discord, or whoever they chose to create them.

Suggestions gratefully received.


Started reading: Enchantment by Katherine May 📚

Reminded to do so by this podcast with her.
 https://micro.blog/books/9780571378364 https://overcast.fm/+vx-mQei5Y


This is worrying: publications are using AI generated images of the Gaza conflict from Adobe Stock without declaring that they are AI created.

One might also ask if this is an appropriate subject for generative AI…
 https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/01/israel-gaza-adobe-artificial-intelligence-images-fake-news/


I’ve spent a lot of time on alt text for presentations over the past five weeks, and more than once Apple’s Live Text feature has saved me a whole bunch of retyping, when people (myself included) have used non-accessible infographics in their decks.


Put that phone down and go be bored: your creativity depends on it.

(And other things worth reading).
 https://www.engagedreadingtime.com/the-necessity-of-boredom/


Worth a read: Mastodon Is the Good One
 https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/


Greetings from Storm Ciarán…

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/e777d01307.jpg


Psst. The first one of these in months is going out this evening…

🤫🤫
 https://www.engagedreadingtime.com


Sad times: Canon formally discontinues the last EOS-M cameras, saying goodbye to EF-M

I used EOS M cameras for much of the last decade, and will miss them. But I switched to EOS R earlier this year. The direction of travel was clear. The M series is becoming my daughter’s starter camera.
 https://www.dpreview.com/news/1138973177/canon-officially-discontinues-eos-m-cameras-ef-m-system?utm_source=feedotter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FO-10-26-2023&utm_content=httpswwwdpreviewcomnews1138973177canonofficiallydiscontinueseosmcamerasefmsystem&utm_source=DPReview&utm_campaign=bef0433fe7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_10_26_07_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0ba4bdef1a-bef0433fe7-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=bef0433fe7&mc_eid=7d3c1c479c


Me: I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m a geek; I’m a journalist!

Also Me: Just finished updating nodejs on two VPSes so I can update my self-hosted Ghost installs. Very satisfying.


Wind really starting to pick up now, as Storm Ciarán hits the south coast. Glad I don’t need to travel in the morning.


Great to see Ghost building its new recommendations feature on open standards: it’s basically Webmentions under the hood.

I was one of the test group - and it’s great to see it out there.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/e9276393cd.png https://ghost.org/changelog/recommendations/?ref=adam-tinworth-micro-blog https://ghost.org/docs/recommendations/


Huh. Movable Type 8 is out. Once upon a time I’d have been really excited by that - but at $499 a licence, not much chance I’d ever go back…

They seem to have obseleted xml-rpc too, which mighty be of concern to @danielpunkass.
 https://movabletype.org/documentation/8.0.2.html https://micro.blog/danielpunkass


Happy Halloween 🎃!

Screamer on duty outside our house this evening.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/144c2a3097.jpg


I posted to my Substack for the first time in, um, two years, 10 months and 28 days.

Hell of a posting frequency there, huh?

Some thoughts on mortality and over-sharing former students.
 https://adders.substack.com/p/and-were-back


Having a gourd day. 🎃

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/ace9c0e0a6.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/397aabcc90.jpg


Nighttime in Farringdon, Autumn 2023.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/f579f3b937.jpg


I’ve just bought my youngest the dry robe reviewed in this article. It’s great for our 7.30 am Sunday swim lessons run. In the spring, it’ll be sea swimming time again, and she’s all prepared.
 https://outdoorswimmer.com/gear/wild-swimming-robes-for-kids


So… blogs are dead are they?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/10/get-ahead-get-a-blog/


This content has been reported for Spam using NIP-69 vocabulary https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/457


The first would-be competitor to X/Twitter to fail? Stand up, Pebble (formerly t2). Maxed out at about 3000 daily activity users, so funders weren’t interested.
 https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/pebble-the-twitter-alternative-previously-known-as-t2-is-closing-down/


Currently reading: SOLO by Jenny Tough 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781783254743


I know Ahsoka has not gone down well with a lot of adult Star Wars fans, but watching it with two pre-teen girls who are absolutely rapt — and seeing a version of Star Wars where the major protagonists are largely female — makes me give it a lot of leeway.


Jack Baty:

"The only way I’d pay Musk $1 to join Twitter (X) is if I could mail him a check."

 https://baty.net/posts/2023/10/thursday-october-19-2023


Om Malik:

"Yes, teenagers are spending a lot more time on social media — just not as much on what we old-timers call social media. The big takeaway from this survey is that both Facebook and Twitter have aged out. They are as relevant to this generation as Fox and CBS are to the youth."

 https://om.co/2023/10/19/social-media-is-history-just-ask-the-kids/


The nice thing about X (formerly known as Twitter) being in a death spiral is I feel so much freer to mute, block and unfollow people there who have decided that the horror in the Middle East is an excuse to play internet virtue team sports.


Amazing how many people who have been happily driving around with a large container of highly flammable fluid in their vehicles suddenly think that EV batteries are the big risk.

I’m sure they’ll be giving up phones, laptops and tablets, which have the same batteries inside…


The next stage in human evolution?
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/10/the-next-stage-in-human-evolution/


Picadilly Circus, London, Autumn 1991

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/4ba5dfa67b.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/94ecb0497a.jpg https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/30c9d4b981.jpg


"“Those who had a close relationship with nature used their phones half as much each day, took 90% fewer selfies and took 300% more pictures of nature than those with a weaker relationship with nature.”"

— Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781784273507


"“Since the early 1990s, no country has met the basic needs of its population without overconsuming natural resources.”"

— Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781784273507


"“When 16,000 people across 18 nations were surveyed, it was found that the British people visit nature much less frequently than people in other countries, and their connection with nature was rated much lower too. Despite humans being one of the great apes, only 10% of the population feel that they are part of nature.”"

— Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781784273507


Thesis: coffee never tastes better then when drunk from an enamel mug, poured from a flask, while outdoors. ☕


Started reading: Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781784273507


This screensaver in MacOS Sonoma makes unexpectedly happy.

 https://adders.blog/uploads/2023/834916fd26.jpg


I have fought with 301 redirects, and I have won. And now I fact the terror of Google Search console migrations…


Dave Winer has a real point here - and I’d love to see Mastodon fix it: Why Mastodon isn’t the one
 http://scripting.com/2023/10/11/131337.html?title=whyMastodonIsntTheOne


Time is different when you work on The Spectator, it seems.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/cf823cd050.jpg


Turns out that if you go to bed super early on Saturday night, because you’re exhausted thanks to the first teaching week of term, a train strike, and working Saturday, that the 6.30am start for your daughter’s swimming lesson is much easier.

Who knew?


John Gruber:

"X itself now feels like a third-rate Twitter knock-off."

 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/06/x-chumbox


Fair point.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/0349650fc9.jpg


I feel judged by my iPad.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/60e5d0cb6a.jpg


Sometimes, you prompt Midjourney, look at the results, and think “I’m going to have nightmares about that image”.


Images from Hamburg and the Reeperbahn Festival.

Deploying my camera on my annual working trip to Germany…
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/09/images-of-hamburg-the-reeperbahn-festival-2023/


Why saving Harvard’s blog history matters — and why I’m sad I was unable to save the early work I led.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/10/saving-harvards-blog-history/


A lot of character in this old, partially ruined house.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/ddd3af720c.jpg


https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/b7e58ca53a.jpg https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/9027a94a99.jpg


It has begun. 🎄

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/f7ae4c4da5.jpg


Dave Winer:

"There is no good outcome possible from arguing on social media."

 http://scripting.com/2023/09/30.html#a203140


Started reading: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) 📚 🎲
 https://micro.blog/books/9780786967278


I just accidentally connected via VPN, through a connection already going via a VPN.

And that pretty much sums up my day.


I’m doing it – but only on one Mac.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/18aef6d1cf.png


Gen X erasure is real.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/cb75409bdf.jpg


Started reading: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9780241333945


A bar on stage feels very on point for a digital conference in the Reeperbahn Festival.

#next23

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/af0d6a93fe.jpg


Late night on the Reeperbahn.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2023/09/20/late-night-on.html


I love the fact Hamburg Airport has an art gallery, rather than all the normal overpriced nonsense you get in British airports.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/8cf2fa5448.jpg


Remember all those sessions about how voice and smart speakers would be the future of journalism?

Not so much.
 https://talkingtocomputers.substack.com/p/why-voice-failed-as-a-platform


It’s nice seeing the number of serious video recording apps for iPhone proliferating.

The number of occasions when you need to bust out the “real” cameras is diminishing.
 https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/14/blackmagic-camera-filming-app-iphnone/


An interesting move from the Economist, adding a new subscription tier for podcasts.
 https://www.axios.com/2023/09/12/economist-adds-podcast-subscription-tier


We appear to have gone from the height of summer to autumn in four days.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/80741250a9.jpg


📷 September Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: glow.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/8eb7d3dfd3.jpg


TIL that you can screenshot CarPlay.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/aa35995e15.png


My wallet is safe from Tim Cook this time.


Currently reading: Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9780141999555


Breakfast of champions.

 https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/uploads/2023/e3f1a187e6.jpg


Looks like it’s an “update all the Apple things” evening.

Important security updates out…
 https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/07/ios-16-6-1-macos-13-5-2-active-vulnerabilities/


Listening to my boss’s inaugural lecture…

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I spent yesterday at a journalism innovation conference. If you want to know what the news publishers are thinking about at the moment, well, here you go.
 https://onemanandhisblog.com/tags/future-of-media-technology/?utm_campaign=first+share&utm_source=micro.blog&utm_medium=social


These seem like a more plausible scenario as time goes on: The case for Musk driving Twitter to bankruptcy.
 https://www.icopilots.com/the-case-for-musk-driving-twitter-to-bankrupcy/


Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary people, I present for you the 21st Century, where we microchip cheese.
 https://boingboing.net/2023/08/22/italians-are-microchipping-parmesan-to-crack-down-on-bootleg-cheese.html