Daily note for 14 July 2023
Said this a few time this week – you can do amazing work with a good team, good culture, plenty of enthusiasm and terrible tech. With great tech and rubbish everything else, not so much. Have made it onto Bluesky,…
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Said this a few time this week – you can do amazing work with a good team, good culture, plenty of enthusiasm and terrible tech. With great tech and rubbish everything else, not so much. Have made it onto Bluesky,…
Another newsletter went out this morning: ClassicPress is WordPress like it used to be For years I lived in Evernote. This by Harry McCracken captures some of what made it great I knew vaguely of Vivian Stanshall,…
I just can’t help myself. It’s like a sickness Episode 2 of our daughter Jade’s podcast is out. It’s all about the job of being a social media manager at an agency. It’s good! “Here is how platforms…
Just published my newsletter – a few opinions and a lot of links (and the usual photo of a daft dog) “Reviewing the Local Digital Declaration 5 years on: Update on the discovery project” On reflection, my honest…
A decision I made when I took my current gig at Lambeth was just to do 4 days a week, so I had a day a week to pootle about doing other things. The first of those days is today…
This is a lovely piece by Giles Turnbull and I will be first in the queue for the book when it emerges! “I created Clippy”: I’ve signed up for and downloaded Threads. I don’t like the lack of a…
New newsletter out today, which I have switched to Substack. It does feel like building personal networks through things like email might be the answer to the breakdown of more public social media like Twitter etc Anyway, I would…
Whenever Catherine Howe posts, it’s usually a good idea to read it: More Twitter woes: “So where are we all supposed to go now?” This is a good and challenging read on what even is an online…
The latest ridiculous behaviour from Twitter seems to genuinely be sending the site into a death spiral, which saddens me in a lot of ways. I’ve been on there since the early days, and I’ve built a reasonably sized following…
First day in my new job over. Am enjoying the feeling of getting to know my new surroundings, and using that new job motivation to start various balls rolling. Jukesie on ‘minimum viable unconference’ “Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied…