👁️🤯 If I understand this correctly - Nilay Patel, Peter Kafka, Scott Galloway, Kara Swisher, Preet Bharara, Henry Blodgett, Maria Sharapova, Sean Illing (who all sit in my feeds) - and a whole host of other podcasts are shortly all going to be managed (if not owned) by … James Murdoch?
👁️ Back in the day @stefp / @stephenpieper.net was a welcome source of posts in my micro.blog stream - and then somehow he wasn’t. Probably moved on. Then I saw him on Crucial Tracks - found his site and added to my Feeds in NetNewsWire and of course he is here - just not as prolific?
Reminded me of others that seem to have moved on - and yet haven’t or I have just lost them somehow?
@pratik @pratik@writing.exchange for example … @pimoore.ca … @smokey … @jacob and of course @SimonWoods - interesting to see all their handles appear in the MB list.
👁️ I rarely get guestbook posts - and then 4 this week. All of them spam. Not good.
The education company Cengage found that just 30% of last year’s graduates landed full-time work, down from 41% the year before.
💬 Parker Molloy
🔗 The four pillars of modern media
A recent issue of Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter [£] made an offhand remark that I think both sums up how the modern media word operates – and which I know many media businesses haven’t completely assimilated as an idea yet:
>The mass audience has now moved fully to video; the personal audience now lives in the group chat. Professionals are getting their information from newsletters and podcasts.
Must be ‘offhand’ - because it is certainly not thought through.
🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.
Seems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.
🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential.
👍🏼💡❓
🪦 RIP Barney - you gave ‘em hell - so I’ll assume you are heading to the other place. Deserved.
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Reformation, society underwent significant changes while quietly laying the foundations for the modern world. Or did it?
"Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Continuing yesterday's 'theme' .. another 'one hit wonder' - same kind of time - same kind of sound and definitely my jam - then and now. It's just that this one is from the other side of the Atlantic. View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
Zingo had the idea six to ten years too early. Timing, infrastructure, incumbents and a government willing to let you operate matters more than being first. A lesson for us all.