.. available for the rest of us in September.

Upon its original vinyl release Transience reached #3 in the UK vinyl charts and made history by being the first release to chart solely on vinyl sales this century. 

The Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader of the Senate, senators like Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio, governors like Chris Christie and the now-trapped Mike Pence, figures from the past like Rudy Giuliani — every one of these people knows what is wrong with Donald Trump, and every one of them will be telling us as of November 9 that they were never really with him, they always saw what was wrong, how did this ever happen? But for now, every one one of them is saying, Vote for Trump!

Read All About It at the Atlantic.

People update the Operating System (OS) in their smartphone more often than they update their own brain.

Gerhard Gschwandtner (at last week's Sales2.0 Conference)

via Kurt Shaver

...He HAS to be referring to iPhone users - because over on android ....

90 percent of Android devices are running an outdated OS

... on second thoughts - maybe that is about right ...

I don't fit this particular edge case in any of the scenarios described - BUT - in case you are wondering why some of your stuff ain't synching - this might give a clue

Poised - but not the same as is actually ...

Uber Now Poised to Grab More of Southeast Asia

Just read What Is The Data-Driven Organization? - a great collection of  interesting acronyms for how organization think about how they COLLECT MY DATA.

Personally, I would much rather organizations think more about data CONNECTION, rather than COLLECTION. That is so much more in keeping with the future –  it is after all my data – not the corporations.

I would also be more than happy for on organization to connect to my data – if we can first agree mutually beneficial terms that I am privy to in advance.

Digi.Me is one example of an organization that thinks this way. There are many more.

Move along now. Nothing to see here. (For you anyway.)

One of the challenges (for me) with 1999 is the inability for me to easily search for content txt I posted (say) two months ago. TO be fair - this is one of my does on Facebook - and contributed to my leaving. (But not the prime reason.)

Enter IFTTT and DayONE.

I use DayONE as my daily journal. It runs happily across pad, phone and mac. It is pretty powerful and allows me to search and tag and add pictures and links and .... pretty much whatever you like.

IFTTT - is a rules based system.

Here's the rule I have in IFTTT .... every time I post an entry into 1999, IFTTT posts a synopsis and a link to the original post into DayONE.

I can now search DayONE for what I am looking for - and voila - there;s the link back to the post.

#Easy

I have been clearing out my cupboards and found a great post from Om Malik, who in turn was clearing out his cupboards ….

I have been frustrated by the vanishing quality of blog posts, which either are nothing more than marketing drivel, self promotion passing as intelligence. I can understand that, but I can't seem to comprehend the laziness of news posts which seems to have the nutritional value of a TacoBell meal. It seems no one remembers or knows what makes a great blog post and how to write them.
I don't think what makes a great post has changed. And when cleaning out an old folder on Google Drive, I came across the draft of this email I would send to all new writers and reporters who came to work for us at GigaOm. I thought I would share this it isn't doing anyone any good sitting there in a drive.

And Here It Is …. with the conclusion of

The 3Cs of a good blog post

1. Coherent
2. Clever thought, analysis or just the quote.
3. Cryptic

If you like music, this is a fascinating flip on how we usually think about bands.

Click through and for any year it will tell you who the most famous band that was formed in that year. Interesting because why? 

Well - though I am not a fan of (say) OASIS - I had kind of expected them to be on the list. But they're not, because the same year that they were founded a little band from the South also got going ... Radiohead. a LOT more famous.

I was also surprised to see that Pink Floyd was not only the most famous band to have formed in 1965 - but actually to be the most famous band form the 60s .... really? The Beatles? Zeppelin? 

And then you think ... The Beatles were formed in 1957 - and yes they were the most famous band formed in 19657 - and indeed there 50s - and of course Zeppelin formed in 1970.

So how do we measure 'famous'? Turns out it isn't really that rigorous - but it's a start ...

'PrettyFamous' created a customized Band Score on a scale of 1 to 100 based on a weighted average of a band's Wikipedia page views in the last 30 days, page views of album releases and total number of Spotify followers.

BTW - The Beatles most popular song on Spotify ?

Here Comes The Sun.

Take that Lennon / McCartney.

I wrote this piece on Criminal Justice Reform a couple of  weeks ago.

Delighted to see this from The Marshall Project just published today … The Overlooked Promise in Hillary Clinton’s Speech - A call for criminal justice reform.

In a single brief sentence, Clinton broke one of America's oldest political taboos, pledging to "reform our criminal justice system from end-to-end, and rebuild trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve."

This might seem like an offhand mention, or just another Democratic candidate embracing the latest civil rights issue.

But past candidates, when they talked about criminal justice at all, were quick to declare a 'war on crime' and slow to acknowledge any real problems in the system. Clinton's speech represents a real break with that legacy and voters are entitled to demand real solutions to match her call to action.

Read All About It.

A post, including a video, from John Gushe 4 years ago - and every bit as relevant today ... filed in the "if you operated in the real world like you do in the online world" bucket.

Read All About It.

So Good.

The art that is possible with something as seemingly simple as Paper53 is really extraordinary.

It opens with 

I’m Hillary goddamn Clinton. I’m a political prodigy, have been since I was 16. I have an insane network of powerful friends. I’m willing to spend the next eight years catching shit on all sides, all so I can fix this fucking country for you. And all you little bitches need to do is get off your asses one goddamn day in November.

... and then it gets better. Absolutely brilliant piece.

Read All About it.

Read All About It. 

You just cannot argue with the logic.

Cheap settlement to sort it out this week - wonder what the demand will be next week

The records Uber and Lyft are touting have been hard-won, expensive and occasionally bumpy. To reach the truce, Uber paid $350,000 into a trust to settle charges by the Philadelphia Parking Authority that the company had been operating in the city without regulation. To meet demand this week, both companies offered some drivers guaranteed minimum pay at peak times — $21 to $27 an hour for Uber after drivers in Cleveland complained of low earnings,4 $20 for Lyft — and neither company would say if they’re turning a profit. Riders had to wait an hour or more for an Uber from the convention on Monday night. And road disruptions have made the companies’ sometimes optimistic wait-time estimates particularly unreliable.

Read All About It

It never ceases to amaze me that people are so stupid that they have to be protected my this kind of warning. NEVER!

Bulgarian state railway company BDZ is urging players of Pokemon GO to keep off the railway tracks.

Posting from my iPad - and simultaneously using IFTTT to drop my posts into DayOne  - which (BTW)  is rather a neat app for journaling.