I’ve been thinking a lot about how the “need to publish” and to constantly “put out content” have contributed to the overall devaluation of the media ecosystem, turning attention into a piñata for monetization. It’s prompted me to work ona longer piece, which I’ll keep refining for a few more days before sharing it with the readers.
💬 Om Malik
The empire of money, war, and fire
cuts across the land.
There are in the same country
shepherds watching their flocks.
💬 Wendell Berry
via @ajay … thank you.
Both.
In order for news to have a chance of working we need to be using only the web, commodity services that are completely replaceable, and we keep our own writing, and route it to everyone who’s interested via the open protocols of the web. That’s the only way people with important ideas and info can get it out there.
💬 DaveWiner
… the foundation had “fallen” because it had embraced elements of isolationism, stopped backing Ukraine in the war with Russia, supported some tariffs and backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, among other things.
💬 Mike Pence
No .. I didn’t expect to be quoting him this morning either.
Email design is a special kind of hell. While the rest of the web has moved on to modern CSS, flexbox, and grid layouts, email clients are still stuck in the dark ages. You’re forced to use table-based layouts, inline CSS styles, and work around the limitations of Outlook (which still renders emails using the Word HTML engine from 2007). It’s enough to make you want to just send plain text and be done with it.
💬 Brett Tapsra
… tell me about it.
… bubbles produced from a machine while the show was in progress stained all the furniture in the hall. As a consequence, Pink Floyd were banned from ever playing there again.
💬 Wikipedia
The Hall?
The Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Halcyon Days.
🔗 The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband | The Verge
Thanks to Weiss’ censorship, it may very well wind up being the most-talked-about CBS News story this year.
💬 Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge
.. via @gruber ….
🔗 Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
And of course - thanks to 🔗 PullTube I now have safely tucked away in my personal collection - you know - just in case.
Take Apple News vs iBooks - they’re both reading apps, so why is it necessary to have two separate apps? Because they’re extremely different reading and writing experiences and it doesn’t make sense to lump them into a one-size-fits-all approach.
💬 Michael Tsai
Nailed it and why I don’t';
BUT anything I highlight, save, make a note on/in ANY of the things I am reading, watching or listening to all ends up in the same place.
(Another discovery in ‘Drafts’ March 2023)
For the last 15 years, many companies chased ‘digital transformation.’ But if we’re honest, most of us didn’t transform, we digitised. We took analog processes and made them digital. We moved pieces to the cloud. We modernised within silos. We upgraded the present - instead of redesigning the future for a digital-first world.
💬 Brian Solis
** I have a draft that I clearly need to finish that is exactly along this theme although I call it a ‘**data-lead people first world’.
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