Apologies - redesigning LIVE
Oh - and 'Mobile First' - of course 😎
Here’s a funny thing … now there’s a funny thing
💬 Max Miller
Did a back up of my micro blog and I am told that the oldest post in the back up is from 2017 … I open the blog in Mars Edit and I see posts going back to 2005.
Thoughts as to why the discrepancy?
// @manton
@danielpunkass - is the Mars Edit view simply reflecting what is ‘up there’ - or is there a copy on my drive somewhere?
We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.
💬 Martin Fowler
Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before ‘AI’.
Why? Because it is really about the increased fractionalisation of work - so that the tech overlords can better harvest human skills in order to codify, automate and ‘remove the human from the loop’.
It’s why when asked what I ‘specialise’ in - I have answered - for years …
I am the space between the boxes on the organisation chart.
🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks
If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
I would go further.
It also incentivises bad behaviour in music. I am looking at you Spotify.
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🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician
Colbert says he was also told by network lawyers that he also couldn’t mention he was told by CBS to not have him on, a request he proceeded to immediately ignore in a … rant about Brendan Carr and the censorial, authoritarian, and pathetic Trump FCC.
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Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.
💬 Steven Colbert
Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.
💬 Haruki Murakami
Have to say - we all know that some people need ‘their’ reality broken down. Pain? Least of their problems - which reminds me of Ricky G ..
It will eventually start getting scared of words.
That said - I know I have been guilty of this … no pain intended - I thought I was helping.
🔗 Goldman Sachs Boosts Apple Inc. with Positive App Store Trends
NB: No meaningful (or perhaps even measurable) impact from off-Appstore payments alternatives. Turns out adding friction to a frictionless business is not an attractive option for the customer.
💬 Horace Dediu
‘Ease’ replaces ‘Price’ in my 🖇️ 4 E Model for the Age of Engagement.
I feel I might have shared this in the past - but bears repeating.
🔗 How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old – The Marginalian
Read. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts — be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you, smart young creatives full of awe, who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential.
💬 Nick Cave
AI delivers greater value when it reduces friction, simplifies interaction, and improves workflow efficiency.
💬 Geoffrey Moore
Takaichi walked away from the Feb. 8 vote with a historic landslide, securing a rare two-thirds supermajority in the lower house for her Liberal Democratic Party. The LDP went into the day with 198 seats in the 465-seat chamber and walked out with 316. That’s the largest mandate in Japan’s postwar history, bigger even than any won by Shinzo Abe, Takaichi’s late mentor. The LDP can now override vetoes from the upper house, where it lacks a majority. After cycling through revolving-door prime ministers for years, Japan has elected its most powerful leader since World War II.
💬 Ian Bremmer