🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
The point he makes is obvious and clear - the premise … 🤯
🔗 Comedian Robin Ince quits Radio 4 show, claiming BBC found his views ‘problematic’.
The silencing continues.
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.
Definitely not true of all the docs - I just tried.
🔗 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.
Guess which country tops these four lists and which is ranked 7th, 8th, not even on the list and 3rd respectively.
🔗 Exports the Most Christmas Decorations
🔗 Dominating Critical Mineral Refining in 2030
🔗 Stockpiling Most Gold Reserves Since 2000
🔗 Battery Manufacturing Investment
Sorry, the winner in the other 3 categories were only a close 2nd on Gold Reserves. (Although ‘1’ and ‘2’ had totals that are each just about the same as the rest of the list added together.
In fact those two countries
account for more than half of all gold stockpiled by central banks in the period.
🔗📽️ Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever.
Me … 🤯
(Though to be honest - still have a few episodes to go - though that in itself is telling )
🔗🎶 Jon Lord - Unsquare Dance (Dave Brubeck)
One of ‘my’ guys playing the music of one of my mum’s (and so another one of ‘my’) guys.
🔗 On Paperbacks and TikTok - Cal Newport
In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 inches) that cost only a quarter; a significant discount at a time when a typical hardcover book would set you back between $2.50 and $3.00.
Meanwhile in the UK, founded fully four years earlier, Penguin didn’t need the ‘qualifier’ preceding ‘the publishing industry’.
Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
History.
🔗 How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026
We will see. We will see.
🔗 Rocket Lab Secures New Defense Contract … writes ‘Memorandum’.
Are we sure?
🔗 As I remarked on LinkedIN a couple of days ago
The order is for ..
the manufacture (of) 18 satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program under the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
(My bold)
Replying To A LinkedIN Post
Linear sales funnels oversimplify reality and fail to account for the complexities of customer journeys and the importance of data in optimizing business processes - and more - IMHO.
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';
- read
- pdfs in 🍎 Books
- saved articles in a browser
- listen to podcasts
- in a music app
- on YouTUBE
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)
Just found this in my drafts folder from April 2023 ❗️
I wonder where they are going wrong ..
A reminder from 🔗 Brian Solis - possibly a riff on John Caswell’s mantra - “the last thing you need near a problem is an expert”.
When Steve Jobs was finally convinced to pursue the iPhone (and he had to be convinced), he gathered his inner circle and asked: Who should we bring into this project? Naturally, the team responded like experts, they brought forward the “smartest people” in the industry.
Jobs exploded.
“I don’t want anyone to work on the iPhone if they’ve worked on a phone,” he said (minus the expletives). “Because we’re not building a phone.”
Rewatched 🎬🔗 The Thursday Murder Club last night. Turns out the first time I watched it I didn’t log it.
At the time I remember I gave it 3 stars - because being a big fan of the books - expectations high.
Now I give it 4 - Because I wasn’t expecting much.
I guess the truth sits at around 3 1/2.