🔗 Daring Fireball: Steve Kornacki Exits MSNBC for New Deal With NBC News and NBC Sports
They might well just switch off the lights and lock the doors at MSNBC.
💬 John Gruber
He’s not alone with that thought. Comcast has been moving deck chairs for a while now.
But this is more a demonstration of another media company bending the knee.
🔗 Long Live RSS - Phil Windley - via Doc Searls
A timely reminder. It’s RSS in general - good, but Phil also writes specifically about Substack.
I found that if you enter
/rssafter the URL for an author or category page, you get RSS for that author or category.
Meanwhile Substack’s own help. - says to tack on ‘feed’ not ‘rss’.
I do find that both work - and sometimes neither - which is more often than not because of the beginning of the URL …
Replace “your” with the name of your Substack publication.
It isn’t always clear (to me at least) what that ‘your’ replacement should be.
Bonus - If you use Reeder
If you just put the URL https://
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Norman Shidlec
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.
🪦 oh no! Say it ain’t so Val. And just 65 😔
I like the idea of categorisation in 🍎 email and the 4 categories make sense to 🗂️ BUT sure would like the ability to add a couple more of my own. #EdgeCaseAgain
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
💬 Ernest Becker
… and then I thought of 🔗🎵 The Overview
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Vala Afshar
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.
🔗 Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds | ScienceDaily
.. not read it yet .. but wondering f the equation includes parameters around the phone that is inevitably in people’s hands, more often than not being looked at.
When the âfake newsâ sounds like reality .. even to someone that tries to be on the lookout for the plain wrong .. somehow April 1st slips by without a whimper.
When the ‘fake news’ sounds like reality .. even to someone that tries to be on the lookout for the plain wrong .. somehow April 1st slips by without a whimper.
🔗Authoritarian Grift Meets the Grind of Justice
America (that country that promoted itself (past tense) as the beacon of democracy) continues to be the ONLY country in the world that does nothing to stop these kinds of people.
Why would anybody believe - ever - that America stands for democracy?
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mattie Stepanek
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.
🔗 Pockets of Belfast - Gapingvoid
On 20th March, in celebration of the UN’s World Happiness day, the BBC’s Mark Easton conducted a little social experiment: dropping ten wallets (with money and his phone number inside) on the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He got them all back.
Makes me happy - and today isn’t even World Happiness Day!
On Om
Om writes about the mediocrity of modern Google - for me most of what they do has always been mediocre because their UX sucks and the best (older) example would be why Google Sheets when you have Airtable? And the thing is with better UI Google was on pole positon to do Airtable before Airtable - and on acrsoo the entire product line.
“Obvious” closes the door to inquiry.
“Perhaps” opens it.
💬 Seth Godin
ð Were Your Managers Managing Your Decline?
“This is âmanaged decline,â â the art of overseeing failure with exceptional documentation. Managed decline hides under terms like cost control, risk minimization, and streamlining, but it guarantees one thing: job security for managers. The EU and UK exemplify this, where managed economic entropy and decline have become a boon for the managerial class. Managers multiply like… john.philpin.com/2025/04/0…
🔗 Were Your Managers Managing Your Decline?
This is “managed decline,” – the art of overseeing failure with exceptional documentation. Managed decline hides under terms like cost control, risk minimization, and streamlining, but it guarantees one thing: job security for managers. The EU and UK exemplify this, where managed economic entropy and decline have become a boon for the managerial class. Managers multiply like Gremlins in water.
🔗 Division is easier than connection - Seth Godin - just reminding us all of good behaviour.
