‘First’ there was Today … and then there was ‘Current’ .. and downloaded both today - despite already using Reeder and NetNewsWire from @brentsimmons and Feedland from @dave and Readwise (though not quite the same I agree.) - and let’s not forget the next one coming in from @manton
Exporting and importing OPML files twixt them all is a fun way to spend an afternoon - but wouldn’t it be so much easier if I just had a single OPML file that all the apps talked to?
Is that too hard?
This seems to be on pace with my recent conclusions following reading that (I paraphrase - my bold) ..
The market intelligence market was valued at USD 12.1 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach USD 21.4 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 8.2% The market is consolidating around value-add - not just raw data, but curated, contextualised intelligence delivered into existing workflows.
That’s exactly right. It’s like SAAS horizontal plays losing to highly focussed vertical plays. The same is happening with ‘information and intelligence’. Thats what we are doing.
Anybody exploring 🔗 Birdy Chat?
ð Expert Generalists
“We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of âExpert Generalistâ.”
ð¬ Martin Fowler
Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before âAIâ.
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 âremove the human from the… john.philpin.com/2026/02/1…
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.
@canion has written one of handful of posts reviewing two new RSS reeders out in the past week.
Downloaded both today and it is clear that they are very different to the usual.
Muscle memory - and even how I think about my news feed is going to have to be flat-earthed.
🔗 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.
I can just about understand why you would choose to keep an old Twitter account going … but why anyone would start a new one is beyond me,
Anyone who has ideas … LMK.
I can just about understand why you would choose to keep an old Twitter account going … but why anyone would start a new one is beyond me,
Anyone who has ideas … LMK.
A spectacular event to look forward to (my take) - or âartsy navel gazing on his part?â (the take of a friend of mine who is also a fan.)
A spectacular event to look forward to (my take) - or “artsy navel gazing on his part?” (the take of a friend of mine who is also a fan.)
If I were to look at the feeds of the people I follow - we are all
- concerned about the fuck up we call Tяump
- playing around with AI
- ‘finishing’ a lot of books and/or watching movies
and ‘Nobody’ seems that bothered about The Winter Olympics
All sounds about right to me.
🔗 A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom
Not an “event”. An “experience.” An “event” is jejune. Basic. Lowbrow. An “experience” is elevated. Refined. Possibly confusing or even a little terrifying.
😂😂
🔗 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
Meanwhile, over on Marginal Revolution â¦
ð Minimum Wages for Gig Workers Canât Work
.. which supports this claim from Dana a while ago. marginalrevolution.com/marginalr…
