April 26th.
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Just flat earthed my microblog Mastodon handle …. @me@john.philpin.com makes a lot more sense than the old one. So if you were following over there, sorry, you are going to have to follow again.
It’s been a while since People First released a newsletter - just put that to right.
Any Hookmark users around?
For some reason my hookmarks are now only taking me to the file in the folder and not opening the file. Has something changed that I missed?
䷓ Glossary Terms
Slowly building up my glossary links ( thankyou @AndySylvester ) … 4 active so far … more in the background - and none of the embedded terms are yet implemented (except that one at the bottom of this post). None of the click throughs are final text yet - but that is kind of the beauty of the 🔗 glossary.
">Learn more about People First.
https://www.craft.do/s/U1RIiwmmcJ434M">About my position on The Future of Work.
The glossary allows me to set one or more fixed footers on any post that are generated dynamically, so if I want to change anything - I change it once and it changes everywhere. This is an example of such a footer.
🪦 RIP Cable News
Cable News (1980-2023) by Dana F. Blankenhorn has a very relevant 🎵 track that opens the post.. You can find the 🔗 lyrics here.
Who “wins,” i.e., who is the last one standing? Probably NBC. Comcast has cash flow. NBC has learned how to segment the market with MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Now, NBC News and Local Now. That’s five bites at the remaining cable apple, five channels they can sell to the “skinny bundle” boys like YouTube Plus. And the cost is nominal – a few sets at the NYSE and 30 Rock. Reporters are no longer stars at any of those shops. CNN and Fox are out in the cold. Their owners are going to squeeze all the juice out for profit until there’s nothing left, then throw the remaining goodwill at one of the big boys.
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
If I need to enter my email into your system to unsubscribe from the email list you JUST sent to me - then that is not going to happen. Instead I will block your domain and mark you as spam. Not that you care.
April 25th.
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🪦 RIP Harry … I hardly knew ye … but my dad did. This is for him.
Not just Fox … CNN and NBC both at it. But I THINK it’s only Fox that did multiples.
🎬 About Nicholas Cage
As @drewcastillo and I recently riffed - he really is very good. Sure he’s got some duds - don’t we all? Off the top of my head - some of my favorites (alphabetical - to avoid ‘ranking’) …
- Adaptation
- Conair
- Face/Off
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Pig
- Raising Arizona
- Wild at Heart
… and a few more that I have forgotten.
(and no - Unbearable Weight is not forgotten - just haven’t seen it yet.)
Sorry - can’t remember if I have mentioned this new newsletter from my Kiwi friend Alan Mayo - I think he is onto something …
Then …
… and now
Count me in the camp of ‘well now - there’s some new news’ ….
”The prevalence of Vin Diesel’s exposed upper arms may be associated with box office and critical success. According to this really important analysis from a Reddit user, the movies in which Vin Diesel wears four sleeveless shirts and spends 14–15% of the film wearing them are better liked by critics and make more money than movies in which he wears fewer sleeveless shirts for less time. Vin Diesel averages 1.95 sleeveless shirts per film and wears one in 16 of his 23 films, the analysis claims. Reddit is undefeated.”
💬 Morning Brew
A list of 10 not counting when he ‘turns it up to 11’ turning points on the internet. Tedium writes: 🔗 What We Can Learn from the Past
Why Soda Cans in Hawaii Look So Weird.
Paging @hawaiiboy @crossingthethreshold
Did you know that? I did not know that. (Though ‘Weird’ is not exactly the word I would use.)
“All of this is to say, Mastodon has its flaws and Twitter has its flaws. And, as I read in Dan Diamond’s newsletter, leaving Twitter also has its flaws. But you know what? I’m on Substack RIGHT NOW! And Substack has just introduced “Notes”. Why not investigate ITS flaws?”
💬 Mike Pesca
April 24th.
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🎵Just tried to add ‘Perfect Day’ to an Apple Playlist. It adds just fine, but in the play list is greyed out - and not playable. Go back to the source and it plays just fine. The track was on Transformer. There is another version on ‘The Essential Lou Reed’. Add that - and no problem.