Well yes, but it’s not quite that simple is it?
"I think we are past peak Rishi."
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What say you @pimoore …
Is 35 years too long to wait for a reference?
My friend John Caswell published my reference for him on his blog a couple of years ago - and it just resurfaced.
We had great times back then.
Have no hesitation in working with him.
🔗 Rands in Repose … writing about Zoom Meetings.
“Do you want to know why you’re fatigued at the end of a long day of video conferences? It’s because your brain has been straining to collect essential information that is no longer there.”
Catch Up Time
In case you hadn’t noticed - I am in a bit of a catch up mode.
This for example is a set of links that clearly at one time all connected in my head, but for the life of me - I can’t see that now. That said - I am pretty sure that all of them date back to January 2021.
Work
Tom Evslin - Who’s Pocketing the Profit - I think we know!
Josh Bersiin - The Crusade For Employee Experience: How Did We Get Here? - I find it telling that ‘Employee Experience’ is so far behind ‘Customer Experience’ - just in case you had any doubt where Corporate priorities lie.
Free Speech
Benedict Evans - Speech and Publishing
Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler, and the Stack | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Apple and Chips
Creativity and Process .. not ‘or’ … and.
Tell me again why is has taken THIS long to add MicroBlog Bookmarks to my RSS Reader?
“The game is free … but you could spend up to $1,000 US Dollars just to buy the assets you need to play the game.”
Another example of redefining language.
This from 🔗 Paul Butler
📚Publishing shenanigans - he was caught - but why did he do it?
… enquiring minds need to know - and the article doesn’t really answer the question.
Google Office is Horrible Software
… Truly horrible.
So when I read Google Slides is actually Hilarious … sadly on Medium (oh the irony - the ignominy of publishing your Google Slides takedown on Medium!), it needed to be shared.
With Commentary
I have long had no truck for the Google Office Suite … so was delighted to discover this piece and realize that I am not alone and neatly summarizes the challenges of using that excuse of a piece of software.
PowerPoint is bad enough - but it’s only when you try Google slides that you truly understand how great it really is (no snark - truth),
As an Apple user I have used the Apple iWork suite for more than years. Back in the day I used to have PowerPoint installed so I could create in Keynote, export to PowerPoint and then fix the few oddities that occur when you run such a routine.
These days I don’t even have MS office installed. All three apps export ‘nicely’ to MS and thence onto Google should somebody on the planet decide that what the deck needs is some ‘Google magic’.
Of course everyone loves Google because you can share and co edit … personally I get that in the doc world … but a decent presentation should not be designed</> put together by committee.
Seriously - STOP.
Ok ok … if you must and you want to share and co develop a deck and are a Mac user - have you tried Keynote? They offer the app - for free - on the web. You can share your presentation and anyone with the link and creds can now edit.
Is that experience rock solid? Well it’s not perfect - but it’s a whole lot better than wrestling with Google crap.
Not sure if a MicroBlog or Hitchens problem - so paging @manton and @pimoore
Yesterday I added two new categories to MicroBlog.
They show up in the micro blog app and in Mars Edit
I can see them on the website - for example
… but on my archive page there is nothing :-(
What could be more fun than ‘sliding down a frog’s tongue’?
Facebook does deliver the occasional humorous meme ….
4Privacy is another interesting site found by the inimitable Doc Searls.
Looks like they are launching via Kickstarter- as of writing;
13,052 backers pledged $604,985 to help bring this project to life.
Now THAT is dedication.
No ‘rain stop play’ here for the local Petanque League - they just get on with it!
‘Language Is Important' - a new category now available on this blog.
LATER
Category depricated - that said 🔗 🔎 click here - and all those posts re categorized will come up - along with a lot more.