The Rules For MicroBlogBookery Were
Definitely one from each of ‘the John’s’
PLUS all 7 books must be
- Fiction
- Written originally in English
- Not be ‘too’ ‘obvious’ ..
388 Episodes !!
Cleared.
Obviously I haven’t been listening to podcasts during lockdown!
via David Frier …
What if we called cookies “worms”?
“Leading publishers cut out the middle creep to go direct with tracking-based advertising.”
Doc Searls
… commenting on the NYT’s decision to ‘cut out the middle man’.
A lot of people think Bill Gates is plotting to inject a tracker via COVID vaccine
It’s a Yahoo/YouGov poll but the results are so disturbing that I am bound to question the methodology.
19% of Democrats believe that headline.
NINETEEN PERCENT!
Is Shopify on the right path? Are they being forced into a space that they do not want to go? All this and more from Ben T and Stratechery.
Hertz paid top executives $16 million in bonuses ahead of its bankruptcy filing.
Of course they did.
No ambiguity there!
Zenfolio just had a big CX moment.
It happens to the best of us.
Seems a neat idea and then my mind drifted to those ‘no name know nothing influencers’ that drive me nuts and I realised - this can all go wrong.
and then I read :
“every celebrity is really a gig economy worker”
I thought maybe it has already?
PM says ‘people should make up own minds’ on Dominic Cummings.
We have BoJo, we have. It seems you are the one that needs his eyes tested. It’s staring you right in the face.
Here’s What Each State Is Binge Watching During Quarantine.
The source is cabletv.com - so I assume the full set of shows didn’t include AppleTV, Disney, Netflix, Prime - and equally is limited to what cable TV is showing. So much explained.
No, Protests Are Not a ‘Class Struggle’.
… there isn’t a single part of this that I could choose to offer as a pull-quote … without republishing the entire piece.
A Confederacy of Dunces … John Kennedy Toole
How could I resist adding a never to be repeated bolt of excellence that came from ‘nowhere’. Smallcreep’s Day was the other choice.
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Dr. Birx’s Covid-19 advice on what US needs to do next.
There is “clear scientific evidence” …
Dr. Deborah Birx
It really doesn’t matter what follows … it’s just such a long time since I’ve seen that phrase used by the Administration.
“Responsibly and Legally” .. two words used by BoJo to describe the actions of the Grim Reaper - who regularly demonstrates that he does neither.
The interesting thing is that it describes how easy it is to make a website — and immediately the comments dive into tech shit.
David from Blot and @manton need to weigh in.
Or not.
Crumbs for the Hungry but Windfalls for the Rich.
File in the ‘yes we know’ bucket.
Cross Reference to ‘what can be done about it’ … because I think no matter big the desired landslide is .. this will continue.
Please write and tell me I am wrong because ….
Waterland … Graham Swift
It’s hard to choose which Swift. But I did it.
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