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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”Will a spider rebuild its web (if destroyed by nature) in exactly the same place? No. It will relocate. It might even find no web is needed, because it knows how to live inside the porch light.”
💬 Stuart Robbins
(a good friend I was rapping with last week on ‘the new normal’)
Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection.)
$17Billion in debt?
Yet another casualty like JCP and NM. That is COVID may have accelerated their demise but was certainly not the cause.
Boris Johnson′s top aide slammed for breaking lockdown rules
Cummings resign? Not going to happen.
Cummings fired? Not going to happen.
There is only one option to be rid of him.
“I salute Audible for continuing not to call them ‘podcasts’ — if you can’t listen to them in whatever app you want, they’re just shows, not podcasts.”
💬 John Gruber
I particularly like the use of ‘just’.
Ben T back on Daring Fireball … again.
You would have thought that they had something to promote.
No dithering in that decision I guess.
I have just gone back and added On The Map to all my past week’s 📚#mbmay entries.
At a stroke provides a cool visual reference for any author - and the similar authors that might be in that same orbit.
Eg : John Fowles
On the Spotify-Joe Rogan Deal and the Coming Death of Independent Podcasting.
An intelligent summary of What Spotty is up to …
The Gormenghast Trilogy … Mervyn Peake
If you are one of those people that enjoy the sagas of Tolkien/Lewis/Davies … look no further for your next one.
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