No fancy posts to win the MicroBlogVember pin … no tricks, just plain and simple rhythm. I like the idea @macgenie - thanks for introducing it.
Mark my words. I am focussed on MicroBlogVember, but my later arrival might cause disqualification. If so - who cares, it’s an interesting exercise.
Let’s be honest. I care. 😇
The key to winning your MicroBlogVember pin is by actually starting on November 1st - which quite obviously I have failed to do, I wonder if I will be granted some leeway?
TIL : Only 3% of the woodlands in the state are owned and managed by California. The remainder is owned by the federal government.
”The 20th-century innovation that launched the global frozen-goods …. but industry’s chief pioneer is hardly a household name.
… and then goes on to write all about Clarence Birdseye.
Birdseye? Not a household name? Who’s fish fingers does he buy?
New Russian ‘Sovereign Internet’ Law Gives Government Sweeping Power Over Internet
Line by line. Post by post.
Beto O’Rourke drops out of 2020 presidential race.
I wonder if NOW he’ll get on and do the job he should have been doing - campaigning to win a D seat in Texas?
Next is a new app that brings dynamic playlists to Apple Music
… anyone have any experience of this?
Google to buy Fitbit in $2.1 billion deal
Time to trade in your Fitbit?
A 5 minute short film only available on BBC iPlayer to my knowledge - so unseen by this chap - and as important as to how this got released as much as the film itself.
The World’s 20 Most Profitable Companies
Not much left if you take out oil and banks.
It’s a telling graph called ‘the curse of the ex-pat’ … coincidentally it relates to my earlier inktober drawing.
Douglas Rushkoff : Team Human serialization begins today on Medium!
Love It.
”We need to remake society toward human ends rather than the end of humans”
Douglass Rushkoff
The Gig Economy Is Task Driven.
The Future Of Work Is Not.
Continuing To Iterate My Thoughts On Human Value for Inktober.
The local newspaper in Sonoma is called The Press Democrat. Last year it won a Pulitzer. This week it has 30 reporters out in the field reporting on the fires.
And they say nobody does ‘local’ anymore. The Press Democrat proves otherwise.
Massive kudos.
When will Apple support app level override of dark mode - or is that just me?
If you are someone who writes a newsletter and you see me unsubscribing … you will also see me subscribing … gradually moving newsletter subs to Feedbin.
GrubHub blames “promiscuous” diners for slowing growth, shares sink 30%
… how dare we people choose other food delivery services - what are we thinking!
Emulation from XKCD