@Simmons__ Enjoy!
(This piece is clearly aging well: onemanandhisblog.com/2019/04/social…)
This is a frankly baffling decision by whomever @twitter outsourced verification to. A multi-bylines BBC journalist with a substantial following and a book contract? twitter.com/sophiasgaler/s…
This is a really, really interesting podcast on how to reverse polarisation in society. Thought-provoking. overcast.fm/+gyqL8_WJ4
@moorehn I am now concerned that I have slipped into an alternative reality where writing games is cool not irredeemably nerdy.
Or maybe I’m now just so old and out of touch I can’t tell!
@moorehn It still dominates my Wikipedia page — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Tinw… — although, with my normal timing, I got out of it just became it became big business and hugely popular. 🤷🏼♂️🤦♂️
@moorehn For a while I had a parallel second career to journalism writing D&D-like RPGs and the rules writing reflexes never quite die…
@moorehn Natural Talent: Summon capitalists. Roll 2d6 to determine number of random capitalist bros who appear when you are in a social setting.
@iroughol @jimbomorrison I quite genuinely don’t want to be verified as I don’t want the sh*t it could bring.
This. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ twitter.com/michellemanafy…
@SandraDavey2019 Exhibits A and B; t.co/ZXVu2VYX2… 
This week it has become abundantly clear to me that some tasks are better done on a big screen, and some on a small screen. And figuring out which is which, and switching tech to accommodate that, has a huge impact on productivity.
When journalism was geographically rooted, we served pre-existing communities. Increasing, in digital, we’re creating communities around what we do — and we too often miss that.
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The journalism in of itself is not enough, you need a community to gather around it, and identify with it.
I’ll turn this into a blog post — when I not deep in reading final project drafts… 😉
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Lovely chat with @benwhitelaw earlier. It reminded me that all the best journalism is rooted in a sense of community, and that the journalism itself is a social object that the community revolves around.
Short thread!
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@glynmottershead @martinjc It’s one of the reasons I’m so fanatical about data portability. For example: opensubscriptionplatforms.com
@glynmottershead @martinjc Yahoo Pipes.
@Flipping_Pages Great name for a band.
@aliyadotcom @BusinessInsider @thisisinsider This news has really cheered me up this morning!
@aliyadotcom @BusinessInsider @thisisinsider Congratulations!
This might be useful to other people, but the chance of me skinny dipping at my age is, approximately, zero.
@EstherKeziaT (I am guilty of this from time-to-time)
@EstherKeziaT I suppose that reflects why open rate isn’t a great metric on its own — a certain proportion of late week opens might just be people clearing down emails before the weekend, who are more interesting in “processing” their emails than “reading” them.
It’s interesting how long the life-span of a “morning” newsletter can be — although worth noting that a chunk of the afternoon traffic is probably the US coming online.
But equally interesting that there’s been nothing since then — it’s that day or nothing, it appears!
Interesting looking at the traffic from the @mediavoicespod newsletter to @omandhb, after @EstherKeziaT kindly put my email open rate piece as the lead story: lots of early morning readers clearly.
Who knew journalists got up so early? 😇 t.co/ZYx6Xc7mS… 