Catching up with the news from the last few days, including Facebook pumping $5m into independent local news creators, and why someone who I’m certainly not tagging on here because I value my mentions is playing the man — @Jamesrbuk — not the ball… onemanandhisblog.com/2021/05/local-…
Dear Substack writers,
It is not compulsory to have an opinion on the Basecamp mess.
Yours,
Adam
(Who has just deleted several lukewarm takes on the subject from you all…)
Looks like there are security updates for Apple things out — urgent ones, too.
Looks like I’ll be updating all the family devices while I work this morning.
@charlesarthur Social warming you say? Sounds like a good topic for a book! Would you be aware of any such endeavour? 😇
This, by someone who actually worked for Jobs, shows how little understanding there was of him in @bbclaurak’s facile comparison with Boris Johnson. twitter.com/kevinmarks/sta…
🎵 You’re driftwood… 🎵 t.co/g4tf20zvS… 
@jamesrgrinter (My iMac does support 10GbE, tho, but not much else!)
@jamesrgrinter Future-proofing. I only replace cables every decade or so, so…
Interesting look at what’s happening behind the strange week for No.10 (from @Alain_Tolhurst): apple.news/Av1xP96cmTfK-Y…
@tobyclark I solved the latter by only buying pre-made cables… and yes, over the limited range of stuff I use a wired network for it’s really noticeable faster. Dropping stuff onto our NAS, and Time Machine backups are much speedier.
This is an absolute shocker: last night someone cut down an osprey nest at Llyn Brenig in Wales, where a young pair were incubating their first egg.
Ospreys are a schedule 1 species, and any disturbance of them during breeding season is a crime. ospreys.net/shocking-news-…
Just replaced the Cat 5 on the wired elements of our home network with Cat 7 cables.
Boy, I know how to have fun on a Friday night.
@gracedembowicz “Depends” 🙃 Drop me a line or a DM with what you are thinking about and I’ll make suggestions
Newsletters AND dashboards? This feels like @smurraymorris catnip: inma.org/blogs/value-co…
This is genius: Paddington in Film kottke.org/21/04/paddingt…
@john_w_hayes @JournoJohnK @wilsondan @SubstackInc Not just the local press — more than one national has effective killed off its subbing team.
@JournoJohnK @john_w_hayes @wilsondan @SubstackInc Yup. Any smart writer should be hiring a freelance sub-editor once their newsletter income can support it. But the big-names might struggle a little to accept the advice given…
The question, I suppose, is how much do their loyal readers care?
Why Substack stealing the big name columnists won’t kill newspapers — and why it might actually be a good thing… onemanandhisblog.com/2021/04/why-ne…
@amonck I tried it out on my immunologist wife, and she disagreed.
That’s anecdote, not data, so here’s my funding proposal for an extensive study of comic reaction among different scientist variants. I’ll need two years and half a dozen postdocs.
@aetlamagazine And have now put my money where my tweet is. :-)
@michellemanafy @corinne_podger @LauraOliver @wblau I know I’ve said this before, but the first thing any independent creator whose income justifies it should do is hire a good editor. That second pair of eyes is invaluable.
Indie magazine fans, this looks great: aetlamagazine.com/becoming-aetla/.
I enjoyed its predecessor, Fen & Field, but I’m pre-ordering the first @aetlamagazine with great excitement…
Things I need to learn: “wether” is a castrated ram.
Unless I suddenly start working with @FarmersWeekly again, the word I’m actually looking for is “whether”.
I apologise to readers and subscribers of my blog for the error. t.co/FkXEcSGTU… 