🔥 Hot off the press: “Engaged Reading Time - Issue #80” engagedreadingtime.com/archive/298678 (via @revue)
Seven stories about digital media from the last couple of weeks, and why you should pay attention to them.
@Rothesayblue All the work of my late mother.
So much this:
“Retaining members requires trust. It feels basic, but The Correspondent’s missteps in communicating with members appears to have accelerated the sustainability crisis that led to the site’s closure in 2020” betternews.org/retention-and-…
Sunlit uplands. twitter.com/walkwithdaddy/…
Something new. sandandtrees.com/welcome-to-san…
An interesting set of predictions for 2021. If the world shifts its focus from solving the COVID crisis to solving the climate crisis, we might just have a chance as a species.
What can we do to help that happen? avc.com/2021/01/what-i…
My (scientist) wife regularly berates me as a stand in for all journalists for this kind of thing. twitter.com/JaneBSinger/st…
Oh, marvellous. Well done. t.co/k7VZvE1wY… 
Knackered after homeschooling. Updating all the iOS things to 14.4 because it’s brain dead work, but feels productive.
@iroughol @dhrutishah @ptr_yeung Yes - it’s another manifestation of the strange conservatism that plagues this profession about its own work that @petren wrote about earlier: nickpetrie.co/opportunity-ch…
@iroughol @dhrutishah @ptr_yeung It would be fair to say that issues with the NUJ and “bloggers” go back a loooooong way…
Low tide on a rainy afternoon is not the most photogenic time in the Quay. t.co/owPxJc5ZL… 
I see @benthompson is in with his analysis on @stratechery already: stratechery.com/2021/twitter-a…
The most interesting thing for me about the @twitter / @revue deal is the degree to which it will allow people who have built big Twitter followings to directly monetise them through a Twitter-owned service.
Even for those who are not already Twitter Famous™, the deal could potentially give @revue newsletter owners a huge step up in discovery terms.
This post about a gift from @ghost is about a month too late for the Christmas Carol allusion, but I was reminded to write it by today’s @revue news. I’ll join the dots in a later post…
“to remain standalone company” <—— experience shows that these words should always be followed by “for now”. twitter.com/sarafischer/st…
As a Dad in the middle of homeschooling my daughters while my wife works, it’s rather demoralising seeing Sunak assuming we’re all basically 1950s families. twitter.com/Emmabarnett/st…
@petren Possibly - certainly the original weblogging - link blogging - was clearly a digital-only format. But again, started (very much) outside journalism.
Related to my last tweet: too much of the discussion about “media artisans” (to use @iroughol’s phrase) is inwards looking to journalism. We should be looking more at those outside journalism who have built incredible media enterprises, like @MKBHD: theverge.com/22231657/mkbhd…
One could make a case that liveblogging was actually the first original digital format, and that did come from journalism. But all the rest of this applies - why have we only really created one new format in 25 years? twitter.com/petren/status/…
Well, now. Newsletter platform @revue is being acquired by @Twitter. Too much competition to survive independently? getrevue.co/profile/the_we…
Another one to add to the long and ever-growing list of political reporters straying into science and getting it horribly wrong. twitter.com/alexwickham/st…