I don’t want to come across as all cynical, but I’m beginning to think that maybe this won’t be the easiest deal in history, and perhaps we don’t hold all the cards?
A quick digest of some worthwhile or interesting nature and outdoors reading. walkingwithdaddy.com/weekend-nature…
There’s a good reason we should temper the current Substack enthusiasm in journalism circles with a little caution. It wouldn’t take much for the newsletter platform to reinvent itself as an attention gatekeeper.
And there’s VCs lurking the … microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2020/12/11/the…
@rainbowbex Oh, I’m sure the journalists weren’t to blame. But the mismanagement of the whole project certainly bears some responsibility.
Congrats! twitter.com/abigailbuchn/s…
So. I appear to have lost circa 150 @omandhb subscribers overnight. Either (a) @Ghost introduced some form of list cleaning with the new metrics (yay!) or (b) writing about @presspaduk upset a lot of people (boo!)
Metrics: always more questions than answers.
Why Substack’s evolution is (just) beginning to worry me – and what the warning signs we should look out for are…
@iroughol My wife has been saying from quite early on that we should lay off the hand sanitiser (competitive evolutionary pressure on pathogens, anyone?) but completely avoid anywhere where the windows don’t open.
But then, she does has a PhD in immunology…
Lots of people asking for something like this. And it worries me, because Substack will probably build it, and all of a sudden we have a new attention gatekeeper. twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/s…
@iroughol Depressing COVID theatre, isn’t it? Very little evidence of fomite spread, loads of evidence of aerosol spread. But ventilation is hard to sort and spraying is easy so…
What an astonishing and appalling clusterfuck this has been from beginning to end. niemanlab.org/2020/12/the-co…
@corinne_podger @iroughol @pilhofer @mathewi I note that @JayCoDon just shifted A Media Operator off Substack, which is interesting. amediaoperator.com/newsletter/wel… I’m looking forward to reading about his thinking on it.
I honestly thought Apple had misjudged pricing on their AirPods Max. Shows you how much I know, doesn’t I? 9to5mac.com/2020/12/08/air…
I talked to @OliviaCrellin about @PressPadUK’s current crowdfunded. Here’s what she had to say — and why I think it deserves your support: onemanandhisblog.com/2020/12/pressp…
A lot of my courses are targeted at more senior journalists: you need to be a section editor or above to make the most of them. This one is quite the opposite. It’s four weeks of small doses of SEO, social and other key digital skills to really benefit any working journalist. twitter.com/journalismnews…
@chrismsutcliffe No problem. I might be asking you to return the favour if bookings for next year don’t pick up…
A restaurant in Île de Ré, from back when I used to travel overseas.
And go to restaurants. t.co/1nIXmjze5… 
Frost on the roofs this morning. The girls were very excited. The adults, less so. t.co/NMuGcj69F… 
@othello @Hicksdesign Not encountered it yet, but will watch for it.
Didn’t take them long to find the refilled feeders. t.co/Z5gjBuoMT… 
@sambrook Unplugged at 9.25am. Not plugged in since. 🤯🤯
I used my new MacBook Pro for an hour this morning to monitor a livestream I was running, dived into a quick Zoom call, have done some emails, edited some photos and worked on a blog post.
And I have 95% battery left. 🤯
🔥 Hot off the press: “Engaged Reading Time - Issue #77” engagedreadingtime.com/archive/245552 (via @revue)