3 of 5 stars to Dark Value by Grant McCracken goodreads.com/review/show/16…
@SophieWarnes Did I ever inflict my “journalism took the wrong lessons from blogging” rant on your generation of #Interhacktives? Or was I still trying to be nice back then?
@annafmenin @CityAM Congratulations!
Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism economist.com/open-future/20…
Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her boyfriend ‘hates’ on Instagram insider.com/instagram-docu…
It’s just been that kind of a day. microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2019/08/04/its…
Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the selfies…) euronews.com/2019/08/01/why…
Pub sign angles are a surprisingly good guide as to how windy the day is… t.co/PyQqp9zR7… 
@rhistorerwrites Oh, yes.
The garden was in fine form today, in the few moments I could steal away from work. t.co/fOPuALszx… 
The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare.
Sweet dreams. :-) nextconf.eu/2019/07/the-pa…
Bit blowy today. microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2019/07/28/bit…
I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time. Result. t.co/cEfFbvWTG… 
I’m not sure that this acquisition will “produce value”. These are sites with utterly different cultures, and I can’t see Vice adapting its culture to allow Refinery29 to thrive. wsj.com/articles/vice-…
Unsurprising to anyone who has lived in Scotland: Scotland generating enough wind energy to power two Scotlands independent.co.uk/environment/sc…
Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the social web. onemanandhisblog.com/2019/07/tumblr…
New post! 👉 onemanandhisblog.com/2019/07/seo/ SEOs buying up defunct URLs linked to by major news sites
The latest Black Hat SEO technique: find articles from defunct sites linked to by major news operations, and grab the URLs.
This could impact the ranking of sites exploited by the technique. onemanandhisblog.com/2019/07/seo/
@interacter Ironically, the research shows that it only makes a difference to readability with monospaced fonts - and then only for people who type with double spaces. So, there is some comfirmation bias at work.
I see Boris has got his new policing policy sorted quickly. t.co/ZHOFPVtNN…
Tumblr as we know it is dead, as a pile of corporate obfuscation makes clear. What’s left is a zombie-like shell - and a gap for places where young people can experiment with their identity. onemanandhisblog.com/2019/07/tumblr…