New post! 👉 onemanandhisblog.com/2019/01/facebo… Facebook speeds up assimilation of WhatsApp and Instagram
Upscale NYC restaurant bans lone women from sitting at the bar: microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2019/01/25/ups…
One that required a bit of focus, but not too much. Bring on next month’s #AppleWatch challenge. t.co/ZNQthFXmm… 
I just had a really, really bad idea.
I should do nothing about this idea.
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Apple News Expands to Canada in iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4 - Apple’s rolling this out very slowly for them. But taking the time to get the right people in place is good. macrumors.com/2019/01/24/app…
@rapella Well, I might be biased because I have friends who work there…
Ugh. Buzzfeed is laying off over 200 people. They do great work, and they have some fantastic journalists - but that VC investment burden was always going to be hard for them to carry successfully.
Best wishes to anyone impacted. recode.net/2019/1/23/1819…
No wonder my chair was uncomfortable - I’ve been sitting on this for the last hour: t.co/Dql0RjrFm… 
B2B have been doing paywalls for 20 years. The endemic snobbery in journalism means that nobody’s going to them and asking the right questions about what works and what doesn’t. twitter.com/mathewi/status…
@mathewi B2B have been doing it for over two decades. The more niche your content - and the less subsititaube competition there is - the more likely it is to work.
@MartinSFP Break a leg!
Thingification:
“All these potentially powerful attempts at building a new world using new tools being rendered safe by assimilation into the old.”
All too often, the old, hierarchical world has hollowed out social tools, and worn them like a skin. euansemple.com/theobvious/201…
For anyone claiming that algorithms can’t be racist, let’s just remember this little “delight”. People code algorithms, and they can end up coding in their own biases. theverge.com/2018/1/12/1688…
Blimey. Here’s a Cardiff-based digital marketing agency angling to buy do follow links for their clients. Seems rather risky, given Google’s guidelines on that… t.co/OyokTQ1zk… 
An epitath for Livejournal: microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2019/01/22/an-…
Of interest to #Interhacktives twitter.com/datatheism/sta…
January 2018 in photos - looking back at a year ago. onemanandhisblog.com/2019/01/januar… t.co/TGx5fTHmB… 
New post! 👉 onemanandhisblog.com/2019/01/januar… January 2018 — in photos
@JohnONolan Good questions - which I don’t have great answers to (yet). Just poking at stuff, and thinking about stuff, and researching stuff, as newsletters are clearly getting bigger business in audience growth post-Facepocalypse.
@SophieWarnes @charlesarthur That’s why I said that sometimes catchup e-mails are useful - and as I don’t track data nearly as closely as you do, I find your email useful. But some in the social media / digital culture space all seem to be carrying the same basic handful of links.
@SophieWarnes I don’t deny it’s hard - and a “catchup” list is valuable. But my gold standard here is something like @charlesarthur’s Overspill, which is always surprising me with new interesting people to read: theoverspill.blog
The one thing that disappoints me about most “links” newsletters I follow is that they rarely give me links outside a very narrow circle of obvious sites. Do people really read that narrowly?
@tommorris Thank you.