@corinne_podger No - it’s just once a week for me. The real heroes are primary school teachers or full time lecturers who are doing it multiple times a week. I’m so glad that not me.
@corinne_podger I’ve had 5 PCRs over the pandemic - but have to do weekly lateral flow before heading into City to teach. I hope you folks get to skip this step!
@PaulOckenden At least I can fix the original source: microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2021/10/26/one…
@PaulOckenden One day Twitter will add an edit button. Today is not that day.
Interesting that Reach are bringing in external analytics and data expertise at board level. holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2021/news/john…
One day I will manage to swap myself for a lateral flow test without retching.
Today is not that day.
Commuting mask watch: down to about 10% of people wearing masks on this Southern train. Very thinly occupied, though.
It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the costs of managing that scale:
How Facebook Failed the World theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Quelle surprise. My oh my. Such a shocker. Pass the smelling salts, Mildred. dailydot.com/debug/facebook…
Compelling podcast about the use of encrypted messengers during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. overcast.fm/+IPRvHQxOw
@erika_marzano Concrete mites. Little blighters.
You may mock, but life as a concrete farmer is a hard struggle. In aggregate, many concrete farmers end up set in their ways.
@iroughol People are weird. My wife gets “Laura” instead of Lorna all the time. And people often call me “Tim” — I’m guessing because of my surname.
But the best one was the press release addressed to “Adam West”, but with my job title… t.co/Q72QadRd3…
Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log straight back off.
@baekdal Basically, we still suck at reporting even relatively straightforward if emotionally difficult science, and the moral dilemmas it presents.
@baekdal …the speed with which it occurs, and particularly the proportion of it that comes via vaccination hugely changes the death toll along the way. And that nuance seems to be almost completely absent from reporting both from anti- and pro-herd immunity pieces.
@baekdal Had quite a long talk with my wife about this (PhD in immunology, Senior Lecturer in Medical Genomics) — and she pointed out that population immunity through exposure of the majority was always the endgame, and probably couldn’t be anything else. But…
MacOS Monterey is a weirdly bland update — having been using it for a couple of hours, you could have easily persuaded me that the install failed and that I was still in Big Sur.
@horton_official @guardian Lot of anger in my (fairly Tory) part of the world about this one. Happily, our local Tory MP wasn’t one of the ones who supported the sewage dumping, but like a lot of coastal communities, there’s a growing anger.
Let’s do this… t.co/Xrndv5fiU… 
Om Malik on the iPod 20 years on:
Maybe knowingly (but more likely unknowingly), Apple had made a device that made it easy for normals to understand and embrace our then-new century’s big idea: the abstraction of our physical life into the digital … microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2021/10/25/om-…
@moorehn @sawickipedia The signal/noise ratio – or more accurately discussion/abuse ratio - has clearly shifted. I suspect many of them are reading occasionally, but finding the rewards of posting aren’t worth the price (based on some recent conversations).
Probably should have said: if you’re looking for a mid-to-senior level position in audience engagement - lemme know, and I’ll try to ping you the right way.
I know of at least three people actively recruiting for audience engagement or social media editor positions right now and struggling to find experienced folks - not first job positions, but second or third job.
It baffles me that we still have too few people taking this part of journalism seriously.
There are jobs. It’s a critical part of modern newsrooms. 🤷