A bar on stage feels very on point for a digital conference in the Reeperbahn Festival.
#next23
Late night on the Reeperbahn.
https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2023/09/20/late-night-on.html
I love the fact Hamburg Airport has an art gallery, rather than all the normal overpriced nonsense you get in British airports.
Remember all those sessions about how voice and smart speakers would be the future of journalism?
Not so much.
https://talkingtocomputers.substack.com/p/why-voice-failed-as-a-platform
It’s nice seeing the number of serious video recording apps for iPhone proliferating.
The number of occasions when you need to bust out the “real” cameras is diminishing.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/14/blackmagic-camera-filming-app-iphnone/
An interesting move from the Economist, adding a new subscription tier for podcasts.
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/12/economist-adds-podcast-subscription-tier
We appear to have gone from the height of summer to autumn in four days.
📷 September Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: glow.
TIL that you can screenshot CarPlay.
My wallet is safe from Tim Cook this time.
Currently reading: Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 📚
Breakfast of champions.
Looks like it’s an “update all the Apple things” evening.
Important security updates out…
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/07/ios-16-6-1-macos-13-5-2-active-vulnerabilities/
Listening to my boss’s inaugural lecture…
I spent yesterday at a journalism innovation conference. If you want to know what the news publishers are thinking about at the moment, well, here you go.
These seem like a more plausible scenario as time goes on: The case for Musk driving Twitter to bankruptcy.
https://www.icopilots.com/the-case-for-musk-driving-twitter-to-bankrupcy/
Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary people, I present for you the 21st Century, where we microchip cheese.
Just realised that in just over two weeks I’ll be in Hamburg again for NEXT23. The schedule looks great this year.
I’m officially old. Badgers is 20 years old.
Mushroom. Mushroom. Snake.
https://boingboing.net/2023/09/02/mrweebls-classic-viral-animation-badgers-turns-20.html
Begone, miserable doom merchants! Traditional social media’s stumble could actually be good for journalism and audience work.
Honest.