Just made my micro.blog account’s newsletter subscribe page slightly more fancy.
Meta is actually going to try to win back young people to Facebook.
Good luck with that. I suspect they have more chance of annoying their current users than persuading teenagers and people in their 20s that Facebook is for them.
Why is Substack’s rival Ghost becoming more and more popular?
Interesting read.
https://thefix.media/2024/10/3/why-is-substacks-rival-ghost-becoming-more-and-more-popular
Night beach.
"The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with film."
— @jbaty@social.lol
I still have a film camera. One day I shall use it again. One day.
It’s probably fair to say that I love blogging so much that if everybody else gave it up, I’d still continue.
It’d be less fun, obviously. But still worthwhile.
Bloggers and journalists, 20 years on.
Inspired by John Naughton’s Observer column about @dave’s 30 years of blogging…
https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/on-bloggers-and-journalists-20-years-on/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share https://micro.blog/dave
Today’s newsletter muses on Meta’s inability to recognise that people are messy, contradictory and contain multitudes. The more it tries to shove people into algorithmic boxes, the less compelling its products become.
A simple way to improve the internet.
Headline of the day:
No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons
I was complimented on my hair by a cashier at the supermarket today.
If nothing else, this proves I can still have brand new experiences in my 50s.
A first experiment with Halide’s Process Zero while shooting with my iPhone.
The beach huts on Littlehampton beach this morning turned out to be a real photographic gift, as did an unexpectedly shaped café.
I must do more random photography like this.
More images here.
Cheeky coffee and bap at Edge by the Sea after dropping my youngest at a Brownies day.
The clash between Sober October and London Cocktail Week feels particularly vexing this year.
Quite the reverse: challenger digital news brands are now snapping up traditional print media ones. But what should we make of the sale of The Spectator, and the discussions about Tortoise buying The Observer?
I have thoughts.
A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers - and the site attempt to infect you device with malware.
Moral of the story: don’t be a creep.
https://www.404media.co/a-network-of-ai-nudify-sites-are-a-front-for-notorious-russian-hackers-2/
Survived the first day of lecturing this academic year. Just 9½ weeks to go…
Abandoned shoe on the beach.
Need a POSSE?
I think we all do. And, right now, micro.blog is mine.
This is the way forward, if we want to navigate the social media diaspora in an efficient, feasible way.