I’ve got a full-on day of lectures in today (six hours back-to-back 🤪), so have yesterday’s thoughts on the difference between social media and social netwoks, and why that matters for audience work… https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/12/journalism-is-a-social-process-we-need-to-connect-with-our-audience/?utm_source=Fediverse&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Second-share
Morning ivy #2 
Billionaires: Bozos or begrovellers? https://pxlnv.com/linklog/bozos-begrovellors/
This is more than a little bit disturbing: Why The Faroese Whale Slaughter Must End 🐋
WARNING: graphic footage of whale slaughter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpkiHnDSRfQ
Just finished my last session with the MA Newspaper journalism students this year. Lively, engaged, questioning, and quite savvy bunch. Some good newsroom talent incoming…
Morning ivy.
Do you want cybermen? Because this is how you get cybermen.
Weird how persistent old ways of thinking are. I saw this headline - Hopes are growing for Bakerloo extension to Lewisham, TfL official says - and thought “About time. That’ll be handy”.
And then I remembered that I haven’t lived in Lewisham for 13 years. (And that the author is a former student.)
https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2024/11/27/hopes-growing-bakerloo-extension-lewisham-tfl/
Obi-Wan Kenobi is the perfect TV series to watch with my 9 year old on Daddy/Daughter TV nights while her big sister is at Guides.
Today has been a relentlessly local day - delivering the local residents’ association mag, and editing the parish mag.
Print is not dead. It’s just local.
Least surprising discovery of the day:
"Substack’s RSS feeds are a disaster."
— @manton
It’s platform that takes what it wants from the open web, and locks everything else up behind proprietary tech. Podcasts, in particular, should be wary of the erosion of RSS.
https://www.manton.org/2024/12/01/substacks-rss-feeds.html https://micro.blog/manton
I doubt I’ll ever be the sort of person that enjoys camping in the snow, bit I can enjoy the stunning photos of those who do.
https://www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2024/12/winter-camping-photos.html
On-brand daughter.
Jared Newman wanted a blog that would automatically crosspost to the major social services. And he found his answer:
"I tried a bunch of different options for my cross-posting setup, but the one that worked best involves a service called Micro.blog."
Here’s how.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91235471/how-i-turned-my-blog-into-a-social-media-hub
Nice to be quoted in this piece about Bluesky versus Threads by a former student, Hannah Murphy, in the Financial Times today.
If you remember and still miss Nuzzel, and use Bluesky or Mastodon, have I got good news for you.
This tool shows you the most shared links in your network. Hella useful.
https://www.tylerjfisher.com/blog/post/2024/11/20/introducing-sill
John Gruber:
"My advice to any writer looking to start a new site based on the newsletter model would be to consider Substack last, not first. Not because Substack is a Nazi bar, which I don’t think it is at all, but simply because there are clearly better options, and the company’s long term goal is clearly platform lock-in."
https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/regarding_and_well_against_substack
Pretty sure that this isn’t what GoPros are designed for, but this still makes me smile when I rewatch it…
Sisters vrs the Sea
Today the Podcasting MA students are going to learn what RSS is and why it matters — whether they like it or not… :-)
Awesome (and important) piece from Anil Dash: Don’t call it a Substack
"Links are powerful — that’s why Instagram and Twitter and Threads punish and limit them, and why Substack tries to take credit for them. And that’s why “wherever you get your podcasts” is such a radical concept — like email, it’s a medium that the tech tycoons don’t, and can’t, own. People can read your writing “wherever they get their email”."
https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/