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A quick overview of the recent edition of BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth;
Acronyms: The apex of absurdity in our 21st century communications;
Why don’t we have a little more anthropology in our lives?
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My biggest confession as a professional hacker is that I don’t do a lot of hacking, yet I try to think like a hacker all the time.
I subscribed to a physical magazine in 2024.
BM to DRM: Drop dead.
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It’s finally time to talk about the one book that’s constantly been at the back of my mind since making this blog.
No summary this time – anyone with a pulse should read this book for themselves.
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I bought Nick Brawl 2 on sale. It’s about time I got back in the saddle…
I am asking you once again to read my opinions on network effects
Playing to win is for losers.
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A brief respite from editing posts on polemic books to bring you news about the ex-bird site – news about its ex-users , that is.
The migration from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Mastodon gave researchers a golden opportunity to record data on the collective action problem. Spoilers: it’s pretty good news.
TOOT TOOT
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I turned twenty-three this week, so here’s a collection of topics that have nothing to do with that:
Frustrations over that bloody video, again;
Books on my radar;
Working on the blog on-the-go with a new cloud solution (that’s not actually in the cloud)
happy birthday
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Twitter friends: Friends, on Twitter, who I left without telling them where I was going.
Our social media predicament: Is it addiction, a you problem? Or does that distract us from the reality of monopolies doing a monopoly?
The EU will force Big Tech companies to interoperate in 2024. It’s got one chance to show the world how interop can work. I hope it does.
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Note-taking’s a miserable task – notebooks and siloed documents in word processors aren’t the only tools at your disposal.
Enter Zettelkastens – a method of linking notes together, built bottom-up, by you (with some general rules).
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