Agencies have a funny habit of priding themselves on a connection to media.
Things like reading the papers every morning, having TVs on in the office with a news channel going.
MaxTB (Medium.com archive)
((Imported from Medium in 2025. Some of these might be missing links or context and not make sense...)
Twitter’s missing manual / fuzzy notepad eev.ee (via John Gruber)
After more than 8 years, I thought I had Twitter pretty pinned down but some of these are new (and useful to me).
Can’t believe Boston Dynamics missed the opp to produce a Valentine’s Day video where they show…
At least the abuse of DeepMind only extends as far as making it identify cat pictures.
Beyond a certain point, “saving time” is wasting time.
I read a great little piece by Dan Quine this week, about “How Developers Think”.
Old PR sold editorial just like ad space
In a recent chat with Danny Whatmough, the thought struck me that old PR agencies were really almost like an “editorial ad agency”.
What If The Press Release Exists For A Reason?
The process of releasing your story to relevant audiences will always be a part of building positive understanding around what you’re…
This is what has attracted me to “iPad afternoons”.
There’s nowhere to hide, you don’t suddenly find you’ve been trawling Twitter for 30 mins or ricocheting between tasks that have stolen…
I really feel what Adrian has described here.
This is part of why, among other things, I’m trying out afternoons where I only work on my iPad (with almost all notifications off.) It…
I think this is one of those things that is obvious in retrospect but counterintuitive to our…
By contrast, there’s a lot to be said for how you power up your consciousness to explore the dots between ideas in a more mellow way.
Stealthy London Startup Curve Raises $2M From Notable Fintech Backers Steve O’Hear, techcrunch.com
Like this analysis from Steve O'Hear. Such a good little example of some of the silly hubristic chat (“vision”) that comes out of some…
This element of Medium reminds me of the earlier days of Twitter.
How long it can hold onto that remains to be seen.
Institution/identity clash is at the heart of PR spam frustration – and here’s my solution.
There’s really not much to say about this. It’s just a frustrated rant from someone with the power to get away with it. People in PR do it…