Professional nerd. Media researcher. Retired twitterer. Excel mathemagician. Terrible guitarist. @Fintasm's husband. On Threads & @somerandomnerd@mstdn.social
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The worst thing is how often they turn out to be right. (Which I guess is a bit like the Theuth & Thamus myth - complaining that literacy will make people stupid because they won't need to know anything if they can just read it in a book...)
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If @elllmilll doesn’t love this then I don’t know anything about anything anymore. (So good I just bought the magazine so I can read it properly…)
After 250 years confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the West are becoming more aware that we might, perhaps, have company.
I spoke to @jamesbridle and @raynayler about their new books on other minds, from AIs to octopuses alike: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
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After a long time of trying to come up with a simple answer to the simple question of “what is television?”, I decided to go the long way around. somerandomnerd.net/blog/2022…
Sixty years ago today, the first Bond film and Beatles record came out. Just finished the Love & Let Die audiobook that explores those two British icons- v. highly recommended.
LOVE AND LET DIE is out today! The audiobook includes an exclusive episode of @IAmTheEggPod
geni.us/LoveAndLetDie
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If the exact same crying CEO selfie had been posted on BeReal instead of LinkedIn, I think the reaction would have been quite different.
This clip lodged in my brain 7 years ago and still won’t budge. Seems like a good time to share it again.
I love the thought of a little kid seeing this in 50 years and then telling her friends “My gran is a TOTAL BADASS!" xitter.cf/leugimfigueroa/status/…
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Every 'personalised' mass email that starts with "Hi Scott..." (or similar) to 'nudge' me into opening it makes it slightly less likely that I'll open an actual email from an actual human who has taken the time to actually write *me* an email.
(See also: LinkedIn 'messaging')
Watch how the government explains that they are 'saving' Channel 4 by selling it. Then watch them do it again with the BBC. Then the NHS.
Very pleased to announce that this is now available- I'm the 'guest' on Episode 1, and we got a fantastic line-up for the other four. The whole podcast series is on Spotify here - open.spotify.com/show/6J2ImG…
We launched our 5-part podcast series and report, 'The Future Tensions of the Metaverse' included in @Campaignmag! Heather Dansie, Insight Director, interviews industry experts for their perspectives on the Metaverse and its impact on the media industry. campaignlive.co.uk/article/s…
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I love those “work” meetings where there isn’t a laptop, notepad or a single screen or piece of paper in sight, everyone is either sitting in separate groups or standing around chatting, the boss’s wife joins in and there’s cheese and lots of wine and it’s in someone’s garden.
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Four years ago, things were very different... vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
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Bye bye Evernote. Its been fun, dumping things in you. Time to find a new digital dumping place...
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"China bans 'erotic' banana-eating live streams" - missing a sense of scale? bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-fr…