“In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about what might come along to “save” the news business from the ravages of the internet. But I think that’s the wrong framing. It’s better to ask: How can we use the internet to reinvent the entire business?“ - Substack
Just went for a drive and listened to a Wiggles album but Luna wasn’t even in the car. Save me.
Today’s Google homework for everyone: Cottagecore.
An easy call to action would be to tell everyone to download the What3Words app, but ultimately, I’d like to see Apple, Microsoft, Google, and other mapping services integrate the service natively. This Tasmanian rescue story is a great example of its power.
It’s a popular theory that Facebook/Google/Apple is listening to our conversations. They’re not, they don’t need to. The data we share everywhere else, like on Untappd, tells a bigger story. Like where an Air Force drone pilot is working.
What does a financially viable media look like?
Most people seem to have a wide gamut of opinions on media, MSM, and how it’s failed, not worth paying for, or there’s too many ads, or al journalists are
So when it comes to telling our stories, what’s the best business model?
An incredible article on the severely broken economics of food delivery, á la Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grub Hub
Toddler joins in Zoom calls 
Toddler threatens to flatten me 
As 150+ Australian journalists have been let go today, it’s important to note exactly when the Lynch mob out against “mainstream media” won, and whether that date aligns with when “the bastards” ceased to be kept honest. Funny timing with the new ASIO surveillance bill IMHO.
The internet used to be beautiful IMHO
The internet used to be lovely.
Call it nostalgia, but two of the “former generation” tools that I think made the internet so lovely was RSS and blogs.
Of course, both still exist today, but they’re most definitely not the primary means of sharing and storytelling. So this week when TTThis shared “If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs” and Daniel Miessler wrote “It’s Time to Get Back Into RSS” I felt like I wasn’t alone in those nostaglic feelings.
Feelings that hark back to a time when the internet was inherently beautiful, with some ugly parts; whereas today it feels like it’s inherently ugly, with some beautiful parts.
As guilty as I stand here being the Facebooking, Tweeting, Newsfeeding, Redditing, boy that I am, I can’t help but feel like all those services are just adding to that vibe that WALL-E predicted, where we’re all just fat content absorbing sobs on hoverboards, instead of the intellectual humans we were born to be.
I think it’s really sad that most Australians can’t even recite the second verse of Fruit Salad #YummyYummy
The Rainbow Lorikeets are glad that they’re allowed to gather again
Luna’s loving these new blocks // from Raduga Grëz via Eve of Indigo (nothing I have is sponsored, just shouting out because they’re making beautiful work)
Busted
“The Great Awakening”
Wowowow. This has existed since June 2018 and only now do I get the chance to laugh at it.
Not many people know this but the 1997 All Saints hit Never Ever was actually written about a MacBook that wouldn’t connect to an iPhone’s wifi personal hotspot even though they’re on the same iCloud account.
Business idea: Screenshots of your greatest tweets on your gravestone. Cemeteries become a real world favstar.