← 2018March 2018
The USA is proposing reviewing social media of nearly everyone seeking entry and I'm really looking forward to their riveting critique of my 3GB Facebook archive, almost 80,000 tweets, and 6,000 Instagram posts.
There is nothing more exciting on earth today than this Twitter thread
There's a primary school in Torres Strait, the far northern tip of Queensland, Australia, that has no books for the students. It would be so cool if everyone sent them a children's book!
A startling review of stock photos on Medium
People are losing their mind as Pope Francis says 'Hell does not exist,', which is great and all that, but why don’t we just ‘fess up and say we simply don’t know & the information we’ve got on the subject is sketchy.
A 2007 article by Victor Keegan arguing that MySpace had a monopoly and it was too hard for it’s users to leave.
Your fortune teller isn't as good as David Gerrold
I've just checked into my hotel for the night and I think I've been drafted to represent Scotland in the #GC2018 Commonwealth Games
Seeing this photo makes me feel extraordinarily proud
“The truth is, we could make a ton of money, if we monetized our customer - if our customer was our product. We’ve elected not to do that.” - Apple CEO, Tim Cook, commenting on Facebook's business model.
Apple’s constant efforts to win over schools and students isn’t a silly effort. My first computer experience was an Apple IIe in Grade Five, then using my uncle’s Macintosh in the early 90s cemented it. I wanted an Apple computer.
Humans, we aren't going to beat the computers if it takes this airline staff member 14 minutes to figure out there's no direct Vancouver-Gold Coast flights.
Doc Searls makes a pretty good point about what the rest of the year is going to look like in the news (OMG Amazon is tracking me!)
This piece in the NYTimes on teachers has my brain going down a different tangent. What do "professions" and "degrees" mean in a society that values them less everyday?
I wonder how many small or independant businesses are prepared for a 38% drop in Facebook favourability, which for some may lead to a 38% drop in business.
One of the best local podcasts going around is Scotty Mac's Brisbane is Weird, and the latest ep about the the Battle of Brisbane is about Brisbane's shameful American past.
Is there an award for the most number of times you've left your Kindle e-reader in a hotel room or on a plane? Asking for a friend.
If you invoice with Xero, did you know that for free you can connect it to Stripe, and let your customers pay you with credit card? It even lets you on-charge the credit card fee #pleasedothiseveryone
J&C #marriedbyjosh #photographedbyjosh
An issue more people should consider is that your content and your data, is yours. You should own it. But it's all locked up in Facebook (and other networks) and competition is severly limited because of the high costs of switching to a new network. This needs to change.
There's a new edition of the most niche podcast we could think of, an Australian marriage celebrant podcast. But hey, you can listen if you want.
Remember back in the olden days we had day themes for social media content, Micro.blog has that in the form of Micro Monday and I'll nominate @ismh if only because he's at least active here ✌🏼
It's an easy week to bash social media, even I've been doing it, but it's brought all of us closer together, so it can't be all that bad.
But if you want to know how I'm changing up my social media habits, lets chat offline about it.
Sleep, an eight hour album on Spotify to listen to while you sleep
The most exciting thing about Trump's presidency is that all future world leaders can say "Look, I don't threaten porn star's children's lives" and we'll be so overjoyed with their high-level morals.
Driving out of Sydney Airport feels just like leaving Denpasar Airport now. Same road designers?
How to cook soup. First, you need some water.
They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, no, no, no
"The name Christian now aligns me with gun-toting preachers, damnation-wielding social media trolls and predatory Presidents. It now aligns me with the least-like-Jesus stuff I can imagine." — John Pav
As the bible says, “Let any one of you who has not thrown around the idea of possibly destroying a nation's ethics over a long lunch, be the first to throw a Cricket ball at him.”
13 reasons to believe tha aliens exist ... click through to get your conspiracy theories on!
Before you sink/lose your life-savings on crypto currencies, read "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts"
I can't lie to you, I like the idea of hitchiking the world - story in the NY Times magazine
Officials in Schuylkill County (USA) are teaching students to throw rocks at school shooters ... not The Onion, actual real news
Humbled daily by the couples that invite me into their marriage ceremony. A couple from Montreal have just asked me to be their celebrant in Vancouver!
"Our job now is to find new tasks, human tasks, faster than the computer takes the old ones away. Too often, people are displaced and then give up." – Seth Godin
Neapolitan Mountain
How long can you sleep on a display bed, via Vice
Outriggers
I wish everyone in my world would invest the 20min to listen to this podcast ep about social media & mental health so we could all be on the same page - Ask Sciene Mike episode 145
Want Facebook to stop using your name in vain? Turn the setting off at facebook.com/settings/...
Apple has proposed new inclusive emojis. The inclusive nature of Apple's business culture inspires me.
The last conversation you'll ever need to have about eating right - bookmarking this one.
"Keto gives people the impression they’ve lost fat" - @juliaoftoronto in Vox
"80 per cent of homes are selling at a loss"The mining boom's biggest legacy seemingly will be the mortgages worth more than the houses.
“Where’s the line on hate speech? I mean, who chose me to be the person that did that?” - Mark Zuckerberg realising the responsibilities of popularity
"Facebook will never stop collecting and exploiting that data. It is all they have." - John Birmingham's Alien Side Boob, 23/3/18
"Business wise, a brand would benefit more from working with a thought leader, who has 5000 real and engaged followers, who could become real and paying 5000 customers, than a buzzword thrower with 20k-50k followers (or more) who are only following thanks to herd behavior and who are not likely to pay for a product or a service. Real thought leaders care and make a point to be knowledgeable about the topics they cover."
This 'welcome to the Gold Coast street lights sign/artwork' is no better when you're looking at it straight on and in the air ... I hate to jump on bandwagons, but this is a pretty supreme waste of public funds. I love the Gold Coast, I'm 100% behind #GC2018, but this sign is silly on so many fronts.
“Up until the early 2000s, the only people that lived here full time was me and my family and the people in the Big Brother House. That and a few retirees.”
Did You Know? There’s Actually A Community Of People Who Live On The Gold Coast Full-Time
Honest Wes Anderson trailer Youtube link
Sydney is now more expensive to live in than New York and LA. (It's actually cheaper for me to fly there every week than live there)
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