Half the journalism world is swanning around an Italian town, talking pretentiously about the future of news, and I’m on my sofa surrounded by Duplo and trying to get the first issue of this newsletter in an age out.
My life is glamour. But apparently I’m a media analyst now. So there’s that.
If the printed word becomes a thing of the past, it may affect how we think. But how often does a new thing completely destroy an old thing? Remember how film completely destroyed theatre? Oh, right…
Dan Lyons, the journalist and former fake Stave Jobs, took a job with a marketing startup. Hilarity ensued. And then horror. Everything that’s wrong with “startup” culture is here.
A very long time ago, I was a national-level fencer, part of the Scottish Epee youth team. This video visualisation of the movement in the sport really brings it all back.
Nothing to do with chainlink or barbed wire. Yes, I’ve heard all those jokes.
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