Engaged Reading Time - Issue #55
After a funny week last week, when it felt like the most productive thing I did was get a haircut, I've had a busy and productive week already. Most of it was upgrading One Man & His Blog, in preparation for launching an (optional) subscription offering there.
But I've also found some time for getting catch-up reading in.
And here's some things to share with you…
Why 8chan’s founder is fighting to keep the infamous message board dead
8chan (now 8kun - see below) is one of the most toxic places on the internet. So bad, that its creator is trying to kill the thing he spawned.
8Chan Is Back and Calling Itself 8kun Now
So, he hasn't succeeded, but there is an important change beyond the name evolution…
The Gartner Hype Cycle is … hype. Don’t use it as an excuse.
Advocates of failed technologies grasp at the Gartner Hype Cycle because it tells them their success is inevitable.
Now We’re Talking to Therapists About Climate Anxiety
Here's a theory: the climate crisis is already more than an environment or science story. It's a health story, a property story, a business story…
Why aren't we seeing more stories like this one?
Coffee Transaction Guide
If you drink proper coffee (non-instant, says the coffee snob who is writing this), you need to know this.
Mean
Not unrelated to the video above, this is something I wrote last week about behaviour online that seems to have resonated with people.
This morning's posts from me
Taking Google (and Facebook)'s money ethically
Can you use funding from the tech giants to build products that are sustainable without them?
Engaged Reading Digest: Deepfakes, YouTube controversy and better analytics through complexity
Just in case this newsletter didn't provide you enough reading material…
And finally
These colorful, metallic garments are made of recycled VHS tapes
Visually stunning, although thought-provoking about the fate of all that plastic in dated media formats…
