Five Things: March 20, 2025
"No one paying attention should be surprised by this." Five Things for March 20, 2025
Why keep blogging in 2025?
Blogs have been declared dead multiple times, mostly "replaced" by Twitter and then newsletters that are really just blogs with email and paywall functionally baked in. And yet, here I still am, blogging again consistently (but not too hard) for the past few years. And I'm not alone. But why? If you've known me for a while, you know a Cluetrain quote is coming!
Five Things: January 23, 2025
"I'm an incremental work in progress!" Five Things for January 23, 2025
Five Things: January 9, 2025
"A generic word salad of genres and settings." Five Things for January 9, 2025
Five Things: December 19, 2024
"I approve of the bird in a trench coat." Five Things for December 19, 2024
The “AI in Publishing” Hype Train needs to be derailed
The AI hype train is reaching predictably ridiculous extremes in a desperate attempt to force acceptance of its “inevitable” narrative, and it’s partly because credulous journalists who should absolutely know better by now happily platform the worst of this nonsense.