Last week I argued that blogs, Tumblr and email newsletters can offer an alternative to the Black Mirror world of social media we currently live in. In particular, that we can build this new world — the blogosphere 2.0 — around cultural content. Once again I have to caution: I don’t see this as competing with social...

Tim Maly compares the rampant and illogical fear of the emergence of AI with the real threat of corporations: What if the private pursuit of profit was—for a long time—proximate to improving the lot of humans but not identical to it? What if capitalism has gone feral, and started making moves that are obviously...

Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach taken for email? A brief history of...