Here’s my notes from the panel at the Future of Media Technology, about how publishers are shifting from search and social to community development. This made me both excited (because this is exactly what they should be doing, and tired (because I’ve been banging this drum for 20 years). https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/09/from-traffic-to-trust-publishers-response-to-ai/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share

O’Reilly Media: Don’t use AI to make content hamburgers, use it to allow customers to find great content steak. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/09/oreilly-media-use-ai-to-increase-discoverability-dont-serve-sloppy-ai-hamburgers/

This is an amazingly written and researched interview with Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/magazine/dwayne-johnson-the-rock-smashing-machine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok8.RcuM.r9HrWpaKI3oi&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I think this, from @endonend, is absolutely spot on: "What I think we need is more humanity. More sharing of our stories and life experiences. It’s how we come to appreciate people we don’t know and that may not look like or live like us. It’s easy to be baited into hatred of the faceless other, but a human being with a story we can relate to and empathize with? Much harder. It’s exactly why fascists focus on demonizing and dehumanizing people." Read the whole thing https://micro.blog/endonend https://endonend.org/humanity-over-naivete/

Trying to regain my joy in blogging for its own sake, by writing about things nobody else will care about, like weird proximate hotels and my coffee travails in Hamburg. https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/double-trouble-premier-edition/ https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/coffee-quest-hamburg/

The electric shuttle pods are one of my favourite things about flying out of Heathrow T5 https://adders.blog/2025/09/19/the-electric-shuttle-pods-are.html

Kaffee, bitte

Moin, jeder

It’s about to begin… https://adders.blog/2025/09/18/its-about-to-begin.html

Here we go…  Spending the day at NEXT25. https://adders.blog/2025/09/18/here-we-go-spending-the.html