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• Post #2881709

  I went to hear Marc Burrows talk about his new book about Christmas No. 1s last night - would recommend: https://little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2025/12/marc-burrows-mistletoe-and-vinyl-story.html

• Post #2881708

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@undermanager/115751958047342391 Do you have a presentation you'd like to refine, or one you're working on. I highly recommend this:

• Post #2881707

  So Digg is back: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the-public/ Reading this article about why the original failed: https://backtofrontshow.com/what-happened-to-digg/ - a big redesign isn't a killer, so long as it's in the "right" direction. Facebook redesigned with a feed like Twitter and did OK. However, moving from community to publishers sounds like it was doomed to fail. I've looked at the new one, but I'...

• Post #2881706

  @burningbird I don't know how long I've been reading your blog, but it could be as much as 15-20 years. I've been blogging since 1999, so hello fellow old-timer!

• Post #2881705

  I sometimes think of this xkcd cartoon. https://xkcd.com/435/ I've previously added my own thing on the left: economics is just applied sociology. Now I've thought of another: psychohistory is just applied economics

• Post #2881704

  @burningbird Yes, I know that TikTok is really not for me

• Post #2881703

  I can't have been the first person to have noticed this: This type of thing on Google chat is like the doors in Hitchhikers that talk to you as you go through.

• Post #2881702

  I’ve also got space so that’s probably all we need

• Post #2881701

  It's 6e-2 day today (approx 14.3) #maths

• Post #2881700

  RSS Feed readers are a bit old-fashioned, but I still use NewsBlur. I've been using it since Google Reader closed down. It costs money, but I think it's worth it. If you use this link then I get money off my subscription. The fact that I'm paying for it years later shows how good I think it is: https://www.newsblur.com/refer/paulmorriss

• Post #2881699

  Today is World Quantum day, celebrated on 14 April, a reference to 14.4, the rounded first digits of Planck's constant. https://worldquantumday.org/why-april-14 #locale

• Post #2881698

  This is great - an article on how Shazam works, which includes a spectrogram to visually show you the frequencies of any sounds you make - *in a browser*! Here's my throat singing:

• Post #2881697

  If I could travel back in time I'd say to my younger self, "develop an archiving strategy". Oh, and buy Apple shares.