Author Archives: Davy
fdsdfsdfOvercast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign!
Marco Arment over de nieuwe versie van m’n favoriete podcast-app Overcast: It all started with the watchOS volume widget. Ferm werk. Het wordt weer serieus wennen, maar dat doet het sowieso. Die Siri Shortcuts zijn al zwaar de max. Deze morgen wakker geworden en gewoon “Hé Siri, speel podcasts” gezegd en zonder mij te moeten […]
The End of Neutrality
Politico: When institutions no longer enjoy credibility across the political spectrum, people look to more ideological sources for confirmation of what they want to believe. Dé strategie van de helfies: alles wat neutraal is in vraag stellen. Rechters, Unia, commissies… En op die manier alles ideologisch invullen. Het werkt, voor hen, maar het is levensgevaarlijk […]
Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media
The Guardian: One 2017 survey of British schoolchildren found that 63% would be happy if social media had never been invented. Another survey of 9,000 internet users from the research firm Ampere Analysis found that people aged 18-24 had significantly changed their attitudes towards social media in the past two years. Whereas 66% of this […]
How a thirst for beer brought us cereals—and not the other way around
Wetenschap! In the past, people have often assumed that beer and other alcohols were produced as a way to use up agricultural waste. But in an article published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, researchers suggested that a taste for beer may have been “an underlying motivation” for the later cultivation of grains used to make […]
What it Was Like Inside a Nike Call Center After the Colin Kaepernick Ad Dropped
Zalig artikel bij Rolling Stone: – How many callers have told you they are burning their sneakers? – A lot of people. They also tell me they are throwing them off overpasses. I say, “OK, great.”
Making sense of the most confusing new iPhone lineup ever
Harry McCracken bij Fast Company: For all their similarities, the new phones don’t line up into a digestible good/better/best matrix. The cheapest model, the $749 XR, is the midrange model in terms of size and has a nifty twist—six different color options to choose from—which is unavailable on the XS and XS Max. But if […]
Hoe de podcasts van De Standaard 350.000 keer werden beluisterd
Interessant interview van Yorick Dupon (zonder T) bij Tandem Tech met Wouter Van Driessche, chef audio en video bij De Standaard: Video, tekst, foto en alle dingen die we als printmedia al even doen, die concurreren om dezelfde twee schaarse middelen: uw ogen. Met podcasts kan je iets aanspreken dat op andere momenten vrij is: […]
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
Een uitstekend profielstuk aan de hand van Evan Osnos in The New Yorker. When I asked Zuckerberg about this reputation, he framed the dynamic differently. The survival of any social-media business rests on “network effects,” in which the value of the network grows only by finding new users. As a result, he said, “there’s a […]
The Talk Show ‘IPHONE 🍸’, WITH SPECIAL GUEST RENE RITCHIE
Great episode to prepare for the Keynote tonight. (19:00 Brussels time.) Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a deep dive into what was revealed (and what wasn’t) by Guilherme Rambo’s release last week of product marketing images of the apparently-named iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch.
Letter to the German Press
Jay Rosen bij de Frankfurter Allgemeine: It’s not your job, as journalists, to tell people what to think. But it is your job to alert them to what they need to think about. Social scientists call this agenda-setting. It is one of the most important things journalists do. But if the news agenda is set […]