After a family discussion yesterday, we all decided to cancel the family plan for Spotify. The Neil Young / Joe Rogan thing wasn't the reason, but it was the event that kicked off the discussion and made it easier to say goodbye to a service we've used together and enjoyed for years. We didn't cancel … Continue reading Why we’re cancelling Spotify…
Tag: Rant
In Which I Finally Install AdBlock
For years, I’ve resisted installing AdBlock or any other type of ad-blocking software. Not because I love ads, but because so much content is ad-supported (including content I used to write) and there wasn’t a clear way to support “free” content otherwise. What finally drove me over the edge wasn’t an actual “ad” at all, but the … Continue reading In Which I Finally Install AdBlock
Writing ledes, writing for feeds…
Too many ledes in tech publications and blogs suck. I’ve been doing more editing and more content curation lately. The upshot of that is noticing a lot of really boring, fluffy, slow-to-the-point ledes that utterly fail at drawing the reader in. It’s not hard to do a decent lede as long as you remember a … Continue reading Writing ledes, writing for feeds…