When you’re mainlining a TV show in an epic weekend binge session, do you want some ads thrown into the mix?
Ars Technica reports that Netflix has been trialling ad inserts between episodes of TV shows – and those who’ve spotted the ‘test’ are furious.
Life moves pretty fast. And so does this legendary vehicle straight off the set of Ferris Bueller – and it goes under the hammer next week!
Bond fans, LEGO has a dazzlingly slick new kit for you. The new 1964 Aston Martin DB5 isn’t just any LEGO replica.
Sack the team. The whole team. What a fall from grace this is. Steve Smith, the subject of not unreasonable debate around whether he is the greatest Test batsman since Bradman, is now a cheating captain who lacked the decency to fall on his sword after being caught.
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” ― Stephen Hawking
‘Feed free February’. It alliterates, so it must be worth doing, right? My wife and I both decided we’d skip the random scrolling down our social feeds for the four weeks of February and see how it felt. And, mostly, it felt great.
Simply transcendent.
Skim Reading as a Service is never going to pay the bills. It’s a tough sell. @biz and @jack, with the luxury of their incredibly brief Twitter handles, today pitched that Twitter will be better with a doubled character limit – up to 280 from the 140 it’s famous for.
Here’s a good piece on cultivating creative thinking in schools, and why it matters for both students and for their success in today’s world.
I’m fascinated by these discussions. I love social media, I love my many points of digital connection, but I know some of it is pure noise. How do we get down to just getting the important things done?