10 Nov 2024
Links for 10 November 2024
Signal
Is Now a Great Encrypted Alternative to Zoom and Google Meet
These updates mean that Signal is now a free, robust, and secure
video conferencing service that can hang with the best of them. It lets
you add up to 50 people to a group call and there is no time limit on
each call.
The New Alt Media and the Future of Publishing - Anil Dash
Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces
What
can McCain’s Grand Prix win teach us? Nothing new Ever since
Byron Sharp decided he was going for red for his book cover, marketing
thinkers have assembled a quite extraordinary disciplinary playbook. And
it’s one that looks nothing like the existing stuff that it replaced. Of
course, the majority of marketers know nothing about any of it. They
inhabit the murkier corners of marketing, where training is rejected
because change is held up as a circuit-breaker for learning anything
from the past. AI and the ‘new consumer’ mean everything we once knew is
pointless now. Better to be ignorant and untrained than waste time on
irrelevant historical stuff. But for those who know that is bullshit,
who study, who respect marketing knowledge, who know the foundations do
not change, the McCain case is a jewel sparkling with everything we have
learned in these very fruitful 15 years.
The Counterculture Switch: creating in a hostile environment
Why Right-Wing Media Thrives While The Left Gets Left Behind
The
Rogue Emperor, And What To Do About Them Anywhere there is an
organisation or group that is centred around an individual, from the
smallest organisation upwards, it’s possible for it to enter an almost
cult-like state in which the leader both accumulates too much power, and
loses track of some of the responsibilities which go with it. If it’s a
tech company or a bowls club we can shrug our shoulders and move to
something else, but when it occurs in an open source project and a
benevolent dictator figure goes rogue it has landed directly on our own
doorstep as the open-source community.
We need a Wirecutter for groceries
One
Company A/B Tested Hybrid Work. Here’s What They Found. According
to the Society of Human Resource Management, each quit costs companies
at least 50% of the employees’ annual salary, which for Trip.com would
mean $30,000 for each quit. In Trip.com’s experiment, employees liked
hybrid so much that their quit rates fell by more than a third — and
saved the company millions of dollars a year.
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