This week's best things
A new AI statement for the National Library of Scotland, AI writing detectors, the cost of deceptive design, the triumph of podcast technology, the commodity cage, confused cars, and rideable suitcases.
Ash Mann
This week's best things
How we ended up with our social feeds, a visual search engine, building effective hybrid working environments, some dystopian AI nonsense, and photographing mirros
This week's best things
Goldman Sachs question the AI hype, semiconductors over farming, tiny microphones, crisis comms, German web design, human seasons, Monglian uniforms, and a 3.6km-long slackline
This week's best things
How to find your next audience, digital maturity self-assessment, Japan declares war on floppy disks, technology at the Science Museum since 1985, designing for conflicting needs, various people getting into trouble with AI, and a password game
This week's best things
A short one this week as it's Midsommar here in Sweden so I'm off to drink some snaps and do the frog dance. Glad Midsommar!
Screen apnea: What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll
I've been really conscious of what happens
This week's best things
Google zero, TikTok misinformation, audience experiments, whistleblowers, reconnection, the death of news media, a warning against oversharing, 1,000 best films, and Diesel the donkey.
This week's best things
Google documentation leaks, the downfall of DeviantArt, the impact of hybrid working, the internet in 2004, fax art, and iconic tweets.
This week's best things
Molly White pointing out we can have a better web, the women behind the modern web, Rachel Coldicutt on new ways for cultural orgs to engage with digital tools, 20 'best' new websites, future thinking, social media nightmares, childhood artworks, and grammar corrections.
This week's best things
Google's new AI-powered products, an exploration of one-star reviews, managing your energy, preparing kids for the post-digital age, a discarded pineapple, and Australia's richest woman unhappy with a portrait.
This week's best things
A history of online messaging, more on Chinese deepfakes of deceased loved ones, Digital Works Conference catchup, Chief Digital Officers in 2014, Apple missing the mark, burnout pushing workers to use AI tools, weird Simpsons, and goats.