Living in the various shades of isolation and digital transformation is a full-time emotional game of dodgeball. Sometimes I just feel like standing there and absorbing the full force of the ball. Dodging from home. Or not.
Newsletters are supposed to be in a regular frequency: monthly, weekly, or perhaps daily if you haven’t really got a life. Thank God for gmail, or I would spend most of my time deleting or archiving the Nuzzel newsletters I used to monitor for social cloud breaking news. The service uses my Twitter cloud to rank stories by the number of shares (5 or 6) of people I follow.
These alerts come in through notifications and email, and are collected in daily summaries. Then there are some subscriptions I have to various Nuzzel folks that summarize their Twitter clouds and send out daily newsletters that are indistinguishable from my summary. Whole lotta clicking going on, mostly archive this or write a filter so it gets collected in a folder I never visit.
Today I use Feedly to keep track of news. RSS (!) and Twitter notifications shortcut the repetitive cable news networks. Times, Post, and Journal take care of the daily political coverage minus the usual subjects trying to sell their network talking points, and notifications in the morning get me through the worst of the bad news about the pandemic. Dodging from home. Duck:
Netflix promises subscribers it won’t run out of new content while people are stuck at home
How is it that Netflix can have so much content ready to go compared to other traditional TV networks and studios? As Sarandos reiterated on the call, Netflix works much differently from the rest of the industry. Since full seasons of shows drop at once, Netflix shoots pretty far in advance. As it stands right now, there are more than 200 projects being worked on remotely. That includes scripted programming that’s already been shot, animated series, movies, and an assortment of other titles that Netflix has planned for the next 12 months or so.
As working from home becomes more widespread, many say they don't want to go back
Once the economy reopens, 24% say they'd like to work either entirely or more from home compared to how they worked before, while 55% plan to head back to the office and 20% are not sure.
Gillmor Gang: Zoom Normal
The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Michael Markman, Keith Teare, Denis Pombriant, Brent Leary, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Brent Leary joins the Gang as we blend streaming, Zoomcasting and sheltering from the storm.
From 'moral panic' through emotionality in buying decisions to accelerated behavioral change - COVID-19 retail observations from Salesforce Commerce Cloud's Chief Customer Officer
I do I think it's actually more of an acceleration than the development of a new behaviour. For a younger customer, they're looking for a connection with a brand, a community that's founded around the creator or a personality or a point of view. The brands that are doing that quickly - and a lot of them are younger, they have a little more agility - are in a good spot to be top of mind when discretionary shopping comes back.
Facebook launches an experimental app for messaging close friends via Apple Watch
The app allows you to send a variety of messages with just one tap, including voice recordings, emoji, location sharing, scribbles and even dictation input — similar to how using iMessage from your Apple Watch works today. However, these messages are being sent over Facebook’s own Messenger service, not SMS or iMessage. The new app also allows you to receive and respond to notifications and read your contact’s messages to you.
100 Greatest Beatles Songs
In one early sequence, McCartney tells reporters that they will soon appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and then points into the camera: “There he is, hi, Ed, and Mrs. Ed” — “and Mr. Ed,” chimes Ringo.
Facebook's Portal TV video chat system sold out
You can do other stuff on Facebook Portal, such as listen to Spotify or ask Amazon Alexa pretty much anything on your mind. I still wish Facebook added other features, though, like the option to watch Netflix or Hulu with someone, so it would feel more like we’re all in the same room.
All Eyes On Zoom: How The At-Home Era's Breakout Tool Is Coping With Surging Demand -- And Scrutiny
As the coronavirus ravages the planet, leading to quarantined cities, states sheltering in place and schools and universities closing down worldwide, Zoom has emerged as one of the leading tools to keep businesses up and running, students learning and people connected through virtual birthday parties, happy hours and yoga classes.
Just a week ago, it appeared Zoom’s biggest challenge was ensuring that its systems didn’t crash under the weight of millions of new users, with the brand well on its way to becoming the generic term for videoconferencing of the stay-home era, much like Xerox, Kleenex and Google are for their categories.
Gartner: 3 in 4 CFOs to shift 5% of staff fully remote following shutdown
Permanent remote work could become one of the most feasible and effective cost-cutting measures for CFOs to undertake. In Gartner's most recent survey, 20% of respondents said they'd already deferred on-premise technology spend, and an additional 12% planned to do so shortly.
Best-Case Scenario for Coronavirus Is That It’s More Infectious Than We Think
To me, the most compelling of these analyses came from Christopher Balding, a business professor in Vietnam specializing in China — compelling in part because he refrained from offering concrete projections of his own, instead merely demonstrating that both small changes to our understanding of the disease’s infectiousness would amount to significant changes of our understanding of its severity, and that we had pretty good reason to believe that estimates of its infectiousness were, by and large, too low: namely, small-scale community-testing efforts that revealed higher-than-expected infection levels in the general population (and therefore a lower share of severe cases). An Economist analysis looked at the unusual spike of doctor visits arising from “flu-like symptoms” — atypical for this time of year — and suggested that COVID-19 may have spread as much as 200 times as fast as widely understood. This would amount to a total rewriting of our understanding of the disease; as the authors suggest, it would mean the disease was only about as lethal as the flu, though very much easier to catch.
Will podcast ad revenue bounce back after COVID-19?
Even when people can return to work, it won’t be a mass exodus back to the cinemas and bars, people are still going to be very reticent to be in crowded places. Which again, if you flip that back into the advertising model, in the U.S., [cinema advertising] is worth about just over $1 billion, out-of-home is worth about $9 billion, they’re going to see longer-term, massive hits. And even if advertisers were cutting their budgets by say, 30%, 40% because of this recession, they’re going to have to spend somewhere. We’re going to start to see spend in places which are showing good signs of growth and stability. And podcasting is one of those.
‘Like being in film school’: How Goodby Silverstein & Partners is still producing new ads
That virtual connection has also been critical to managing the editing of the ads once production has finished. “Creatives and producers are not the only ones in the edit bay, as editors screen-share their projects with the full team,” said Brett-Kearns. “Everyone is in the virtual room together all the time, so the process is open, transparent and all at once.”
The Rolling Stones Perform a Classic Via Zoom During 'One World' - Billboard
NEWS The Rolling Stones Perform a Classic Via Zoom During 'One World' 4/18/2020 by Stephen Daw Even when they're not physically together, the Rolling Stones are still the masters of delivering unforgettable live performances, as they proved during Saturday night's (April 18) One World: Together at Home concert.
Things Keep Getting Scarier. He Can Help You Cope.
What about those times during the day when, I don’t know, you’ve been reading scary things about coronavirus-death projection, and your kids are going stir-crazy from quarantining, and you feel that all your stress is about to bubble over?
I had been wanting to talk to someone who could answer that question with practicality and steadying wisdom, so I got in touch with Jack Kornfield, whose work has offered that to me and a great many others over the years.
See 'SNL' Alum Pay Tribute to Hal Willner With 'Perfect Day' Cover
Saturday Night Live cast members and alumni paid tribute to the show’s longtime music producer Hal Willner with a group performance of “Perfect Day,” a song by Willner’s good friend Lou Reed.
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman: Special ep: Remote teams with WordPress/Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on Apple Podcasts
The first in a series of special episodes with tools you need RIGHT NOW | Suddenly, many of us are remote workers. As companies radically reimagine their day-to-day in response to the pandemic, we all need to know what Matt Mullenweg has learned: How to thrive as a successful remote team.
Coronavirus Clarity
At the same time, I think there is a general rule of thumb that will hold true: the coronavirus crisis will not so much foment drastic changes as it will accelerate trends that were already happening. Changes that might have taken 10 or 15 years, simply because of the stickiness of the status quo, may now happen in far less time.
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Great Read Steve, You should do more of this