Spotify is in advanced talks to buy Gimlet Media, according to ReCode and the WSJ. Here’s why this is either a huge deal for podcasting… or just a big nothing burger. But first, some context: The podcast industry is tiny: last year, 73 million Americans listened to a podcast in…

I’m still trying to figure out some theories around content distribution and discovery. Notes on… is a collection of some of my work towards that. There’s only so much room on the rack at the newsagent’s. This is a literal constraint on the number of publications that can physically exist. …

Don’t underestimate their significance 1. Correlation ≠ Causation An oldie and a goodie. Oft-cited, almost as frequently misunderstood. Compare: “We changed to 1-week sprints and sign-ups went up” “Sign-ups went up because we changed to 1-week sprints” “When we have shorter sprints, sign-ups go up.” Easily confused with each other, the differences are important…

BuzzFeed and BBC Radio’s File on 4 collaborated on an investigation into match-fixing in tennis and found that 16 top-50 players have likely deliberately lost so that gamblers could profit. Some observations: This was a collaboration between one of the oldest (and greatest—but I’m biased, I used to work there)…

Apple. Netflix. Amazon. Three amazing consumer technology companies, and major players in distribution of TV shows and movies. They’re also each (in different ways) pretty rubbish when it comes to Social. I’d actually like to know what TV shows my friends watch and enjoy. We could coordinate. It would be…

A man walks into Starbucks, closely followed by the shoes he’d been admiring in the window of the shop next door. A woman walks into Starbucks after a recommendation from a friend on Facebook. She spins around for eight seconds and then blacks out. A man walks into ten different…

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In case your experience with computers started after 2010, this: … is a 3.5 inch floppy disk. Standard capacity: 1.44MB. Today, I tried to read this (really quite good) article from The Atlantic on my iPhone 5S. Digging for Dinosaurs in My Twenties On the cusp of adulthood in an era of in-betweens, a search for fossils and meaning Please consider disabling it for…www.theatlantic.com First time around I tried in a webview. Next attempt was in Safari…

Oxford University’s Reuters Institute has just published its annual report into Digital News consumption: an impressively big study of 20+ thousand online news consumers in 12 countries. Here are some of the things that struck me as especially interesting: Top News Apps No wonder an app like Circa can’t find much of a…