At the start of the year Google gave notice that the grandfathered G-suite accounts that let people use their domain name in Gmail addressess was about to stop.
I moved my own-domain-name email account to iCloud, my familiy storage subscription means it is a pro-account and can be used with the domain name at no extra cost.
The move went relatively smoothly, there was a heart-in-the-mouth moment at the switch over where nothing happened for an hour or two but then it worked perfectly well.
On the whole it is good. What is curious, but should not be a surprise, is that a different type of spam gets through iCloud’s filters. The spam that made it through Google’s filters has gone, but now I get at least two spams a day telling me my never-existed McAfee software subscription has lapsed and my computer is vulnerable.
iCloud filters a lot of junk mail, but I’ve found it’s more agressive with incoming sales email. Most of the time I’m good with that, but it did mean I missed my insurance premium when the letter and the reminder both ended up in my junk folder.
On reflection, “an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters” sums up the modern internet rather well.
Exciting. My copy of the ITP book has arrived. I wrote the chapter on New Zealand telecommunications.
This is interesting. I found as a journalist I need to be more thorough in my preparation and write more notes prior to a Zoom call, I find in-the-room interviews tend to produce better results.
One thing I will miss if Twitter crashes and burns is all the helpful expert advice and knowledge you can read there on every subject under the sun. The sheer volume of experts is astounding.
“Even if the entire IndieWeb consisted of a single personal website, it would still “work”, in the sense that the owner of the website would be in control of their own content and would still be able to share that content with their friends on (say) Twitter.”
Syndication Links now supports per-post syndication to Micro.blog from WordPress
Spark has updated its free Kupu Te Reo Māori mobile app and included a version for desktop computers and tablets.
The original app was launched a year ago in a joint project with Te Aka Māori Dictionary and Google. In that time it had over 177,000 downloads, over 2.7million translated images and around 6000 daily users.
So Westpac gave me a new credit card after a security scare. No problem. Until today. My domain registration should have auto-renewed, but it failed because of the new card. Even though I manually paid the invoice, my site and email have been offline now for 48 hours.
Found a web site that blatantly scraps my site and publishes my stories under its own bylines removing any internal links. Sure this has always happened, but the latest example is the most extreme copyright theft I’ve seen in recent times.
When I was a child in the UK, a TV advert would tell me: “A million housewives every day would pick up a tin of beans”. I now suspect that was never true.
Navigating the Huawei story is one of the toughest jobs in technology journalism at the moment. There are many facts and statements, lots of suppositions swirling around, but no smoking guns, no hard evidence of wrong doing.
Huawei may have a case to answer, but that question is almost submerged now. A lot of damage is already done, not just to Huawei but to supply chains as well. I can’t ever remember seeing a company taken down like this before. One danger is that it could have created a precedent. Who might be next?
Orcon first to trial residential 10Gbps broadband
I’m impressed. Orcon makes a fetish of being the fastest, geekiest ISP, this is another feather in its cap.
12 years with WordPress. I started about the time of the first iPhone.
Last night I was thinking: “Why didn’t Samsung’s DeX pad do better". On paper it looks great but it doesn’t seem to have fired up the market. Then I remembered how dreadful Android can be on anything other than a phone.
One of my biggest frustrations with the iPad, and a reason I can’t drop using a tradition computer yet, is that it’s difficult to do something trivial like copy a document from OneDrive to Dropbox. Never mind what you think of OneDrive and Dropbox, it’s a productivity barrier.
Also, I like the idea of bringing back webrings. Researching that will keep me out of mischief this weekend.
I can do about 95 to 97 percent of the things I need to do on my iPad Pro, the main problem stopping me from going all in is web-based aps that insist on treating the iPad like an iPhone.
Pretty soon I’m just going to cut those apps from my life.
The term “content” is a barbarism that bit by bit devalues what journalists do.
Jay Rosen, Chair of Journalism at New York University
