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The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media

The best community engagement is private. Here’s why. - Simon Tomes

Ever pay attention to what’s happening in your tech community? It’s likely you see things happening. And if you’re really into it you take action. Perhaps you’ve liked a post,...

simontomes.com/posts/the-best-community-engagement-is-private-heres-why

Compare Countries With This Simple Tool

Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

thetruesize.com

How booking a flight taught me more about software quality

Planning my trip to Malmö showed me the same lessons I use in DevOps: frame the problem, follow the evidence, make better choices.

kato-coaching.com/conference-travel-as-a-software-experiment

Create an ecosystem one pager

Sometimes people simply need sign posts

rosie.land/posts/create-an-ecosystem-one-pager

Love people.

The essential foundation for learning together.

joyofconvening.substack.com/p/love-people

Things I’ve Watched

And just because I’m in it….

Things on Bluesky

Nice line from Tim Berners-Lee. It’s time for us to move from an attention economy to an intention economy. Damn right. I’m so bored of social media right now. I use LinkedIn cos of work yet it’s becoming like Insta/FB/TikTok — the algos literally forcing people to shout to get attention. 🥱

— Simon Tomes (@simontomes.com) 2025-09-11T06:10:03.673Z

What looks like ‘just a conversation’ to you is actually: • Customer insights • Trust building • Early warnings • Decision support Community is operational intelligence.

— Rosie Sherry (@rosiesherry.com) 2025-09-03T12:15:01.417270Z

the new community guidelines are actually pretty good pretty easy to read, hopefully the enforcement is sensible and actually points to relevant parts of the code when applied bsky.social/about/suppor...

— business goose🪿 (@goose.art) 2025-09-20T06:33:43.775Z

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