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  • Worsley, True Crime and Jack the Ripper

    Worsley, True Crime and Jack the Ripper

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I watched an interesting documentary in which Lucy Worsley investigated Jack the Ripper, but rather than look at the crimes, motivation, and identifying who the criminal was she took a “media and society” perspective focused on the genre of true crime journalism. Within the documentary and podcast genre…

  • Reviving an Old Content Payment Habit

    Reviving an Old Content Payment Habit

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesImagine, for a second that we reverted to the old habit of paying for a day’s content daily, a week’s content, once per week, or a month’s content, monthly. With Substack and many online newspapers they have the habit of saying “pay for the entire year” before we’ve had time to read…

  • I hate slow connections

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI hate slow connections, they force you to wait patiently whilst the content you desire shows itself. It forces you to select more carefully the content you are about to read. When the connection is fast you skim through the pages reading the first paragraph before jumping onto the next page…