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The U.S. has lost a quarter of its newspapers since 2005 and is losing two a week (almost all weekly papers) on average, according to a new report from Northwestern University's Medill School. In all, 2,500 American papers have disappeared since 2005. Penny Abernathy, the author of the report an…

Swami Sound gets in the mix and speaks to Arielle Lana LeJarde about the history of garage and his own take on the sound

This week, Cherlynn is joined by senior editors J…

This week, Cherlynn is joined by senior editors J…

Anti-abortion activists should be concerned with other issues that can threaten life, such as easy access to guns, poverty and rising maternity mortality rates, the Vatican's editorial director said on Saturday.

This spring, I relaunched my entire Shortcuts Library with over 600 total shortcuts, including a special set of 150 bundle shortcuts attached to each folder page that compiles all the shortcuts in a category into a single multi-tool shortcut (for members only).Check out the full collection and see what's new — I'm adding iOS 16 beta shortcuts and new folders regularly starting with the public release:

We are teaming up with the design agency Oak to update our homepage and our brand. Goodbye social media blue, hello vibrant purple!

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I love the idea of not limiting comments to the individual blog. This allows a discussion to potentially gain speed. This also benefits t...

Twelve years ago these days, in early July 2010, I put aside print books and began reading only ebooks. The transition to digital allowed...

Read to the end for a conversation with The Daily Beast's Allegra Frank

Cloud DJing will soon be the industry standard. But is this new technological development leading artists towards a paradise of convenience—or a data-hungry dystopia?

Navigating the modern internet as a creative

Adds small button next to shortened URLs (t.co/bit.ly/goo.gl) on Twitter and other sites that will replace the shortened URLs with their real locations and vice-versa. Useful for when you don't want to blindly click links.

The Big Tech platforms drive us towards feelings of shame and profit off of that spiral of shame, explains Cathy O'Neil

We break down the buzz between streaming services by Apple, Spotify, Tidal and more.

P2P and piracy-fuelled software are sailing the unexplored seas of Web3 – but will they bring about genuine change this time around?

I’ve been blogging since 1999, first at weblog.searls.com, and since 2007 here. I also plan to continue blogging here* for the rest of my life. But it’s clear now that newsletters are w…

Writer Clare Sestanovich discusses distrusting triumph, writing during stolen hours, and the wisdom in abandoning a project.

For anyone who follows me on this blog or anywhere else, you are probably familiar with the fact that I enjoy automating things. Having my devices do things for me. This has numerous benefits including saving me time and effort in the future, reducing the opportunity for human error, teaching me new skills, etc. But the fact is, when you start building up a large toolbox of automations it can be hard to keep track of the details. Some automations lend themselves to inline documentation, but what if you want to do something more? In this post I am going to describe some of my set up around documenting automations using two tools on the Mac - Hook and Obsidian.

What comes next.

What comes next.

The Goggles feature remixes Brave’s search ranking system.

Projects that seek to create new communities of marginalized people to draw them in to risky speculative markets rife with scams and fraud are demonstrating

There are new betas, new chargers and new versions of iWork apps out this week. Beyond covering those items, the guys talk about WeatherKit and calculate updated Hackett Numbers.