Mostly, I Write

Diventare scrittori e mantenersi facendo questo lavoro. È possible? Money quote: "The truth is, though, that there is a good chance that you won’t ever be able to quit your day job and just write full time for the rest of your life. It might happen, but it is more likely that someday you’ll sell a book, maybe you’ll get an advance big enough to be a full time writer for a while, and if you do that, maybe you’ll sell another one or maybe you’ll have to go back to a day job for a while. And so on. And so on." https://medium.com/@shauntagrimes/how-to-make-a-living-writing-fiction-you-arent-going-to-like-this-ec30ca8189a2

A Milano in questi giorni è ancora brutto tempo. Ma appena spunta il sole, sapete già qual è il mio ufficio

Aumentiamo il nostro intelletto con il prestante aiuto della macchina. Trillium, open source e quindi gratuito oltre che libero, si offre di farlo. Non è banale. E io ho altre preferenze, ma mi sembra corretto segnalarlo. Money quote: "Trilium is provided as either desktop application (Linux, Windows, Mac) or web application hosted on your server (Linux)." https://github.com/zadam/trilium C'è anche un tour fatto per screenshot che ci sta proprio tutto https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Screenshot-tour

👵🏼Non si è mai troppo vecchi https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/25/love-in-an-old-climate-posters-celebrate-the-joy-of-sex-in-later-life

Falsi d'autore: rimette in bolla vecchi video (questi sono spezzoni di filmato creati dai fratelli Lumiere all'inizio del 900) e ci mette sotto anche qualche effetto. Niente che un ragazzino con iMovie non potrebbe fare, ma lui è bravo e su YouTube spopola. Money quote: "Videographer Guy Jones (previously) slows down film from the late 1800s to early 1900s to more accurately match the speed at which modern footage is recorded and played. In addition to editing the pace of the century-old film, Jones also adds in sound effects to make the scenes more relatable. The editor creates foley to accompany the clomping of horses’ hooves, indistinctive background chatter of crowds, and the ringing of train bells." https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/12/edited-1890s-film-footage/

Recensione Razer Anzu, occhiali smart per proteggere vista e udito - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-razer-anzu-occhiali-smart-per-proteggere-vista-e-udito/

Stiamo veramente tirando troppo la corda. Sta per cambiare tutto. Ce n'eravamo già accorti, non possiamo neanche dire sia una sorpresa causata dalla pandemia. Money quote: "Monday, when the Authors Guild published its 2018 Author Income Survey. This was the largest survey ever conducted of writing-related earnings by American authors. It tallied the responses of 5,067 authors, including those who are traditionally, hybrid, and self-published, and found that the median income from writing has dropped 42% from 2009, landing at a paltry $6,080. The other findings are similarly bleak: revenue from books has dropped an additional 21%, to $3,100, meaning it’s impossible to make a living from writing books alone. Most writers are cobbling together various sources of income like teaching or speaking engagements, yet the median income for full-time authors for all writing-related activities still only reached $20,300, which is well below the American poverty line for a family of three. Writers of literary fiction felt the greatest decline in book earnings, down 43% since 2013." https://electricliterature.com/the-disastrous-decline-in-author-incomes-isnt-just-amazon-s-fault-c58468492b17

Sintesi vocale a mano libera. Divertitevi https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

Apple Silicon M1 ha completamente sconvolto il mercato di Intel-Amd - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/apple-silicon-m1-ha-completamente-sconvolto-il-mercato-di-intel-amd/

Se c'è una cosa che è chiara con l'incrocio tra le tecnologie di streaming e il modello di business di Netflix, è che le audience sono diventate ancora più difficile da analizzare, non meno (come si pensava, almeno per quelli che da tempo si occupano di studiare i media) Money quote: "By this logic, that means at least 45 million people have watched at least 70 percent of Bird Box. Considering that people may have watched Bird Box with friends or family, chances are that the total view count may be even higher than 45 million — especially given that Bird Box was released globally. To put that into context, Netflix boasted just over 137 million subscribers worldwide in October. Approximately 58 million of those subscribers are based in the United States, according to the company’s third quarter earnings report, with an additional 79 million subscribers worldwide. Netflix would not comment on where the majority of Bird Box’s viewers were geographically based." https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/30/18161741/bird-box-netflix-45-million-accounts-statistics-views

Ogni settimana mi dico: questa volta anticipo qui sul canale le cose che sto preparando per la newsletter. Poi sono sempre in ritardo e in affanno (è la mia modalità “procrastinazione creativa”) con il risultato che non anticipo nulla. E intanto Mostly Weekly anche questa settimana è pronta. Ci si iscrive qui: https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/ E anche il numero ~112 è pieno di cose spero interessanti. Ah, buon 25 aprile a tutti!

Tutti i migliori libri su come pubblicare un libro online - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-su-come-pubblicare-un-libro-online/

Apple sta preparando una rivoluzione con iOS 15 e iPadOS 15 - il mio articolo per La Stampa https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2021/04/25/news/apple-sta-preparando-una-rivoluzione-con-ios-15-e-ipados-15-1.40192475

Cosa sta facendo Rober De Niro? Affascinante ritratto dell'arzillo vecchietto da parte del New Yorker. Money quote: "Robert De Niro is, famously, a man of few words. In the past two years, those words have included “punk,” “dog,” “pig,” “con,” “bullshit artist,” “mutt,” “idiot,” “national disaster,” “embarrassment,” “disgrace,” “fool,” “bozo,” and “Jerkoff-in-Chief”—all directed at Donald Trump. At seventy-five, De Niro has turned political pundit, often in terms that you’d expect to find in a Martin Scorsese movie. In return, Trump has called him “a very Low IQ individual.”" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/robert-de-niro-is-always-doing-something

La Dream Library giapponese: il museo di informatica dei sogni - il mio articolo per. Macity https://www.macitynet.it/la-dream-library-giapponese-il-museo-di-informatica-dei-sogni/

C'è un problema online: la competizione è diventata eccessiva. Perché la pubblicità vuol dire molte altre cose. Money quote: "It’s not just Facebook and Google; just about every big tech company is talking about selling ads, meaning that just about every big tech company may become another competitor in the fight for advertising revenue." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/post-advertising-future-media/578917/

Com'è che Reddit è diventato l'epicentro delle cose da sapere per tastare il posto alla rete? Ecco la sua storia, com'è stata raccontata in questo storico articolo di ArsTechnica Money quote: "Entrepreneurs Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman famously founded Reddit as college roommates in 2005. Tech journalist Christine Lagorio-Chafkin's recent book, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory, follows their sometimes rocky relationship as Reddit grew from a simple, user-directed front page for the Internet, to a scandal-rocked dominating force in online culture. As the subtitle implies, the site has been at the forefront of issues like the limits of free speech, privacy policies, and the unfettered spread of misinformation or "fake news," grappling with those thorny matters well before social media giants Facebook and Twitter took notice. In a sense, Reddit is the "id" of the Internet, and that's what has long fascinated Lagorio-Chafkin. "My friends thought I was nuts talking to these guys who happened into the idea for Reddit," she said. "It had the reputation of being sort of a cesspool, and I wanted to know just how it got there."" https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/12/book-tells-the-inside-story-of-how-reddit-came-to-be-the-internets-id/

Come ogni settimana, più o meno a metà, ecco la puntata della domenica precedente della mia newsletter Mostly Weekly ⁠ https://antoniodini.com/mostly/weekly/archivio/111.html

Ci credereste? Tilde numero 14 è pronta per l’ascolto. Riccardo e il sottoscritto, come al solito. La trovate qui: https://tilde.show/podcast-14/

Un framework per creare text editor. Perché? Perché no. Money quote: "Why create Slate? Well... (Beware: this section has a few of my opinions!) Before creating Slate, I tried a lot of the other rich text libraries out there—Draft.js, Prosemirror, Quill, etc. What I found was that while getting simple examples to work was easy enough, once you started trying to build something like Medium, Dropbox Paper or Google Docs, you ran into deeper issues..." https://docs.slatejs.org