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# Engaged reading digest: Outrage, redesigns, laptops and RSS
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2019/11/engaged-reading-digest-outrage-redesigns-laptops-and-rss/
- Published: 2019-11-13T22:36:51.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-13T22:36:51.000Z
- Description: Apple redesigns its MacBook Pros, The Atlantic just redesigns, we study social media outrage, and celebrate RSS
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: apple, social media psychology, the atlantic, design, rss

Busy, busy day lecturing, but here's a few interesting things that I found the time to read: 

## The Psychology of Social Media outrage

This is essential reading for anyone working online.

[The Paradox Of Viral Outrage: Public Shaming Inspires Further Outrage — But Also Increases Sympathy For The OffenderBy Emily Reynolds. Outrage and sympathy cancel each other out, raising doubts about usefulness of viral outrage.![](https://researchdigest.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/rd-twitter-image-2014.jpg?w=192)Research DigestName (required)![](https://researchdigest.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/gettyimages-502896058.jpg)](https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/11/13/the-paradox-of-viral-outrage-public-shaming-inspires-further-outrage-but-also-increases-sympathy-for-the-offender/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

## The Atlantic gets a haircut

I kinda love *The Atlantic*. I wish something like it existed in the UK, but it doesn't, so I have to make do. It just redesigned, and, well, wow:

![The redesigned cover of The Atlantic magazine.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2019/11/atlantic-redesign.jpg)

The new look *Atlantic* cover

There's a lovely video on the redesign:

I love the implied idea that any redesign of a magazine brand now has to consider its cross-media nature. 

## Wikipedia: Still a boys' club

This is a community management problem, pure and simple. And I see no evidence that the Wikimedia Foundation are willing to do what it takes.

[Wikipedia still hasn’t fixed its colossal gender gapA tiny fraction of the site’s contributors and subjects are women. It’s working to change that—but some community members are resistant to change.![](https://www.fastcompany.com/apple-touch-icon.png?v=5)Fast CompanyHarry McCracken![](https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_1280,f_auto,q_auto,fl_lossy/wp-cms/uploads/2019/11/p-1-wikipedia-gender-gap.jpg)](https://www.fastcompany.com/90429161/wikipedia-still-hasnt-fixed-its-colossal-gender-gap?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

## RSS is not dead

It's 2019, and one of the Interhacktive students I teach on the MA in Interactive Journalism at City, University of London, wrote about *RSS Feeds*. Voluntarily. 

I'm so proud.

[RSS Feeds Explained: How they can be a journalistic gold mine. -RSS feeds are an ancient relic of the internet gone by. But, like any good community, can we learn to utilise the knowledge of our forebears?![](https://i0.wp.com/www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-Logo-condensed-1.png?fit=192%2C192)InterhacktivesFergus O’Loan![](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/5366139938_9c65b6d066_k-700x525.jpg)](http://www.interhacktives.com/2019/11/13/rss-feeds-101/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

## Apple finally fixes its laptops (at the top end)

After a pretty disastrous three years for Apple's laptop line, they finally seem to have got it right. Once this hits the 13" models, my 2013 MacBook Pro might finally be replaced. 

[Key upgrade: A first look at the 16-inch MacBook ProHere it is, the new generation of Mac laptop. On Wednesday Apple announced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro, with a completely redesigned keyboard, bigger display, increased battery life, ninth-generation Intel processors, upgraded graphics processors, expand...![](https://sixcolors.com/apple-touch-icon-180.png)Six ColorsJason Snell![](https://sixcolors.com/images/content/2019/6c-16-flat.jpg)](https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/11/macbook-pro-16/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)