> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://onemanandhisblog.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # TL;DR Issue 3: The “how the hell am I 50?” edition - URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2021/11/tldr-issue-3-the-how-the-hell-am-i-50-edition/ - Published: 2021-11-06T11:08:32.000Z - Updated: 2021-11-06T11:08:32.000Z - Description: A big day for me. A load of interesting links for you. Everyone wins. Probably. - Author: Adam Tinworth - Tags: tl;dr newsletter, news digest This is a week designed to make me feel old. On Wednesday, I hit my [20th anniversary of blogging](https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2021/11/04/today-its-exactly.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) (but not this blog — it will turn 20 in 2023). It’s slightly disturbing to think that many of the students I’m teaching now were pre-schoolers when I started in this game… And today, I hit my half century. “How did you get old, Adam?” “Slowly, and then suddenly…” While I head off to celebrate with my family, while trying not to weep over the brevity of life and the futility of existence, you can find meaning in some fine, hand-crafted artisanal links… --- ## Newsletters - 🐎*The Atlantic*’s new [stable of newsletters](https://www.theatlantic.com/subscriber-newsletters/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) - 🧠 One of them is [Charlie Wurzel’s *Galaxy Brain,*](https://warzel.substack.com/p/galaxy-brain-is-moving) which is leaving Substack for the magazine. ## Facebook - 👯‍♂️ Big changes [coming to Groups](https://about.fb.com/news/2021/11/new-tools-in-facebook-groups/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). - 🍼 Facebook is [losing a generation](https://www.theverge.com/22743744/facebook-teen-usage-decline-frances-haugen-leaks?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). - 👴🏻 Should it really be [trying to lure young people back?](https://voices.media/facebooks-obsession-youth-misplaced-key-success-aging-user-base/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) - 👺 The Big Blue is shutting down [its facial recognition system](https://petapixel.com/2021/11/02/facebook-is-shutting-down-its-photo-face-recognition-system/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). - 🕵️ Is it just getting ahead of growing concerns [about face recognition](https://www.engadget.com/facebook-shuts-down-face-recognition-171737198.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)? ## Twitter - 🔎 Improved [searching of a person’s Tweets](https://www.imore.com/twitter-rolls-out-improved-profile-searching-iphone?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), for your “finding off-colour tweets and cancelling people” convenience. ## Podcasts - 🎤 DMGT buys [podcast company Entale](https://www.dmgventures.co.uk/portfolio/dmgt-acquires-podcast-innovator-entale?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) - 💷 The BBC [paywalling its podcasts (via Apple)](https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/02/apple-podcasts-bbc-partnership/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) outside the UK - 🛑 And Apple debuts [a podcast that’s exclusive to its app](https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/03/apple-debuts-first-standalone-original-podcast-the-true-crime-series-hooked/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). The fragmentation of podcasting is proceeding apace, sadly. We *will* regret this down the line. ## Audience Engagement - 📲 Battle for the lock screen: [India edition](https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/11/is-the-smartphone-lock-screen-the-key-to-reaching-the-most-casual-news-consumers-this-indian-company-says-yes/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) - 💼 Ben Green jumps from [JPIMedia to Reach](https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2021/news/editorial-boss-bids-farewell-to-publisher-after-16-years/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) - 💰 Engaged journalism is a [revenue strategy](https://medium.com/engagement-at-kpcc/engaged-journalism-is-a-revenue-strategy-heres-why-2a0372f08d2e?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) ## SEO - 🇪🇸 Google News [returning to Spain](https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761041/google-news-relaunch-spain-payments-publishers-eu-copyright-directive?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) - 🤯 Google offering support for [indexing AND domain verification issues.](https://searchengineland.com/google-tool-for-reporting-domain-verification-and-user-management-issues-with-search-console-375714?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) \* *faints\** - 🚨 Another cunning wheeze by [the spammy end of SEO](https://futurism.com/fake-harvard-students?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). - 📽 I thought we already knew this: [Google recommends giving videos their own page](https://searchengineland.com/google-recommends-placing-videos-on-dedicated-pages-for-maximum-exposure-375746?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). ## Instagram - 🤝 Wow. Instagram *finally* restores [Twitter preview support](https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/instagram-brings-back-twitter-card-preview-support-for-posts/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). No longer seen as a competitive threat? - 💃🏼🕺🏻 New sticker: “[Join In](https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/01/instagram-rolls-out-an-add-yours-sticker-in-stories-to-create-threads-users-can-respond-to/?guccounter=1&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)”, which looks a lot like TikTok’s duets. ## Etc - 🎞 Adobe working with news publishers on tools for [verifying image authenticity](https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/11/adobe-and-news-orgs-are-working-on-a-new-tool-that-could-identify-a-photos-origin-and-combat-misinformation/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). - 😡 Interesting [profile of Mike Taibbi](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-happened-to-matt-taibbi.html?utm%5Fsource=pocket&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=pockethits#comments), which touches on the idea of what happens when the political world changes around a firebrand writer. ## The Big Read: Cancel Culture No, not *that* cancel culture. This is a long, and fascinating, list of the reasons people cancelled subscriptions: [Expensive, boring, and wrong: Here are all the news publications people canceled and whyFrom AdAge to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.Nieman LabLaura Hazard Owen![](https://www.niemanlab.org/images/cancelled-700x420.jpg)](https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/expensive-boring-and-wrong-here-are-all-the-news-publications-people-canceled-and-why/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)