Friday 12th July, 2019 #
- Loved, forgotten, abandoned - Thailand’s cinemas once ruled the kingdom - If you are at all into movies, this is a good read with some interesting anecdotes and great photography
- Why I’m Stopping the Fan-Supported Podcast Experiment - It’s interesting that for some podcasts ads are a better fit than listener supported funding
- Trump 'not a fan' of cryptocurrency, blasts Facebook's Libra
- Warner Bros Studios fire - Crews tackle blaze for 15 hours - The studio in Hertfordshire is where films such as Harry Potter, James Bond, Fast and Furious and the Mission Impossible have been made
- How U.S. Tech giants are helping to build China’s surveillance state - "We are dealing with thousands terabits per second"
- Podcasters need listening data, so Nielsen is going to call people’s homes to ask for it
- Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets
- Google workers can listen to what people say to its AI home devices
- 'Ain't goin nowhere' - New Orleans residents brace for possible hurricane
- Hunt exhorts UK envoys to 'speak truth to power' in coded rebuke to Johnson
- If you are curious about linkblog.io uptime, checkout the status page, it's not twitter for sure but currently averaging about 98-99% uptime which I think is quite good
- Twitter goes down during White House social media summit