PicoBlog

🎂Today is Eliud Kipchoge’s birthday. According to the IAAF, the Kipper is blowing out 35 candles, placing him in the prime of a marathon runner’s career. His age makes sense, as he’s at the peak of his powers—just a month ago, he became the first person ever to dip under the two-hour barrier. The warrior-monk of the marathon hasn’t made a single mistake in years, and seems unflappable. He even tends to smile during the most painful stretches of a race—it could be seen as showboating, but the guy just seems too damned nice.

An interview with the social team at PBS and PBS KIDS about their newest creator partnership with TikTok librarian Mychal Threets Instagram is testing 3-minute Reels Teens are resurrecting Facebook’s Poke feature YouTube rolled out a tool to label content made with Gen AI TikTok is all in on search with its Creator Search Insights tool and now the platform is rewarding creators for the search value of their content

Q: How perennialist is A Perennial Digression? A: As with anything, it’s best to define our terms. In the broadest sense, “Perennialism”—the idea that underlying all religions and philosophies there is a common core of experience, knowledge, and wisdom about the unity of God, world, and self that is simply received and transmitted in culturally diverse f… ncG1vNJzZmiolaeyr7rImqOdoZensrS%2FyKilZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cLTOsGSpnaKau6%2B1wKWgrKxdnsBurYypnKudnqO2oriMnaCgqpWowKq7zQ%3D%3D

Thanks to everyone who has sent notes and left reviews for the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Thanks to Jrdoog, who called the podcast “essential for anyone working in the media industry.” Note for future guests: Jrdoog wants me to keep badgering you for numbers. Be forewarned. This week’s episode with Protocol president Bennett Richardson is brought to you by Audigent. Publishers often struggle to know which partners bring incremental value. And the complexity of programmatic advertising has only exacerbated the problem.

An actor could pick up the script and read a better introductory scene than having the hero hit your car so hard that it sets off the air bags for a double whammy to the nose. That’s how Domenick Lombardozzi’s tough guy cop Gaitano “Guy” Russo is brought into the world of Amazon Prime’s Reacher, a kickass new television show that’s enjoying another entertaining season. But you won’t catch the Bronx-born actor complaining.

Back in 2007, I saw a model kitchen designed by Donald Chong at the Interior Design Show titled “Small fridges make good cities.” Ever since, I have been obsessed with food and fridges. Fifty or so years ago, my first summer job was working for my dad’s shipping container manufacturing and leasing company; I was sent down to Toronto’s stockyards to see how a big client, Canada Packers, packed those offal parts of cows that Canadians wouldn’t eat and shipped them in reefers (newfangled refrigerated containers) to the Caribbean, where they were part of the local diet.

Roblox is reshaping the fashion landscape with trending games such Dress to Impress. Dress to Impress is the most engaging and popular fashion game on Roblox. But what is it about Roblox and Dress to Impress that captivates its users in the world of fashion? Crucial to answering this is understanding digital fashion trends that resonate with Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Delving into their preferences within these Roblox games offers valuable insights into what excites and motivates them in the digital fashion world.

On the evening of Sunday, April 7, Baylor coach Scott Drew was sitting on an airplane in Phoenix, site of the Final Four, waiting to take off for home. He scrolled through Twitter on his phone and came across reports that Kentucky coach John Calipari was on the verge of becoming the new head coach at Arkansas. Just two days before, Drew had been counseling his former assistant, Jerome Tang, who just finished his second season at Kansas State, about whether he should take that same job.

Greetings dungeon masters! I am currently in Vegas with my good friend, Kelsey Dionne, the creator of Shadowdark. Actually, I was in her house, sipping tea by the fireplace. We did a casual charity live stream where we explored how Kelsey dissected and analyzed RPGS to create Shadowdark. We may have wandered off topic occasionally, from stoicism to the pronunciation of THAC0. As one commenter says, “This was a wholesome good time.