{"id":7473,"date":"2018-06-04T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2018-06-04T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:47:33","slug":"linked-the-soft-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/linked-the-soft-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The Soft Bulletin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2034,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/500ish.com\\\/the-soft-bulletin-63e609a3d332&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20221223164245\\\/https:\\\/\\\/500ish.com\\\/the-soft-bulletin-63e609a3d332&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 22:35:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 20:34:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-07 11:18:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-13 11:37:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 09:44:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 11:09:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 11:09:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/500ish.com\/the-soft-bulletin-63e609a3d332\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Soft Bulletin \u2013 500ish Words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>As I age, I find I increasingly enjoy this outside vantage point. I feel like everyone has gotten too into the weeds at too many of these events. All I crave is the 10,000-foot view. And as such, I increasingly try to offer that. I\u2019m going to shut off notifications and try to watch the keynote \u201cfresh\u201d later tonight as I battle jetlag. If it doesn\u2019t put me to sleep, that\u2019s probably a good sign for Apple. If it does, that\u2019s probably good for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly my approach to Keynotes these days. I watch them safely at home in high definition ignoring all Apple News until then. It\u2019s more fun this way. Well, it\u2019s way less fun than actually being there but I spend my travel money on non-Apple things these days. I still love Apple, I still love the presentations I still think of Steve often but I don\u2019t have the means to go to Apple events anymore or I do but choose not to and it\u2019s why I prefer to watch these later. It\u2019s as if I\u2019m there and the news isn\u2019t filtered by journalists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Soft Bulletin \u2013 500ish Words: As I age, I find I increasingly enjoy this outside vantage point.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-04T15:47:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"a6425ea0-9351-4405-bf93-b4fc7195c16d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-04T15:47:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ApkJeoJNRRAW_k7T8cZXBbQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Wx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5797,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/17\/linked-remembering-the-early-glorious-mac-web\/","url_meta":{"origin":7473,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Remembering the early, glorious Mac web&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Verge: The announcement of the iPod in late 2001 was in the same Town Hall auditorium that hosted last week's iPhone SE and iPad Pro announcements, but back in 2001 there were plenty of empty seats. 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