Alex Watson

@Sifter

Don't know about you, but I am un chien andalusia. Also I am Head of Product . Own views. Jobs:

The North Ship
thewiredjester.co.uk
Joined January 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 Jun 2017

    My autobiography will be called "systems & their unintended consequences." An unintended consequence will be no-one will read it.

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  2. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    Key items of Microsoft's proposal for facial-recognition rules: * require companies offering FR services to let third parties audit their accuracy via an API; * require a court order for government use of FR to track a person over time.

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    21 hours ago

    On Tuesday, Parliament will vote on the proposed Brexit deal, agreed by the UK and the EU. If MPs reject the deal then a lot of different things could happen. Here are some of the possible outcomes…

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  4. Dec 4

    Tom Cruise would like to talk about your TV's UX and the crappy features they put in it

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    I’m taking a quick break from filming to tell you the best way to watch Mission: Impossible Fallout (or any movie you love) at home.
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    Dec 4

    This is brilliant. Donate just £10 and will send books to a child in care this Christmas

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    Dec 3

    It’s worth remembering among the post-mortems of media startups that invariably the diagnosis of what went wrong highlights the exact same activities that would have been diagnosed as the reason for success if the coin flip had gone the other way.

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    Dec 2

    To get into the Christmas mood, a short montage of every BBC One Christmas ident since 1974.

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    Dec 2

    “Rock Legend And Astrophysicist” is the most powerful title anyone can hold

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  9. Dec 3

    Whole thread is good, particularly because you can very easily get to seeing the problem with the market being the final arbiter.

    16/ You can get here via back of the envelop. Many outlets overspent, but if you estimate their cost structures, it’s clear that they were unprofitable because they simply couldn’t generate an even modest amount of revenue. The market is the final arbiter
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  10. Dec 3

    This is probably correct. A lot of what is pitched as “innovation” is actually just complexity and obscurity. Makes it harder for most users, especially task based ones.

    Listening to the News Impact Summit speakers, I'm thinking: innovation in visual journalism and storytelling in will continue coming in more from art (e.g., ) and film (e.g., ) schools than j-schools
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    Dec 2

    Only 13% of the world’s population enjoys a free press

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  12. Retweeted
    Nov 30

    tavi's closing note is so good in part because it lays bare the reality of trying to run a digital publication that doesn't want to chain itself to investors or become a walled garden only for those who can pay, that just wants good work in 2018

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    Nov 30

    Good for him.

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  14. Nov 29

    There should be more movies about analytics!

    My favorite scene in All The President’s Men is probably the one where they gather around the chartbeat monitor and a/b test their headlines
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    Nov 29

    Does anyone speak German? Is this good?

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    Nov 29

    I tend to be very skeptical of tool primacy/platform thinking, but I've come to the conclusion that a very specific toolset would be useful in government: a rapid prototyping tech stack, pre-cleared for security, that allows for build-to-learn service design experiments

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  17. Retweeted
    Nov 28

    So many people hiring designers and researchers have a basic misunderstanding of the job market. They think they are operating in a world with an over abundance of great designers and their job is to create hoops for people to jump through so they can ‘weed people out’

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    Nov 29

    run a complex computer simulation to prove that the cow is, in fact, large

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  19. Nov 28

    Been encouraging the team here to do more public speaking - here's on 5 tips to nail your first public speaking gig

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    Nov 28

    A rare opportunity to join the online desk in London. Check it out!

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    Nov 27

    CNN is airing the briefing -- but this "facts first" side panel seems like a new idea

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