Published [Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://bilge.world/iphone4-ph…

…otography)

+Stats capture, further #23 drafting.

Pages/Reading.md

@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ Another great tool I recently discovered is [**Reading**](https://www.reading.am
 
 An ongoing list of my favorite email publications.
 
-### [Nextdraft](https://nextdraft.com/)
+### [Art & Letters Daily](https://aldaily.com/)
 
-Dave Pell's [*Nextdraft* newsletter](https://nextdraft.com/) is the only hard news mailer I would ever recommend. If you can stand his puns, you need to subscribe.
+*The Chronicle of Education*'s [ancient](http://web.archive.org/web/19990203021844/http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/ald.html) "web portal" is a bit overwhelming, but their [weekly newsletter](https://aldaily.com/subscribe/) has somehow become perhaps my most unmissable email subscription.
 
-### [The Interface](https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton)
+### [Nextdraft](https://nextdraft.com/)
 
-Casey Newton is quite simply the best reporter on the social media beat. His daily output is absolutely astounding.
+Dave Pell's [*Nextdraft* newsletter](https://nextdraft.com/) is the only hard news mailer I would ever recommend. If you can stand his puns, you need to subscribe. I've recently reduced my actual clicking on hardnews in a big way, so *Nextdraft* has become the singular hard news-ish aggregator I make sure to skim regularly.
 
 ### [The Browser](https://thebrowser.com/)
 
@@ -36,10 +36,6 @@ The [*Columbia Journalism Review*](https://www.cjr.org)'s daily in-depth email i
 
 A weekly collaborative effort between [Catapult](https://catapult.co/), [Longreads](https://longreads.com/), [Granta](https://granta.com/), [Guernica](https://www.guernicamag.com/), [Narratively](https://narratively.com/), and [The Rumpus](https://therumpus.net/) that provides memoirs I *actually want to read*, which is astonishing.
 
-### [Cyberdeck Users Weekly](https://paul.lol/)
-
-Ex-*Verge* [Paul Miller](https://twitter.com/futurepaul)'s new bi-weekly newsletter and [podcast](https://anchor.fm/futurepaul). There is nobody in tech media quite like Paul.
-
 ### [Tedium](https://tedium.co/)
 
 Ernie Smith's *Tedium* is unlike any other publication on the web. 

drafts/The Psalms' 2020.md

@@ -22,9 +22,25 @@ I had wanted to write about [*The Langoliers*](https://letterboxd.com/film/the-l
 
 These two sentences begin the sixth chapter of my indefinitely-postponed novel, [*Blimp's Burden*](https://github.com/extratone/pith), and are almost certainly my best writing, ever. My vanity simply wouldn't allow them to go forgotten, so I [published the chapter as an excerpt on *The Psalms*](https://bilge.world/blimps-burden-chapter-6). It may seem an intimidating wall of text, but give it your attention and you'll be amused, I think. 
 
+![The Psalms Stats by Post - 2020](https://i.snap.as/W3crmS2L.png)
+
 ## Summer
 
+The general, distinctly 21st-century wisdom regarding one's content popularity seems to be something like *you never know what's going to blow up*. I experienced this phenomena quite severely for the first time in my writing life after posting "[Google Is Not God of The Web](https://bilge.world/google-page-experience)" on [HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23383548) right before going out-of-touch for some 13 straight hours amidst a local BLM protest. I did not intend to write a baity title, nor did I expect anything to come of sharing it, there - I only did so simply because the thought crossed my mind. Honestly, it is probably the least-considered content I'd ever published on *The Psalms* - I only put it up when I did because I knew *all* of my energy was about to be absorbed for an entire weekend or more. I only started the thing because I felt it important to raise a small voice in reminder that tech media had started using language when discussing code/online development which had begun to assume the existence of a single, objective standard of measure for *good web design*. (Fuck your bootstrap baloney, [*The Drywall Website*](https://iowa.neocities.org/test) was a *real* *paradigm shit*.)
+
+And yet... That single goddamned post would end up accruing more pageviews than all of my writing on the web, combined (I suspect.) Tens of thousands of words were written in hundreds of comments, which I did my best to parse in [a *for the hell of it* substack email](https://davidblue.substack.com/p/witness-google-god-and-local-history):
+
+> Out of everything I’ve shared on *Bilge* recently, it’s hilarious that this particular post - on which I spent a cumulative total of perhaps 25 minutes writing and made less effort than ever to edit - became probably my most widely-shared work of all time.
+
+Once again, I *am* thankful for the readership and correspondence, I just *really fucking wish* it had been on literally *anything* else I've written about technology.
+
+In retrospect, it really is bonkers that I was excited about yet another vague promise to *re-imagine email* in the days surrounding [the launch of Basecamp's HEY](https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21286466/hey-email-basecamp-price-availability-platforms-launch), but I feel it's important to nurture what paltry genuine enthusiasm remains about technology and the future, so I decided to respond to the service's homepage prompt, asking interested visitors to write in with their own thoughts on email. I spent a morning clacking out "[Email and I: An Abridged History](https://bilge.world/hey-email-history)," which I hope will one day serve as a part-foundation for a thorough, composed extension to my [*Why I Write About Technology*](https://gist.github.com/extratone/91ebe16b0c620f309e70b40f5d4dcd9e) series. This would be *The Psalms* last relevant work for a few months, while I played around with [an experimental WordPress website](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wordpress-experimentation/) and dove into [*fuckin' school*](https://www.davidblue.wtf/college-return/) for the first time in seven years.
+
+![WTF](https://i.snap.as/cwm5gKqi.png)
+
+## Fall
 
+I returned in late September with a partial recount of what I'd discovered: "[Indulging Once More in Digital Excess](https://bilge.world/digital-excess)." After exploring the concept of [*Digital Gardens*](https://tomcritchlow.com/blogchains/digital-gardens/), buying [my first pro-ready desktop PC](https://www.davidblue.wtf/hp-envy-desktop/) in 10 years, playing with Big Boy Adobe software for the first time, and reading [a delightful book](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417076) documenting the history of word processing, I arrived upon the term *Software Historian* with which to partially describe myself. It doesn't mean all that much at the moment, but will no doubt be explored imminently on this Web Site. 
 
 ## Three Point Oh
 
@@ -38,6 +54,7 @@ Beginning with today's changes,
 - [ ] [In-Progress Drafts](https://github.com/extratone/bilge/tree/main/Drafts)
 - [ ] [October 18th, 2018 Capture](http://web.archive.org/web/20181101000000*/bilge.world)
 - [x] [May 1st Capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20200501203946/https://bilge.world/)
+- [ ] Migrating WTF here, moving the domain to a NeoCities landing page.
 
 
 
@@ -54,11 +71,12 @@ Beginning with today's changes,
 - [x] "[Star Trek Online Lives](https://bilge.world/star-trek-online)" - May 25th
 - [x] "[Excerpt: Blimp's Burden, Chapter VI](https://bilge.world/blimps-burden-chapter-6)" - May 26th
 - [ ] "[Changes and Updates](https://bilge.world/changes-updates)" - May 27th
-- [ ] "[Google Is Not God of The Web](https://bilge.world/google-page-experience)" - June 1st
-- [ ] "[Email and I: An Abridged History](https://bilge.world/hey-email-history)" - June 22nd
+- [x] "[Google Is Not God of The Web](https://bilge.world/google-page-experience)" - June 1st
+- [x] "[Email and I: An Abridged History](https://bilge.world/hey-email-history)" - June 22nd
 - [ ] "['Greyhound''s Top-Side Pot Shot](https://bilge.world/greyhound-tom-hanks)" - July 29th
 - [ ] "[Indulging Once More in Digital Excess](https://bilge.world/digital-excess)" - September 24th
 - [ ] "[The Social Dilemma's Dilemma](https://bilge.world/the-social-dilemma)" - October 19th
 - [ ] "[Software Thanksgiving](https://bilge.world/big-thank)" - November 25th
 - [ ] ~35,000 words, ~2 hours of reading.
-- [ ] Most Overdue Drafts!
+- [ ] Most Overdue Drafts!
+- [ ] Imported "[Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://bilge.world/iphone4-photography)"

drafts/Through an iPhone 4's Lens.md → posts/iphone4-photography.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Through an iPhone 4's Lens
 
+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/7wrQ9DPN.jpg)
+
 ## Seven years ago, the fourth generation of Apple’s iPhone instigated a change in our perception of digital photography. Now – thanks to Google Photos – I’d like to reflect on my favorite shots of mine.
 
 When iPhone 4 handsets began shipping in the Summer of 2010, I’d been carrying my first generation for three solid years – since its now history-stricken release, in fact – and its age started to become a problem. I’d drop it screen-down on a rock in the airport parking lot just before going back to school for my Junior year, splitting a crack in the screen that wouldn’t quite kill it – it was the demands of iOS 4 on its 412 MHz CPU and meager 128 MB of RAM that would ultimately cease its usability.
@@ -8,7 +10,29 @@ The single 2 megapixel rear-facing camera would surprise one at times, but was n
 
 After unleashing Google Photos upon the ~15,000 images on my home machine’s hard drive last year, I have been constantly reminded of my own photographic history – for better or worse – and regularly shown five, six, seven-year old snaps in a manner that wouldn’t have been possible (or have made any sense) before. Recently, I was astounded to find that I took many of the better shots with my iPhone 4, so I thought I’d share a few from my high-school days in loving memory of my trusty little rectangular companion.
 
- <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidblue/albums/72157687536399666" title="iPhone 4"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4421/36537436746_a0b977fbd4_z.jpg" width="auto" height="auto" alt="iPhone 4">
+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/IkJXq3cZ.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/w0riFPuC.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/Qmhx7xwM.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/Feje0ED1.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/352u3nDW.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/qQL68xL3.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/0ghC3C3H.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/M041qm99.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/HOCwW0mC.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/weoLTMY1.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/7drop6TC.jpg)
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+![Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://i.snap.as/SCatAClI.jpg)
 
 *All taken with iPhone 4, left unedited. View more on* [*Flickr*](http://bit.ly/davidblueip4)*.*