Nick Dastoor
nickdastoor.bsky.social
Nick Dastoor
@nickdastoor.bsky.social
Deputy head of audience development, the Guardian. Views not meant to represent employer. He/him
Thinks fall apart
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Less than a quarter of the readership on this one is from UK, and the biggest chunk is from US. It's also not appearing in the print edition, afaik
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's written by the European community affairs correspondent and the Guardian commissions things online from its various offices, not all of which are presented through a UK lens
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Nick Dastoor
Can’t recall seeing anything like this from a tech company recently blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
September 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I guess assumption #1 could be argued to relate to a world in which Google turns off search results below, akin to what a full switch to AI Mode would be, plus no option to opt back or user desire to switch to rival search engine. The second is more fundamental though: the baseline is 15%, not 100%
July 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Here is the Pew research
July 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Yes, to be clear the situation is bad with potential to be much worse but there are a couple of false assumptions in Rusty taking the 1% figure to mean that. First, the one you mention. Second, that pre-AI clickthrough was 100% to a link
July 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It reminds me of the bit in Serial s1 where they cannot establish whether there was a payphone at a certain Best Buy in 1999
May 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Though this seems to be partly responsible
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(...
Scrum (software development) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Still, I suppose it beats "Laura Kuenssberg is going to be talking to a minister soon"
February 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM