Interesting! I have noticed this is a thing for me as well. I have found that by disabling the display of my own video, I feel much more relaxed. I highly recommend you give this a try.
I suggested to the folks behind pop.com, which does not show your face to you, to implement some form of indirect feedback mechanism when your face is aligned and centered. I thought maybe a small face+camera icon that turns red/yellow/green depending on whether your face is not visible, sideways/non-centered, or centered and in focus. That way even if you don't see yourself, at least you will know that others can see you fine.
This should be trivial for the people at zoom to add. They already split the background and foreground in the video for displaying images that aren't the wall/messy room behind you.
It’s interesting to me that someone can charge $20/month for a daily post (presumably without ads) and subscribers seem more than happy with the value proposition but the newspaper industry struggles to sell an entire newspaper worth of content for the same price. I wonder if newspapers would have more success “unbundling” their columns. Or at least unbundling the sections of the paper.
I pay for two newspaper subscriptions and it’s a lot like a gym membership where I start to feel guilty if I haven’t had the time or made the effort to use it.
News is a commodity, and one that many newspapers don't even create (essentially just a compilation of re-written wire service publications and corporate/political PR press releases masquerading as "news" (often without attribution)).
The Guardian, Washington Post, and New York Times are likely the closest thing we have to news worth paying for, but I just get most of my news these days from social media sites like Reddit (and their linking directly to wire services in some cases), and find their non-trial prices rather high for very little ORIGINAL content.
Essentially if this was legitimately one high quality post a day, that might be more high quality original content than most newspapers.
New York times has done a great job moving into the web with teams dedicated to making beautiful interactive charts and graphs. That's what sets them apart for me. Even their coronavirus dashboard, which you can find anywhere, is much more elegant than on other websites.
> The Guardian, Washington Post, and New York Times are likely the closest thing we have to news worth paying for
* Only if they allowed comments on articles that disagree with their own biases.
The Verge (Owned by Vox Media) is a great example of this.
> but I just get most of my news these days from social media sites like Reddit (and their linking directly to wire services in some cases), and find their non-trial prices rather high for very little ORIGINAL content.
The same newspaper publishers are also on social media sites as well, but link directly to their own articles and 'select' some social media accounts as sources to include in their articles that fits their narative and their own bias.
Reading multiple articles and sources from other publications will give you some good skeptisim in which either side might have missed or omitted some information in their own reporting.
I'm sure most people wouldn't be happy to pay it, but a single author charging $20/mo could make a decent living on just a few hundred subscribers. I'm sure newspapers have more than a few hundred happy customers.
I'd rather read content from an individual with known qualities that I like than an opaque news machine which optimizes it's coverage of different topics for maximum engagement from a hypothetical average customer, constrained by pressure from advertisers and political forces, and which primarily benefits its owners over the content creators.
Although a few more general purpose pubs like the NYT are doing relatively OK subscription, it’s financial pubs and newsletters that have it easiest. A tab that seems steep for essentially entertainment is nothing in the scheme of investing even relatively modest amounts.
Is it possible that it was a matter of changing the line endings? Some applications can be quite sensitive to different line endings… sounds suspiciously like that?
It looks like he's talking about developers, in the sense of individuals or teams that build content sites (read: deploy and configure Wordpress or other CMSes) for customers as a business.
