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I think it would be fair to say that the present president of the USA is not what you’d call a …
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I’m slowly recovering from my facial trauma, over a week after the incident. I made it home …
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Some personal news – or why arguing with a lamppost is a mug’s game.
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Watching the Avon meander through Chippenham.
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The flight of the herring gull.
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Easter Sunday sunrise on Shoreham Beach, looking towards Brighton.
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Started reading: Blightslayer by Richard Stratchan 📚
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Well, the #artemisII launch was the first time I had a real time news experience on Bluesky the way …
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OK. This is my absolute favourite piece of “special content” for today: Warhammer 40k: the Musical.
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This is a cautionary tale of letting ChatGPT do your research and writing for you, if ever there was …
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It looks like OpenAI shuttering Sora might well be all about money. After all, the orange …
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The last week has been a flashback to the days, 25 years ago, when my job involved a lot of waiting …
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This sums up the state of the world.
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If every day was as productive as today has been so far, my life would be a lot less stressful.
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The first ever YouTube video is on display in the V&A Museum in London. It’s encouraging …
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Dropped my daughters off at stupid o’clock for a Guides activity day, and rewarding myself with a …
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There’s an awful lot of Underpants Gnoming of AI in journalism businesses.
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This piece on interviewing (and how not to do it) from Om Malik is worth any journalism student (or …
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Found a coffee haunt for a while, to hill time while my teen has style applied to her hair.
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Morning from Hove. Having a rare day’s holiday, mainly to be chauffeur for the family.
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I bought this mug for my Mum the best part of 25 years ago. I’ve now owned it for longer than …
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All the pigeons. All of them.
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This sounded alarming at first glance: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky, the social …
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The other side of the river vanished yesterday.
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Humanity summed up in three photos:
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Interesting analysis of why Apple’s new chips might be more important than they seem.
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What will our post-AI world look like? By post-AI, I don’t mean after AI disappears, I mean after AI …
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Happy day. My youngest daughter got her first choice of secondary school!
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I’m just really tired of execs, who’s every monetary need is satisfied, …
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A little piece of history: this is the Royal Oak, the pub in Swallowcliffe now co-owned by James May …
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Happy with those. Now, let’s see how my daughters feel…
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Doing the Shrove Tuesday thing.
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A robin isn’t just for Christmas. RSPB Pulborough Brooks, 16/2/26
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The youngest and I are joining in on the Warhammer Million Miniatures Challenge… Wish us luck!
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Started reading: The Abundance by Annie Dillard 📚
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I keep meaning to write about the “consultantification“ of the future of mainstream journalism; an …
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Just corrected two typos in Thursday’s blog post. If I ever start making serious money from …
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This is just an insane piece of reporting:
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Good piece from Om Malik comparing Anthropic and OpenAI’s business models and claimed revenue …
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Sitting on a train to London, and one chap lurches by carrying a bottle of Bells whisky and nothing …
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It’s encouraging to see journalism returning to the idea of community being central to …
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Newspapers have always come and gone. The slow crumbling of the Washington Post is a tragedy for the …
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I just had my first Christmas panto email. There are no words.
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As journalism re-embraces community as a core component of audience work, we’re going to see …
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Apple dinged over low-quality, scammy-looking ads on Apple News: Apple’s controversial partnership …
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A foxy nighttime encounter, on my way to collect my daughter.
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For the last three years, I’ve been looking out over a courtyard from my desk at the university. I’d …
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The good folks at Ghost have just ticked off a couple of items on my wishlist, with upgraded comment …
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Admid all the noise around AI, it’s worth remembering that there are some areas where it is …
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I just realised that this mug is probably over a quarter of a century old…
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Just discovered that Apple Creator Studio has an education discount: £29 per year, rather than £129. …
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Life is not a football game. And sometimes we journalists have been guilty of making it one…
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Well, this is uncomfortable. Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. …
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That moment when you realise you’re trying to unlock your under-desk pedestal drawers with the …
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Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations …
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Wow. I only just noticed the appearance controls in Ghost’s ActivityPub reader. Lovely stuff.
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Today is tenuous links: what media publishers can learn about AI from… Warhammer.
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Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in …
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London can be very literal sometimes. Yes, I’m in Angel.
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Substack now has an AppleTV app. But the headline calls it a “newsletter platform”. It’s not. It’s …
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Oh, brilliant. Ghost has added filters to its web analytics - and full support for UTM parameters. …
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I just discovered the Moodle (and Moodle email) supports Markdown, and I could not be happier. …
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Best ever feedback from an in-house training/workshop delivered a few months back: “He’s a proper …
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When I was a regular at the Barbican in the early 90s, back when the RSC had a residency there, I …
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Just discovered that I need a 30 year old filling replaced. Fabulous start to the week. Now I have …
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Why is DNS propagation so annoyingly unpredictable?
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Welcome back, iPad. Your new screen suits you.
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My iPad is in the iPad hospital for the second time in a little over a month. I hadn’t realised how …
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Just pressed “go” on something I’ve been contemplating, planning and building for a little while. …
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Diesel may start vanishing from forecourts within four years: A report by the electric vehicle …
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Interesting move. Warhammer-maker Games Workshop has banned its staff from using AI in its products. …
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Not saying it’s cold up here on the Downs today, but…
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I don’t get the phrase “search it up”. It seems more clumsy than “search for …
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Elizabeth Spiers, Eating The Chess Pieces: As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, …
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I wonder if many people are confusing the idea of “artificial intelligence” with “artificial …
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AI is the asbestos we’re shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society
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Roll up, roll up. It’s time for my annual round-up of the top 10 most read posts on One Man …
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I appear to have deeply confused Amazon’s algorithm. This is not going to encourage me to spend…
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Possibly the best pub meal I’ve ever had. Kudos to the team at the Rose & Crown, Shilton.
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Getting the tour of my brother’s new place.
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Chilly Christmas beach walk.
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The advent candles in church this morning.
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My late parents’ angel, keeping watch over another family Christmas. Merry Christmas, to all who …
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Just discovered that I’m in the marketing video for our department.
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Sent to Whamhalla by my eldest, who played Last Christmas in the car this morning. #whamageddon
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Hurrah. The latest issue of Standart (an indie coffee magazine) has arrived, ready for cosy …
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Haven’t done one of these photos in ages. It’s easy to grow blasé about the beauty of where we live. …
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It’s just possible that we left the Christmas tree purchase a wee bit late this year.
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Carol Service time. For which I have had to learn to pronounce “Ephrathah”.
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Dropped the girls at their Guides cinema trip, with time to spare for a sneaky coffee.
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Something of an evisceration of Kier Starmer’s Substack. I suspect that if you think of it as a …
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Fun afternoon in the local Warhammer store doing the mini of the month with my youngest and her …
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Anyone who thinks that AI can write literature can only have seen reading as chewing …
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This is a sobering look at OpenAI’s funding. No sniff of a profit for at least a decade, according …
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Turns out, AIs are a humourless bunch. (I’m mainly talking about satire and cartoons here. …
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Video generation is getting good scarily fast. There are some weird, weird sheep in there, though.
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Still, kudos to Google for digitally watermarking their AI-generated images.
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The challenging thing about running a training course on Ai over four weeks, is that things can …
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One of the deep problems with algorithmic social media is the incentive to figure out how to game …
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Nice to see that @marsedit@mastodon.social has escaped squircle jails…
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Hosting a Warhammer morning for my daughter’s friends. (Kill Team and Underworlds: Emberguard)
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I was chatting to a former student the other evening, and I predicted that it would be ages before …
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Welcoming @ashleyjkirk.bsky.social from @theguardian.com back to City St George’s for an energetic …
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My “shrimp Jesus” post from over a year ago is picking up a load of Google traffic …
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In the rush to headline “AI is transforming journalism”, we are losing sight of what really matters: …
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This is a ChatGPT/Midjourney co-creation for a course I’m running later today. My job is… …
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The best metaphor I’ve seen for AI is that it’s our generation’s …
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Oooh. Nice to see @onionbagblog on here!
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Cuckmere Haven this afternoon.
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Managed to clear 100 GB or so of cruft off my aging, but still perfectly serviceable, M1 MacBook …
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I’ve been listening on and off to the BBC Sounds investigation of Kate Clanchy’s …
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This is such a great story: Meet the teen behind the Louvre ‘Fedora Man’ mystery photo Love an …
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Spectacular hagstone find on the beach.
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At the Remembrance Day parade on Southwick Green, supporting my daughters who were marching with the …
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Props ready to go for my first online training course to help journalists understand AI - and use it …
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Wait… should I be doing this update? #updateofthebeast
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The people who hold Trump, Farage, Javier Milei and their copycats accountable cannot be part-time …
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Started reading: The New Censorship by Ayala Panievsky 📚
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My notes from a fascinating but worrying talk between Emily Maitlis and my colleague Dr Ayala …
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24 years ago, I started blogging. That’s nearly a quarter of a century. It will be one of the …
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Another rat ogre done and dusted, yesyes. Basing time. #warhammer
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It was a rainy Hallowe’en in old London Town last night.
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2001: the year blogging changed the world – but it would be decades before we realised how much. And …
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Meanwhile, my eldest is raiding my badge collection from the 70s/80s.
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Doing some half-term Hallowe’en crafts…
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Emily Maitlis is somewhere in this scrum…
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Packed house for this discussion between Emily Maitlis and Dr Ayala Panievsky, despite a long day of …
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Listening to Emily Maitlis interviewing my colleague Ayala Panievsky about her new book The New …
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This morning I feel like a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. It won’t last.
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I thought we had autumnal mist forming outside the swimming pool, but as soon as I went outside, the …
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Bright, cold autumn morning.
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Ten years ago this would have been very exciting to me: Movable Type 9 Released. But then they …
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That feeling when you realise that your Reddit account is older than many of your students…
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As a long-term enjoyer of titles based on classic UK tv shows, @paulrobertlloyd’s latest travel post …
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John Naughton being as brilliant as ever about the AI economic bubble:
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Worth watching: ChatGPT growth has slowed, and time spent per user is down… Or, so reports …
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I feel like AI is struggling with the idea of “scissors”. Just as well it can’t …
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Listening to Polly Toynbee and David Walker talking at the Jeremy Tunstall Memorial Lecture. Lots of …
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Watched: Ms. Marvel S1E2, Crushed 🍿 Rewatching this with the family made me realise that the …
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Finished reading: Soul Wars by Josh Reynolds 📚 Here’s a review.
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Stunning autumn colours starting to emerge.
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Matthew 7:16 is an incredibly useful lens to view the behaviour of people on social media, whether …
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Here’s my notes from the panel at the Future of Media Technology, about how publishers are …
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O’Reilly Media: Don’t use AI to make content hamburgers, use it to allow customers to …
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This is an amazingly written and researched interview with Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson.
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I think this, from @endonend, is absolutely spot on: What I think we need is more humanity. More …
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Trying to regain my joy in blogging for its own sake, by writing about things nobody else will care …
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The electric shuttle pods are one of my favourite things about flying out of Heathrow T5
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Here we go… Spending the day at NEXT25.
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Schmoozing surrounded by some quite dramatic art.
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Stuck in an interminable passport queue - while EU citizens breeze through the gates. Thanks, …
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The only one of my Apple device getting the 26 update today is my iPad Pro. Not taking the risk with …
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How The Economist aims to survive – and thrive – in the age of AI. And some insight into why …
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The future of media technology is sofas, it appears. #fomt25
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Green is clearly “in” for the charity shoppers of Market Deeping…
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Lovely view from the room where I’m running a couple of client workshops today.
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Possibly the most disastrous thing about the rise of AI is the way it’s leading tech companies …
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We had a sparrowhawk in our back garden. Looks like a young-ish female…
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Trying a new coffee shop / restaurant just up the road from City St George’s.
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Last coffee on camp. Feels very much like both the summer holidays and summer itself are done.
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Such an amiable chap, for a green man.
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Love, half a century old. I wonder if the feelings lasted as long as the carving.
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Typepad RIP
Wow. Typepad is shutting down after 22 years. And they’re giving a whole month’s notice. I remember, …
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Gnasher has seen better days.
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More old box sorting. This is a card for a restaurant — Restaurante O Manuel — I visited nearly 40 …
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A little blast from the past - I just found my mid-80s Prince August fantasy miniatures moulds. You …
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In the mood for a little discovery.
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I’ve just discovered that there’s an academic conference about Warhammer. This delights me no end.
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My lucky daughters are on a sailing course. I am drinking coffee in the café. Hurrah. ⛵️ ☕️
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Trading Post Coffee Roasters living up to their name.
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There are times when reality feels perturbingly like an architect’s CGI composite.
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Having a blast from the past this morning. I’m having a quick coffee at the Bridge Café. I used to …
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Mike Masnick on who goes MAGA: It is also, to an immense extent, the disease of a generation—the …
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Is the AI bubble about to burst?: The neuroscientist Eric Hoel calls this the “supply paradox of …
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Feeling pretty good about the dinner I put on the table for my family this evening.
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Man follows ChatGPT’s advice – and so poisons himself: As described in a new paper published …
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I see that the Generative Engine Optimisation grift is building up speed.
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This morning’s links on the dominance of YouTube, the state of university education and …
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Fun guys to hang out with in the woods. (Yes, I’m reusing this joke. Yes, I love it.)
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Ignoring the fact that AI produces hallucinations does not make those errors go away: Google’s …
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Great, deep dive into the financial precariousness of the AI revolution: AI Is A Money Trap
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Instagram finally gets the repost:
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Oh, every time I have to use Google Analytics, I’m reminded of how throughly GA4 ruined it for …
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Meta is an empty husk of a company with no values, no beliefs, other than growth and …
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Having lots of interesting conversations about the overlaps of journalism and the so-called creator …
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I dawned on me yesterday that I’ve been training journalists for 20 years now. But I’ve …
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Ghost gets social and analytical: Ghost 6.0 is here
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Morning. I’m back at the blogface after a much-needed break. (Well, quasi-break.) How have you …
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I feel like I’ve wandered into a British folk horror movie…
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My daughters have watched this three times. The album is on repeat. It’s the cultural phenomenon of …
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I am in this photo and I don’t like it:
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The future is too important to leave to a bunch of ADHD geeks from California.
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Not a lot makes me sadder than seeing a very small child desperately trying to get the attention of …
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Shooting interviews at a local swimming club, which isn’t at all acoustically challenging… 😳
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I always said my wife was the brains of the operation — but now I have proof.
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The one downside of being a contact lens wearer is that, very occasionally, I put them in the wrong …
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Cultural whiplash - from a graduation ceremony at the Barbican to watching K-PoP Demon Hunters with …
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Today, I shall be attending my first graduation ceremony since my wife got her PhD nearly two …
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And so, farewell, Firewire. Decades ago, you defined my music listening and early video editing …
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Thesis: AI illustration is now baseline, human art and photography becomes value added. Human …
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One of the things I miss about Livejournal is the ability to follower lock posts.
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Some (slightly meandering) thoughts on The Observer’s cracking investigative piece into the …
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Having a big life re-evaluation moment with my wife. My City lecturing and my family are the …
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It’s difficult to articulate how angry this piece about failed crowdfunding publisher Unbound makes …
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20 years ago today, my commute was disrupted by the 7/7 bombings in London. And I accidentally …
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Doing my bit for the City St George’s undergraduate open day - persuading potential students that …
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At this point, however, Medium is the pioneer that got Substack’s arrows in its …
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Vogue editor-in-chief of 37 years and fashion mogul icon Anna Wintour …
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Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers: At its simplest level, our job as artists is …
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The iPad is already my preferred video editor for most tasks. It looks like that’s only going to get …
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Something it’s important to get sorted…
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Forcing all prospective students to make all their social media profiles public is chilling. This …
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Yesterday, I went to the Worthing Dome with my daughters as a (late) Father’s Day treat. What a …
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A beer in a church - an under-appreciated combo.
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Gorgeous afternoon down on the beach. 🏖️
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Walking the tightrope between AI and audiences. I get the feeling that a lot of business are gonna …
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What happened to student Rag and Rag Weeks?
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Just corrected a 15-year-old typo on my blog. Hurrah. That typo was older than my oldest child. Some …
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Here’s @ayjay pointing out the major flaw in one of the weaker arguments for AI: A useful mental …
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Oh, Dr Beeching. A tribute to an infamous moment in UK rail history. #mbjune Day 10: Rail 📷
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A new look for One Man & His Blog. The old theme was feeling dated, and isn’t being …
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Oh, yikes. The home office iMac won’t get macOS 26. Somehow it’s still “my new …
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Wow, Midjourney really struggles with the idea of scissors.
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#mbjune Day 9: Wood 📷 All the images from the challenge.
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Escaping email hell with a beach walk before school pickup.
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When did you last reply to someone on social media? As Elvis didn’t sing, a little more …
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The downside of falling behind with your email: “Wow, that looks like an interesting event. I …
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I have spent the last 20 years of my career endlessly campaigning for the journalism business to …
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#mbjune Day 8: Travel 📷 All the images from the challenge.
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I can’t find the list of #mbjune prompts for today onwards. Anyone seen it?
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#mbjune Day 7: Switch 📷 All the images from the challenge.
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My daughter clearly likes hanging around in our local Warhammer shop too much. This was her latest …
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Grabbing a coffee, some Aeropress filters and a vegan croissant at Small Batch Coffee. And catching …
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#mbjune Day 6: Contrast 📷 All the images from the challenge.
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Replacing scrolling with microjournaling: Microjournaling is exactly what it sounds like. Instead …
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Ghost 6.0 coming “in the next few weeks”. Another step towards mainstreaming …
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The leaked script for the Apple WWDC keynote… 10:35: “Here at Apple,” Federighi continues, “we …
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My wife’s first book is released later this month. I’m in awe of how much work a …
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Original 1980s #warhammer40k Space Marines, a relic of my long-ago teenage years. #mbjune Day 4: …
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This is brilliant – a piece told in screenshots (which is probably an accessibility nightmare…) …
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Shadows fall, but light remains. #mbjune day 3: Shadow 📷
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There’s a good chance we’re headed into a negative loop in which genAI creates slop …
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Compelling piece from 404 Media about the accelerating crisis in education driven by AI: Teachers …
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Well, I loved that season of Doctor Who, and hope we get a renewal soon. I refuse to let the wave on …
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Preparing to do birthday sleep-over s’mores for my daughter and friends.
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Honestly, the fact that they haven’t released Dugga Doo as a single to streaming is just leaving …
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Mozilla is killing Pocket. Dammit. Time to see how well micro.blog imports laaaaaarge Pocket …
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2005: the internet is amazing! This will transform our culture!
2025: Michael Bay is making a …
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Seriously proud of my year two journalism undergrads. They’ve shown both a real commitment to …
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The fact of the matter is that a lot of people want to say whatever stupid …
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Down at the Tooting campus to do some social media training. This is a weird feeling. It’s where my …
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Just spent 30 minutes in the garden with a coffee and a book, as a lunchbreak. It doesn’t …
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Why do people still wish their friends Happy Birthday on Facebook, when the friend in question …
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Some traditional bothiers feel their world, the sacrosanct inner circle, is under threat in an age …
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The dawn chorus up on the downs for #InternationalDawnChorusDay 🐦⬛🎶
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Started reading: Fringed With Mud and Pearls by Ian Crofton 📚
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One idea that I’ve been playing around with in my head is that we’re living in what I …
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Y’know, it’s getting ever clearer that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t actually know what …
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Enjoying a morning coffee under the watchful eye of this fella.
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It’s breathtaking to me, how casually leadership speaks of employees being jailed. As if …
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Friday night link-dump, so so I can finally escape my desk: (Hmm. …
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Ah, a gift from Paramount to meme-wranglers everywhere.
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A fox snoozes the afternoon away in our back garden. (Photo by my nine year old daughter…)
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Sunrise service, Easter Sunday, Shoreham Beach
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After announcing a 15 percent reduction in staff last year, GoPro is …
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Might have hung on to this past its useful life…
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Apparently I have the cultural sophistication of a 9 year old, as my youngest daughter and I have …
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Decided to put the fire pit back into service.
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Some thoughts on journalism, trust, AI and… a 20 year old debate?
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A flashback to an old feeling: opening up the office copies of a new issue…
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Spring is bursting with colour today.
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This is the end. Embrace it.
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Hassocks Station. 📍 Testing the new check-in feature in Micro Social…
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This is a lovely piece of artistic graffiti, but it’s the “official” notice next to it that really …
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This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction. …
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Discussion of it is everywhere, and @paulrobertlloyd is bored of it. I know how he feels.
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ChatGPT has remade me in Studio Ghibli style:
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Listening to an interesting talk by Professor Nick Couldry, who pointing out that we legislate to …
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Taking advantage of micro.blog’s new EU hosting option to move adders.blog’s hosting to the EU. For …
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Turns out there’s a lot of books I wrote in the pirated data Meta used to train its LLM. And …
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Meta’s AI Will Suggest Comments for Users to Post About Your Photos: Meta is testing an …
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Finished reading: Lucius: The Faultless Blade by Ian St. Martin 📚 Interesting dipping back into …
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Print isn’t dead, and doesn’t need to die. Because, in a digital-first world, it’s …
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Bit on the nose… (From a recent issue of the Avengers Academy digital comic.)
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Betteridge’s Law applies: Will big AI save the world?
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Why I’ve taken the first step in connecting One Man & His Blog to the #Fediverse - and why …
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The Ghost ActivityPub Public Beta is here! (Well, for ghost(pro) users…)
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Drawing towards the end of several months of quite intensive Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The best …
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Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
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But most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli …
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This explains a lot about Facebook: Javi’s my favourite of the coworkers here tonight; …
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Started reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
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Just found a cache of old videos on my Dropbox, while hunting for something for a friend. …
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Everything we’ve learnt about technology is upended by AI: we’re used to digital technology being …
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Hmm. I can’t figure out how Micro Social’s link post format works. I can see it in the settings, but …
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The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied: The fediverse is a jailbreak. …
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One of the major societal advances of my time on this planet is how …
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This doesn’t fill me with hope for the future of Bond: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover. Maybe Amazon …
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I found myself wondering what had happened to Kevin Rose, of Digg / Diggnation fame nearly two …
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Ryan Sholin is sticking with WordPress — but leaving behind Automatic hosting and services. Seems a …
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Excited to see, via @manton, that @tapbots@tapbots.social have a new Bluesky app coming: I …
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This is just awesome: A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas …
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I did my paternal duty and produced a stack of pancakes for my offspring to celebrate Shrove …
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Interesting to see Press Gazette doing a “return to the office” survey of journalism …
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Making space elf Fire Dragons with my youngest in the Warhammer store.
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It’s a landmark day for beavers: Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomes the announcement today …
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Well, it had to happen. Here’s the first thing I actually agree with the current US president …
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That is… not a small number.
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We have entered the age of goatse as government. IYKYK (I’m unreasonably proud of that …
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Just updated my Twitter archive on micro.blog. It really brought home just how little I use the …
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Terrible Tudors time from Horrible Histories at the Worthing Pavillion with my youngest.
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The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a …
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I’m disgusted and angry at this. Not at Apple, but at our government: Apple is taking the …
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Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of …
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What are the best RSS readers on Android and Windows these days?
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Rather than accepting that tech happens to society, we need to put societal needs …
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Connection is powerful and magical. It’s also enervating, subject to manipulation and …
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It’s always encouraging seeing new banks of EV chargers popping up. Today, it was my first spot of …
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I sometimes find it depressing how rarely I actually see people in their gardens.
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Laptop stickers state of play, Feb 2025. My somewhat venerable M1 MacBook Pro this morning.
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Compared with the general population, participants with hoarding disorder scored …
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Romantasy is here for your attention. Blame TikTok.
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January 2025 was probably the month I’ve taken the fewest photos in years. Possibly in decades. I …
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Late evening in Brighton station.
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DeepSeek represents more than just a product — it embodies a different way of thinking …
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Please don’t ruin it, Apple.
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Bit tired this morning. Had a tyre blow out in the way home, and the AA finally got to me over four …
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😱 Six Colors, Dan Moren: UK orders Apple to implement secret global backdoor for end-to-end …
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Maybe that’s the real threat of AI: not that it acquires superhuman intelligence, …
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This is not an architectural movement that I’m rushing to embrace… BoND turns Fire Island house into …
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No, spell checker, when I write “virality” I mean it. I do not mean “virility“. Giving students …
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What a difference an hour makes. 7.30am: 8.30am:
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The university system in the UK is in trouble: Over the last two weeks, more than 1,000 …
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Beautifully written and conducted interview with James May from Top Gear/The Grand Tour. Love the …
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At the station a bit early for my train, so enjoying a quite moment before I head to the smoke.
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Bluesky’s passed the 30m user mark.
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Why Ewan is going back, as far as is practical, to the Web 2.0 era.
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A very graceful exit to @coreint, @danielpunkass and @manton. Thank you. The nice thing about …
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Pub dinner with my daughters before a school performance. Monday night really is a dead night for …
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Oh, look, it’s an “update all the Apple things” night.
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Worth keeping an eye on: The LLM bubble might be about to burst (but not for the reason you think) …
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This week’s swimming lessons inspiration.
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It’s normally late February or March before we dig the bikes out, but today was such a lovely, mild …
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A winged maple seed fell from a tree, landing on the page of the book I was reading. The world was …
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Started reading: Visualizing Nature by Stuart Kestenbaum 📚 Picked it up cheap in an Islington …
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Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media: Also you have the right to check their papers, as …
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I’ll start sounding like a broken record but, at this point, I don’t care: social …
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I’m not saying AI is Apple’s achilles heel. But…
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55% of respondents to the question ‘What do you use Bluesky for?’ said it was a mix of …
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Over the past two years, a set of massively popular podcasters and streamers cemented …
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I am immensely sad that the situation around micro.blog has accelerated as far and as fast as it …
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Community Management
Micro.blog needs a community manager again. If it’s going to aspire to be a community, not …
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I have written over 2,000 words inspired by, but addressing larger issues than, the current clash …
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There’s a very good reason that witch hunts and lynch mobs are replaced with legal process, courts …
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If I need something that does have answers that can be definitely wrong in …
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It’s fascinating watching the ban on links to X spread, virally, from subreddit to subreddit.
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Two of my least favourite aspects of social media are witch-hunting individuals and guilt by …
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The better the Apple product, the more shamelessly it gets copied. Apple should make …
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Silicon Valley and crypto culture’s embrace of Trump has changed his cultural meaning …
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Great analysis of why the current New Yorker cover is so powerful: 1000 words.
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Oh, flip, I’m out of coffee beans. 😱
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Today is Blue Monday, which is a myth, invented by the marketing team for a travel company. Have a …
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Watching the kids do HADO.
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Started reading: The Year in the Countryside by Frances Pitt 📚
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Journalism department Christmas lunch (delayed)
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Just finished watching Skeleton Crew with the family. Just the best Star Wars in years. …
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Oh, no. David Lynch is dead. From now on, sadly, the owls will be exactly what they seem. 🏔️ 🏔️
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These are some lovely images of winter.
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Rule #1: Never trust Facebook. It’s been over 20 years. You’d think people would have …
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People who are trying to escape Meta’s platforms in light of the changes in recent weeks, and …
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For those playing with Pixelfed, an open standards-based Instagram competitor, I’m there under …
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Sussex Downs, 8.30am, Sunday 12th January 2025
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Duolingo rather over-estimates how much time I spend interacting with owls, bears and elephants, …
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Just another Friday night in Falmer…
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Telling people they’re doing it wrong is fun. In a webinar for Smartocto yesterday, as part of …
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What were the five most read posts of 2024 on One Man & His Blog? They were all about the need …
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I think that today I have comprehensively proven that a man my age should not attempt to understand …
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Back to some work blogging, with a look back on the posts that caught people’s attention in 2024. …
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Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2024 Report — not great news, but not as bad as it could be. The …
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I spend quite a bit of my life feeling like imposter syndrome on legs.
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Too many of us are trapped in a social media-generated bubble of synthetic citizenship, with …
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The work I do for NEXT Conference is relentlessly future-looking. But, once a year, we allow …
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The beach is doing drama today…
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Guess who just took his youngest daughter to school - on an inset day… 🤦🏼
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Summer’s memory lingering in winter.
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The invitation of winter is to reconnect with the lost and wounded parts of yourself that hold the …
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Started reading: The Wilderness That Bears Your Name by James A. Pearson 📚
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Shot: Is Matt Mullenweg the mad king of WordPress? Chaser: Inc Hit Piece Where will this end?
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Miha Kralj, a Slovene composer and performer, in what was then a Yugoslavian hotel, back in the …
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A school friend, Stephen Kent, in my bedroom in Scotland, back in the early 80s. I’ve long …
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My late parents’ old angel is atop our tree. She must be over 60 years old now.
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As a coastal dweller, I do love the Tides app Apple added to the Watch…
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Getting some work done in the library of the RSA House. I’ve been a Fellow for years, but I’ve …
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Interesting piece from @lloyddavis on how he integrates micro.blog with WordPress. And I’m not …
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Trafalgar Square, December 2024
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WP Engine wins the first round in its battle with Automattic. And the whole WordPress community …
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Well, this is very disappointing: PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct.
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Our annual Christmas tree buying trip to Spithandle Nursery. It’s a tradition that really …
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The last magazine I worked for before moving fully into digital is closing.
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I’ve got a full-on day of lectures in today (six hours back-to-back 🤪), so have yesterday’s thoughts …
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Billionaires: Bozos or begrovellers?
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This is more than a little bit disturbing: Why The Faroese Whale Slaughter Must End 🐋 WARNING: …
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Just finished my last session with the MA Newspaper journalism students this year. Lively, engaged, …
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Do you want cybermen? Because this is how you get cybermen.
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Weird how persistent old ways of thinking are. I saw this headline - Hopes are growing for Bakerloo …
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Obi-Wan Kenobi is the perfect TV series to watch with my 9 year old on Daddy/Daughter TV nights …
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Today has been a relentlessly local day - delivering the local residents’ association mag, and …
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Least surprising discovery of the day: Substack’s RSS feeds are a disaster. — @manton It’s …
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I doubt I’ll ever be the sort of person that enjoys camping in the snow, bit I can enjoy the …
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Jared Newman wanted a blog that would automatically crosspost to the major social services. And he …
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Another test, for @index@www.coffeeandcomplexity.com
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What happens if I try to mention Ghost Activity Pub beta users like @index@john.onolan.org or …
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Nice to be quoted in this piece about Bluesky versus Threads by a former student, Hannah Murphy, in …
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If you remember and still miss Nuzzel, and use Bluesky or Mastodon, have I got good news for you. …
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My advice to any writer looking to start a new site based on the newsletter model …
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Pretty sure that this isn’t what GoPros are designed for, but this still makes me smile when I …
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Today the Podcasting MA students are going to learn what RSS is and why it matters — whether they …
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Awesome (and important) piece from Anil Dash: Don’t call it a Substack Links are powerful — …
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I know it’s free, but I think the days of publishers relying on Google Analytics should be done. Not …
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Me, according to Image Playgrounds in the iPadOS 18.2 Beta
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Spoke to a Sky News journalist about the Twitter to Bluesky (and Threads to Bluesky) moves. The …
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Remembrance Sunday: veterans, volunteers and… Mods?
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Turns out the limit for open tabs in Safari on an iPhone 13 Pro is 500. That was an intentional …
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Bluesky is really having a moment. So should journalists be paying attention to it? Almost …
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It’s been many years since I had cause to generate a Doge meme for a lecture, but thanks to …
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Marshmallow challenge action from the #mapodcasting students at City St George’s…
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Remembrance Parade outrider, Southwick
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A yomp around Seven Sisters Country Park to celebrate my birthday.
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According to Google Trends, Americans have suddenly decided they need to know what tariffs are. This …
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My reign is nearly done. But what a reign it has been.
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You know, I think it might be autumn.
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I woke up, looked at the news, and seriously considered adding a shot of whisky to my morning …
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This will be the first presidential election in the US where Twitter isn’t the go-to place for real …
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Ofcom fines GBNews £100,000 for impartiality beaches. This isn’t going to go away. The whole …
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This is what happens when hyped tech fads meet game development timescales: Ubisoft quietly releases …
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1970s child me: “It’s ridiculous that the people of Superman’s planet would ignore signs of an …
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There’s an awful lot wrong with British politics, but at least even our mainstream right wing party …
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Wow. Apple have acquired Pixelmator. I love Pixelmator’s editing apps — so I’m not sure …
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Our Podcasting MA students are talking creatively about making promotional GIFs without me prompting …
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This is the best description of the platonic ideal of Star Trek I’ve ever seen: space friends …
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Lancing College playing fields, early morning.
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Tonight is Talisman Adventures night.
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Blimey. The WordPress debacle has made it onto the BBC News website.
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Good ideas versus mediocre teams. Seen this in action, more than once.
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The ex-Twitter is in decline, but what replaces it might not look the same… …
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So, I have an ActivityPub-enabled Ghost site (part of the private beta). You can follow it at …
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Started reading: Groundbreakers by Chantal Lyons 📚 Been eyeing this one up for ages. Just dived in …
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Sunday morning swimming pool whiteboard wisdom.
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Started reading: Sleepless by Annabel Abbs 📚 I saw her talk about the book on Wednesday, at an event …
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Very proud of my eldest daughter. It’s a seemingly small thing that really matters: …
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The Ghost ActivityPub team being even more spicy than normal in their latest update, talking about …
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It was a beautifully misty autumnal commute this morning.
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Finishing the (working) week with a round-up of news from the scrum where AI and journalism meet. …
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This is great reporting from 404 Media - but I do feel they buried the lead. The Blind stuff is more …
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Dashed dreams of better EV batteries are a core disappointment.
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I love Discworld and I like TTRPGs. But I’m not convinced that the combination that’s …
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Not gonna lie, it sometimes righteously pisses me off that journalism was going in exactly the right …
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Finally had a much-needed trim.
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Y’know, I’m beginning to suspect that it might have been Agatha all along.
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A good rule to keep online debate constructive is “play the ball, not the man”. If you attack the …
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This is the problem with AI:
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The growing tsunami of AI slop is going to force us towards a new wave of trusted curator. …
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Set up author attribution on Mastodon on my Ghost blogs, based on this handy guide. It’s …
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Now, this is what Sunday evenings are for: a hundred-odd Kathys dancing to Wuthering Heights. Oh, …
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Hey, random guy on Threads. I’ve only been managing large scale blog platform installs on and off …
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I week ago I was just glad I didn’t use WordPress for any of my sites. Now? I’m wondering if I need …
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Late summer rambles at the RSPB Pulborough Brooks nature reserve.
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Nice image from Hamburg a few weeks back.
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I spent an interesting evening yesterday at the launch of City St George’s new Institute for …
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Well, this is profoundly worrying: Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in …
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Just made my micro.blog account’s newsletter subscribe page slightly more fancy.
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Meta is actually going to try to win back young people to Facebook. Good luck with that. I suspect …
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Why is Substack’s rival Ghost becoming more and more popular? Interesting read.
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The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with …
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It’s probably fair to say that I love blogging so much that if everybody else gave it up, …
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Bloggers and journalists, 20 years on. Inspired by John Naughton’s Observer column about @dave …
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Today’s newsletter muses on Meta’s inability to recognise that people are messy, …
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A simple way to improve the internet.
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Headline of the day: No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute …
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I was complimented on my hair by a cashier at the supermarket today. If nothing else, this proves I …
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A first experiment with Halide’s Process Zero while shooting with my iPhone.
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The beach huts on Littlehampton beach this morning turned out to be a real photographic gift, as did …
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Cheeky coffee and bap at Edge by the Sea after dropping my youngest at a Brownies day.
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The clash between Sober October and London Cocktail Week feels particularly vexing this year.
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Quite the reverse: challenger digital news brands are now snapping up traditional print media ones. …
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A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers - and the site attempt to …
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Survived the first day of lecturing this academic year. Just 9½ weeks to go…
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Abandoned shoe on the beach.
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Need a POSSE? I think we all do. And, right now, micro.blog is mine. This is the way forward, if we …
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Started reading: Late Light by Michael Malay 📚
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Started reading: Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham 📚
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Brits: Adventurous Ink, a great book club that sends you books on nature, adventure - and …
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Here’s a secret: Fritz Kola is one of the main reasons I love going to Hamburg…
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I sometimes wish I had made photography a bigger part of my professional life. The only time I …
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What the hell is happening at Automattic? It looks like the war for the profits of WordPress has …
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Appreciate and take care of your devices. Take pleasure in their longevity. If they get …
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The Bell, the first Mill Media local journalism site to be powered by Ghost, is live. Glasgow is …
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Good news, chums! Coffee is good for you! (Yes, I am avoiding reading the details, lest they …
:
This Automattic / WP Engine story
is absolutely wild. If those texts are genuine, I’m going to need …
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One of the lovely things about NEXT Conference is that, thanks to it happening alongside the …
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Liking the aesthetic of this coffee shop.
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Saying goodbye to Hamburg again. Great trip this year, even if BA seemed reluctant to actually fly …
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That’s how you start a conference… #next24
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Good morning from Hamburg and #next24 on Reeperbahn. Busy day ahead…
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This tribute to David is touching but a little surreal: In Ottawa, Canada, anti-war protestors put …
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Lovely autumnal moment in the churchyard.
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This is interesting: one of the most interesting news startups in the UK is leaving Substack and …
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A spicy panel from yesterday’s Future of Media Technology conference. Those in and around …
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Started reading: Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill 📚
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Getting back to familiar territory with the newsletter, after the sadness of earlier in the week. A …
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I can’t believe my former student and friend is gone. Ukraine: the latest podcast host dies. …
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Jony Ive made a button. So far out of my price range, it’s ludicrous. But so very interesting.
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Spot on from @moonmehta: You don’t have to leave X if you don’t want to for some reason but please …
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Back to the early morning swimming lessons. The summer holidays are truly done.
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A bird is a poem with wings. Jeremy Hughes in the essay A Risca Boy’s Birds from Going to Ground, …
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Agree 100% with @jack about this: I often vigoriously disagree with Freddie deBoer, but I also …
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This sums up exactly what I’m feeling as summer wanes: The end of summer seems like a more …
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Something tells me autumn is on its way.
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Very pracitical newsletter today:
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This looks like a good scheme: sell old books for credit and keep them out of the hands of Amazon. …
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Lloyd on approaching 20 years of blogging:I’ve definitely put in a few “10,000 hours”—probably on …
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Manuel Moreale on a better web:That is the web I’m arguing for. A web that is intentional, where …
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Daily newsletter: go! Today: Comments, Clickbait — and Screen Apnea?
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Some thoughts on how AI could improve the organisation of photo libraries from Mark Braggins.
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The new design for Colossal looks really nice. Web magazine design seems to be going through a …
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Back from my hols, and back to blogging/newslettering.
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Making the most of the end of the summer hols.
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Opening your work emails after 10 days of holiday is terrifying.
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Just experienced my first aviation go-around as our EasyJet flight landed at Gatwick. The sudden …
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Sometime in the late 50s, my mother did a river trip down the Thames, based on these old negatives. …
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Proud to live in Sussex tonight. The extremists who came to Brighton really came to the wrong town.
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Rough time ahead for Google: it has AI challengers eying up its search business, while the DOJ has …
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This morning’s newsletter is a bit more serious: to what degree has Musk’s loosened …
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Adding or updating some details on Open Library about the slightly obscure books I read is …
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Started reading: A Countryman’s Summer Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚— working my way through these four …
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Dennis Sellers for Apple World Today: Apple should revive the AirPort line-up with Wi-Fi 6E support …
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I’m back from our road trip holiday, and getting the daily newsletter back up and running. …
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Started reading: Going to Ground, an Anthology of Nature and Place, edited by Jon Woolcott 📚
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A beautiful example of clickbait that immediately owns up to being clickbait in the first par…
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Y’know, if you’re trying to persuade someone to give you something, arguing with and …
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Sticks are fine things. You can dabble in ponds with them. You can throw them for dogs to fetch. …
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I love the way the MG logo on the front of my EV glows while it’s charging.
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Don’t you hate it when an old friend starts dating someone you can’t stand? That’s …
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Negative positivity — or why even scanned negatives are worth hanging on to… 📷🎞️
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Why being in nature is so good for your mental health: We have evolved in nature for thousands of …
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Ofwat have championed that water company plans will cut discharges from …
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Jodie Whittaker returns to Doctor Who for Big Finish. Oh, brilliant!
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By January this year, videos about Stanley cups had been viewed a soul-destroying 201.4 …
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Apparently BT have decided that providing us with broadband is a pretty optional thing, so today …
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If you’re a journalist, everyone’s a critic. @manton’s turn: It used to be that opinion sections …
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It’s time to stop caring what journalists think.
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Does a new government open up the chance to refresh the transparency agenda? A discussion from …
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Uploading the first of my photos from #ODCamp to Flickr.
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The last #ODCamp session liveblog from Matt and I today: with the Microsoft AI CEO saying all web …
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Here’s the pitches from the #ODcamp 9 unconference in Manchester today.
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Did a democracy. Took my daughters - this will be the first general election that they really …
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Blimey. As the other social networks pull away from journalist, Mastodon is embracing it — and even …
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This is a pitch for a Doctor Who episode, not a useful journalism notification…
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Why didn’t the 100,000 strong march to restore nature get more coverage? The suggested answer is …
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Escaping tech’s boom/doom cycle requires a nuanced view of risk/reward. And the global south has …
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Guess which party standing in the UK general election made no commitment to do anything about the …
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Things are busy in growing corner.
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This is the week when the UK changes. But we’ve very little idea of what it will become…
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Shoreham Beach, Sunday 30th June
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Church Times reporting on a new CoE report on trust and trustworthiness: Social media is also …
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Not coming to this café again…
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Started reading: Cairn by Kathleen Jamie 📚
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It’s possible that my childhood bedroom was a bit geeky.
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🚨If you have old data in Google Analytics (version 3 / Universal Analytics), you only have until …
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This is a fascinating experiment: use a newsletter to build a (paying) community, and once …
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Well, I didn’t have Rushi Sunak versus David Tennant on my bingo card for this election.
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It’s easy enough to dismiss these birds [pigeons] as rats with wings, but if we hate them …
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‘There’s no such thing as bad weather,’ Alfred Wainwright once said. ‘Only unsuitable …
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Cross-posting from micro.blog to Threads via the new API seems to be working perfectly. 👌🏼
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Adult bullies are so much worse that child ones. They have much less excuse and no chance of …
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The old lighthouse, Shoreham.
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Just scrolled through my Facebook feed. In the first 70 posts, there are just two from friends: No. …
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Interesting piece from Suw about how protestors are slowly strangling the funding of literary …
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Touching grass, very literally.
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Time to hear about making the vast Sussex Bay better…
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Apple Intelligence = assistive intelligence - with some interesting guardrails. This is a different …
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I’m spending the day at a conference about newsletters for publishers. Here’s some live-blogged …
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Some good thoughts here from Matt Webb: Observations on Siri, Apple Intelligence, and hiding in …
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Om Malik: Why Apple Should Support National Parks . /signed
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Photographers Don’t Want Their Negatives Back From the Lab Anymore. Idiots. Physical back up …
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I miss the old group blogs that were a big feature of the 2000s internet. Dave Winer thinks we …
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Typing student feedback, and “the ‘gram” (Instagram) got auto-corrected to …
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Could an afternoon in the woods at the rewilded Knepp Estate rewild my child? My youngest and I went …
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I don’t need a forest bathing ticket or expensive gear to sit and eat a cheese and pickle …
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When a man begins to turn the earth he finds that spring is not born in the branches of the trees, …
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Finally, the shot I was destined to take. A wild adder, shot by @adders.
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Having one of those moments when you’re happily scanning your way through some old negatives …
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When going through my late parents’ negatives, I found a small number of medium format negs I …
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Started reading: A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
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Do electric vehicles use more water than petrol cars? As ever, it’s not just about …
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Started reading: Wild Service by Nick Hayes 📚
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This is where my eldest is camping with the Guides. I am very jealous.
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Started reading: Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
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Om Malik with the headline of the day there.
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We need to collapse context collapse in our online communities. Good fences and all that…
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I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a general election quite as much as this one.
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The Rail Riders Club was a marketing thing British Rail did back in the 1980s, before it was broken …
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Once, a very long time ago, I turned 12.
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Second update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support: Building ActivityPub: Day 1
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Started reading: Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis 📚
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Let’s imagine we ban TikTok. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Threads. And …
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Captured for posterity, before I recycle them: photo wallets and negative holders from 1980s photo …
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The first update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support.
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Wondering how many readers will get the joke that I called @ianbetteridge “lawfully …
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Don’t get sloppy with AI — make sure whatever you do is intentional, and audience-focused.
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When a Guardian journalist asked climate experts what they expect to happen. The results are …
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Why are so many journalists still wary — or even ashamed — of the word “blog” after 25 …
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Lovely tribute to CJ Sansom and his quiet faith in the ability of humans who can walk the middle …
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If you go down to the woods today…
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UK Bank Holiday Monday on form: it’s tipping it down.
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Flip. I knew the electricity cost of AI was high, but the water cost is awful, too:For inference …
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John Naughton in The Observer:The creative commons of the internet has been gradually and …
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Good morning from the South Downs.
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The nice thing about EV tech developing so fast is the realisation that my current EV - good though …
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Beware! The link controllers don’t want you soiling their pristine websites with your dirty …
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There’s never 30 to 50 feral hogs around when you need them.
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If AI search takes hold, and upends the business model of web publishing and Google itself, the …
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Wild garlic growing by my youngest’s school. I love the smell of it.
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The US really went and did it. Bytedance faces an ultimatum: sell TikTok - or see it banned in the …
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The last post for Post News: a potential Twitter successor that tried to cosy up to the news …
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The one cost of AI we don’t talk about nearly enough: it’s seriously energy hungry at a time when …
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The new CEO of Vimeo gets ready to sell your content to the AI companies: Over the next few weeks, …
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spewing mediocrity is a pretty strong sweet spot for AI
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📷 #mbApr Day 21 The Cairngorms in early 1989. For day 21 of the April Photoblogging Challenge: …
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Littlehampton harbour, with gulls.
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I have a courtesy car while my own car is in the coach works. But, oh sweet happiness, much to my …
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This is awesome. A couple of months ago, researchers found a huge area of ancient seaweed off the …
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Day 17: transcendence, suggested by Drew, aka @drewbelf. #mbapr
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A rare image of my long-gone fencing days. I’m the one on the right.
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The political problems around TikTok will only get worse if it keeps behaving like this.
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Advice to make sure you never create anything. I feel very seen by this post from @havn.
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AI is speedrunning the financial boom and bust cycle says John Naughton, in The Observer.
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📷 #mbApr Day 15: small, suggested by James, aka @jmanes.
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Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks. Birds …
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A sobering find in my Mum’s negatives. This is the original Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and …
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Just found and followed @duncanhart and @ton, thanks to this conversation about micro.blog over at …
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Started reading: The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century by Jessica Vincent 📚
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OK, why did nobody warn me that Inside Out is such a harrowing watch for a parent?
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Cetacean Corner. Videos of our watery mammal friends. Not for the easily offended.
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Starbucks quietly pretends it never fell for the NFT hype. I think that bubble is well and truly …
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It’s really hard to find a theme for most of the big blogging platforms that supports the …
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I’m having one of those days where good news in the journalism/tech/publishing space is …
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OK, the experiment is done. Let’s just shut down the internet now: The “Young Indian Method” …
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Is Elon Musk getting bored of X/Twitter? With a bold prediction that Xitter will change hands by …
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The tale of the credulous publishers and the AI Pied Piper: a cautionary fairy tale for grown-ups …
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The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.
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Can young audiences be recaptured by broadcast from social video? Betteridge’s Law applies…
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AI is going down great at SXSW: “The incredibly pro-AI sizzle reel today at SXSW being loudly …
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A quick round-up of #podcasting news, initially gathered for our MA Podcasting students, but now …
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Saw an article that looked interesting.
Saw that the first subhead was “Synergy”.
Bailed …
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Huh. Just discovered that I still had AMP turned on for Coffee & Complexity. Another Google …
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It must be an utterly thankless life being an Apple rumour-monger, even a Bloomberg-employed one.
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Time Travel, via scanner.
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I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.
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Early morning mist over the Adur.
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The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983. Even these ruins are …
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Yikes. I need to do better than that.
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Today I have been moving over 30Gb of videos around my network, archiving footage from livestreams …
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Ah, who can fail to love one of these?
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Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.
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Started reading: Local by Alastair Humphreys 📚
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Living at the coast takes a special kind of stoicism and hardiness. And a readiness to make hay …
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Sad times for Portuguese D&D fans.
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Turns out I can’t spell phoenix to save my life. I have a complete mental block over how to …
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So, just starting to get my head around micro.blog’s new premium offer. It took me a while to twig …
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So, Reddit is selling all the free labour of its users to an AI company to train its model. Well, …
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Setting up my second blog on micro.blog: Unknown Exposures
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I hate chasing invoices. But it looks like I’m going to need to do it today or tomorrow. Ugh.
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Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.
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One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.
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Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.
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Here are the small but dedicated band of protestors in their conspiratorial glory.
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Bit of a “grab bag” protest in town. They’re against:
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My paternal Shrove Tuesday duty is done.
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Evening light at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.
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Water level a bit on the high side, then.
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semicolons are a suitably catlike, noncommittal form of punctuation. — Rooted by Lyanda Lynn …
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Gosh, my daughters love the days out I pick for them!
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🔗 : Making a conscious decision to shut the f@&£ up, not cause the …
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We’ve just had the world’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit. What’s it going to take …
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Looks like Apple has an image editing Generative AI coming. Quite Apple-y to be task specific.
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Never change, Magazine Journalism MA students…
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Want to feel old? Somebody born when Leeroy Jenkins wiped his raid will turn 19 this year. …
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Finding the intro that finally makes the piece you’ve been struggling with work is such a …
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Let’s get phygital… Apple’s Vision Pro is a tentative first step towards building a …
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Good morning from the Downs.
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Today I will be: One big party, my life.
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Finally, some harbingers of spring.
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After nearly a month battling a respiratory virus, today is the first day I’ve woken up and …
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Why are publishers making fools of themselves by deploying generative AI that clearly isn’t …
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Started reading: Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚
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A quick round-up of podcasting news, derived from my work on the audience strategy module of our new …
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Last summer danah boyd was still trying to ignore the Metaverse. It’s only got easier since!
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A compelling argumentment from Om Malik that Google has entered the same stage of decline that, for …
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I have to say, I’m a little bored of being ill now. I’ve had one illness or another …
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Whether or not Substack ever had a significant Nazi problem is now a moot point.
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Platformer leaving Substack for Ghost over the “platforming Nazis” issue. That’ll be a substantial …
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This is an insanely long, but very detailed and compelling, telling of the Substack story — and how …
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I’m getting a lot of traffic from Russia at the moment. Not quite sure what to make of that.
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My annual look at the most popular posts on my journalism site, One Man & His Blog. The clearest …
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It would be better if journalists did not gravitate to a Facebook-owned Twitter clone. …
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One of the (very) small ironies of the “Substackers against Nazis” ruckus is that …
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My inability to remember which is the correct spelling – whether or wether – means I accidentally …
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Substack launched Notes to steal attention from Twitter. It succeeded. Right now, I bet they’re …
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This was very interesting to write. It does feel like some models of society and lifepaths have …
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These cactus leather iPhone cases look nice. Still a natural material, but without the environmental …
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Oh, marvellous. The UK government is now making policies based on easily disprovable conspiracy …
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My companion didn’t stay long…
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Frosty but beautiful beach walk after school drop off this morning. Starting to feel like I’m …
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On the intrigue side, Fieldwork can be relied on to provide the spectacularly weird. Downstream …
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This, and the piece it’s based on, are well worth a read: Dorothy Thompson On Who Goes Nazi …
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Man shocked to discover that two-edged sword does, in fact, have two edges.
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OK, now the snow is getting serious and settling. My daughters are going to be very excited.
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After a storm and flash flooding knocked out the power in south-east Queensland, …
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I think I may have over-bought Christmas coffee. It’s past twelfth night, and I still have two …
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A brief flurry of snow. We don’t get a lot of this down on the south coast.
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Started reading: Saltwater in the Blood by Easkey Britton 📚
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This is spectacular even by crypto scam standards:Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund …
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The Festive Silence — or how exhaustion, burn-out and COVID conspired to give me an offline …
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Started reading: A Countryman’s Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
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Took a New Year’s Day beach walk with my eldest, and found somebody’s lost glasses on the strand …
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Beach life, December 22nd 2023
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Term finished yesterday. Today, I have a cold. Obviously.
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The single biggest thing that would improve my AI prompt writing skills: not making typos.
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Oh, shit. The dolphins have had enough and are coming for us.
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What if the real X/Twitter replacement isn’t a Twitter clone at all?
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When the problem contains the obvious solution: Residential areas are increasingly unaffordable …
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Ah, the horror on my daughter’s face was only matched by the delight on mine when Siri delivered The …
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Sad to see TinyLetter closing down. It was ahead of the curve on newsletters, but got bought by …
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It’s easy to claim you have ethical supply chains. It’s much harder to actually monitor them to …
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OMG: On TikTok, kids are making Christmas wish list PowerPoint decks My girls will use Keynote, or …
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Started reading: Flourish by Antonia Case 📚
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It’s beginning to look a lot like…
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”’Was your world once wild?’ a distant intelligence might ask.
Yes, we’d say. Till it …
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WordPress themes that are dependent on multiple plugins to function are a crime against all that is …
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The problem with WordPress’s 100 year plan. I would absolutely pay for a service to keep my …
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OpenAI’s interim boss seems… nice. 🤦🏼♂️
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Started reading: Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚 It’s this month’s Adventurous Ink book.
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Interesting update from Bluesky:
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I’m really happy with this little quality of life improvement from the Ghost folks. As a …
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The Gawker brand is coming back — but not the archive or the same approach, it appears.
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For years, Twitter was second only to to Google as a source of traffic to my blog. This month, it’s …
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A dalmatian pelican at the Arundel Wetland Centre.
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Sadly, I had no ducks left to give.
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Lovely to see someone whom I got started in blogging (I ran the network of businessss blogs he …
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Podcast listeners! I’m looking for podcasts with vibrant and well-managed online communities, be …
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Started reading: Enchantment by Katherine May 📚 Reminded to do so by this podcast with her.
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This is worrying: publications are using AI generated images of the Gaza conflict from Adobe Stock …
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I’ve spent a lot of time on alt text for presentations over the past five weeks, and more than …
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Put that phone down and go be bored: your creativity depends on it. (And other things worth …
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Worth a read: Mastodon Is the Good One
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Greetings from Storm Ciarán…
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Psst. The first one of these in months is going out this evening… 🤫🤫
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Sad times: Canon formally discontinues the last EOS-M cameras, saying goodbye to EF-M I used EOS M …
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Wind really starting to pick up now, as Storm Ciarán hits the south coast. Glad I don’t need to …
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Me: I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m a geek; I’m a journalist! Also Me: Just finished updating …
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Great to see Ghost building its new recommendations feature on open standards: it’s basically …
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Huh. Movable Type 8 is out. Once upon a time I’d have been really excited by that - but at $499 a …
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Happy Halloween 🎃! Screamer on duty outside our house this evening.
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I posted to my Substack for the first time in, um, two years, 10 months and 28 days. Hell of a …
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Nighttime in Farringdon, Autumn 2023.
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I’ve just bought my youngest the dry robe reviewed in this article. It’s great for our 7.30 am …
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The first would-be competitor to X/Twitter to fail? Stand up, Pebble (formerly t2). Maxed out at …
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Currently reading: SOLO by Jenny Tough 📚
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I treated the girls to pancakes to celebrate the first day of half term.
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I know Ahsoka has not gone down well with a lot of adult Star Wars fans, but watching it with two …
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The only way I’d pay Musk $1 to join Twitter (X) is if I could mail him a check. …
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Yes, teenagers are spending a lot more time on social media — just not as much on what we …
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The nice thing about X (formerly known as Twitter) being in a death spiral is I feel so much freer …
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Amazing how many people who have been happily driving around with a large container of highly …
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The next stage in human evolution?
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Picadilly Circus, London, Autumn 1991
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“Those who had a close relationship with nature used their phones half as much each day, took 90% …
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“Since the early 1990s, no country has met the basic needs of its population without overconsuming …
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“When 16,000 people across 18 nations were surveyed, it was found that the British people visit …
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Thesis: coffee never tastes better then when drunk from an enamel mug, poured from a flask, while …
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Started reading: Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚
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This screensaver in MacOS Sonoma makes me unexpectedly happy.
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I have fought with 301 redirects, and I have won. And now I fact the terror of Google Search console …
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So, if I’ve done everything correctly, my micro.blog no longer sits in the shadow of my “main blog” …
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And I’m back in the timeline. I didn’t realise that changing the URL of my blog would essentially …
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Literal standing room only for the lunchtime talk by BBC News’ Ros Atkins on explainers at City …
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Dave Winer has a real point here - and I’d love to see Mastodon fix it: Why Mastodon isn’t the one
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Time is different when you work on The Spectator, it seems.
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Turns out that if you go to bed super early on Saturday night, because you’re exhausted thanks to …
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X itself now feels like a third-rate Twitter knock-off.
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Sometimes, you prompt Midjourney, look at the results, and think “I’m going to have …
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Images from Hamburg and the Reeperbahn Festival. Deploying my camera on my annual working trip to …
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Why saving Harvard’s blog history matters — and why I’m sad I was unable to save the …
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A lot of character in this old, partially ruined house.
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No early morning drive to the pool this morning, as my eldest is unwell. So, I’m drinking coffee and …
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There is no good outcome possible from arguing on social media.
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Started reading: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) …
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I just accidentally connected via VPN, through a connection already going via a VPN. And that pretty …
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I’m doing it – but only on one Mac.
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Started reading: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght 📚
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Spectacular views over London en route to Heathrow.
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Podcast insertion ads are still so laughably primitive. All the British podcasts I downloaded while …
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A bar on stage feels very on point for a digital conference in the Reeperbahn Festival. #next23
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Late night on the Reeperbahn.
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I love the fact Hamburg Airport has an art gallery, rather than all the normal overpriced nonsense …
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Remember all those sessions about how voice and smart speakers would be the future of journalism? …
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It’s nice seeing the number of serious video recording apps for iPhone proliferating. The …
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An interesting move from The Economist, adding a new subscription tier for podcasts.
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We appear to have gone from the height of summer to autumn in four days.
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📷 September Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: glowing.
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TIL that you can screenshot CarPlay.
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My wallet is safe from Tim Cook this time.
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Currently reading: Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 📚
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Looks like it’s an “update all the Apple things” evening.
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Listening to my boss’s inaugural lecture…
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I spent yesterday at a journalism innovation conference. If you want to know what the news …
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These seem like a more plausible scenario as time goes on: The case for Musk driving Twitter to …
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Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary people, I present for you the 21st Century, where we microchip …
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Just realised that in just over two weeks I’ll be in Hamburg again for NEXT23. The schedule …
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I’m officially old. Badgers is 20 years old. Mushroom. Mushroom. Snake.
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Begone, miserable doom merchants! Traditional social media’s stumble could actually be good …
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Currently reading: Rewilding the Sea by Charles Clover 📚
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Lovely afternoon for a cycle with my youngest.
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This is good news - a new Broken Sword game is coming.
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Two of my former students have been added to Russia’s journalist blacklist. I’m very proud.
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Somebody will be very sad about losing this chap.
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Starting my assault on the Wainwright Prize shortlist with A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors 📚
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Found a lovely place for breakfast in the port yesterday morning.
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It’s almost delightful that Trump’s Twitter addiction might be the cause of his eventual downfall.
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One unexpected surprise in upgrading from a 2006 car to a 2020 car: it got two software updates when …
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Hmm. Should I rename the “Twitter” category on One Man & His Blog to …
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Most publications needed a Twitter strategy. But is making an X strategy a good use of time anymore? …
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Why people are pulling up their fake lawns. Good.
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Why selfish co-workers stick together: a Cognitive Science paper published Monday by psychologists …
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Stanford neuroscientist demonstrates the quickest way to eliminate stress: “The physiological …
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A wet but enjoyable bike ride with the offspring this afternoon.
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The worst part of coming back from a good holiday.
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Back from holiday. What have I missed?
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“Solastalgia is a neologism that is becoming commonplace. It describes a feeling of homesickness …
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Ugh. New inner needed at the very least.
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Breakfast with the scrap, now the schools are on holiday.
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This morning I shall mainly be monitoring streaming bandwidth.
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First day of the school summer holiday, obviously.
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A happy transatlantic delivery.
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I just read an attempt at a scathing take-down of Caitlin Moran’s new book on men. Guess the …
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Here’s my epic attempt to categorise and explain the microblogging landscape in Twitter’s twilight: …
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Currently reading: Corduroy by Adrian Bell 📚
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In the process of consolidating my personal blogging (going back to 2001) here on micro.blog. …
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Has anyone found Apple Mail, and iCloud accounts in particular, to have really shot up in the number …
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Oh, my. This is the man who created Clippy. (Ask your parents who Clippy was, kids.)
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There’s a takeaway near us that looks like it went out of business years ago. But no, it’s still …
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Is LinkedIn about to be enshittified? (Some would argue that it’s already there…)
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I just looked at my Facebook feed for the first time in a wee while. How many posts from the first …
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Today I learned that Ethernet is only 18 months younger than me. 🤯
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Finally got to spend some time writing in my favourite coffee shop this afternoon.
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Hard to disagree with this: Threads not launching in Europe is pure gold.
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Oh, dear. So sad. Too bad. Anyway…
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Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? [ …
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Just did the emergency security update on my Mastodon instance (to v4.1.3), and still have most of …
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Twitter is becoming a feature rather than a product:
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Chances of Threads ever getting an API for general use? I’d imagine they’ll be about 0%.
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My initial take on Threads: suprisingly good, but with a lot of missing features - and a huge data …
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I think Bluesky is the first social network I’ve not been able to get onto. Not been able to wangle …
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What to know about Threads, by the founder of Mastodon.
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And it’s live. I’m on Threads. No choice, really, given my work…
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Is the second-hand bookshop disappearing? Perhaps not. 📚
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Adrian Bell on newspaper experts: I have been suspicious of them ever since, years ago, I met a …
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So, I’m now on t2 (Twitter alternative from ex-Twitter folks). Anyone else on there?
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Staurt Ian Burns on Marvel and its impact on the film industry: Also, there’s no point …
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These two muppets are amongst the richest people on the planet, with a global impact on human …
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The phrase “deeply unserious” is becoming a thing, isn’t it? One of those meme-like phrases that …
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Nice work of the day goes to the cyclist who literally rode into me while I was trying to shepherd …
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That’s it. Time to quit Outlook and call it a day. I’m just not looking forward to a hot …
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Every year, while I’m supervising journalism MA students’ final projects, I miss being a …
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Recreation is valuable in proportion to the intensity of its experiences, and to the degree to …
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Found a nice coffee shop to while away the hours while my daughters are on a Guides and Brownies …
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Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home …
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Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically …
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Beauty right by the front door.
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David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating: “All these advantages …
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When Zuck says that the Apple Vision Pro isn’t the vision of the future of computing he wants, all I …
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This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.
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What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇
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I bought the first iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There goes that streak.
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That’s the sort of keynote I like from Apple. Lots of new features for devices I already own, no …
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Ah, crap. I just got it. The two big “secret” Apple projects: the headset and the car. They’re …
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If I was on the Meta Quest team, I would not be looking forward to the next team meeting with Zuck.
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Ok. Apple Vision Pro looks really interesting. AR first, not VR. But I still can’t see myself buying …
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It may be a common cardinal beetle, but it’s uncommonly beautiful.
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The wind farm has really grown on me over the years.
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The sun going down over micro.camp…
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Wow. Engagement on posts in my Substack Notes feed has collapsed. Only the very biggest newsletter …
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with …
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There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. — A Sand County Almanac by …
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Started reading: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
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RIP Dooce. One of the true blogging pioneers. I worry that the history of those early days is being …
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Final Cut Pro on the iPad — and they’re announcing this before WWDC? This is exciting stuff.
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Penny Mordaunt cosplaying as Britannia. Still, Britain has a bit of a cultural thing about women …
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All the faith leaders coming into the coronation together, and then our Hindu Prime Minister and our …
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All this fuss over an impractical new hat. Reminds me of my late Mum, actually.
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Don’t let Bluesky become a 💩 like Twitter
Wow. @dave is not impressed with Bluesky: I definitely want Blue Sky to just go away. I don’t …
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Peter Bihr on the death of the search and social web: “That means two major driving forces of the …
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Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months …
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These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they? …
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Up on the Downs as the rain hits.
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Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world. …
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micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post: …
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This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current …
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Turns out that a bardcore cover of the Mando theme is basically just… The Mandalorian theme. This is …
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Started reading: In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado 📚
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“But if there is no risk in my writing, no fear, there is no pleasure. I have to make myself fed …
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Currently reading: A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚
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Never really got into Picard Series 1 & 2, but I have loved every moment of series 3. My Friday …
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Earning some Dad points for myself by installing Minecraft Legends on the Xbox, ready for …
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Some notes on Substack Notes.
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I’ve been called “Tim” twice in emails already today, and it’s not even 10am …
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I’m beginning to get the hang of keeping my Mastodon instance updated. Not as easy as, say, …
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An awful lot of people on the internet seem to be under the illusion that being nasty to people …
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Storm brewing in the deer park.
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Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is …
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Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.
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Blimey. Over 16 year of Twitter use has generated a near 1Gb data file.
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Probably of marginal interest to the folks here, but I wrote a little about how journalists should …
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Substack Notes: first impressions
Substack Notes is in a really weird place at the moment. It’s basically just a bunch of newsletter …
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Like father, like daughters.
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“Dad, I forgot to add Frozen songs to my playlist. Can I have more iPad time to sort it?” “Hazel, …
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Down by the sea on a blustery day.
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Sunrise over Shoreham Beach, during the Easter Sunday dawn service.
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Back in your in-boxes: season two of Engaged Reading Time starts here.
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358 tabs open on my iPad Pro. I suspect my Easter project should be cleaning them down. (It was over …
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This piece from Robin Sloan is looking more prescient by the day: the last decade’s platforms are …
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Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly? What a …
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On GM swapping CarPlay for subscription services.
The arrogance in believing that GM should force people to bend their digital lives in …
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I might need more popcorn for the current Twitter versus Substack squabble. Possibly a beer, too.
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My annual subscriber patch is here from Outdoor Swimmer magazine. I love these.
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My train is running late due to… rain. Completely understandable. I mean, who expects rain in the …
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I suspect the percentage of the population who know what an owl bear is will go through exponential …
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Bit of a shocker: gal-dem magazine is closing. It had a passionate following - I’m genuinely …
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This should chill events businesses: the big games show E3 has been cancelled, in part because …
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Ooof. Brutal take on the Substack crowd-funder.
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Morning, troops. If you’re looking for things to read over your morning coffee this Saturday, boy do …
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Hey, @help, am I missing something, or is the only way to trigger a webmention send manually adding …
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In the couple of days since I wrote , the chances of TikTok getting banned in the US have …
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The girls are eating fish fingers and custard. Yes, they’ve just watched The Eleventh Hour.
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Interesting legal analysis of the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
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News about our beaches like this makes me ashamed to be British.
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I sometimes think the local birds eat better than we do…
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Interesting to see that Automattic have acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. The Fediverse …
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William Davies on The Reaction Economy: The individual is not conceived in the same way as in the …
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Currently reading: Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk 📚
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I’m still stupidly excited that I’ll be teaching on City’s new MA in Podcasting …
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A general US TikTok ban edges closer…
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This is absolutely stunning drone footage of the Matterhorn.
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Iris wanted to watch some Doctor Who. So, we started at the beginning. The very beginning…
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Lots of writing to do today — so lots of coffee will be drunk…
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One thing I miss about growing up in Scotland: walking home after dark in the snow, and seeing the …
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Two damn decades of writing the same blog. Yes, One Man & His Blog is 20 today.
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Your Sunday morning swimming pool white board wisdom.
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After spending most of the winter feeling cold when out and about, I bought myself a new coat in the …
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Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
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I want that sticker.
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Sometimes solitude is possible, even in the heart of London. #mbmar 📸
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The Good Apple and the Bad Apple
“Putting the legality of Apple’s anti-steering rules aside, I think they make the …
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The perfect weather for a beach walk this afternoon. #mbmar 📸
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A rather lovely hagstone - and a deep one - found on a quick beach walk this afternoon, trying to …
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Trust in me, just in me…
I really need to learn to trust myself. Yesterday, I opened the slides for week two of my social …
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Your swimming pool whiteboard wisdom for the day.
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A fun evening, watching our students grill the hell out of a former prime minister. All under the …
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Any discussion of games journalism that doesn’t include YouTube at its heart doesn’t …
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Yeah, not getting in that way. It’s looking pretty secure. #mbmar 📸
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I have seen the future of smart glasses and it‘s as ugly as sin, apparently.
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Stressful morning with a happy outcome: my eldest got her first choice of secondary school.
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What a difference a couple of weeks makes. The sun is up for our early morning pool run. The views …
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A walk down memory lane to 1994, when this young chap (me) had his view of journalism shifted by the …
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Just corrected a typo in a blog post published… 10 years and 20 days ago. Ooops.
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Plausible Analytics providing both Search Console integration AND Google Analytics import is making …
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Finally got my (consulting/training) work inbox down to double digits. Plenty of people will be …
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That’s one way of making a politician’s life suddenly more complex
From today’s eye opening story about a global disinformation team: “Much of their strategy appeared …
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This is one hell of a story: Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
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Free speech absolutism excludes China, it seems.
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I enjoyed the conversation between @manton and @danielpunkass on Core Intuition about the shifting …
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Started reading: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby 📚
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Good to see that the Musk rat is experiencing the same as the rest of us: cratering Twitter …
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I’ve just revamped the look of my Ghost blog One Man & His Blog, and am very happy with …
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14 years ago, someone registered a domain name for the local church. Nobody remembers who. Somebody …
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This pen is a blast from the past. Early 2000s blogging, when Movable Type and Typepad seemed like …
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First time using my iPhone as a webcam for my training course this morning. It worked great. One of …
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Google’s Bard is singing a whole new song. Could this be the start of a whole new age of …
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Ah, the sweet satisfaction of landing one of the free EV charge parking spaces in the morning.
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And, really, nothing is more political than the way we engage with the world around us. We have an …
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The origin of the phrase “up sticks”: ”Instead they used Gypsy tents of the traditional style, a …
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We’re coming back into the light. The sun was rising as we drove to the pool this morning, after …
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Beware: killer clowns and hangry bears.
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I declared RSS bankruptcy last night, marked the 5,000+ articles which were unread in NetNewsWire as …
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Great post by Matt Genmell on why we should give ourselves permission to write shorter, less weighty …
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I’m really looking forward to seeing what comes of City’s Creatives in Residence scheme.
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This is an interesting read: it appears that a seratonin deficiency might not be the key cause of …
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I have 300 open tabs on my iPad. Tonight, I wage war on them. (By “wage war” I mean “read and decide …
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Home learning on teachers’ strike day, thanks to BBC Bitesize.
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Took me too many years - but I finally got that last elusive micro.blog badge…
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Lovely sunrise over Hassocks station this morning.
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This morning’s wisdom from the crack-of-dawn trip to the pool for my daughter:
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“This is a community that literally invented the term “rules lawyer.” WotC …
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I know their days are numbered, but nothing quite beats a free charge at the station while you’re up …
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Lovely to see some blue sky again today. It’s been a hard January, and this was the lift I …
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Ivory has won promotion to my iPad dock…
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So, this post proved more controversial than I expected. I expected pushback on my warning about …
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Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in, just around the corner from my house.
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HomePod and AppleTV updates are out this evening.
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Ivory from Tapbots is now on the App Store. Trying it out now for my Mastodon needs…
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I can’t quite bring myself to delete my last copy of Twitterific. I’ll do it soon, but …
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iOS, macOS and watchOS updates all ready for you in Software Update.
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The tide was far enough out today that we actually had something approximating sand! -
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Interesting set of links from Alex Roddie.
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“We need somehow to press the reset button, and completely rethink how we see our relationship …
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Started reading: The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚
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Cold and icy up at Lancing College this morning.
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Finished reading: Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚
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On a doorway in the Brighton Lanes. Harsh, but fair.
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Somewhere in all that is my eldest, preparing to sing her heart out. I first came here 23 years …
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My first time back at the Dome in maybe 15 years. Last time I was here, it was to see Pink as a …
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Wow. The new micro.blog homepage is a massive improvement.
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It’s official. Third party Twitter apps are dead. Not a surprise given the events of the last week — …
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Oxford Street is looking a lot more down market than I remember, but parts of it still impress.
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A moody, frosty bridge on my way to London this morning,
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Yikes. Currently 166 tabs open on my iPad.
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Lovely, frosty morning on the beach this morning.
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I just don’t understand why people think £250 for Airpods Pro - single user devices, with a lifespan …
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That’s it. Revue is gone, killed off by the new “management” of Twitter. Once a great service, …
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Feeling slightly guilty that our internet is fine, while the internet from the same provider is down …
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Frost on the roof, sun on the river.
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Ah, it’s Winterwatch week. That’s a pleasant surprise.
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Quite the sunset this evening.
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Well, it may be sub-zero in the garden this morning, but spring is still a’coming…
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“It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. That notion …
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Universities are already rethinking teaching and assessment in the light of AI tools.
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If a book is called Silence, but isn’t really about the absence of audible noise, what is it really …
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Nice to get the Apple Fitness “Ring in the New Year” challenge in the bag.
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”I had to use my legs to go far away in order to discover this, but I now know it is possible to …
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Every Sunday, I tell myself the early starts are worth it. And sometimes it’s really true.
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Complex clapping game in progress. 🤷🏼
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My weekend reading has arrived. 📚
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It turns out that glass-sided bridges require more maintenance than you’d think.
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Some fun weekend reading for you from my soon-to-be-defunct Revue newsletter.
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Metal cover of the A-Team theme. Perfect Friday fodder for those of us of a certain age.
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Twitter’s API appears to be down, breaking any third party client access to the service. And …
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What do you think the chances of the Revue integration on people’s Twitter profiles just …
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Looks like Hasbro is learning that you can create a community, play host to a community, but never, …
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Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in just around the corner.
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The courage and talent of Laura Price, whom I had the privilege of teaching a few years ago, …
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D&D’s OGL was a corporate con job
Cory Doctorow on the Hasbo D&D OGL rugpull: If you’re a game designer who was pissed off …
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There’s a guy down the river collecting old boats. He seems to be working on them. It annoys some …
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This looks worryingly like the Royal Mail has been hit by a ransomware attack.
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The science of stupidity
Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the …
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It’s interesting how many publications do “predictions for the year ahead” posts - and how few of …
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The sea is bringing in some big bits of jetsam right now.
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The sea was putting on an impressive show earlier.
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Walkers and shingle shifters on the beach this afternoon.
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Up on the Downs this morning.
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Nice wooden boat coming ashore on the slipway.
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I love it when a book randomly mentions where I live: ”I was also looking forward to experiencing …
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Back into the “7.30am swimming lesson for my eldest” routine for Sundays. As ever, a flask of great …
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From the library towards the church.
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From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚: “Deep down in the ocean, below the waves and ripples, you can find …
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From Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚: “A seam of bullying ran unchecked through the school, …
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Yup, just walking home through the graveyard. 😨
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Twelfth night, so saying farewell to our mighty wee tree.
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Just survived the slightly nerve-wracking process of upgrading my Mastodon server to 4.0.2. All went …
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Here’s my top 10 posts of 2022 from my work blog. Interesting that the journalism world is really …
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Probably our last festive activity of this Christmas season.
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A sticker on my laptop, back in 2010. I’d love a 2022 version of this (although I doubt it …
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New Year’s Day walk with the extended family.
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Happy New Year from (a house in) London!
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The wisdom of @patrickrhone spreads.
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“Hello, I’ve got a burning desire to go somewhere online where groups of people will …
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Matt Buck compiled some great links and videos to mark the passing of satirist John Bird.
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Home from midnight Mass: 12.30am Girls up: 6.30am 😴
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Midnight Mass, Church of the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach.
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Crib service in 15 minutes… My daughters will be playing the roles of “Magus” and “innkeeper”.
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Newsletter delivery via RSS has a name. It’s called blogging. This is literally what we were doing …
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Started reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚
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London very on brand this morning.
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Started reading: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚
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Off to London for work. The last commute of the year!
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It’s “update all the Apple things” evening! iOS/iPadOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1 are …
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Blimey. Musk has disbanded Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council. He’s not even pretending …
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Euan Semple on the importance of doing fuck all: “We feel driven to achieve more, to …
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A quick video of the Shoreham-by-Sea Santa SUP this morning:
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Oh, that is dangerously tempting.
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Bottomed out at -2.5°C last night. Pretty cold for these parts.
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“Fake turf is the manifestation of a deep cultural weakness, expressed in …
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Started reading: Edge of Cymru by Julie Brominicks 📚
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Worthing Pier from Shoreham Beach, 8/12/22, 4.10pm
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Cold enough that I’ve actually put on my rarely-used woolly hat for the commute this morning.
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My beloved Canon M50 is back from the camera doctor and working once more: And here’s one of …
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Another wave of angst over Musk fiddling with the blue tick systems, I see. And all because Old …
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First night we’ve gone below zero this winter. Plenty more to come, I’m sure.
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Heavy Metal x Indian Singing
This is just brilliant: [via Boing Boing]
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Holy crap, this Rackspace email outage looks very bad indeed.
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I wonder what microposts look like on WordPress.
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MarsEdit 5 is here. Still no Ghost support, but looking good for my other blogging. And yes, this is …
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People have a long and inglorious tradition of mangling my surname, but this is a new one for me…
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Thesis: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made.
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Turns out there’s no market for VC-funded upbeat tech “journalism”: Future is dead …
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Ah, the good old days, when people aspired to blogger style not influencer style…
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In Brighton on business for the first time in years. When I started out in business for myself …
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D&D drops the word “race”
Dungeons & Dragons announcement: we understand “race” is a problematic term that …
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Started reading: The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent 📚
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Seeing “Tom Baker” and “Death of the Doctor” trend together on Twitter was a scary moment, but …
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🎲 Me in #7TTRPGs
Ordered by “amount written for”, to the best of my memory:
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Hitting the sack early (for me, at least) as I’ll need all the energy and motivation I can manage to …
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This is a lovely reflection on the joy of the old, the analogue and the enduring: Personal …
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Finished reading: The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer 📚 Wonderful book. Review forthcoming.
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Feeling deprived of my weekly dose of
inspiration from the swimming pool whiteboard this morning.
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Morning coffee from a flask in an enamel mug while my daughter swims.
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That’s a commitment I’m not prepared to make, alas.
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It’s nearly time for our ritual trip to Spithandle to hunt down a wild Christmas tree. Next weekend, …
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Working with people who show a real commitment to what they do is an absolute blessing.
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Good morning from a crisp, Autumnal but delayed commute.
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I retain the determination to complete the November micro.blog challenge this year. Less than a week …
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I get more wary of applying a software update the older I get. I miss the old devil-may-care …
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One unintentionally positive outcome of the cost of living crisis is that we have less food …
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“Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.” — Robert Macfarlane, …
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Sunset approaches. Shoreham Fort, around 4.15pm.
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I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the …
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Some interesting nature reads to kick off your week.
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Charles Arthur in his newsletter this morning: “Self-obsessed Twitter is the very, very worst …
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How culture changes: ”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, …
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Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊♂️
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Repeat a difficult thing often enough and it becomes a habit and then a pleasure. And so it is with …
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I’ve just realised how appropriate it was that I was reading Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill in …
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After revelling in non-fiction for the last few years, I have really rediscovered the novel this …
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It turn out that one can tire of London without tiring of life. It’s nice to be home in Sussex.
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Weather like this almost makes the early start worth it.
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I know that the phone has the advantage of being the camera you always have with you, but I do enjoy …
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I’m just not ready for this…
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I try to avoid spending too much money in franchise chains, but when your small, indie coffee shop …
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This may have been one of the first music videos I watched on a computer: It was included as an …
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aluminium aluminium aluminium
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Social media isn’t dead — it’s regenerating.
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Weird. My #mbnov post from yesterday didn’t make the “all posts” Discover timeline. I wonder why.
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A good pub is one you don’t want to leave.
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Life doesn’t always go to plan. The secret to resilience is to just adjust and forge new paths …
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Really not used to singing “God save the King” yet.
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Youth organisations and veterans together on Southwick Green, marking Remembrance Sunday.
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Well, dealing with the flat tyre put pay to our planned afternoon out. But, given how tired the …
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Oh, great. Screw in the tyre.
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“I heard someone recently describe Twitter as a social network where the users hate …
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The evening light was putting in a wonderful display earlier.
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Right, I’m now using my own Mastodon instance for work-style stuff. Anyone interested in …
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Finally solved the email problem, and my personal Mastodon instance is working. A few more tweaks, …
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I just discovered that the minister from my childhood home carried on working well into his 80s. …
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We’re not even half way through November, and I’ve seen my first Christmas tree. 🎄
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There’s a certain joy to early starts in the autumn, and this morning’s early trip to the station …
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OK. So, I just set up a Mastodon Instance. 🤓
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Amazing news for non-iOS mobile journalists and filmmakers - Lumafusion is now on Android and …
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I’m just an ordinary guy, looking at the weather, and asking it to stop pissing it down before …
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Well, I think we all now have more insight into how hard it is to run a social network well…
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Well, I’d completely forgotten just how much noise the echo of 30-odd primary school children and a …
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I’m having an idiot evening. I was just about to build a special page for Microblogvember and then I …
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It is very odd and sad to see the life and death of a young journalist you used to chat with at …
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Gah. Great website. No RSS. No newsletter. Protected Twitter account. How am I meant to know when …
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Sadly, a birthday weekend doesn’t make me exempt from the business of being Daddy taxi for most of …
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Reading everyone’s “admiration” posts made me realise that, at this point of my life, I rarely …
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🤔 I have a certain admiration for the attempt to move people over, but I’m not sure it will work.
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It’s a rough morning, watching friends and former students getting fired from Twitter. …
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Well, I suppose the good thing about the reports that Revue (owned by Twitter) will be gone by the …
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Working late at the office, adding a feast of links to Moodle, for the journalism students to …
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Well, it might have been chucking it down all day, and the wind has thrown things around the garden, …
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Enjoying Halloween on a warm but wet night. A modest haul of sweets for the girls, but good fun in …
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Has anyone seen any news outlets doing anything interesting on Mastodon?
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This is a great resource for people thinking of starting a blog: Get Blogging! [via @manton]
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London being London in its charming way.
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So, it looks like the deal is done, and Elon Musk has acquired Twitter. It’s certainly the end of …
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I think this is spot on. British politics — or, at least, the Tory party version of it — is now …
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More good advice from the morning swim classes whiteboard.
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A few moments of tranquility while the girls play.
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Lovely bit of sulphur tuft, there.
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I asked Siri to “play something I’ll like”, and it’s been back to back 80s …
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This is fascinating. I’ve noted students doing this despite the slides being available for them to …
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This is a good look back at She-Hulk Attorney at Law. Insightful about how it played with audience …
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I sincerely hope that the focus Long Covid has brought to post-viral syndromes will be extended much …
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Words of wisdom at the 7.30am swim.
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A lovely little discovery – an acorn cup fallen into another plant.
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I’m really enjoying all the photos from around the world making up the Day in the Life of the …
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Breakfast at the Talking Hands café, after my train was cancelled. Hassocks, Sussex, in the UK. …
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Started reading: The Way Through the Woods by Long Litt Woon 📚
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Sometimes getting up early for my daughter’s 7.30am swimming class is totally worth it.
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Home to find, happily, that my eldest has survived her year 6 residential mostly intact…
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An image from a time, a place and a life far away. And long gone.
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A terrifying photo of me as a pimply teenager has just emerged from the film scanner. I will not be …
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Well, this is not at all what I was aiming for when I prompted Midjourney, but it’s very …
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Undergraduate student me, early 1990s…
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A photo from a promotional photo-booth for a long-dead social network at a long-dead conference…
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7.20am Lancing College. Another nice, relaxing Sunday. 🙄
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Just a family of swans out for a Saturday stroll…
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Happiness is getting one of the few free charging spaces at the railway station.
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Just over three years ago, I flew back from Hamburg, little suspecting that it would be so long …
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All the evidence – with more reported this morning - is that hydrogen won’t be a good path to …
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The crazy battery life of Apple Silicon Macs and iPads really makes days of live event coverage in a …
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Finally got my hands on a copy of the new book I co-authored…
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One of my favourite parts of coming to Germany.
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The stage is set. Ready to go! #next22 #hugthesystem
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Most people still wearing masks on the S-Bahn in Hamburg.
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Compulsory facemasks on the flight to Hamburg. #next22 #hugthesystem
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Waiting at Heathrow for my first flight in three years. I haven’t missed airports.
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Quick Review: Coasting
Finished reading: Coasting by ELISE. DOWNING 📚 I enjoyed this more than I expected. On the surface, …
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Local family out on the river.
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The problem with studying and lecturing around online communities is that you don’t only get …
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Yikes. This is going to hit a lot of people very fast: Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using …
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On the road again
25 years ago, I worked near Oxford Street in London. One lunchtime, I popped into the HMV store …
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Back in my favourite sneaky reading spot, after the summer break. Daughter learning piano, I’m on …
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They’re alway there. Always above us. Always watching…
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Amazing mist up on the Downs this morning.
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Updating a self-hosted Ghost site from my iPad. With good coffee, of course. 🤓 ☕️
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Weird. I just realised that after singing “God save the Queen” every now and then my whole life, …
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The outdoors rescue/location features of the Apple Watch Ultra and the iPhone 14 are an impressive …
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Apple killing the physical SIM card in the US… #AppleEvent
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I really like the Apple Watch Ultra. But I haven’t seen the price yet… #appleevent
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This is a really good defence of RSS as the basis of podcasting. If you’re involved with …
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This is a fantastic idea for getting more reading done.
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Currently reading: Ditchling Walks: in Eric Gill’s Footsteps by Lorraine Harrison, in search …
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Trying out solar-powered tech. Working well so far.
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Campfire reading. Currently reading: Coasting by Elise Downing 📚
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Currently reading: Mistletoe Winter by Roy Dennis 📚 Such a melancholy book. It’s absolutely …
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Apparently I’m in the mood for photographing sunflowers at the moment.
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Lovely light on the Adur this afternoon.
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A field near Petworth in the heart of the English summer.
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The more we learn about the Warner Bros Discovery / Batgirl mess, the weirder it seems.
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A long dive into the current and future fortunes of the tarnished newsletter platform Substack. The …
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Wow. Tinder’s a decade old. It’s been two decades since I dated, (happily married!) and …
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Took me a while to adjust to vegan burgers, but I’m really enjoying them now. A fine example from …
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Summer’s not over while the sunflowers still look this good.
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My eldest, playing an iPad game: “10pm is about the time a grown-up goes to sleep.” My …
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Looks like there’s urgent security updates out for all the major Apple platforms this evening. …
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A few images from the beginning of our holiday two weeks ago: Wightlink to the Isle of Wight, and …
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I am faintly baffled as to why anyone would think that I’d like to run a piece about going …
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I think it would be fair to say that my teenage record buying was not cool.
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My youngest is enjoying a trip to the local Lidl far too much.
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Finished reading: The Earth Beneath My Feet by Andrew Terrill 📚 Quite a remarkable book. It takes …
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Last early morning trip to the swimming pool before the Autumn. Rewarded with some lovely views.
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Lovely still afternoon on the river.
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What’s the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated with experiential social media …
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Well, fibre to the premises certainly makes a difference…
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Coastal blessings - the warmest it got yesterday was 33.5° in the back garden. Everywhere in the …
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Instagram is dead. Or, at least, it’s no longer recognisable as a photography app.
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The back garden’s hit 29℃, closing in on our predicted high of 31℃ today. Windows all shut and …
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I’m not quite sure when and how it happened, but I’ve slowly become a mornings person. I was always …
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It’s been a long time since I walked over this bridge.
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Winnersh Triangle Station is pretty small for a station right by a big office park. It’s barely more …
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Yesterday morning in Crewe and this morning in Winnersh.
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Doing a lot of this over these few days of work…
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Finally done on a client report that’s been hanging over me for a while. Treating myself to a …
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Lovely brunch prepared by my daughter!
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Fascinating seeing Shoreham Beach from the other side of the harbour entrance for once.
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And there we have it: Elon Musk Moves to End $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter
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OK. I admit it. This is absolutely my kind of feature: “Memes can be thought of as a form of …
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This feature is going to have to work hard to convince me of its thesis… (From the latest Standart …
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Booked in to get fibre to the house, rather than just fibre to the cabinet, next month. Really …
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Cosmopolitan place, Shoreham.
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Meanwhile, down by the lifeboat station.…
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Calling Michael Gove the Levelling Up Minister does make it sound awfully like he spends all day in …
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I told a student I would give her piece a “tense check”. And I’m still giggling …
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So, turns out your keyboard works better if you turn it on. 🤦🏼♂️
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Tough economic times are already hitting eco charities and sustainable businesses just at the time …
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Sitting, working, on the balcony, and wondering why I don’t do this more.
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I’ve got a feeling we’re being watched here in the churchyard…
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All ready to see my youngest get a Gold Award at the Funky Friday assembly…
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The beach, late this afternoon.
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Oh, no. Julee Cruise Has Died, Aged 65. The Twin Peaks soundtrack was the backdrop to my uni years, …
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I love this light. Wouldn’t fit in our house, but looks great in this pub.
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Does the glamour never stop?
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Choosing Peter Capaldi to narrate a nature documentary builds in a vague irritation at humanity’s …
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Leaving behind the #wwdc22 keynote to watch something more important…
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My big lesson from yesterday’s Platinum Jubilee street party is that I’m now officially …
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My most common typo for “metaverse” is “meat verse” which is ironic, given …
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Good grief - 5G in central London is quite something…
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So, by botching a Spotlight search for Teams, I accidentally opened a search for “teacup …
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Finished reading: From the Mull to the Cape by Richard Guise 📚 A pleasant enough read. Entertaining …
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I found out today that one of my good university / student magazine buddies passed away some weeks …
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Netflix’s itchy cancellation finger has made me less and less likely to start watching a new …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 16: Time All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
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Not one of my better looks… On the Suffolk coast, circa 1993.
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 15: Clouds All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
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I might get used to these “swimming pool by 7.30am” Sunday starts. Today is not the day that …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 14: Fence All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
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Well, yes, you need to protect your magazine brand. But maaaaaybe check that the business hasn’t …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 13: Community All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the …
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I was completely unaware that today was Friday the 13th until I read John Naughton’s daily post. Two …
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Was slightly thrown to see @maique out of context — in the Fastmail newsletter.
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 12: Tranquility Down by the harbour arm, sharing half an hour and hot drinks …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 11: Maroon All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
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Thanks to today’s theme from @challenges, I find myself debating whether my hoodie is, in …
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After years of doing digital work, editing a (print) book can be a challenge. “Oh, I’ll pop a …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 10: Pot I’m fond of this pot. And yes, I know that the pot inside the pot is …
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Can anyone point me to the master list of May Photoblogging prompts? My attempts to locate it have …
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This is very good. And no, it’s not what you’re assuming…
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I have no idea what differentiates a badge and a brooch. Anyone?
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We’ll see more of this: Apple’s Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 9: Bloom
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 8: Union The union of car and house. I’ll eventually get used to the …
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Nobody warns you about the “getting your daughter to swimming lessons for 7.30am on a Sunday” part …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 7: Park
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 6: Silhouette 
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I’ve given the May photoblogging posts their own category. It’s a good incentive to keep …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 5: Earth When we moved in, our garden was full of rubble from the old boat …
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Obligatory democratic selfie.
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This may be the best ever typo-driven page: (I particularly like …
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Due to poor typing on my part. auto-correct just turned “evangelists” into “Eva …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 4: Thorny
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 3: Experimental Who doesn’t love pond dipping? A fun science experiment for …
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 2: Photo
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The more I look at this, the more disturbing it is.
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Bank holiday breakfast in a wee café deep in the Sussex countryside.
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📷 May Photoblogging Day 1: Switch
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I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment …
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Auntie Beeb says it’s true, and I believe Auntie: Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon …
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It’s time to stop embedding Tweets in news stories…. (And it’s nothing to do with Musk…)
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The odds of anyone with a blue tick and a very substantial following actually, truly deleting their …
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Nice new paint job on one of our local pubs.
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“Because here’s the thing about comfort, ease, security - it can topple into insipid inertia …
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Down on the river, SUP-style.
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Being a persistent shit-poster on Twitter and rather thin-skinned about criticism strikes me as an …
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Richard Durrant playing during the sunrise this morning.
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More images from the sunrise Easter service this morning.
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A tiny escape on Good Friday.
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My feelings were ambivalent - social media and the internet have introduced me to many wonderful …
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New research shows that leg exercise - in particular weight-bearing leg exercise like walking - …
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One way where I match the stereotype of the middle-aged Dad is my obsession with correct dishwasher …
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“A mean tweet doesn’t kill anyone; it is an attempt to shame or punish someone …
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Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid “Once social-media platforms had …
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Some beautiful prints of British wildlife, signed by nature presenters and celebrities. 50% of the …
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My Mark 2 is finally here – only a year after Studio Neat planned. Still, worth waiting for.
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Apparently students these days buy their clothes by the kilo…
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I suspect I have written more words this week than any other week so far in my life. And it’s …
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The couple of years since the allegations about Warren Ellis came to light have been on long …
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It may be bitterly cold here in Sussex, but the beach knows it’s spring. The first of the plants …
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Weekend Nature Reads: the Good News, Bad News edition… Sometime’s it’s hard not to …
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I do wonder if one of the triggers of moving from independent consultant to small agency is that …
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This is a fascinating tale of a man who enjoyed taking photos more then developing the, creating a …
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Finished reading: Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell 📚 Took me quite a while to get through …
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Flippin’ ‘eck, this is worrying: The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing And yes, it’s climate change …
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I have survived six hours of lectures via Zoom with my sanity largely intact. (My wife suggests …
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Iris loves her piano lessons, but I suspect she enjoys playing with Snufkin more…
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Half an hour by the sea
Chose a different spot down by the harbour arm today. I’m tucked into a wee hollow, with the …
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Chillin’ by the harbour arm.
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I love this time on a Wednesday.
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“People claim they enjoy winter, but what they really mean is they enjoy winter as a livener, a …
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I suspect that this is the first time I’ve worn this gilet since the autumn, given that I just found …
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So did you know it was World Rewilding Day? I didn’t until just now… Pity. This is such an …
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An unusual beach find today.
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Oh, hurrah. Discord is finally Apple Silicon native.
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It was a great sunset yesterday. 🌅
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Yikes. Mystery mummified body found in convention centre walls…
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Just playing around with Glass. Anyone out there using it?
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Best hag stone discovery in a while.
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Very mixed feelings about the new edition of Hunter: the Reckoning. I’m glad it’s back, …
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I’ve always been very aware that Substack is heavily VC-backed, and that creates pressure to …
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Well, I suppose it was inevitable that Substack would do this. But it changes the dynamics of the …
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Listening to Apple-centric podcasts the day after an Apple event is a good reminder that pretty much …
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Continuing my obsession with Apple Watch fitness challenges, I just got the International Women’s …
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Let me distract you from the geopolitical horror of the moment with some good nature reads…
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Car Play is one of those things that you don’t understand the value of until you’ve used it. And, …
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A protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Shoreham’s East Street yesterday. 🇺🇦
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A Seaford seafront walk this afternoon.
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This is officially my new favourite warning sign.
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Up and out for a self-defence class for the girls.
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Coffee and chat with my youngest at Tom Foolery.
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This piece in the most recent Standart takes on a whole different tone given what’s happening in …
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First time this year that I have finished a day’s lecturing at City, and it’s still been light when …
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Weather like this makes isolation easier…
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Some good reading (and viewing/listening) about nature and the great outdoors. Some of it will make …
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Stuck inside and desperately missing the outdoors… 🤞🏻for a negative lateral flow soon.
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Images from Ukraine as they prepare for possible invasion. How powerful photography can be in …
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A time lapse from the height of Storm Eunice earlier.
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Our house has apparently had enough of those Donny Downer negative lateral flow tests, and are going …
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Morning beach walk #2: cold, grey and a wee bit bleak. Still, was home before the rain hit.
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Two Apple Fitness Awards day:
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Morning beach walk #1: Valentine’s Day Lovely sun, but a cold wind, and plenty of spray in the …
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“All social media has taught us is that there are a lot crazier people out …
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Another day’s lecturing done.
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The person sitting in front of me on the train has a coffee that smells so good it’s almost torture. …
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The reality of Partygate
Martin Fletcher in the New Statesman: Partygate is not about left versus right, or Remainers versus …
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Why political activists spend so much time fighting their own side
Note that Ataöv suggests that differences don’t cause conflicts; conflicts create …
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Second screenbreak of the day: cleaning and refilling the bird feeders.
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Giving myself a commute
One of the clichés of working for ourself is that, when you’re self-employed, your boss is an …
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Today’s edition of “spot the raptor”.
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We made a friend in the churchyard this afternoon. 🐿
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Currently reading: Nature Cure by Richard Mabey 📚 This is an engrossing read. To write with such …
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Getting up early on a Sunday t9 take the girls to their swimming classes is challenging, but this …
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A morning long black in relaxed surroundings.
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Just started: Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs 📚 I’ve been looking forward to …
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Finished reading: The Farthest Shore by Alex Roddie 📚 Excellent book — and timely. Full review at …
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Nice to have a bit of company while I was chilling out down by the harbour arm.
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“To be very online is to be in a toxic collective solitude where everyone is battling their own …
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This is just joyful. 🎵Worries for another day🎶
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While enjoying Winterwatch on the BBC, I got to wondering why summer is the only season that doesn’t …
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“I also saw someone else describe NFTs as “content-free DRM” and reader, …
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Enjoying a walk by the harbour arm, while my youngest has a piano lesson.
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It was frosty on the beach again, this morning.
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Well, that arrived quicker than I expected…
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This is one of the more thoughtful takes I’ve seem on dealing with the problem of online anonymity …
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The Undeath of the Author
(With apologies to Barthes.) “But social media has tilted things so that books by …
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The masocism of social media
“When was the last time you were out in public and felt actively rejected by someone you felt …
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Respect to the people having a morning sea swim at 0°C this morning.
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A frosty morning on Shoreham Beach.
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Sunset from the harbour arm.
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A fond farewell to a long-serving car. I had the Fire Engine (as we called it) for over 12 years.
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“Polarised thinking may make people feel comfortable in their righteousness; …
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“If you climb a mountain but don’t Instagram the view from the summit, have you even climbed …
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Just put some petrol in the car for what could well be the last time ever. Changes…
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Good morning from Shoreham Beach.
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Lovely profile of the people behind LumaFusion, my go-to video editor - and an iPad app.
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Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic: “The acceptance and fellowship that online …
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This is a rather nice one. Trafalgar Square, early summer 1994.
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More West End candids from 1994.
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A few candids shot around London’s West End in early summer 1994. Sure, the fashions date them …
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Here’s the posts that caught your attention on my site in 2021. Happy New Year to you all!
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Finding a stolen and burnt out motorcycle near their grandma’s house was an education for the girls… …
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A very merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it!
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Somebody’s not enjoying the festive season.
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Night boat to nowhere, Worthing.
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“Organisers are people who have noticed what is happening and want to do something about it. …
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“The way nature brings peace to my busy mind feels like one of the most abandoned parts of who I …
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This rather elderly angel used to top my late parents’ Christmas tree. And now she tops ours.
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So, after having two vaccinations on Saturday (flu and COVID booster):
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I suspect that the best use of my evening would be ensuring that there’s enough good coffee …
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Two jabs in one session: Covid: 💉💉💉
Flu: 💉
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The iPad Pro is the best coffee shop computer yet invented. Thank you. I will not be taking …
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Time to slay the iPhone tabs monster…
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One for GoPro folks: New firmware for the Hero 10 Black, including more 24fps modes.
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Down by the harbour arm again. It’s cold and grey, so I had the beach to myself, apart from a …
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Some useful trends amongst the Web 3.0 / Metaverse hype picked out here.
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Currently reading: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for …
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Fantastic lanterns at Light Up Shoreham this evening.
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Taking a quick break down by the harbour arm.
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When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch.
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I’m pretty sure I read this story 15 years ago, except it was Second Life people were getting …
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The low light capabilities of the iPhone 13 Pro continue to impress me.
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These people are mad. Admirably, impressively mad. But mad. A 15 mile walk. In December. In their …
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A rubicon has been crossed. I just scanned a QR code in a print magazine to open a webpage.
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This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a …
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At last, I threw down my article and smote its ruin upon the mountainside. I’m off to have a …
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13 years ago, taking a film in to be developed already felt antiquated. I suppose I’d had …
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I am happy to report that you can now get my witterings from my notebook as a (free) weekly email.
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I noticed a little while ago that all the posts I did for TEDxBrighton back in 2012/13 were no …
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A frosty morning down on the beach.
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If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the more British politicians say that …
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A lot of a individual creator newsletters are basically a week’s worth of old-style blogging (lots …
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This is a lovely wee story of how a camera was lost in the Highlands, but found and reconnected with …
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Castlehill, Edinburgh, Spring 1994.
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About time: Discord working on macOS app that runs natively on M1
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Proof-of-work crypto comes with a substantial climate cost: Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit …
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Playing detective on my own past
I’m busy scanning some negatives from nearly 30 years ago. Now, it’s not uncommon to find things in …
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This is probably a symptom of getting old, but I find getting Black Friday emails (a) in the UK and …
: Some thoughts about Doctor Who, present and future 📺
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Dramatic light over the sea today.
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Chilly beach walk with the girls.
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A newsletter that is half about NFTs and crypto and half about decarbonisation is an uneasy mix, …
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We’ve got a goshawk lunching in our back garden.
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Not sure I could rock this look, 29 years later…
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Spending an enjoyable evening looking at journalist-created newsletters from India and surrounding …
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I love writing. I hate getting started on writing.
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Blimey. I think Substack is down.
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Do I have the mental bandwidth left to update a theme on one of my Ghost blogs? Hmmm.
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Cory Doctorow is not pulling his punches on NFTs.
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Are you an outdoor or wild swimmer? Then fill in the 2021 Trends in Outdoor Swimming Survey to help …
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One of those headlines that takes on a whole new level of “ick” if you’re a Brit: …
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Today, I turn 50. Please respect the privacy of my family and I at this difficult time. Thank you.
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UK has “no intention” to deliver COP26 pledges says Cambridge scientist: “The …
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Gunpowder, treason and plot. 💥
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While my frantic week isn’t yet done, my reward has arrived. Looking forward to spending time …
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One of the great moral panics of the last few decades debunked: Massive Study Finds No Link Between …
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Today, it’s exactly 20 years since I wrote my first blog post. I’ll write more about this tomorrow. …
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Interesting. Is anyone else unable to access Quora with iCloud Private Relay on?
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🚨 Important discourse. 🚨 Will the Metaverse save journalism?
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It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the …
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Commuting mask watch: down to about 10% of people wearing masks on this Southern train. Very thinly …
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One day I will manage to swab myself for a lateral flow test without retching. Today is not that …
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Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log …
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MacOS Monterey is a weirdly bland update — having been using it for a couple of hours, you could …
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Om Malik on the iPod 20 years on: Maybe knowingly (but more likely unknowingly), Apple had made a …
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And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.
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“But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than …
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Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.
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The “Christmas Stocking Fillers” PR emails have started arriving, despite the fact I’ve never once …
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Well, that was a pretty clear admission that Apple had spend five years going the wrong way with …
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Climate journalism needs both fixing and expanding. This is a great step in the right direction.
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Here we go again: Premature Blogging Death Notice #357.
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Today, I had managed the sort of productivity that if I managed every day, my life would be a lot …
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Yikes. You might want to change your Twitch passwords — there’s been a huge data leak.
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Back at City, ready to teach journalism again. 18 months ago, I walked out of here during one of the …
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First commute to London in 18 months. It’s… quieter.
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Zoom fatigue hits women and new hires disproportionally.
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We’ve turned Facebook into a single point of failure - and now we’re paying the price.
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Let’s all hope @manton knows what he’s doing with border gateway protocol…
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Facebook being down might actually ease the petrol crisis, now that there’s no way for people …
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Slightly perturbed to discover that my daughters think that I’m basically Izzy Moonbow…
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The plastic pollution culprits — and other links worth reading.
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Day 2: It’s never fully dark, down by the river. #mboct
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There’s something quite nice about a day so wet and blustery that you feel no guilt at all about …
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Day 1: My daughter couldn’t resist reaching out to touch these fishy up-cycled spoons at the …
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I see the inevitable 15.0.1 update is out for your Apple device bug-fixing pleasure…
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It feels like a crunch is coming in the UK petrol crisis in my part of the country, at least. Those …
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A dramatic evening beach walk.
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The deadlines of my working life used to be defined by when the presses needed to roll. Now, …
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A first play with the iPhone 13 Pro’s cinematic video mode.
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Well, I wasn’t expecting My Little Pony: A New Generation to deliver some of the most on-point …
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Macro mode on the new iPhone is pretty impressive.
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I wonder what would happen if I just started posting on a neglected blog, and saw what happened?
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Selfie shot with the new GoPro Hero 10.
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Journalistic clichés to avoid like the plague. Note to self: rewrite before posting.
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The text recognition in photos that’s part of iOS15 is pretty damn impressive.
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Gotta say, shipping the new GoPro in a plastic bag somewhat undermines the “plastic free packaging” …
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I’m really leaning into the Dad joke thing right now.
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Life is too short to gift attention to unpleasant people
Something I should have worked out 30 years ago: If someone whose work you like and enjoy turns out …
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The new Netflix CGI He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the kid-friendly reboot not the Kevin …
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In less than two weeks, we’ve gone from “so hot in my study, I had seat beading on my …
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Just ordered a new iPhone for the first time in four years. That’s the longest I’ve held …
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New iPad Mini? That’s my wife’s Christmas present sorted, then.
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Only Apple can get me to watch an hour-long advert.
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Ah-ha. Big Sur 11.6 finally shows up for M1 Macs. Apparently today’s wave of Apple updates …
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Huh. Weird. My pre-M1 iMac has the MacOS 11.6 update, but not my M1 MacBook Pro.
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Quite a sunset over the river tonight.
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Oh, gosh. An I about to buy a new phone gimbal? I am, aren’t I?
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And yes, that includes washing it.
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Today’s exciting lunch break: cleaning the tent post-camping trips.
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Just booked my first evening out in Brighton since the pandemic began. I shouldn’t be — but I …
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When I had a Real Job (™), I used to routinely ignore work email when on holiday, and come back to a …
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My classy, elegant meeting space this morning…
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Just spent a happy couple of hours revamping a neglected blog, ready to start posting on it again …
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One of the things I love about visiting Woods Mill is that you can get beautiful images before …
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The seductive lure of cognitive bias. Don’t look too hard, or the story might melt away…
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Our lunchtime companion at Woods Mill.
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The only surprise here is that it took this long: The ‘Men Go Their Own Way’ Subreddit …
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It is slightly terrifying to realise that, as of this autumn, I will be in a position to do …
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Ulysses (a writing app) gets the ability to update Ghost posts — support for updating micro.blog …
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Thoughtful piece on the tenor of social media interactions by Roxane Gay.
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Twitter Social Distancing — why I’m stepping back from Twitter for a month.
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“I do not demand a gin palace at every corner, merely that it is written into the constitution of …
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So, about the Doctor Who news…
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Should your bookshelves reflect the person you are now, or should they encapsulate all the versions …
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Is it even social media if you don’t occasionally post photos of your lunch?
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Not something you see every day in Shoreham…
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I much prefer the feel of matt dust jackets when reading a hardback book to glossy ones.
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John Naughton’s review of An Ugly Truth, a new book about Facebook, makes it sound like …
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The absence of iPadOS 14.7 from last night’s round of updates is curious…
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Schmigadoon! is an intensely joyful slice of TV.
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Ha ha. No, no and more no to this terrifying idea. There’s absolutely no way I want Facebook to have …
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I have coffee and a piece on supply chains to finish. Wish me luck.
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Self-solving tech problems are my favourite kind.
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Last night I had intense dreams about Swedish third wave coffee shops. That’s about as on-brand for …
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The problem with working on a MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro side-by-side is that I keep trying to …
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Today is my “Max Vax" day — two weeks since my second dose. 💉💉🎉
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I am happy to report that, as of this weekend, all adults in my household are fully vaccinated. 💉💉 …
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UK schoolchildren faking positive lateral flow COVID tests to get two weeks off school — using …
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Just had a depressing email about the planned final withdrawal of the .eu domain name I used to own, …
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A good reason for a drizzly beach picnic last weekend…
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Steve Leighton has left HasBean, and now I don’t know what to do
My favourite coffee buyer and roaster is no longer running the company he founded. The most recent …
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Up at stupid o’clock for a podcast guest appearance…
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Concert time down near the Beach.
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Having a coffee in Tom Foolery with my daughters. It almost feels like the old days again. ☕️
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Mr Hancock and his rules
People died alone, not even able to hold the hands of loved ones, because they followed rules Matt …
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Coffee date with my youngest.
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Although I no longer live anywhere near Deptford, I’m pleased to hear that the local swimming pool, …
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This is a great piece about the mixed blessings of being a Doctor Who fan. I suspect it will …
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Today, in a career first, I received a press release about a toilet brush. Not any old toilet brush, …
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This plan to make Oxford Circus a car-free pedestrian piazza absolutely needs to happen.
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If you ask me, this is nothing but a pile of junk.
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It’s easy to forget that long before Vox was the site we know now, there was a blogging …
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Luca, the new Pixar movie on Disney+, proved a perfect Father’s Day watch with my girls. It’s a …
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Fathers Day gifts from my girls.
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Another afternoon’s remote training ahead…
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This is a really, really interesting podcast on how to reverse polarisation in society. …
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This week it has become abundantly clear to me that some tasks are better done on a big screen, and …
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See you, open rates. It was good while it lasted.
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Missed the live WWDC keynote stream, so here’s the plan:
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An engaged newsletter audience is better than a big one. (And I managed to write it without making a …
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Friendly wee chap in the churchyard this morning.
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First library visit since the first lockdown! 📚
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Genomics and pandemics and the avoidable crisis
The latest news from the United Kingdom, which has better genomic surveillance than …
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Online culture is now just culture: Dominic Cummings References Spider-Man-Pointing Meme To …
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Well, now. Amazon Makes Deal To Buy MGM For Nearly $8.5 Billion
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Amen to this: If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time …
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I will never cease to be amazed by the speed with which my daughters can make our living room …
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Watching last week’s Countryfile has me thinking about drones again. There’s some fantastic …
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I know I should move on from being annoyed when people use “blog" when they mean “blog post”. …
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Gosh. Gee whizz. What a surprise.
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This is a fascinating story of how and why aerosol spread of COVID-19 was discounted for far too …
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There is not enough side-eye in the world for this: Google revives RSS. Google, some of us remember …
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Dear Substack writers, Crossheads massively enhance the readability of your precious multi-thousand …
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Birthday party in progress: pin the tail on the Gnasher…
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This was the very first piece I wrote in my self-employed life, back in 2012: What is post digital? …
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I’ll be honest — editing these photos is making me hungry.
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This is a good read (ha,ha) in light of @manton’s new trial bookshelf feature here: Why …
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Nature really doesn’t understand the rules of storytelling…
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This week I have more good old-fashioned phone calls than Zoom or Teams meetings. It’s such a …
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Lovely afternoon down on the beach.
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Look at me, updating node.js from the command line like I have the first clue what I’m doing.
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I think I’ve found a way to articulate the discomfort I’m feeling in my work:
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For creativity to thrive, digital needs to learn its place…
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“Normal people—with regular lives and real jobs—have soap operas and reality shows. People who are …
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Millennials are hated for being defiantly uncool “From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s young …
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I just managed to lose a cup of coffee in the living room. How’s your Monday going?
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Wow. Just found a classic example of misusing “proof links”. A writer on Medium making certain …
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It turns out that our local church uses some rather dated tech…
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Hmmm. Does anyone have any idea why my micro.blog site wouldn’t pick up an analytics code put in the …
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Always worth taking time out to feed our feathered friends.
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Bottoming out
On Wednesday morning, I hit a low. My family has been lucky during the pandemic — none of us have …
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The beach is going for drama this afternoon.
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Having one of those days where I wonder why I bother with the stress of being self-employed. …
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It’s lovely to see the vegetation sprouting again on the beach — a sure sign that summer is on …
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Dear Substack writers, It is not compulsory to have an opinion on the Basecamp mess. Yours, Adam …
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Looks like there are security updates for Apple things out — urgent ones, too. Looks like I’ll be …
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This is an absolute shocker: last night someone cut down an osprey nest at Llyn Brenig in Wales, …
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Just replaced the Cat 5 on the wired elements of our home network with Cat 7 cables. Boy, I know how …
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This is genius: Paddington in Film
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Why Substack stealing the big name columnists won’t kill newspapers — and why it might …
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The masked FaceID unlock works great on my iPhone running iOS 14.5. A nice little quality-of-life …
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I know everyone’s talking about the “paid podcasts” bit of yesterday’s Apple Event, but …
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So, if M1 Macs can run some iOS apps as well as Mac apps, and the iPad Pro now uses an M1 chip… …
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So happy to see Apple go back to colour in the post-Ive era.
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From our trip to Wakehurst last week:
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So, 100 hours on from my first vaccination jab, the side-effects have been negligible. My arm was …
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Finally, I’ve had my post-lockdown haircut.
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So, it turns out that the downside of being married to a woman with a PhD in Immunology is that I …
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Six thoughts about the Substack local initiative.
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Are we losing the fight on content moderation? If so, what should we do instead?
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Hazel, Dora and the leaf skeleton
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My first jab booked for Friday! 💉
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I think the obsession with newsletters is obscuring the bigger story: that the growing prevalence of …
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While pulling together this list of weekend reading I remember thinking how often I was linking to …
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Anyone else using a Mac found that their rate of genuine emails filtered to spam has shot up in …
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Hiking dates are a thing? Seems like a good way to destruction test your relationship…
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I think my daughters might be prematurely middle-aged:
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I am HERE for headline puns that combine Doctor Who and typography:
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Sometimes it’s amply clear that these are chalk downs:
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Easter walk at Woods Mill.
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There’s a metaphor here about nature and technology…
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Medium introduces the blogroll. Wait — have I somehow slipped back 20 years to 2001?
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Up and at ‘em early this morning for a last pass on a really interesting research report I’m …
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OK. This doesn’t feel like good news: Getty Images is acquiring Unsplash.
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Spring really came to Shoreham-by-Sea, yesterday. I took advantage of the lockdown easing to have a …
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M1 MBPro life: “Right, I’ll just send this video over to Compressor to render out while I make a cup …
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I do like to get down and dirty with a server once in a while:
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Today seems to be a 5/10/15 years ago day:
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The very old and the very new in a port town.
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This, from @colinwalker, is what so many people miss about blogging at its best: There is no truly …
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It’s World Osprey Week, as European ospreys start returning to their nests for the breeding season.
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Now, can I post to micro.blog from Ulysses OK?
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A digest of nature-centric reading (and viewing) to round out your weekend.
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Last night, we finished the last of the Christmas mead — just in time for spring.
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This is not the real view from my house - but neither is it a Zoom background…
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The Shoreham Harbour pilots’ boat coming back in after meeting a container ship offshore.
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The Ernst Hagedorn coming into Shoreham Harbour this afternoon.
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The uncomplicated way year ones express their joy in seeing their school friends over Teams is …
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They really want the train to stop #worldbookday
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It’s very much a Gray Day today.
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I’ve just realised what I miss most about face-to-face lecturing: the after lecture chats. Nobody …
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Taken this afternoon. Spring is coming.
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Some weekend nature-centric reading and viewing for you.
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Cooking “last day of half term” pancakes for my daughters.
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New fancy coffee brewing method to kick off the weekend right.
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The combination of stupidly fast yet silent when dealing with lots of video and other tasks is still …
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First take-out coffee of the year.
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I do like the geometry and colours of this image.
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This sign has met a premature end, but I look forward to the day when its
ilk are no longer needed.
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I’ve seen how this movie ends — and it’s not pretty…
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Finally got a flexible boom arm for my Mevo streaming cam. I’ll have my home training studio just …
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I do miss the days when my home office was my home office (as a self-employed person), rather than …
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This is quite an important intervention from Nature: Coronavirus is in the air — there’s too much …
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It may be cold, but the beach is the beach.
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I think they’re plotting something.
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I’m not saying it’s cold — but here’s a frozen boat we found.
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I think we were making him nervous.
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9 days until we need to homeschool again. Bliss.
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New Year, New Lens
One of my joys during this year of lockdowns and restrictions has been rediscovering photography …
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Well, this morning I had to reset my router to factory settings and rebuild my network to get …
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One thing that being married to someone with a PhD in immunology has taught me: take any …
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Not the morning conference(s) I expected to be attending at this point in my career, but it is what …
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Ouch. This Big Sur upgrade nightmare is exactly what has happened to my sister-in-law. Looks like I …
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Team Tinworth lockdown work and homeschooling station for the day.
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Planetary, a decentralised social network, officially launched yesterday. I’ve been on the …
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Well, I suppose it counts as snow.
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When you head towards the beach, it’s easy to forget that Shoreham is still very much a …
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We found a great hagstone yesterday.
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The “staycation” semantic drift is complete, isn’t it? The accepted usage now seems to be “a holiday …
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“Human YouTube comment section Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of all …
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TIL: There’s a Wikipedia page for my surname. And it’s not terribly informative.
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Shoreham-by-Sea fishing boats.
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Another day done. Goodnight, friends.
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This bit of boat decoration is cute, unless you’ve seen Toy Story 3, in which case it’s …
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Oh, Wix websites are a pain. They have a “blog” section, they even publish RSS feeds - …
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An interesting set of predictions for 2021. If the world shifts its focus from solving the COVID …
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Knackered after homeschooling. Updating all the iOS things to 14.4 because it’s brain dead work, but …
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Low tide on a rainy afternoon is not the most photogenic time in the Quay.
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Scenes from homeschool: 👧 “What does ‘dour’ mean?”
👱🏻♂️ “If only there was some sort of book that …
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Plenty of people enjoying the waves down at the Beach today.
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Be a fox, not a hedgehog
One interesting idea in Matthew Syed’s Sunday Times piece on how social media sound bite …
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Fascination read about Mar-a-Lago: the secret history of Trump’s Florida retreat
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Repeatedly misspelling “audience” is probably not good, when you’re running a new …
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Emails from luggage companies are getting ever more desperate.
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Lockdown isn’t easy. I’m having a rough day. It’s OK if you are, too.
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Podcasting is 20 years old today. Here’s the story of the first podcast feed.
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Trump, QAnon and the limits of the “viral” metaphor to describe online communities — some thoughts …
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I’m not sure this is going to work.
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Hard to argue with this message.
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Brighton by night. Shot on Shoreham Beach, at dusk
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Some ocean-based learning resources for parents struggling with homeschooling.
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It deeply bothers me that on-going access to a whole load of important and significant writing from …
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Socially-distanced beach walk.
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Well, it took less than a week of lockdown before I saw someone in a local Facebook group calling …
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Shout out to fellow working parents who are trying to navigate both earning a living and …
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A cold and frosty morning on the Beach, and it’s not lifting.
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This is an interesting call for focus on libraries and archives in the digital age, in the face of …
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I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, …
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Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week.
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Anyone who thinks Bill Gates can create a vaccine-delivered microchip that controls people has …
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I sometimes think that winter beach is the best beach.
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Saturday night internet culture nostalgia: In 2006 they were taking the hobbits to Isengard …
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My daughters’ rendition of “We wish you a Merry Lockdown and a Happy New Tier” is simultaneously …
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Less than 12 hours to finish a book and meet my reading challenge goal…
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I just learnt that Jackie Cassada, an acquaintance from my old White Wolf/RPG writing days, has …
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How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
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Beach life in Tier 4: where better to take your permitted exercise?
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Storm Bella has passed, but it’s still very blowy down on the beach.
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Maybe just regretting a little that I offered to handle the live-streaming of midnight mass tonight.
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Lovely weather for a Christmas Eve beach walk.
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🙀 What real estate agents are finding in empty offices right now
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I can vouch for the accuracy of this feature: Six things only people who were forced to do social …
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Oh, do you remember when we used to go to “coffee shops” and other people would make coffee for us? …
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Love a bit of garden office porn.
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Oh, my. A year before the Brexit vote and the Trump election, I linked to reporting about how …
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I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, …
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Archive spelunking
Managed to resurrect all but one of the broken links on this 14 year old post. (The reason why is a …
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We really need to talk about trust in journalism.
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This eco cabins are just irresistible to me. One day. One day.
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These two things can both be true:
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Listening to my daughter’s Zoom singing lesson is making me very proud and a bit emotional. As …
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And now COVID19 is [hitting the coffee supply chain]sprudge.com/covid-19-…). Enjoy that cup …
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This is interesting, and ties in with what immunologists I know have been saying for a while: …
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There’s plenty of discussion of journalism business models. There’s some discussion …
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I’m not saying we’re deep in middle age, but there is considerable excitement in this …
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A quick digest of some worthwhile or interesting nature and outdoors reading.
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There’s a good reason we should temper the current Substack enthusiasm in journalism circles …
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A restaurant in Île de Ré, from back when I used to travel overseas. And go to restaurants.
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Frost on the roofs this morning. The girls were very excited. The adults, less so.
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Didn’t take them long to find the refilled feeders.
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I used my new MacBook Pro for an hour this morning to monitor a livestream I was running, dived into …
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Conspiracy theories: making the gullible feel insightful in your Facebook feed right now.
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So… this is my first post from a Mac powered by Apple Silicon.
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Spending far too long looking at video of myself has been one of the major downsides of the …
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This is a good piece: I found the wall-to-wall COVID coverage very hard to cope with back in the …
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Blogging is a discipline: it’s a practice of expressing your thoughts in writing, routinely, …
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It was a gorgeously foggy morning this morning:
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I am, and have been for as long as I can remember, a pedestrian by preference. Walking is my …
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Has anyone else come to quite enjoy wearing a mask? I like seeing the fashion choices people make …
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Last night, I faced the dilemma of going to bed early, or staying up and having some quiet time to …
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After years of having the house to myself for several days a week, it’s hard to adjust to …
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Much as I hate to admit it, structure and focus make a huge difference to a client Zoom call. But …
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Lovely day for a beach walk.
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Requiem for a lamp
I’m saying “goodbye” to an old friend this morning. For the last 23 years, whenever I’ve …
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Eight months ago I was forced into delivering online training by the pandemic. Even after mass …
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Chris Cook in this morning’s Tortoise email: “The challenge is how we all get to the finish …
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Today’s lesson: do not record your Zoom sessions locally, if you have multiple incoming streams. It …
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Revamped online lecturing and training setup working well. 👍🏻
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The power of disinformation to capture people’s minds is terrifying. Watching a friend’s …
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As someone who spent my entire childhood north of the border, the increasing likelihood that …
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Today’s beach walk did not feel autumnal at all. Between the waves and the overcast skies, not …
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Burn out or fade away? Tonight, it’s a bit of both.
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It’s just possible I’ve found a solution to something that’s been bugging me all year. 🤞🏻
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OK. A week in I am prepared to say this: Big Sur is bloody lovely and it has completely reignited my …
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As I child, I railed against my dependence on sleep. As an adult, I embrace it. Night, all.
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Wake. Take children to school. Train people via Zoom. Collect children. Feed children. Read bedtime …
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I regret I didn’t take more notes in the early days of the first lockdown. It was an unusual, but …
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I need to remind myself more often that it doesn’t actually matter how far I am from my goals, as …
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They’re creepy and they’re kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They’re altogether ooky, …
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The fact that the entire British political establishment is waiting anxiously for a blog post makes …
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Media artisans and their tools…
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One thing from the before times I really miss: just grabbing my laptop or iPad and heading to a …
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First impressions of Big Sur: amazingly fast on my ancient 2013 MacBook Pro. The visual refresh …
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Hello, Big Sur. (That sounds like something from a really bad prison movie: “Jim, if you want to …
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The balance of my wardrobe has changed during the eight months of lockdowns and remote working. I …
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Looks like the Big Sur update is in the process of completely hosing Apple’s online services. …
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[…] classical orchestras are just tribute bands for old music 🤯
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Today’s experiment: my Canon M-series camera as webcam…
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I’d love to say that I’ve got used to the famine/feast aspect of self-employed life. But it would be …
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”Before Ramsbury, I was a nowhere man, living, as my parents did before me, in a multitude of …
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Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos…
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The new “Apple Silicon" MacBooks looks very tempting as a replacement for my elderly MacBook …
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The vaccine news is, at least, promising. It does give us a glimpse of a future where the virus is …
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There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms …
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Just successfully sourced my coffee filters from a local business rather than going reflexively to …
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Met this chap on our beach walk today. Seemed nice enough, but not very talkative.
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Today’s news about the US presidential election gives me a little hope for the first time …
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It’s not exactly puzzling why we chose to live here, is it? There’s something utterly magical to me …
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Birthday beach walk with my daughters.
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I’ve slipped out of the habit of using my 9.7 iPad Pro, and that means I’d forgotten what a lovely …
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This is strangely delightful in the twilight world of an uncertain presidential result: Neon Trump …
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Hospital visit concluded. My youngest’s head wound cleaned and glued together. And I didn’t have to …
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Have to say - I wasn’t expecting to be spending time in A&E on the first day of lockdown.
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So, lockdown it is, from tonight. I’m very lucky to be living very near to these places. It’s …
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My family continue to astonish me. I’m a lucky man to have these people in difficult times.
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Things that have become a routine part of my life since the first lockdown began: moving around …
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Sometimes you have to get something out of your head before you can concentrate on the other things …
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Thoughts in the face of Lockdown 2.0
On Friday, I drove my mother-in-law home, and passed through many towns on the journey. We were …
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How’s the UK Covid app doing? Oh: “The “world-beating” NHS Covid app, downloaded by 19 million …
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Today, had the makings of a dreary, dreich day. But time with good friends helped me recover from …
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TIL: never try to shove a 1080p stream down a 720p pipe.
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Misty, dreich morning in Sussex.
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How the year 2000 web reacted to the tense election standoff between Bush and Gore. Useful …
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Just spent 30 minutes catching up on newsletters. My, do some well-known journalists suffer without …
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Parole by election
John Naughton on why the US election is consuming his brain, despite the fact he lives in the UK: …
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Today is a Zoom-free day. That is a good day.
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Lovely walk with the girls, despite the dreich weather.
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Should you turn on your video camera during online training?
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Another day in front of the ring light…
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Ah, the BBC’s Autumnwatch. Balm for the soul.
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Here’s an unexpected pandemic side-effect: after six months of recording online training seasons and …
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Wellies was the right decision.
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I walked up into Old Shoreham yesterday, to pick up some things. It’s interesting seeing the traces …
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Interesting opinion piece on the hijacking of the word “freedom” and why we need to push back with a …
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Telling the stories of our wild places (by way of another childhood reminiscence).
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Well now. Substack is adding custom domains for everyone (which is good), but is changing $50 to do …
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I just started looking for some data for a lecture, and the third result was one of my own …
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Handy guidance here for leading journalists and authors: How to Avoid ‘Zoom Dick’ …
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If you’re going to write 500 words summarising a report, you could at least do the reader the …
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The garden office as ‘sanity shed’ is a nice idea for those privileged enough to have …
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I know it’s a thing some SEOs like to recommend, but I do find webpages with no publication date on …
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Interesting piece. The start of a shift from “proximity to work” to “proximity to lifestyle …
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I’m trying an experiment. I’ve switched my default search engine on my iPhone to DuckDuckGo, and …
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Lo! There comes a Toast Cat!
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So, I thought I had the whole 20 seconds hand washing things sorted. And then the Apple Watch update …
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Shoreham Beach, UK / 2020-10-14 / 8.49am Walking home around the quay after dropping my children at …
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Apple ProRaw actually looks quite interesting. Be interested to see how quickly the major editing …
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Lisa on the roof, talking environmental stuff amongst the solar panels is cool.
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I’d be more excited by 5G coming to the iPhone if I thought I’d be going anywhere in the next six …
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“Something only Apple can do” is going to get really annoying really fast.
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On the sofa for the Apple announcements, and my daughters have joined me…
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Shaping up to be a nice Autumn day down by the river.
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Just rewatched Frozen 2 with my daughters. Anna is clearly the most thirsty of Disney heroines. 🍿
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Uggh. One of those days where I’ve been working solidly since 9am, bar 10 minutes in the …
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Well, you can tell I just topped up the suet ball feeder, because it sounds like there’s an …
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I just betrayed my principles and did a rant as a Twitter thread not a blog post. I shall say 3 …
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This is going to scare people unnecessarily: Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions – …
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Incredible light streaming into the house this evening.
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Today I learnt that COVID has led to the permanent closure of London’s cereal cafés.. 🥣😢
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Fear my mighty traybake powers.
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Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media (Or why your spicy hot …
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Schadenfreude as a personal indulgence, not a public performance
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Why we need a new framework for discussing powerful women — and it’s all the fault of the …
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It’s disturbing how easily the California fires slip off our radar, just as the Australian …
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15 years on, journalists are still talking nonsense about blogs
This person has no idea what they are talking about: The reason no one talks about “blogging” …
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Well, I never thought I’d reach a point where the US president announces he’s ill with a potentially …
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I just experienced this when I had to pop out in the car briefly. It’s a big improvement: …
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Spending my evening editing the videos of yesterday’s lectures. I know how to live.
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It’s possible that our HomePods are the most used pieces of digital tech in our house at the moment. …
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This is a fascinating long read. It suggests that COVID-19 is largely spread by a small number of …
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Today’s learning: six hours of Zoom feels very different to six hours of in-person lecturing. …
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Lecturing kit, COVID-19 style.
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Today, I am mainly thinking about the health impact on lecturers of spending six hours in front of …
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Fantastic day out walking with the girls. So tired, but so happy.
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And finally, we have the app.
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Oh, sweet joy. iOS14 has brought emoji search to the iPhone. 🙌🏼
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That URL looks completely legit and I shall be claiming straight away. 🙄
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A nice early autumn surprise in the garden.
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Interesting. You can now find Substacks written by people you follow on Twitter.
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This one of those rare things, an online quiz actually worth doing. It’s a test to see if you can …
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As a palate cleanser after that last post, here’s Martin’s enjoyable ramblings about classic Doctor …
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Everything wrong with both Facebook and internet fandom in one screencap.
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Percentage chance I would use smart glasses from Facebook: 0%
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Just a reminder to folks (especially journalists) who rely on their iOS devices for work. You REALLY …
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One thing that makes me sad about the Apple Event: a few years back the Fitness+ announcement would …
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What the heck is going to differentiate the iPad Pros if the iPad Air has the A14, the new keyboard …
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Remember, in the UK, the government can break international law if they find it inconvenient, while …
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This is a spectacular, but sobering, piece of animated short film making: Selfish
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”Twitter is a place for outrage masturbation and little more.” Not completely …
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Oxford vaccine trial resumes - always the most likely outcome, but a relief none-the-less.
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Looking for a new magazine? I wrote about three favourites of mine. 🤓
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Pubs 👍🏻
Offices 👍🏻
7 people in the park. 👎🏻 Yup. That all seems logical. 👀
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Autumn comes when the ospreys leave. 🍂
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Working like this might actually tempt me back into a proper job. Probably not, mind. But it could.
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Once you know an AI is grading your work — you can game it. The next decade is just going to be a …
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On social media pile-ons
Moreover, I’ve learned not to join in with Twitter pile-ons, or insult or …
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A buzzard, drifting lazily over the Woods Mill car park.
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This “shed” is basically pornography for writers.
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The absolute genius of “Black Lives Matter” as a phrase is that its very existence provokes evidence …
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My procrastination is weird. For example, I’ve nearly finished what will become issue 2 of …
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I’m doing my best to keep the bird feeders topped up today. The sudden cold snap means they’ll be …
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Rainbow over Shoreham Beach yesterday.
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My July in one second every day.
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Sitting by the sea while my daughter has a socially distanced outdoors Rainbows meeting.
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Some interesting thoughts on the future of newsletters. I certainly think many newsletters resemble …
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I’m glad people are starting to talk about this. The coffee cup and plastic bag situation has …
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Uh-oh: Second national lockdown warning as R rate rises ”[…] on Friday the Sage advisory group said …
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Beach cleaning after (Storm) Ellen.
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Managed a little time on the beach before the rain hit.
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I couldn’t figure out why my mouse wasn’t working this morning, until I turned it over. Well played, …
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Fiddling around with a side project while my daughters do their martial arts class via Zoom.
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So much “nope” in this vision of a home office cubicle.
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The faceless mob of Twitter accelerants.
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Sea swim with my tiny limpet. 🌊
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Trying a small productivity hack today: doing half hour bursts of email, and then closing the app …
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I’m currently reading The Daring Of Della Dupree by Natasha Lowe 📚 to my daughters. They are …
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The “aircraft engine housing and car wash brushes” look for garden gates is in, in, in, this summer. …
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John Witherow, editor of The Times, in his morning newsletter: Put simply, Britain is an …
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In praise of the cloudy summer's day
After a week of glorious sunshine and sweltering sunshine, it’s a relief to see clouds …
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The over-50s are coming for your TikTok. And they’re taking no style prisoners.
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As soon as the sun goes in, we get the beach back to ourselves. This was absolutely heaving a few …
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There are worse places to catch up on a few emails.
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Upgrade for our Zoom future.
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Well, this is not great. I hope this does not survive the beta into release: Apple News+ in iOS 14 …
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Chris Eccleston returning to Doctor Who in a series of full cast audio adventures. What fantastic …
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Absolutely absorbing read from Ed Yong at The Atlantic about the complexities of the immune system, …
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Currently reading: Ring The Hill by Tom Cox 📚
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Stunning skies yesterday evening.
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This was a very long time ago in the Cairngorms.
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Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of …
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Poirot after Christie
I’m currently reading and enjoying The Mystery Of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot …
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Here’s one reason every journalist should write a newsletter for a while: nothing teaches you more …
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I am embarrassed it has taken me until my late 40s to understand the difference between a good …
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The pandemic lockdowns seem to have kicked the tablet market back into growth. Apple has 38% of the …
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Well, this makes sense: Social media is addictive if you like embarrassing people
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A rather busy key worker at Nymans yesterday.
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Schools, Covid-19 and the risk of unintentional misunderstandings. Sometimes they way we write …
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Lots of people using the slipway behind our house today.
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This is an adorable version of something that every parent who has been working from home the last …
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This sums up pretty nicely why I, as a teenager in the 1980s, completely fell in love with this …
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This sunflower has self-seeded from below our bird feeder. What a lovely surprise.
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Typo of the day: “toe-hugging”. Less green than tree-hugging, and just possibly a bit more kinky.
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Trump just used a massive dead cat to distract from appalling US economic news.
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A devastating consequence of the pandemic and lockdown: the National Trust are making over 1000 …
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The current wave of newsletters are often compared to the early blogs - but most of them miss one …
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Sign on the equipment in the local playpark. One day, it’ll be an historical oddity blithely ignored …
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The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.
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An additional mask, now they’re compulsory in shops.
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We get some surprisingly big ships on this stretch of the river.
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My eldest daughter loves performing. She never voluntarily passes up the opportunity to be in the …
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A momento of my old life as a hotel and restaurant journalist.
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It turns out that 1970s and 80s Lego is still exciting to today’s children…
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I’m loving the way micro.blog plugins solve a few pain points I have with the platform - but which …
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This is bleak news: Guardian announces plans to cut 180 jobs. 70 are editorial jobs. Best wishes to …
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Just paid for another year of micro.blog. You’re stuck with me, folks.
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Hand-writing this post using Scribble and my Apple Pencil in iOS 14. That was easier than I …
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Exploring the idea of the blogletter. What differentiates it from a more traditional newsletter?
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After three months with almost no time for anything but work or homeschooling, it feels good to …
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Hand sanitiser gels contain microplastics. 🤦🏼♂️
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A wee visitor to our garden at night…
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Homeschooling break in the garden.
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Here’s one way to look at Facebook in a culture war context: the conflict is already there, …
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Ming-Na Wen is indisputably awesome.
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Maltese boats. Vivid memories from a holiday to Malta very nearly 20 years ago.
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The view from our back garden in Dollar, Scotland, 30 years ago. Photo by my late mother.
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Looking back at locked-down May in 1 second every day.
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The news we need, if not the news we deserve: Dogmatix to Get His Own Asterix Comic Book
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Reusable containers safe during Covid-19 pandemic, say experts. Time to get the Keep Cup out again.
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One unexpected - but happy - side effect of lockdown: I’m now wearing jeans of a waist size I …
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It is just possible that 1989 Adam was trying a bit too hard.
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This was a useful read for me - and I suspect might help others:
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Malta in early autumn 2000. While the clothes certainly date it, the complete absence of phones is …
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More lockdown creativity: This is the most unusual version of Tubular Bells I’ve come across - but …
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My daughter just uttered the phrase: “No. You are NOT selling my precious Shakespeare books!” BRB - …
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Politics can either be a parlour game of ideological point-scoring or it can be the …
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I am middle-aged enough that I really am very excited about my new compost bin. 🌱
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Gaming through the eyes of privilege
20 years ago I was quite involved with the tabletop gaming world, and the fringes of the SFF world, …
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This is lovely: The Archers Theme as you’ve never heard it - with the cast at home !
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Wow. Olympus is selling off its camera division. I first got serious about photography with a Trip …
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Today’s Social & Digital lunchbreak digs deep on narcissism, toxic communities — and Nazi …
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The Fate of the Mac?
Jason Snell: Thoughts on WWDC 2020 Day One: The truth is probably that the future of the Mac is as …
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Phew. My MacBook Pro just scrapes into the Big Sur compatibility list. This time next year I suspect …
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Well, having Adobe and Microsoft both on board already will make the ARM transition for Macs much, …
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MacOS Big Sur: love the new design, but feel like they’re just trolling us with the name now.
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Automatic hand-washing detection and timing on Apple Watch! That’s as Covid-y as it gets.
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Controversial opinion: I prefer this keynote format.
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Dance workouts on Apple Watch. Oh, yes. 💃 ⌚️ (Watch-based cycling navigation seem vital in a …
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I can barely read my own handwriting. Good luck to iPad OS in figuring it out.
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So… if your phone runs out of battery, your car won’t start or open?
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Cycling directions in iOS maps in iOS 14 🚴♂️ 🎉
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They have a real aversion to static shots in this pre-recorded WWDC keynote, don’t they?
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The new iOS 14 widgets just announced at WWDC are going to be amazing on iPad.
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Wow. Empty Steve Jobs Theatre. Striking way to acknowledge the unusual times.
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👀
Heavy Coffee Drinkers Want Coffee A Lot More Than They Actually Like It
☕️
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The Into the Wild bus has been Removed by the Alaska guard. Probably a good thing, but the end of an …
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The UK’s contact tracing app fiasco is a master class in mismanagement - and the piece highlights …
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Tech false economy
So, today I’m working on a brand new iMac - the first time I’ve bought a new Mac in over …
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I’m actually more interested in how — visually — Apple chooses to do the WWDC keynote later on …
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What’s collective noun for a group of SUPpers?
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When the Rampion Wind Farm was announced, I was worried about its impact on the feel of the beach. …
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Kitesurfers on Shoreham Beach
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Well, I am deeply disheartened to read this about Warren Ellis. Is it that we as a society rewards …
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This lockdown concert by Madness is a real balm to the soul. Nicely done.
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Turns out it’s easier to say “world-beating” than actually deliver it. Who knew? …
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Has the meaning of the word “blog” changed? Sadly, I think the answer is “yes”.
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Blimey. Plurk. The microblogging service where I was [marginally more popular than @ianbetteridge]( …
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This one was a big hit for me back in the day. I can still recall the frustration and anger I was …
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This is remarkable. A 12 year old blog post - and both the links in it are still live:
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Home schooling parents: a nature documentary on Disney+ is a perfectly valid natural history lesson, …
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Today’s Social & Digital Lunchbreak is out. Let’s not talk about what happened to it last …
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We’re still weeks away from re-opening swimming pools in the UK. We’re so lucky to live …
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My talented sister-in-law talking about Hogarth’s The Madhouse at Sir John Soane’s …
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Hit a million views on Unsplash.
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An old schoolfriend of mine, Nichol Wheatley, has become an accomplished and talented artist. And …
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Sometimes, you only realise how unwell you’ve actually been when you start feeling better. Today, I …
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Better broadband please. kthxbai
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After some thought, I put today’s social & digital lunchbreak outside the reg wall, …
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How to foster ‘shoshin’ - the beginner’s mind. Such a good discipline.
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Finally getting back to the beach. It’s amazing the difference removing the feeling that the …
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30 seconds of Shoreham Beach for you:
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Shoreham Beach is a rare vegetated shingle habitat. And it’s just coming into bloom now. Stunning.
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What you need to know about Dominic Cummings
I’ve been reading Cummings’s blog since long before anyone had ever heard of him. …
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First sea swim of the year. 🏊♀️
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Kite surfers off Shoreham Beach.
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Photographer friends: can you recommend a good hand strap?
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“You’re muted” has been uttered more often in the last two months than in all the rest of human …
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Ingenious - forces social distancing on trains, while making it easier to commute by cycle: …
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I want a kilt version of this social distancing ‘petticoat dress’.
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There are probably a lot of future PhD theses in exploring why masks have become such a polarising …
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An evisceration of Google Classroom
Google Classroom’s lackluster design is actually perfectly in line with the way we’ve …
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The pandemic office job needs flexibility
I was influenced in this by the work of Nassim Taleb, who argues that a high degree …
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Om Malik: Is Shopify ready to be double-crossed by Facebook? “Curse your sudden but inevitable …
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The Cambridge University decision seems sensible - push the low-hanging fruit online, work on how …
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What will the pandemic do to real estate and the way we live in cities? Here’s a little bit of …
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Blogging in the cramped internet
BLDGBLOG, mourning WIRED ending Bruce Sterling’s blog: […] the pull of regular blogging—the …
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My wife is making two cups of tea - for herself. This is going to be an interesting day…
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I miss cinemas. The longer this goes on, the more I realise what I miss and what I don’t from …
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The time finally arrived. The lockdown haircut had to happen.
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A little beach calm for you.
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Actually made it to the beach for the first time this week.
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So. Our printer just broke. It’s probably the shock of being used more in the last six weeks than in …
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Between home-schooling and trying to sustain a self-employed income, I don’t think I’ve …
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Oh, the Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival is going virtual. That looks like a fun distraction.
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I have won the viral apocalypse. Please send tribute.
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Lockdown bank holiday camping. Yes, that’s our back garden. ⛺️
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Ed Yong’s reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic really is superb, like this piece on the …
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This is new to me, despite being three years old - and is quite lovely, if a little melancholy:
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Why a vaccine is unlikely in 2020
Don’t hold your breath for a COVID-19 vaccine in 2020: It is only once researchers have taken …
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A stunning late afternoon down on Shoreham Beach.
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After three mildly stressful days, the results of the PCR jury are in: and I’m clean. (I was asked …
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My four year old daughter has just declared that I am the leader of all journalism in the world, and …
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Listening to the Independent Sage group talking online, once again I’m struck by how willing the …
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Three learning byproducts of the current crisis
Things I have learned through reading about Covid-19, which aren’t actually about it:
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Generally not a huge fan of Nietzsche, but in thinking about social media and how you should behave …
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Oh, dear. Here’s a piece advising SEOs to use fact check markup for marketing purposes. This is why …
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April in 32 seconds and 13 years
So. That was April. It lasted just over 13 years, I only drove the car three times, and those were …
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The danger of valuing confidence over humility
This is a really key insight in Ed Young’s superb piece The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Be This …
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That’s about as socially distanced as it gets.
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Lockdown reasons to be cheerful…
Some folks here on Shoreham Beach are being a lot more creative with lockdown than I’m …
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Me pre-lockdown: Do we even need a printer at home any more? Me in lockdown, and homeschooling: We …
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This fella dropped by while I was lounging in the garden.
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Our family lockdown exercise. I love these three so very much.
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If you give your article a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” I will not read it.
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I’ve got the perfect background for the next few Zoom meetings. Very professional, I think.
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When lockdown eases, which approach do you think companies will choose? Allow more remote working? …
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Consequences, consequences: WarnerMedia Is Rethinking Theatrical Release Model Huge TVs with good …
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Evidence, I think, that my daughters are handling this lockdown more productively than me. The worst …
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D-Nile
Odd, odd 36 hours. It turns out that I was in emotional denial about how much the world has and will …
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Rough day - two bad pieces of news about two different projects means things are looking financially …
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Ballet class via Facebook Live.
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Agenda: Tuesday 21st April
Difficult evening last night. I found it hard not to think about all the things that this situation …
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My weekend project was taking a moribund blog, exporting it, migrating it to a new platform and …
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Agenda: Monday 20th April
Morning all, With at least three weeks to go before there’s any chance of easing this …
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Spectacular caterpillar nest in a tree.
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This is fascinating. Ash trees most likely to overcome killer disease if they stand alone: The …
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The Goodies helped define my humour and view of the world as a child. This makes me unspeakably sad: …
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Tonight I am transcoding an Easter Service video, produced remotely by multiple local households, …
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Prepping a video for the local church. Not how I expected to be using this kit…
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Here’s the big question on my mind: how does journalism survive the Covid-19 crisis? And I …
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Dr Tinworth and I started watching The Mandalorian last night. OK, I now understand the fuss. It …
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Lovely 13th Doctor short story from ex-Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat: The Terror of the Umpty …
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Testing video setups is much harder when you actually have to share your home with the rest of the …
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Socially distanced martial arts classes begin…
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Funny how my plans for the year have now largely boiled down to:
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The co-founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom has re-emerged with a blog and It is all about …
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We can’t fight the big hiatus. So, we have to embrace it.
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I have just remembered that once, a very long time ago, I drank whisky, smoked a cigar and chatted …
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The speed with which some local folk have started demanding that martial law be imposed is quite, …
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I’m gonna be really good at these motionlapses by the end of 🔒⬇️
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Life blossoming in the espalier trees.
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Nearly 14 years ago, then-French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy talked to the attendees at …
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I’m really enjoying the process of pulling together my daily distractions newsletter. Finding …
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And so it goes. Another morning in lockdown.
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Somebody is being far too generous about my linguistic competence.
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Shooting random time lapses, because why not?
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Remember folks: stay the f*ck at home
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April is here. Off I go on trying to post on One Man & His Blog at least once a day: Viruses, …
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One reason the UK is struggling on Covid-19 testing: centralised policy decision are leaving labs …
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John Gruber: How to Open the Emoji Keyboard While Using a Hardware Keyboard on iPadOS But the …
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Seven’s a good age for learning to code in Swift, right?
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Dominic Cummings in isolation as pressure mounts over NHS testing - I suspect that means that pretty …
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Well, the quasi-lockdown in the UK is really good at showing up who are the selfish people in your …
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Parenthood involves far more gluing toys back together than I expected, to be frank.
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So, today I corrected one small piece of misinformation about the government’s position, and got …
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We need more than great coronavirus reporting right now. We also need distraction — and journalists …
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How BBC Radio 4 is going to keep The Archers going during Coronavirus lockdown.
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Here I am in the Stockport Advertiser in July 8th 1976:
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Blossom in the garden. Nature’s beauty continues, oblivious to our anxiety. And it is a balm for it, …
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Dear fellow journalists, It is not necessary to give every article an intro linking it to the …
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Is it right to be shopping online for non-essential goods right now? A good piece by Rachel Moss for …
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Where is the coronavirus information campaign?
This is a good point in an otherwise rather run-of-the-mill “tutting at the tutters” …
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Clapping for the NHS in Shoreham-by-Sea.
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A new take on my Engaged Reading Time newsletter. 3 links a day. None of them about the coronavirus. …
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I’m slightly jealous of people who are dealing with lockdown boredom. Luckily, I still have enough …
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Consequences a’coming. Any way back from this? The Cornish revolt against second-home owners.
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This is a challenging read, that slowly brings me around to a position I never thought I’d hold: We …
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This morning: teacher
Now: cook
Afternoon: back to working
Evening: 🥃 Repeat for an indefinite …
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Perfect timing for the quasi-lockdown: Disney+ is live in the uk
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Tuesday
Yesterday was a good day. After a bleak start to the morning, I managed to find my mojo and buckle …
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There are times when I think one of the fastest ways to stop coronavirus misinformation spreading …
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A quick history of technology lesson - now the girls understand why the return key is called the …
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Computing lessons with Mr Tinworth. The pupils are learning that there’s more to iPads than games.
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Currently staring at a newly-arrived “while you were out" card from a delivery company. I mean, …
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Monday
I do find myself wondering about the long-term mental health implications of this crisis. …
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Well played, Beach Deli. Well played.
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Highly socially distanced beach walk. Hoping the idiots who are carrying on as normal don’t take …
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A Tory rebellion for the self-employed?
There is a growing Tory backbench rebellion on the lack of measures …
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That’s one way of social distancing.
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Not one of my better timed recent purchases…
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“Does anybody remember the old days, the days before, when we used to have coffee shops and pubs, …
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Looks like the whiteboard has arrived - ready to start delivering courses remotely.
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Look, I know the world doesn’t need more “how to work from home" pieces. But I wrote mine …
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Every gamer who is now working from home and video conferencing is feeling very smug about their …
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Just saw my daughters off to school for the last time for the foreseeable future. Homeschooling from …
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At this difficult time, I would like to reassure everybody that, for the sake of the nation’s — nay, …
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All respect to the Debenhams marketing team for giving it everything they’ve got in this …
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‘Conan’ To Air New Shows Beginning March 30 – shot in his iPhone: ”The new shows will be shot …
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Has anyone seen any reporting on how the anti-vaxxer communities are reacting to the pandemic?
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So, I’d like to apologise for wishing to spend more time with my family, whilst holding the monkey …
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Why Coronavirus social distancing is negatively impacting social media content moderation.
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Facebook’s moderation problems last night - what you need to know.
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This is a sobering, but thoughtful, read: We’re not going back to normal. No, I don’t …
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Twitter’s role in a time of global pandemic,
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How do you cope with losing half your income in a matter of weeks?
I’m struggling tonight, as I read about the people who are looking at this period of social …
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My daughters are currently in the bath pretending to be antibodies attacking a virus as it binds to …
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Video from my wife of Victoria Station this morning at around 10am. She estimates it was 80% quieter …
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Supermarket delivery is being overwhelmed
25% of UK shoppers polled by RetailX have reduced or completely stopped shopping …
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Hard to disagree with the last line of this, although I hope we’ll see better behaviour, too.
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Behaviour change is hard. But if we don’t evolve - we suffer the consequences.
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Social distancing at my local coffee shop.
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Well, things are getting a little, um, motivating. I’m self-employed, and make the major part …
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Good day on the hagstone front.
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My January in one second everyday. (I always seem to be playing catch-up with these.)
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Pleased with this one. The print is long gone - it was in display in a photo cube and was bleached …
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So. After supper Iris gets down, grumbling a bit. And then sits in the corner assiduously writing. …
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Trying to amplify signal, not noise.
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Let this destress you in the midst of the current mess: A Joyful Flash Mob Plays Beethoven’s …
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So, based on what is emerging from my scanner as I work, I was quite a cute toddler. Unexpected.
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Scanning 126 and 110 format negatives with a Plustek OpticFilm scanner
I’ve been taking photographs for a long time. I was a photographer as a primary school child, …
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This is one of the best and most measured pieces I’ve read on Coronavirus (from a scientist): Rupert …
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Hidden in the UK budget - the government will levy an additional 2% tax on social media companies, …
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I worry that coffee shops (and elsewhere) now refusing to let customers use reusable cups because of …
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A London hairdresser marketing its way through Coronavirus.
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Om Malik on how social networks lose our trust.. Thought-provoking.
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Cleaning up negative scans in Photoshop on my iPad is quite soothing.
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Rather concerning, if not surprising piece: Russia ‘hired network of Britons to go after …
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Britain is currently split between those buying every roll of toilet paper in sight, and those who …
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Well, the course I was running today may have been cancelled (yes, Coronavirus-related), but the …
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Hard to disagree with this one: Quote of the Day
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Well, the panic buying is clearly still happening. This is Waitrose in Worthing a few hours ago - …
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Post-Nature Tots babychino from the Woods Mill café.
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Oh, fabulous. Coronavirus means we’re back to disposable coffee cups: Starbucks Will No Longer …
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This is a rather concerning piece from over the pond: ‘It’s Going to End in Death’: Doctors Say …
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It’s fun looking back on my old “blogiversary" posts - like this one from 11 years ago, …
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Well, now. One Man & His Blog is 17 years old today. That’s astonishing. It’s …
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Oil consumption just fell off a cliff…
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Could the coronavirus be a globalisation inflection point? Maybe. If we want it to be.
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I have managed quarter of a century as a journalist without hearing the phrase “fronted …
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Children in school. Bird food topped up. Dishwasher on. Coffee made. Dammit. It’s time to do …
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I do wonder if the double-whammy of the climate crisis and the coronavirus might make us think a …
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David Allen Green’s characterisation of us entering “Brexit: Season 2" is a useful one, I …
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Actual interview with actual scientist for those who are overwhelmed by inexpert hot takes on …
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Spectacular sunset as storm clouds approached this evening.
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Sea still lively in the wake of the storm.
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Craig Mod, in his Roden newsletter: “What I find most dangerous about Twitter is that it can …
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Trees and the climate crisis
I do worry, however, that a destructively naive view of nature and a rush …
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I was doing some site analysis for a client, when it occurred to me that I’d never registered …
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The government just made us look untrustworthy on the world stage
The Law and Policy Blog, David Allen Green: The moral hazard of the United Kingdom casually …
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Interesting piece from The Atlantic suggesting that the coronavirus is likely to join the cold and …
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This is an absolutely fantastic essay on how fragile the cultural works created on the web have …
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Nic Tinworth, Hong Kong trail community legend, dies aged 44. This is sad news. Nic and I were …
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Well, this is troubling. ¼ of all climate crisis tweets appear to be generated by bots - and 95% of …
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A day of exploring with my girls. Making progress on a long walk.
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This post by Euan Semple, which is an expression of moral relativism (or adjacet to it, at least), …
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Brexit consequences: Google moving UK data to the US - where data protections are weaker.
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Polarisation wears an unexpected face in today’s Engaged Reading Digest.
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Iris is having an artistic moment.
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Kinda struggling to believe that Facebook can’t afford enough developers to do an iPad app.
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Looks like Storm Dennis has abated enough that the kite surfers are heading out again.
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This is a fascinating, and troubling, German investigation into the way corporations are funnelling …
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The girls appear unimpressed by my efforts to get them to go for a walk in the face of Storm Dennis
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A new town, alone and on foot
Martin Belam, on the joys of travelling to see his team play an away game: I also think there’s …
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Podcasting the great outdoors - one of the ways I try to disconnect from work over the weekend.
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Spotify is trying to become podcasting’s gatekeeper. We musn’t let them.
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I’m pleased with this one, winding up our VUCA series for NEXT Conference:
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My major lesson this year so far is that the right new coat can do wonders for your self-image. Good …
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Watching the boats on the Adur rise as high tide approaches.
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Whatever happened to Yahoo’s digital time capsule?
Marie Boran asks if everyone has forgotten about Yahoo’s digital time capsule?: This was to be …
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This video might challenge your ideas of what you can do with an iPad: Editing Podcasts with Ferrite …
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The psychology behind Boris's war on the media
Nick Cohen on why Boris Johnson is so suspicious of the media: I suspect there is a strong element …
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This is absolutely one of the things that makes me uncomfortable about most newsletter software. It …
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The information ecosystem is badly polluted — and journalism is playing its part. We need to clean …
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Great newsletter from David Mattin on the creation of the technocratic elite. This is shaping up to …
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The (brief) time we decided to share the beach with Storm Ciara yesterday…
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Rob Beschizza: Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety …
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Actually getting out of the house to work – it’s far too rare at the moment.
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After Ciara
This was the garden at 8am this morning, after the worst of Storm Ciara had passed: Not too bad, …
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Typical Medium post: “I’ve never been married, but I’ve spend 20 minutes with a search engine, and …
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Gotta say, it’s a bit breezy out today…
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A letter of recommendation. Great as ever.
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Mac photo editor Luminar 4 Sends Data to Facebook in the Background by Default. I’m glad I stopped …
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Well, this reads like the opening of a horror novel: Inaccessible first-floor Wisbech property for …
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Beach plant. One of the nice things about Shoreham Beach is that, as a protected and rare habitat, …
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Welcome to the 21st Century. Now patch your lightbulbs to stop them being hacked…
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The head of Apple News steps down after less than a year. It’s looking like the most troubled of …
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A new report on UK news consumption during the general election shows that many of the things we …
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Reading some embargoed research - and it is basically 😱. Huge shift to the way I think about
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Spot the children’s beginning reading book.
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TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed - and the challenges ahead are beginning to emerge.
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Y’know, normally I mourn layoffs at a content website. But I’ll make an exception for The Daily …
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Russell Davies always does such creative One Second Everydays: January 2020
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I’ve never come across any device that’s better for writing on than an iPad. There might be a big …
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Unsplash’s Year in Review makes for fascinating reading - and the images are stunning.
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Well, this is one way of dealing with it: The Daily Dot, Nahila Bonfiglio: Influencer gets revenge …
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On my Om, Om Malik: iPad at 10. An affair forever: ”And after so many years, I can confidently say …
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The great unsolved mystery of the last 22 years: we still don’t know what she gonna look like with a …
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I don’t tend to procrastinate on difficult tasks. It’s the boring, repetitive ones I put off …
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Finally started watching Halt and Catch Fire. I now want to listen to a lot of 80s music. 📺
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Took a riverside walk today. It’s a good reminder that Shoreham-by-Sea is still very much a working …
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This is rather lovely, too. Classic on the outside, modern on the inside: John Pawson designs his …
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This is an excellent set of suggestion of how to write a better newsletter.
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Good Lord, this is a lovely house: Forest house of stone and glass is reflected back in water
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Lovely hagstone find on the beach just now.
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Hagstones - the sea’s beautiful gift for the mindful.
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What the actual f***?: Well-heeled climate deniers are buying Youtube ads on major brands’ …
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I’m not a great one for making too much of New Year, but it is a great marker for doing some …
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Brighton, from Shoreham Beach.
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Quite a day, down on the beach… <img src=“ …
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My old employer — RBI — has all but completed its exit from journalism. Its answer to the problem of …
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Oh, Lord. I just tried to swipe to scroll a print magazine. 🤦🏼♂️
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I’m pleased with this for 49p.
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I feel seen: Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again
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What’s the best thing you’ve read online this week?
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Lies, damn lies and Facebook metrics. The network’s inflated video views killed College Humour, …
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Vimeo appears to have a new social video creation tool in beta: vimeo.com/create
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Just occasionally, bad things happen to bad people in an amusing enough manner to give you faith in …
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OK. This is… quite a story: The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a …
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Newsletters are a particularly brutal medium. You put in the work, craft something you are proud of …
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Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
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I’m trying something new - triggered because I couldn’t get this stuff in my usual links digest if …
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Headline of the day: It’s Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons
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There’s a slug on the kitchen window this morning. Our kitchen is in the first floor. I can’t decide …
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Dry January? I’ll drink to that… 🥃
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This week has given us a rather ominous look into the future of political #journalism: Dominic …
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Why aren't we taking Australia's bushfire apocalypse more seriously?
But the response to what’s transpired in Australia — again, over a period that …
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If you haven’t been paying attention to just how massive the bushfire crisis is in Australia, …
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Oooooh, Matron… Operio collection by Dead Lotus Couture aims to put latex “in every wardrobe”.
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Journalism's Facebook narrative
Dave Winer on journalism’s narrative around Facebook: Saying online is dangerous is like …
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The scam of pseudo-attention metrics
Part of the scam is that the pyramid scheme of attention will somehow pay off for a lot …
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It is quite remarkable that one of the biggest things to happen in UK politics so far this year… is …
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Who broke journalism?
”I would like to add that greedy and short-sighted executives and media company owners …
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Consume Better — recommendations from the team at Hamburg’s NEXT conference (including myself) …
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It’s well-known that women are under-represented amongst both Wikipedia editors and …
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I’ve reached my daily reading goal on Apple Books. I’m using it to try to push myself to spend …
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Currently reading: Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods. Enjoyable short fables about …
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Found on the beach this morning. Someone’s feeling patriotic, clearly.
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Buckle up. Here we go again: Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of …
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I included this photo in my latest Engaged Reading Digest because I like it so much. It’s very …
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Wow. The memory cheats sometimes. I tend to think of my early years in editorial development as …
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My children have finally discovered the ability to sleep in… …2 days before they go back to school. …
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I have learnt more about video encoding and transcoding in the last three months than I expected to.
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Is it me, or is Gruber a bit pissed (in the British sense) in the latest Talk Show? 🥴
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My December in one second every day.
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Starting the year as I mean to go on: The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020
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Happy New Year, you. Yes, you.
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The year is done — so it’s time from my annual round-up of One Man & His Blog’s top 10 posts of …
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I have reached the point in coffee fussiness where, after being disappointed with a coffee when …
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The people’s web could be so much more interesting than the big F
Anil Dash on the people’s web: If we’re going to build a new web, and a new internet, that …
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Interesting thoughts on flow in blogging apps (the same applies to all CMSes, I think): Scripting …
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If you still believe that there’s a discernible formula to a successful podcast: Text …
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Germany Has Created Dedicated Work Visas For Esports. (I’m fascinated by how few countries are …
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Somebody’s turned down the contrast on Sussex.
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Plenty of drama in the sky off Shoreham Beach today.
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Are we sleepwalking into a dystopia? The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will …
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Headline of the day: Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono
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Perfect weather for trying out my Christmas coat…
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Practice ‘scruffy hospitality’ : Your home doesn’t need to be picture-perfect to …
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Merry Christmas from one man (and his blog).
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Just an intimate dinner for a few chums, wot.
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A very Victorian Christmas at Tyntsfield.
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I think this bauble crop is nearly ready for harvesting.
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Today’s Engaged Reading Digest: killing comments, surviving after redundancy, getting better …
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Oooh, my sister-in-law is in Vouge.
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Heh. One unforeseen side-effect of having a newsletter - you get to see who is already on their …
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As a lecturer, nothing makes you feel better than a student who turned in something pretty mediocre …
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Newsletters are beginning to over-whelm my in-box. Time to try out Feedbin’s ability to …
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This is a really interesting view from inside the BBC: GE19 - from the presenter’s chair.
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I found my parents’ old tree angel, so she’s back in service after a decade off.
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This is a useful read: What does the future hold for progressive politics after the Conservative …
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Andrew Sullivan’s profile of the newly-elected PM from last week is worth revisiting in light of …
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Great analysis from the FT data team: last night, Labour lost the working class.
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Three questions about the UK’s journalism and social media landscape after the General …
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I think this is an interesting read. To hold the seats they took this election, the Tories will have …
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God, there are times when I hate being right. This really is one of them. Everyone blames algorithms …
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Tonight I will be staying up for the exit poll and no longer. I want to face whatever tomorrow …
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Hard to disagree with this. If only he’d been on the ballot…
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Toxic
It says something about the toxic state of British politics that I recorded a podcast about my …
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I have a nasty feeling that in 20 years’ time, our children will be asking why we wasted so much …
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Here’s an inspiring fella: The beach clean-up crusader
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A round-up of some of the big misinformation stories surrounding the general election.
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Lovely morning down by the Adur.
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Worrying side-effect of the internet ban there: people’s social media accounts are dropping to …
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Paint the whole world with a 🌈
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My November in one second everyday.
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Making the most of a blustery day on the beach.
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My daughter won the school limerick competition. I’m trying not to literally explode with pride - …
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Revolution Games, David Vaughan-Jackson: Beyond a Steel Sky – Release Update Always disappointing …
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Today’s Engaged Reading Digest is all about the memes - but not in a fun way. (Bonus Baby Yoda …
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A pretty brutal examination of cancel culture, the psychological motivators, and its inherently …
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Chilling tale of how an ordinary teenager can be progressively radicalised by… memes. And people …
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Compelling — and troubling — dive into the weaponisation of memes.
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After school beach trips - not just for the summer!
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Yesterday, the Reuters Institute published some research into podcasting and journalism. …
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Frost hit last night. I think autumn is done and winter is here. ❄️
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My Podcast playlist for Sundays has the best episode names.
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Finally, the coveted micro.blog 30 day pin is mine.
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There’s nothing better than a nice, fussy way of making your coffee…
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Shoreham’s looking festive tonight.
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I back the Contract for the Web because the vast potential of it for humanity is being undermined by …
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Abstaining From Social Media Doesn’t Improve Well-Being, Experimental Study Finds - a relief for …
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Now, that was a tiring couple of days.
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Canary Wharf was starting to look festive earlier.
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The mere existence of deepfakes is eroding our sense of shared reality - even if we’ve never …
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The need for deliberative digital spaces
Digital democracy will face its greatest test in 2020 - Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Guardian: Facebook, …
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(Country) walking to grow your subscriptions, radicalised on Reddit, and more good reads from the …
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Fascinating interview with a Mastadon founder. A little glimpse of how the internet could have been …
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There are many fine advantages to working from home. Dealing with my wife in her full-on …
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Lovely Autumn day in Shoreham-by-Sea - between the rain, at least.
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Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under” 🤯
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Toy justice is swift and brutal in these parts.
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A well-used semicolon can be a thing of beauty.
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Wow. Flashback five years to when Hazel and I appeared in a software advert. I am happy to say I …
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This week I learnt that the Opera browser is now owned by a Chinese investor, that Opera News is …
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opens Twitter
reads for 2 minutes
goes to bed despairing of humanity 🛌💤
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It’s probably a sign that I’m over-tired and need some sack time, but I’m bloody …
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Having used both WordPress’s Gutenberg editor and Ghost’s block editor, I have to say, I …
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This may be the most perfect Star Wars image ever.
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Do you want Hulks, universe? Because this is how you get Hulks: Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever …
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Honestly, the British retro gaming scene appears to be one big old cesspool.
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New iOS and iPadOS bug fix update hit last night, if you missed it:
MacUser, Jason Cross: Apple …
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Fingers crossed that I am on the final stage of a difficult evening, and will be home for a whisky …
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Memex 1.1, John Naughton: Foresight, ignored — the founders of Google foresaw the possiblity of …
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I was initially excited when I found this site for Sussex bloggers, because it felt very like the …
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Computational photography raises some serious questions about the nature of reality, and how we …
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Phones and Tablets are killing the PC
Steve Jobs Was Right: Smartphones and Tablets Killed the P.C.: Apple’s latest iPads are different. …
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What’s the go-to iOS Mastadon client these days?
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Some links that are worth your time - from the psychology of social media outrage, to a celebration …
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My top artists on Apple Music in 2019. I’m not a raging brony. It’s my daughters. …
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Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a 16” MacBook Pro - and they appear to have fixed the keyboard - by …
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An interesting read for those interested in the psychology of social media: BPS Research Digest: The …
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I’ll be very sad if this proves to be true. I started becoming serious about photography once I had …
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For those of you on devices that support it, and are in the right time zone, One Man & His Blog …
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Yo dawg we heard you like Moodle so we put some Moodle in your Moodle so you can Moodle while you …
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How to fix your Twitter timeline using this one clever trick…
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This is kind of awesome: turning old VHS cassettes into clothes…
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I’ve been fiddling around with my Ghost templates, and now fixed it so that comments only show on …
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This is a wonderful read from a couple of years ago:
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Beautiful Remembrance service at Church of the Good Shepherd this morning. The two minutes’ silence …
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Today at Woods Mill. The dirty secret? This was four adults…
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Well, that was possibly the lowest key birthday I’ve had in my 40-something years on the …
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If you love coffee, this is an essential read on coffee prices - and the threat to producers it …
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Nice piece from the BBC breaking down how a fact became misinformation through omitted context, and …
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Imagination Unbound (video)
This is an interesting watch, and visually inspiring in its own right:
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I did not know this: Why Saying “Namaste” is Culturally Insensitive and NOT Just a Yoga Term.
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Mean
Yes, I know that this was yesterday’s prompt, but I didn’t get to it (even though I …
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OK, the app became garbage, but I do miss having something called iTunes on my Mac. It was such an …
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Possibly the least surprising thing Dave could write about JsonFeed. And the fact I remember the …
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Nothing suspicious about this at all. Nope: No 10 blocks Russia EU referendum report until after …
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Well, hello Photoshop on iPad.
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Lordy. Pac-Man Gets An Official Theme Song for 40th Anniversary It’s called - wait for it - Join …
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Such a beautiful crisp, autumn morning, with a lovely “after the storm” feel.
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Beautifully peaceful with plenty of birdsong at the station this morning.
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Spending the day liveblogging Open Data Camp 7 in London.
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Early start to London. Not what you’d call busy at the station.
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Pretty much her idea of heaven.
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Four witches, a cat and a vampire just left my house, to demand sweets with menaces. 🎃
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The digital is inescapably political. It’s time to accept that.
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Hello flamingo! 🦩 (New emoji in iOS 13.2)
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Lovely sight to start the morning.
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Weird. My big iPad Pro took much, much longer than any other device to update to 13.2.
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Oh, hello. iOS 13.2 is here. Time to update ALL THE THINGS again. (Including HomePods and AppleTV.)
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Still a few traces of summer in an autumnal morning.
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Gotta say, my old school friend the artist is pretty fancy these days…
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Nice to have company for my daughters’ martial arts class.
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Ghost 3.0 has just launched - and it’s got built in tools for building a membership site for …
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I apologise to the affront to your ears, but I’m on a podcast: [Micro Monday - 70: Adam Tinworth …
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Well, now, what say you people of micro.blog? Scott asked: Although, does anyone use feed readers …
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This is an engrosssing podcast about the early days of raptor reintroduction in Scotland. We’ve come …
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Crikey. I wrote this 11 years ago - and it’s still as relevant now: “Interesting” is the basis …
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Not only is 8chan struggling to get back online — its co-founder is actively working to keep it that …
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Either this gentleman doesn’t understand One Man & His Blog’s audience - or I don’t…
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Autumn mist
Distinctly misty and autumnal at Lancing College this morning.
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I think it’s fair to say that today’s weather has been changeable…
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Inktober is one of my favourite “internet challenges”. It fills my feeds with such interesting …
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This is the sort of thing that happened more often in the pre-platform days of the internet: A Free …
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Biorecycling plastics with enzymes
Carbios’ new factory will use enzymes to biorecycle plastic: In a matter of hours, the …
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Oh, this is so cool: Grad student defended her dissertation while wearing a skirt made of rejection …
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These are absolutely stunning. Well worth checking out: John James Audubon’s Birds of America
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The reason to study Latin
Report: Students Who Take Latin Have Better Chance Of Summoning Demon Later In Life:: “According to …
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Take some time to listen to Birdsong Radio today - and consider how much poorer we’ll all be if we …
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I know it’s fashionable to diss HomePods, but they are hugely popular in the Tinworth household.
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Oh, good work to whomever wrote that headline: Government scraps online ‘porn block’ …
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Yahoo Groups is shutting down. Wow. The history of a lot of great early online communities is about …
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Marvel Shocker: Kevin Feige Takes Over Comics as New Chief Creative Officer. Wow. The movies guy is …
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Oh, look. Yet another round of iOS updates.
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RIP Meetup. $2 per RSVP will kill the platform stone dead.
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Good Lord, I suspect that this is only going to increase the determination of the rebels: Police ban …
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This was a fantastic session by Eliza Filby from NEXT conference last month, looking at the …
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One positive thing about Catalina: I can open the Music app without it bringing my Mac to its knees. …
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Not something I’d considered before - but accurate: The Delicate Nature of Comparing Smartphone …
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Fascinating bit of tech nostalgia: This is How Film Cameras Added Dates to Your Photos:
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Why blogging still matters, even after 25 years:: “The furore over social media and its …
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“Oh, God, don’t upgrade to Catalaina if you want to keep using our software” has been a recurring …
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A round-up of some of the research: Social media and depression
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YouTubers: more influential than newspapers
What Does PewDiePie Really Believe? A few weeks after the Poway shooting, Kjellberg’s publicist …
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Finally caught up: August in one second everyday.
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I think, after seven years, I might finally be getting the hang of Moodle.
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Today's link to make you snort coffee out of your nose
Crazy Apple Rumors Site, John Moltz: Apple Revokes Panic Developer License: Gesturing to a video of …
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Facebook builds the wall
Manton Reece: Saying goodbye to Facebook cross-posting/ Facebook is walling its properties ever …
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The new Catalyst-based Twitter for Mac is out.
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Good news: MacBook Pro happily upgraded to Catalina. Bad news: installer refuses to touch my desktop …
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Apple ditches Trash can name in the UK with Catalina update in favor of a boring one: “Regardless, …
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What do we call podcasts that aren’t podcasts? Good question from Dave Winer.
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Heads up, folks. If you’re seeing huge battery drain on iOS, Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app could be the …
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Oi, old geeks out there. Your favourite memes from the past 20 years. Go. And remember: Ceiling Cat …
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After more than three hours on the road, I pull up at home, and can hear the sea crashing on the …
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Do you think she’ll give me a lift home?
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Why is the day of rest never a day of rest?
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Woods Mill this morning. Although autumn was clearly in the air, you wouldn’t know it from this …
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Goodness. This makes me nostalgic for living in Scotland. And concerned for its future.
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Here we go again: Amazon Prime Video disappears from iOS App Store and Apple TV
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Who knew that The Wurzels covered Pulp’s Common People?
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Today, I am digitising my childhood records while I work.
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Elon Musk hired a really unpleasant person to investigate the cave diver he insulted. Musk’s a …
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Giving this a try - I still rely on Instapaper a lot for work: Michael Tsai: Instapaper Safari App …
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This is a sobering watch. The plastic industry’s long fight to blame pollution on you.
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“What’s the angle we should take on this Facebook story?”
“I know! Agism!” 🙄
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Last month in one second per day.
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Hey, there’s an IndieWebCamp in Brighton later in the month. Need to see if I can arrange to …
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This morning’s fun game: where has my wife hidden my aeropress?
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Interesting academic analysis of the bizarre, disproportionate response some men have to her: …
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I am surprised by how quiet this university is at 9am compared to later in the day. I shouldn’t be. …
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Well, I’m very tempted by this: Gizmodo, Andrew Couts: GoPro’s Hero8 Black Is Boring—and …
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Not often I look back on conference food with affection - but the NEXT conference lunch bowls were …
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Seriously high tides here yesterday. How much higher will they go today?
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A tense moment at fairy hospital: will Vidia fly again?
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Super high tide again today.
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I think this is my favourite of the new watch faces in WatchOS 6.
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Portrait mode on the iPhone X: still a winner.
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Back to the 80s
Very much today’s mood:
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Protecting yourself from social media jealousy
Most of the advice I’ve seen on the issue of comparisons has been around the fact …
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Happy news for me and the other blog platform I routinely use: iPadOS and Ghost
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Early days yet - but iPadOS 13.1 may well have ensured that my MacBook Pro doesn’t get replaced. I …
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My perfect travel companion
Oh, Lordy. I need this: Luckily my birthday is coming up soon… [via Boing Boing]
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A week ago, I saw a badger on my way to the airport. Thinking about it is still making me happy.
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Yes, iOS13.1 is out (including iPadOS). Go get it, brave folks…
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A little editing on the sofa, using LumaFusion and my iPad Pro. Soooo nice.
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This is one of the features of iOS13 I’m really looking forwards to having. But I’m …
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This is utterly glorious film photography geekery: New Website Sets the Record Straight: There is No …
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Saving this to read later.
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Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza: Disney almost bought Twitter but backed off because “the nastiness is …
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My spirit animal is Benton Fraser from Due South. Thank you kindly.
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I often think that the most dangerous phrase in the English language is “it’s simple”.
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Today’s workspace at #next19
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This end of Reeperbahn is a bit whiffy at 8am.
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Feeling very much like waiting for iOS13.1 next week, rather than risking my phone on iOS13 right in …
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The first 20 minutes of #NEXT19 in 20 seconds
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What’s outside our universe? A thought-provoking talk to kick off #NEXT19
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Lovely sunny day today - but Wednesday was a different story.
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Such a fungi to spend the morning with. 🍄
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Fabulous day for Nature Tots.
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Fascinating. I didn’t realise Pinterest did monthly updates on trends across the platform.
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What you need to know about yesterday’s Google algorithm news (if you’re a journalist).
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I think that was the first newsletter to my paying members I was really, really happy with. Now to …
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Nature: How social networks can be used to bias votes This is rapidly becoming an existential issue …
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This is quite a big point too many journalists miss: Media Literacy will not create trust in …
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The only thing from that keynote I’m 100% getting: Apple Arcade. Might get a new watch… strap. Might …
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That trade-in price for my iPhone X makes that tempting.
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Wasn’t expecting the always on Apple Watch. Nice upgrade.
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I have two very excited little girls who have just seen the Apple Arcade trailer. Good price for the …
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Here’s one great reason to love the DJi Osmo Mobile 3 if you’re involved in social video production: …
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Living by the sea really bring it home to you how polluted our waters have become with waste.
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Treating myself to a nice aeropress coffee after my wet and windy walk. ☕️
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”It appears to me that Medium wants to double as a Reader app in an experiment. …
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Having the sort of day where I write what I thought were two thoughtful and useful posts, and the …
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Politicians love presenting us with apparently simple solutions to complex problems. It’s …
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Does journalism have an understanding problem? (tl;dr - yes!)
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Since the end of my days as RBI’s head of blogging, I don’t really get much change to …
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Trying something new: Walking With Daddy
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A year or so back I won an XBox One S. What games would you recommend for me, as a very lapsed …
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Some stunning flowers at Nymans today.
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In a Pub in Fowey
Eating dinner by the sea - how very civilised.
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“If it bleeds, it leads" as a central organising principle for news reporting might be one of …
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“Of course you can wear whatever you want to my wedding, sister”. And she did.
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I have no idea what to make of this:
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Six Colors, Jason Snell: The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that. Agreed. I …
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A walk through the blogging graveyard
Moving from Feedly to @NetNewsWire via Feedbin has been largely a positive experience. The one …
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This looks spectacularly lovely - but is waaaaay out of my price range: Bang 8 Olufsen unveils …
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The traditional camera bloodbath is here, it appears. On my Om, Om Malik: PhotoRealism
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Wow. Fell behind on these. Here’s July - over a months ago - in 1 Second Everyday.
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Look at this. A blog post with actual comments. That takes me back…
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Today’s Engaged Reading Digest - chat apps in protests, how the internet is changing our …
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This is why I carry on blogging.
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”It’s almost seven years, now, since David Cameron decided that an EU …
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Interesting, but not transformative. It’ll help with the mental heath issues around social …
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Unintended consequence of the day: Wild popularity of CBD forces Christian bookseller to rebrand
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My lunch meeting has arrived.
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Working in the M&S Café while my wife and daughter do some final school shopping. I am getting …
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The slow erosion of the democratic norm
Rachel Sylvester makes an important point in The Times: Democracy is about persuasion rather than …
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It’s been a long time since these two shared a spot in my dock together.
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Spending a lot of time in spreadsheets today. Not something that happens a lot in my work, but …
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Don’t look now folks, but I think autumn might be here…
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A nice reminder that blogging was always a complicated and often unpleasant community. Shakesville’s …
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Does anyone else use FeedBin? Considering trialing a switch from Feedly - but would like some …
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This is a fascinating theory (based on a source) on why Apple’s sudden change in beta releases …
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Well the good news is that a lot of people have a much deeper understanding of how our parliamentary …
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Serfing USA
Jeremiah Owyang
: Chances are, you’re probably a serf.:To modernize the last word of Mikhail …
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I’m taking a new approach to link posts on One Man & His Blog. What do you think? Feedback …
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This is a massive dose of nostalgia - I was on a lot of these networks. But, thankfully, not all: …
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This is a lovely story, beautifully drawn.
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The art of pseudo-science in politics
This sums up how many articles and books cloak nonsense claims in a thin skin of scientific …
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A wee update on life, work and blog. Nothing alarming, just trying to figure out how to avoid …
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A day when I find a new pretentious coffee shop is always a good day.
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So, the reason for my silence here over the last couple of weeks was that I was holidaying in a …
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Possibly the most manly thing I’ve done all year…
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Back from holiday to a dull, rainy Sussex. Ho-hum.
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Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial …
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Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her …
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It’s just been that kind of a day.
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Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the …
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Pub sign angles are a surprisingly good guide as to how windy the day is…
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The garden was in fine form today, in the few moments I could steal away from work.
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The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare. Sweet dreams. :-)
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I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time. Result.
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I’m not sure that this acquisition will “produce value”. These are sites with …
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Unsurprising to anyone who has lived in Scotland: Scotland generating enough wind energy to power …
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Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the …
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The latest Black Hat SEO technique: find articles from defunct sites linked to by major news …
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Reasons I love blogging #3478: I spend several minutes Googling “Ted Danson flossing" for a …
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Tumblr as we know it is dead, as a pile of corporate obfuscation makes clear. What’s left is a …
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Nothing is more stupid for a country than not educating its children
”For sensible people, it raised the question: what kind of society …
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This is a worthwhile project: Preserve & digitize 30,000 historic New Orleans newspapers 28% …
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There is a particular danger zone for bad sleep decisions. And I am right in it now. 💤
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Beautiful sunny day in Shoreham by Sea.
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Flipping ‘eck. I can’t wait to use this.
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If you use the Speedtest app on your iPhone, press and hold on the Go button. After a while… …
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I see it’s “update all the Apple devices” night.
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One thing I’ve learnt about myself in recent years is that things like Apple Watch straps and GoPro …
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Social media fatigue — and its rememdy
This is from a post by a former colleague. It resonates deeply with me: I’m so freaking tired of …
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The screen time "problem"
We’re told that too much screen time hurts our kids. Where’s the evidence?: However, in a world …
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The underlying price of digital-only friendship
To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome: This withering of primate familiarity in the face …
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Remembering the weird internet that was
A couple of great quotes from a piece by Owen Williams on Medium (shudder): But when we lose the …
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I think this photo pretty much sums up my life.
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Practicing the art of productive procrastination, by tidying up my Ulysses app.
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One of the better spur-of-the-moment decisions I’ve made in recent years was the creation of a …
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In other news, today I met a ferret.
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Today has been rather posher than normal…
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We be rollin’, they be hatin’
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My eldest on holiday last year.
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The Comfortably Dumb - Om Malik follows up in his post about his growing discomfort with embedded …
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This is fascinating - there’s a new visual language evolving around doing drama in vertical videos: …
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Random discoveries via navigation apps
Lovely, random experience this evening. Apple Maps brought me an unexpected route home, showing me a …
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I think my authorised app connections to Flickr need some updating… (iPhoto 2??)
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I’m with Om on this. I’ve replaced our Alexa device with a HomePod as I’m no longer …
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Well now. I did a vlog from Scotland. Vlogging is really not my thing. What do you think?
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ln defence of selfies - an interesting take on the social context of photography and sharing.
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More catching up - February in 1 second everyday
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The Decline of Historical Perspective - Neil hits the nail on the head here. And yes, it’s worrying.
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Catching up - this is January in 1 Second Everyday.
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New Microsoft Store at Oxford Circus
Microsoft opening a new store right on Oxford Circus in London today. Nice clean lines - but it …
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I do love the feel of the new “grove” style Apple Stores.
:
Listening to Andy’s 20 year journey at the Flock event in Shoreham-by-Sea.
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My June in 1 second everyday.
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Settled up my second payment on account with the taxman. Slowly, but surely, breaking the habit of …
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Catching up with the MacBook news. Prices finally getting down to where they need to be, but a new …
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Trapped in the attention farm
Ever notice that mostly what people post on Twitter is designed to get attention for …
:
After a productive day in front of a screen (or three), I have just treated myself to 40 minutes …
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This is a compelling account of life in a (failing) digital content startup: The Rise and Fall of …
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‘We’re anti-influencer’: ice-cream truck makes Instagram ‘stars’ pay …
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So, when everybody’s in-boxes are cluttered with newsletters in about 18 months’ time - …
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Oh, DJI. I’m not sure encouraging non-consensual voyerism is the right way to sell your products…
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Your data is the fuel for parties you're not invited to
The Global Economy Runs on Parties You’re Not Invited To:As went the ad business, so will go the …
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Teaching 4 year olds to use saws. 👌🏻
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I find this troubling. We can no longer rely on Google being a gateway to the older parts of the …
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Time to get moving on mobility — for the planet’s sake…
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Many PostIts died to bring us this strategy…
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The philistines in this hotel have turned the coffee machine off for the night. HOW VERY DARE THEY.
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It’s all glamour in the consultancy business, I can tell you…
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Looking lovely in the evening sun… 🌻
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Getting a bit dry round here…
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This will probably get me into trouble, but I’m quite excited by Jony Ive leaving Apple. …
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Blimey. Ive leaving Apple to form his own firm - but Apple will be one of his first clients.
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This really was not the plan for this afternoon.
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I have a suspicion that a child may have used this seat before me…
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I have got to bring my tab habit under control. There’s no point opening all these damn …
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The New Wilderness
No two companies have done more to drag private life into the algorithmic eye than Google and …
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Finished drafting tomorrow’s newsletter for my paying subscribers. Feeling good about it (although …
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Is messenger app interoperability feasible without destroying encryption?
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Warning for highly polarising politics… I poked into why #notjewish was trending on Twitter, and why …
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Interesting discovery while booking a trip: it’s no longer safe to assume budget hotel chains are …
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Online community dynamics change as the membership grows. In particular, most networks require …
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Busted the macro lens out, too…
:
Crafting time chez Tinworth.
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Lovely morning down by the Adur as I walked home this morning.
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Here’s one from the archives - that’s me on the left, taking a photo of the chief scout, …
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Seeing this magazine on sale in my local newsagent is odd. I associate it so strongly with my Mum …
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Here’s a soothing 20 seconds of beach life for you…
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Got up at stupid o’clock this morning to catch a train and attend the launch of the Reuters …
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Great Micro Monday @hollyhoneychurch and @macgenie (catching up on a commute). Thanks. Thinking a …
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Just preparing my notes from this morning’s Digital News Report 2019 launch event for publication - …
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Relax - digital is efficient, so we don’t need to be…
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”Facebook, an app where people share baby photos and conspiracy theories…” 🔥
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Passing though Croydon. It’s almost 22 years since I worked here. Not far off half my life ago… and …
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I find upgrading firmware on devices a surprisingly satisfying process.
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Weather could be better, though.
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Nice to be heading up London late enough to drop a bag off at the charity shop and get a coffee from …
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Of all the things to find, a shopping list from my Mum, who has been gone over a decade:
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Go on. Guess which option I picked.
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MailOnline’s traffic absolutely brutalised by Google algorithm update. Let the jokes commence.
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So, um, the answer to “Fake News" might have been available the whole time… in Finland?
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Further evidence that I’m turning into a grumpy old man of the interwebs: Writing about the …
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Working on a Friday, unusually, due to a day swap with my wife. Throughly dreich out there today, so …
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What’s bringing you joy this morning, people of micro.blog?
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“It’s become a truly distinct experience. It’s not an …
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Jason Snell (@jsnell) on why Catalyst apps might be good for… ”Basically, the better the …
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Here’s what excited me about the WWDC keynote today. The iPad Pro lifestyle just got more …
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Thank you, micro.blog folks. I enjoyed sharing the keynote with you!
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My favourite sort of Apple keynote: I have no strong desire to buy anything new as a result of it, …
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All in all, that feels like Apple worked its way through a big old list of things people have been …
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iOS13 supported devices: “New software features will be available this fall as a free software …
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I love it when they do these developer-specific sections in the WWDC keynotes. I mean, they mean …
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I knew nothing about Minecraft before this demo. And I know nothing about it after this demo.
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Twitter for Mac is coming back…
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Marzipan is now officially Project Catalyst.
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Well, that Pro pricing did NOT go down well…
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Nice to see the iMac G4’s best feature back in the new Pro Display XDR.
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Uh. The demo fail on the new iPad selection gestures is not encouraging… The guy’s clearly nervous …
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And there we have it - both external drive support on iPad, and the ability to import files traight …
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iPadOS!!! FINALLY! Snoopy happy dance
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Oh, fabulous. Multi-user support for HomePods is great news. Our living room HomePods get a huge …
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Those elongated ovals from the new version of the TV app seem to be a major design trend in iOS13.
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Oh, wow. That’s a big upgrade on iOS photo editing. But that video editing is even more exciting. …
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Beauty influencers. From the internet. Ah-ha.
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Wow. Sign-in with Apple. It makes perfect sense as an extension of Apple’s privacy policy. It’ll be …
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I do enjoy Craig’s dad jokes, but then, I am very much a Dad.
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Focus on iOS speed two years running? Nice.
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And my eldest is just going to love that lyrics feature.
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OK, Tim Cook just won in our household. Multi-user support in tvOS will be so handy for the Tinworth …
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Forest and soul
I agree with every word of this:
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Forest restoration via doggo
What an amazing way of reseeding a forest: Border collies Das, Summer and Olivia were outfitted …
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This is both a chilling read - and a surprisingly hopeful one: The Undercover Fascist
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This starts off as road crash viewing of a middle-aged meme warrior - but actually goes somewhere …
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Parents spending thousands on YouTube Camp. “Per a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, …
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Ugh. @danielpunkass can’t get his patch into WordPress. Open Source in theory rather than practice?
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The only positive thing I can find to say about May’s premiership is this: I’m glad it …
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Right. This is a good as my liveblogged notes from Hacks/Hackers London this evening at Twitter UK …
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It’s been so long since I used the Underground regularly that I’ve reverted to being a Tube N00b.
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There’s a man on my train wearing a hat with a crown over it, an imitation smart glass HUD, a cape, …
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How we Dooced blogging — and its community
This Vox profile of Heather Armstrong — Dooce — is a deeply melancholy read: In the time that …
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Nice view as I crossed the bridge this evening.
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Today, I have made all the fritters.
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This is a sobering read by James Kirkup: The truth about David Cameron and the ‘mad, swivel-eyed …
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Shoreham Beach, two years ago.
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Inner voice: “This keyboard is filthy. I should clean it before I write any more.” Deep inner voice: …
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Wow. DJI are going head to head with GoPro with the DJI Osmo Action Camera.
The Hero 8 had better be …
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Probably my most self-aggravating work habit is composing emails in my head - and then never getting …
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Politics warning: right-wing comics activists are abusing Twitter’s policies on transphobia to …
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I see it’s an “update all the Apple things” day again.
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Extinction Rebellion die in at the Shoreham by Sea farmers market.
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What’s that sound? Oh, it’s the influencer bubble popping: ”Most global internet users …
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Finally got around to adding another of my key services to my site: Live Event Capture - where I …
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Self-employment is basically a years-long oscillation between being stressed about money and being …
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My notes from the RSA event Schools Without Walls might be of interest to the education-minded …
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The rain, it raineth every day ☔️
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Loving nature is a political act
It seems impossible to me to be, now, passionate about nature and not be also both political and …
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It was windy yesterday at Woods Mill, but the sound is just lovey.
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I love this photo of Iris in the woods from yesterday.
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Here’s something I don’t often do: a review. It’s of Freewell’s All Day Filters …
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What’s good in your world today?
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Shaping up to be a lovely day.
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Wow. This video of an osprey female protecting her eggs in the heart of Storm Hannah is quite …
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This is a compelling read about life in the outer circles of Silicon Valley: ”A film of …
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Working on old negative scans does make me miss the grain and texture of film photography - but I …
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Fascinating how much cars date photos, even after “just” 15 years.
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Big fan of the Extinction Rebellion art style.
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Yikes. An RPG book I contributed to being offered for £115 on eBay!
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I’m so dizzy, my head is spinning… …because my daughters brought some horrible virus home for …
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The guest WiFi at Twitter UK’s pretty good…
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Thanks to my daughters, my iPad Smart Keyboard is looking particularly fabulous today…
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And here’s the final image of Adam, a sculpture at the Eden Project, shot back in Spring 2004.
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Enjoying working in Pixelmator Photo to clean up some old negative scans:
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There was a lot of construction work still happened at the Eden Project back in 2004. I loved these …
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Eden Project, 14th April 2004
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Talented investigative journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead in Derry last night. I knew her, and was …
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Exciting times on the Woodland Trust Osprey Cam. Aila (the female) has been in the nest for most of …
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Facebook has finally banned a swathe of far-right hate groups, including the BNP, EDL and Britain …
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The Wind in What's Left of the Willows…
Time for a #wilderfuture. Yes, I am an old tree-hugger and proud.
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The price of hedgehog influencers? Salmonella…
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Facebook uploaded 1.5 million users’ email contacts without permission. Just as well Facebook …
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This is a telling piece of reporting from the Irish Times. It’s clear that members of the ERG are …
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Interesting that Facebook saw Apple News as a competitive issue: ”The company discussed setting up …
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”But he brightened when he turned to one of the topics that, …
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”To this emotional story, Facebook had a programmer’s rational response”
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Engineers versus investigative journalists
From the WIRED piece everyone is talking about: ”Investigative journalists are like pit bulls. Kick …
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I’m a journalist, and one deeply interested in the future of journalism, and its business …
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The platforms are not the internet
In reality, the problem we have is not the internet so much as those corporations …
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Good piece by James here, pointing out that Assange is a pretty horrible person - but that …
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Whatever you think about Assange and Wikileaks, his arrest this morning will do nothing to stop the …
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I really need to stop letting my blogging slip as soon as my life gets busy. It’s such an …
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Making a (small) splash on Unsplash.
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I’m really passionate about this: the journalism business should be unlocking the incredible …
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Time to test micro.blog’s video hosting…
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Don’t expect free stuff just because you have 2,000 Instagram followers. The “marketing via …
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Ooh, live ospreys nesting webcam from Scotland: LIVE: Loch Arkaig osprey cam
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Ah, my weekend reading is here.
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Yet another Facebook developer leaks private data
An insanely large Facebook data breach: The Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva and an app …
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Fascinating talk about personal responsibility and social media on the State of the net podcast.
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Woe betide any pony that fails to perform to the expectations of Iris.
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Weird flex for a CMS company, but OK: ”Today Automattic is announcing Happy Tools, a suite of …
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This is how hyper-partisan sites die: Inside the spectacular fall of WorldNetDaily, the granddaddy …
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May not have thought relative mug and scanner positioning through properly…
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”My lifelong career love affair has only ever been with bioscience but what a huge, …
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One of the interesting things about the current MacBook Pro keyboard problems is that it’s …
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AirDrop is such a handy feature of Apple devices. It doesn’t get enough kudos.
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It looks like I last wrote about Google+ nearly five years ago — and only to declare it not dead. …
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So, here’s a video from a defunct satire site, about a defunct social network, found via a …
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Wow. Early 2010s-era One Man & His Blog. In many ways, the “classic” era of the …
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Wow - Google+ integration in search. I had completely forgotten about that.
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Something my daughters will never do…
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Bittersweet memories of 1999
Wow. The current batch of negatives I’m scanning right now really capture a moment in time. …
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Just preordered The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson, because it …
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The Traditional Photograph Versus The Social Photograph
I like this distinction a great deal: Jurgenson told me that he draws a distinction between the …
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On the ERG: ”Nobody deserves the ERG, though, which is to politics what food poisoning is to dinner …
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Spring appears to have arrived in our garden.![mp-photo-alt[]=mp-photo-alt[]=](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2019/3962558088.jpg)
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10 Mothers’ Day without you, Mum. Still missing you.
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Literally the most CoE thing ever: Brexit Crisis: Church of England to host Emergency Tea Parties
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“After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high …
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This is an unusually good idea from Twitter: “Twitter is exploring how it can annotate offensive …
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Learning from Mueller
Andrew Sullivan: Mueller Summary Is a Big Win for America Mueller is someone we should study if we …
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Democracy has a price, and you can’t stop paying it.
Democracy has a price, and it’s not an easy price to pay. Nothing is ever completely settled under a …
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Just spent 8 hours in this room with a great bunch of journalists and communication pros, talking …
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Want to be an influencer? There’s a bot for that: A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media …
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Everything you need to know about me can be summed up thus: I used to write RPGs professionally, but …
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WIRED on how Google warped the hyperlinks - with quotes from me!
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Got to say, I’m most excited for Apple Arcade. There’s some games I want to play in there, starting …
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Quick first thoughts on Apple News+. How do you feel about it?
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Beachscape with fisherman and detectorist
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Worth remembering that “reduce” and “reuse” both beat “recycle” in the sustainability hierarchy: …
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😱 🌊 Tourist Posing for Photo Gets Blasted Off Rock by Huge Crashing Wave
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By their fans you shall know them…
PewDiePie fan unleashes ransomware that encrypts hard drives until he gets 100M subscribers One of …
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Apple’s Final Cut Pro X upgraded to version 10.4.6 - and this is interesting: “Detects media files …
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Like many people, I suspect, I signed the petition not because I think there’s a realistic chance of …
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My daughters have very carefully, precisely and secretively placed 10p coins under their chairs. I …
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Oh, dear. When did I enter that demographic? Thanks, Facebook.
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The “Revoke Article 50" petition is closing in on ¾ of a million, and gaining about 3k …
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Joining the rest of my family in marking World Down Syndrome day:
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Yay. My micro.blog Kickstarter stickers are here!
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The speed with which this is gaining signatures is quite something. 100s of extra signitories every …
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This makes me very nostalgic for an earlier era of Apple.
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This is terrifying: England could run short of water within 25 years
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The spread of footage from the Christchurch terrorists attack is clearly unacceptable. To curtail …
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Happy news of the day: my Essential Analytics for Media Professionals course is sold out.
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I’ve come across a number of blogs in recent weeks that have “moved to Instagram”. One thing is for …
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My new pride and joy
This is my new pride and joy. A year or so a switch flipped in my head. The more I watched …
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Blimey:
Disney Reinstates Director James Gunn For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’
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Computational photography and videography is just fascinating: Researchers Found a Way to Extract …
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This is a serious and useful look at the digital context around today’s horrible terrorist atrocity: …
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This sounds like a fascinating read. Preordered: Homesick: Why I live in a shed 📚
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I had awesome wallpaper as a child. (That’s not me - it’s a school friend).
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Oooooh. A kernel panic. How retro.
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How little we change: Ancient Britons Traveled Hundreds of Miles to Attend Pork Fests at Stonehenge
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”Theresa May said they are wasting teachers time – the response was that …
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Mum & I, outside Stirling Castle, in the early 80s.
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I remember, as a child, learning about the great fallen civilisations of the past - and wondering …
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You can catch up on all my posts from last week’s useful news:rewired conference here. Lots to …
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Fun down on the beach today…
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Love the cover of the latest @standartmag by @grigorybabich. Stunning work.
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Journalism clearly needs new business models. Yesterday’s panel discussion at news:rewired had …
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The Adventures of Rapunzel and Mildred Hubble. #worldbookday #worldbookday2019
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Today I learnt that Engagdget is nearly a. year younger than OM&HB and I feel like such an …
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How Influencer Language Is Killing Instagram ”As with any social network, there comes a point of …
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Why the UK cannot see that Brexit is utterly, utterly stupid: ”Orwell must be turning in his grave …
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My coat still smells of woodsmoke from Nature Tots at the weekend. This is keeping me happy on a …
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Time for tech to get out of its difficult teenage years, and grow the fuck up.
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Utterly self-indulgent blog post of the day: What the heck is GoPro doing producing a limited …
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We really didn’t spend long on our customary Sunday beach walk today. Storm Freya is battering the …
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Bit of a token clean today as the girls were in danger of being blown off the beach by storm Freya. …
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Iris made a nest at #naturetots #sussexwildlifetrust
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My goodness, but these are appealing to me.
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Today’s Iris obsession: liferings
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Reporting on the Momo Challenge has not been journalism’s finest hour. It’s a failure of basic …
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Interesting that Pinterest is leading the way on this. People do not pay nearly enough attention to …
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I preserve the secrets of @nextconf by making my notes basically illegible to anyone but me.
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Stunning evening down by the Adur.
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Once again, Facebook is trying to avoid the costs of its scale - but the human cost of its content …
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Shoreham by Sea’s sign game is 💯 this morning:![mp-photo-alt[]=](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2019/45b9025bec.jpg)
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Drinking today: Edgecumbe’s AA Kisii Peaberry ☕️
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Some Ghostly resources for independent publishers. Nice combination of a newsletter and a site full …
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I am procrastinating. And I am procrastinating because I am scared. Bad adders.
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Beware the beach #illuminati
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Totemic discovery on today’s #2minutebeachclean
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Own up. Who left the window open last night?
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Either it’s foggy - or I need new glasses.
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Word of the day, courtesy of an @ernestjournal back issue… slubberdegullion is official part of my …
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Inconsiderata - an ode to digital technology and influencers: Override quiet and thoughtful people, …
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Fog is making the Adur impressionistic today.
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I have a Brydge keyboard for my trusty old 9.7 inch iPad Pro and I suddenly have my perfect …
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I have a suspicion that there would be a decent market for adult Hula Hoops, that fit on adult-sized …
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Some useful thoughts on the appeal of newsletters — and the appropriate tone for writing them.
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With Assistant update, Google says Nest has secret microphone 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ I still can’t …
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Fascinating: A week of podcasting with only an iPad Pro. More and more of the things “you can’t use …
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Today in poor ratios: I will spend between five and six hours travelling to do one two hour lecture. …
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Why blogs still matter even in the resurgent newsletter age. (h/t @cdevroe for the original link)
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Lessons from 1000 editions of a links newsletter. It’s all about the basics.
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The rest of the “information wants to be free” quote (because I’m annoyed at how often …
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I call this piece “the entitlement of SEO spammers”. 🖼
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Winchester does ruins magnificently.
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Coffee Break
Edgcumbes Coffee Roasters & Tea Blenders.
A coffee break in a great wee coffee place on the …
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This is not at all disconcerting.
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Beautiful sky over Winchester this evening.
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Cracking edition of my newly-renamed newsletter going out in the morning (if I do say so myself). It …
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It seems increasingly clear to me that the societal stress we’re experiencing right now was …
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Discourse is not Twitter’s strength, not because of the thread structure, rather …
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Even "green" wealthy people consume impact the climate disproportionately
Well, this is depressing: And even fairly radical lifestyle changes are meaningless at the level of …
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Lessons from two months of #2minutebeachclean
For the last couple of months, my daughters and I have been doing a #2minutebeachclean pretty much …
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Still can’t quite believe that I turned down the chance to work on this beauty - but it was the …
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An article designed for @ismh… The joy of collecting old tech
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News that will fill my daughters with joy in the morning - but which is filling me with dread, …
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Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what …
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The Freelancer Mindset: it's a trap!
The Psychological Trap of Freelancing People who attach dollar signs to their time — or “value time …
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Wow, Blogger really is being neglected isn’t it? The last substantive update I can find is from …
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Productivity in the home office this morning: could be better.
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First signs of spring. (Which means it’ll be snowing within the month…)
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TIL: Apple proposed the forthcoming set of emoji covering people in wheelchairs, with service dogs, …
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The victorious defeat of the open web
It just occurred to me that the prevalent idea that apps killed the open web is completely and …
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Just tried to explain 70s/80s linear TV to my children, in all its pre-daytime TV, pre-streaming …
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This is totally bodacious: Captain Marvel: Official Movie Site
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To give you some sense of how unwell I’ve been - it’s now 60 hours since I had a coffee. 60 hours.
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And here’s your depressing reminder that Brits using .eu domain names will probably lose them.
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The problem with being a one-man band is that you handle your own DNS faff. Back when I had a Real …
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I love Uses This. Such a simple idea: short profiles of various people and the tools they use to get …
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A translation of Zuckerberg’s “15 years of #facebook” post from Zuck to English. (Now with …
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Those are both creepy and beautiful: witch of the farm
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A translation of elements of Mark Zuckerberg’s 15th Facebook anniversary post from Zuck to …
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It’s stuff like this that makes me realise that I’ve been writing about digital media …
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A reminder for long-term Flickr users: deletions start on free accounts tomorrow.
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Scared but excited right now.
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OK. Let’s talk about that bloody egg — and why it does matter. Yes, it’s come to that.
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Now, that’s my kind of article.
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Despite the cold, it’s a really lovely day here on the coast.
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Even a little snow makes a three year old joyful.
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The mighty thaw is well underway on the Sussex Coast.
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That’s looking more like snow.
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Apple kills Google’s internal apps as well.
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If you want to convert me to a viewpoint, you’ll succeed much more often by highlighting the …
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Facebook has officially passed beyond parody.
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If you come up with a business idea, and multiple ways of expressing that idea - and then fabulous …
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Well, this makes me a happy GoPro user: GoPro Plus now offers unlimited uncompressed video storage …
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If you squint, you can see the snow. Just.
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Apple News has more users than you might expect.
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Crikey - my blog had more mobile and tablet viewers than desktop ones for the first time ever. I …
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There’s far too much truth in this:
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I love the neologism “memeocracy” to describe the impact of influencer culture in the attention …
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Apple’s mobile journalism porn - I love the way Apple keeps making the #mojo case for us.
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A calmer moment in a stormy day by the sea:
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Shoreham may be blessed with one of the best library views out there.
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Just when you think Facebook can’t go lower — it manages it…
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Well, that’s one way of stopping regulators from breaking up your company, I suppose. …
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Upscale NYC restaurant bans lone women from sitting at the bar
This is… extraordinary: “I perched at my favourite seat at the bar and started to respond to …
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The latest issue of @anxymag is here - all about masculinity. Time for a coffee and a read.
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One that required a bit of focus, but not too much. Bring on next month’s #AppleWatch challenge.
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I just had a really, really bad idea. I should do nothing about this idea. 👀
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Apple News Expands to Canada in iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4 - Apple’s rolling this out very slowly …
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Ugh. Buzzfeed is laying off over 200 people. They do great work, and they have some fantastic …
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No wonder my chair was uncomfortable - I’ve been sitting on this for the last hour:
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“All these potentially powerful attempts at building a new world using new tools …
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An epitath for Livejournal
Such is the nature of the erosion of our once-beloved digital spaces: there’s none of …
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January 2018 in photos - looking back at a year ago.
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The one thing that disappoints me about most “links" newsletters I follow is that they rarely …
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Why political posts on Facebook will always be polarising.
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This is fascinating, both in its use of cartooning for storytelling and for the way insular …
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A cold and frosty morning on my way to London.
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Gorgeous day on Shoreham Beach. The sun is counteracting the cold nicely.
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”That is to say, I think this new iTunes announcement finally signals the end of iTunes …
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This interview with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is…
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I wrote a very long thing about Facebook, WordPress, CMSes and local journalism. I cater to a very …
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Take a deep breath, bibliophiles. Marie Kondo of Netflix’s Tidying Up: she’s not coming for your …
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It’s been a stressful week, but the view from my office window is incredibly calming today.
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My hard working film scanner doing its thing.
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One of the reasons I enjoy scanning my old negatives is that when a photo of my parents emerges, it …
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Sadly, this is probably accurate: Facebook Doesn’t Need to Fool You
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Study: Dark-roast coffee protects human DNA from damage: This led the scientists to believe that …
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Sharing photos of yourself 10 years apart is a completely harmless social media meme. Right?
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I can also see a meaningful boat out of the window. There may be a meaningful oat on the floor, …
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So… the US president is serving people fast food burgers, the British political class are imploding, …
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Strange old story about a social media fantasist making up an entire life of tech influencing from …
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It’s just light streaming from glass…
So to go back to the funny little text boxes that so many of us nowadays spend our …
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I like this: people have got their sense of pace of tech change wrong, simply because they …
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Fresh out of the film scanner: my late father and I in the mid-90s. Still miss him.
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Making your social media more sane - this is actually a great idea.
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On the off chance you missed it - here’s my thoughts on the key findings of the Reuters …
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Guide’s badges in the 21st century: vlogging
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Your regular Internet of creepy things update.
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Here’s my takeaways from the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 report …
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Does anyone else find the phrase “innovation hub” faintly depressing? “This - here - is …
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Joe Manganiello and D&D in the 80s.
From Joe Manganiello, Super Geek: Owns Dungeon, Dead Guy’s Dice: Those of us that have been …
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Today, I find myself wondering how my Facebook experience would change if I pared my number of …
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I have finally learned to write algorithm without having to look up the spelling. Yay.
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The internet has opened up whole new avenues of psychological and sociological research hasn’t it? …
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I admit this might be a sign that parenthood has rotted my brain - but I believe Babs Seed from My …
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Still a great and apposite piece: How to get human time back from technology.
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This is my regular reminder to myself that actually posting to One Man & His Blog does wonders …
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One day I will come across an example of “MSM won’t report on this!!!!" which I …
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Well, I’ve been enjoying great battery life on my MacBook Pro since it came back from a …
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Facebook is trying to achieve global scale without paying the local price - and that’s …
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China is making podcasts pay - big time. And it’s not based on advertising.
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Today, I forgot the cardinal rule of marriage: I let my wife know that something annoyed me, and now …
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Nice morning down by the river.
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I have tidied up and modernised every post on my blog tagged Doctor Who in a burst of pointless busy …
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Iris: “Daddy, chair are for sitting in, not putting laptops on.”
Busted by a 3 year old.
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The culture wars in one tweet.
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I’m not sure that, even seven years on, that I’ve really adjusted to being …
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First proper day back at my desk since mid-December. The email is soul-crushing.
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Playing with the 4k option on the DJI Osmo Pocket:
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Moody day in the beach. (Can you spot the Iris?)
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I have a nasty feeling Iris is pretending to be me…
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Grabbed the opportunity for a quick beach walk this afternoon. The beach is very much in winter …
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Catchy as the headline is, the real story is a government agency trying to frustrate a legitimate …
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Facebook wants us to know that it’s the real victim here.
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I see Zuck has learned his lesson and is dealing with things with all due humility now… Mark …
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Warrior robots in a coffee shop.
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Controversial: Italy invented coffee culture. Now it’s a coffee time capsule.
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Another interesting bit of analysis of the Apple revenue miss:
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Drinking coffee in Brighton’s Ship Street. It’s been five years since I did this with any frequency. …
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Happy about this - I have at least one new Ghost-hosted project in the works, and I may well start …
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Interesting take from Om Malik about the bad Apple trading news:
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A pre-New Year party for the little ones with some wonderful neighbours. Perfect way to end the …
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Well, this year was all about the Shoreham-by-Sea landscapes… #topnine2018 #topnine #bestnine2018
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Here we go: the top 10 posts on the NEXT Conference blog in 2018. One of them was the very first …
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Digging through the top posts on the Next Conference blog, I found this 2017 piece from Martin Recke …
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Facebook apologists are real – they really are.
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Beaver Bombers at work?
Today I learnt of the existence of Beavers Bombers: While one theory suggests they escaped from a …
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Crime in progress, but the lookout is on watch…
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The Danger of Medium
The danger of Medium is two-fold. Without competition, and right now they don’t …
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On the Care and Feeding of Your Favorite Blogger Here’s the thing - support comes in all …
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Beautiful moomin show. Iris loved it.
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Moomin magic is about to begin.
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Moomin magic (and mischief) about to occur…
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Look, someone 😇 has made our local heros more festive.
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Beach walk, ‘cos it’s Boxing Day innit?
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Things I am doing without this festive periods #1: my MacBook Pro.
I’m spending the Christmas period without my MacBook Pro. On Christmas Eve it went to Apple hospital …
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Down by the Adur. (Boxing Day walk)
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Imagine my surprise to discover that an “influencer” who had vaguely intersected with the area I …
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The children are less enthused by this stage of the meal preparation…
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Prepping Christmas Dinner while watching the Countryfile Christmas Special. Because, yes, I am …
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A very merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!
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The way my hair’s going, I figure I’m about 10 years and a beard from making a decent Santa.
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Today has challenged my understanding of the word “elf”.
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Number of open tabs on my iPad: 0. Days since this was last the case: 3,130.
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Free audiobooks from Apple
Well, this is a great Christmas gift: Apple Books has published six exclusive audiobooks this week, …
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The great pre-Christmas tab purge is underway. Wish me luck.
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Hello. @manton delivers Christmas three days early!
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Honestly, what the hell is happening at Medium? Its latest moves seem to suggest it is becoming …
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Strong and stable. Spoiled for stabilised filming right now - working in some tests for my blog.
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Oh, look - one of my photos is on Devon Life: www.devonlife.co.uk/devon-chr…
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I might need to take a vow of silence for the rest of the year, given how badly I appear to be …
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I have a gimbal in my pocket. The miniaturisation of video continues, and the results are …
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Early Christmas present to myself. Uh, I mean to my work. Uh, yes, my work. That’s it. cough.
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I am ridiculously happy to finally have the time to get a post up on One Man & His Blog - even …
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To misquote Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand the ethical problems with …
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The man who pioneered modern tech journalism no longer feels he can justify using Facebook-owned …
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Today was the sort of day when having a GoPro was what made getting any footage feasible.
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⚠️ Warning - photobomb in progress…
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21st century life: I spent a while last night updating the software on my lightbulbs… 💡
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My sister-in-law has a PacMan coat. 👌🏻
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Morning coffee feels very festive today.
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Smashing Avocado while the world burns
These are the final days of the startup world: At a recent Lyft event, the brand decided not to …
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New coffee shop, new part of London. Oh, the consultancy life.
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Not what you want to see outside your favourite coffee shop in the morning…
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Just booked a night in a budget hotel in Milton Keynes. Will this endless glamour never cease?
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Time to choose a Christmas Tree 🎄
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The angel of cheekiness descends…
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Somebody just tried to explain what Likes are for to me.
🤔😂
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I’d be happy if this happened: Canon To Get A Stake In GoPro’s Future?
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This morning I am catching the OMGEarly train to London.
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The new @blogosphere_magazine is here, so I’ve done a tasteful #influencer style shot to celebrate. …
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On the upside, Tumblr’s bandwidth costs are about to drop precipitously, I suspect.
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Stunning Autumn morning
Walking Iris to nursery was a genuine pleasure this morning - it’s just an incredible day. Cold, …
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Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don’t call back when asked for evidence. …
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One of the interesting aspects of consultancy life is getting small spells in a whole range of …
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My downtime on ghost(pro) last month…
…didn’t exist. For the third month running. Nice work, …
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And let's not forget October…
(yes, playing catchup) October 2018 in one second everyday from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.
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November in 30(ish) seconds
This was our November:
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Apple’s new group FaceTime ad is awesome:
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First Ghost with Koenig and now WordPress with Gutenberg. Publishing platforms are changing fast. I …
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Xeni Jardin on the Sandberg/Soros mess: If she was willing to do this over a mere billionaire, …
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This is how credit card details were harvested from BA. I bet you use one of the sites on the list. …
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🤦🏼♂️ Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros
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DJI leak reveals teeny-tiny Osmo Pocket gimbal Oh, this looks exciting for #mojo folks.
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Looking good on the way back, too.
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Different view for my “commute” this morning.
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Last night I dreamt I was interviewing Jony Ive at Apple Park. Never gonna happen, but my goodness, …
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So, I’ve done the photos thing. Thanks @cleverdevil - looks good!
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Success - new belt! #soobahkdo
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Testing times for Iris… #soobahkdo
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I feel this e-mail subject line is unlikely to be bettered today:
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Iris wants you to know that she has pizza 🍕
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While I do still love a good paper book, there are times that digital books are just so much more …
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After the social network, the new bloggers are coming…
One of the things that I’m most angry with the social networks about is the way they deprived me of …
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Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. (Prince Charming, Prince Charming)
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Post-social network community building needed
I feel like I want to see some more thought around getting the fuck off social …
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Time to kill off follower counts on social networks: As we increase the time we spend online, we …
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I was baffled and slightly depressed in what I was seeing in the analytics I was looking at. And …
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Looks like Instagram’s down for a good chunk of the world. Average mental health of the …
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Just topped up the bird food. Minor avian riot in progress in the back garden.
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5 degrees, rainy and grey. British autumn is here at last.
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Old Toys
I’m slightly concerned that I appear to have grown up in the last few years. Despite the exciting …
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I had my first proper (but quick) play with Adobe Premier Rush - and I’m tentatively impressed.
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So, I wrote about the unintended consequences of partisan satire (based on the excellent WaPo story …
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MediaGazer is really good at inflating my ego in a really unearned way, by putting me in some …
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Just cleaned the en suite toilet so yes, obviously, I’m procrastinating.
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Here’s a horrible insight into how digital tools and age-old psychology can turn satire into …
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Touching. I feel very special…
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Stunning autumn morning in #shorehambysea
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I need to have words with my teenage self about keeping negatives clean.
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It’s amusing to see just how badly timed Zuckerberg’s decision to flip off a bunch of …
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Only seven months between episodes…
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The Ides of May
There are times when I almost feel sorry for Theresa May. She is clearly trying her best to deliver …
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Here’s my incredibly sophisticated micro casting set-up, using Wavelength on my phone…
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The Toxicity At The Top Of Facebook - And How We Need To Move The Social Media Conversation Forward
Some (rambling) thoughts based on yesterday’s NYT piece on Facebook’s senior management and the …
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There’s some new research out on smart speakers and news - and it’s a mixed bag. Use is …
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Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting typos…
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Really nice, measured take on the state of the iPad Pro from Charles Arthur.
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I really recommend listening to this talk by Indy Johar from NEXT conference. Challenging and …
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Writing something to an embargo deadline for the first time in as long as I can remember. I almost …
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This is an absolutely brutal takedown of Medium’s UI and on-boarding experience - published on …
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Despite my previous post, I do enjoy binging on @Monday I find immersing myself in the community for …
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Catching up with a backlog of @monday posts is an odd experience - Just been through a run with a …
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Over a decade since my first download from the App Store. Not much use now.
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This is super-handy: a Google web tool to optimise images for the web.
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It bothers me that people think that Apple’s green initiatives are just “marketing”. It is …
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A caravan of bots and other updates from the misinformation wars.
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Stan Lee has gone to the great bullpen in the sky. RIP, Stan. Thanks for all the hyperbole and …
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Y’know. I just realised - reading blogs used to - and often still does - make me happy, curious and …
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The problem with not working between Thursday evening and late Monday afternoon is that your in-box …
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Remember that Roman thing of having a slave whispering “remember you are mortal" to a …
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Fantastic issue of The Discourse, looking at the dynamics of online hostility - you really should be …
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Things I am not going to do: take marriage advice from a never-married 23-year old “top writer in …
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I feel like those last two books are less likely than ever to get written… George R.R. Martin …
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11/11/18 - we shall remember them
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If Apple could push iOS on iPad forward as fast and as thoughtfully as it’s developing the iPad Pro …
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Headline of the day: Satanic Temple Sues Netflix, Warner Over Sabrina Statue Copyright
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I still find the idea that Apple has in-house metallurgists oddly cool.
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Aberdeen, I am in you. #odcamp
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My school helped shape key Bodyguard character…
This is about The Bodyguard and the school I attended… Bowman, born in Dundee, told how he drew on …
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Turns out friction might be good in social sharing.
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Wikipedia has a paid editing problem — and it might be getting worse. I was approached by a paid …
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Flickr makes some smart changes to its account structure while throwing some serious shade on …
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Missed Halloween with my girls, but based on the evidence they had a great night. 🎃
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Some good updates to Flickr. Now there’s a phrase I didn’t expect to be writing.
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Me, during today's Apple event
Me during the first half of the Apple event: Me during the second half of the Apple event:
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Noting in recent times has made me as old as realising that The Guardian pioneered live-blogging 19 …
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Watching the new iPad Pro stuff, I’m becoming increasing convinced that my current MacBook Pro will …
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OK, this is why Tim is so excited. He’s an iPad Pro man.
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Blimey. Rare stage appearance from Angela Ahrendts.
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Oh, hello Mac Mini. Welcome back.
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Yeah, the 100% recycled aluminium thing is cool. Nice work, Apple. Long-lasting devices made from …
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Ooooh. TouchID without the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Air.
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Tim Cook really does seem unusually enthusiastic today.
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“Influencers” — cheapening the web one post at a time.
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Vogue says “bonjour” to Hong Kong and “au revoir" to Snapchat.
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Y’know, if Twitter really does pull Likes from its platform, it really validates one of the design …
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It’s useful to remember that social media can be tremendously helpful at times, even in the current …
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It seems clear that Zuckerberg has a more total control over Facebook than, say, Jobs ever did over …
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Now, this is an old pen. #sixapart #movabletype
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Our back garden tree is handling the daily countdown to winter admirably.
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Case in point: my two most used blog platforms - ghost and micro.blog - are both new(ish) and have …
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A non-obituary for blogging
The “blogging is dead” meme that seems to have settled into the consciousness of swathes of media is …
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Oh, Google. This is shameful. How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ - The New …
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My contribution to the digital fix debate is out in print…
…in German.
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Revisiting Next Conference, aurally. 🎧 Oh, to be in a Hamburg coffee shop now!
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Many #interhacktives hands make…
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It’s that time of the #interhacktives year…
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The Final Days of Johnston Press - and the parlous state of local journalism in the UK.
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The conclusion of today’s experiments: my 5 year old MacBook Pro is still good for 4k video …
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Blogging is dead… …unless you’re in fashion, where you’re influential enough to appear …
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How people silence each other on social networks - some useful research.
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Government needs to break the tech roach motels. Data portability FTW.
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Firing up Final Cut Pro, and seeing if my aging Mac can actually handle some 4k with decent proxy …
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Queen of the whole damn forest
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Bloody hell: Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs Still, he has a consistent pattern …
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I, for one, welcome our new Swedish Queen and a return to farcical aquatic ceremonies as a …
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This is interesting - despite some of the recent backlash, podcasts are still big enough business …
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Having a very Brighton morning.
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I never knew there was an Autumn emoji. 🍂
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My brain is a ridiculous place. I have an enforced day off because my youngest is unwell - but I’m …
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I have co-authored books with Chuck. Chuck is a good person. This makes me very cross.
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This is an eye-opening read about the biggest issue of the next 15 years: How to deal with despair …
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Barbados, late 2011
I’ve just been pottering around editing some old photos, from our last pre-children holiday. …
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Now, that’s what I call release notes. 💯 👌🏻
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Finally writing the three new training course descriptions I’ve been itching to launch for …
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I backed this film on Kickstarter, and can’t wait to finally see it: Dieter Rams wants Silicon …
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Feeling guilty about accidentally leaving my reusable coffee cup behind.
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If you’re a Brit who remembers the 70s, this album is a joy: Matt Berry - TV Themes
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Such a lovely, simple concept: Technology is no longer scarce, our attention is. Technology is …
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Just been editing and adding links to this #next18 piece, and David Mattin’s framework for …
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Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure I’ll skip the obvious jokes and just …
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This is a whole bag of “nope” from me: Facebook announces Portal, its new video chatting hardware
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This, right here, is why men need feminism, too. Clichéd gender roles are harming both sexes. How …
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The weekend finishing on a high note.
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The new raincoat passes muster.
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Stunning weather up on the South Downs today.
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Selfies Have Led to 259+ Deaths Since 2011 🤦🏼♂️
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I’ve run out of Aeropress filters 😱
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Hello, micro.blog. Show me nice things to remind me why I like social media…
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The two basics of digital #journalism that too many people forget: Attention and Atomisation
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Much as I love Wikipedia, its process for assessing the notability of people is seriously flawed, …
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The best single feature in Safari is its ability to search all the open tabs on any device tied to …
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“Hey, Siri. Play something I’ll like.”
“OK. Let’s press play. Here’s the Corrs.” Oh, we’re going …
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What I loved about this #next18 talk by @ecomoliterno — apart from the energy of the delivery — was …
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My family is actively trying to reduce our use of Amazon. This talk from @t3killer at #NEXT18 was an …
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Andrew Keen’s five point plan for fixing digital, from #next18.
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New academic research suggests that automated accounts used the film to stoke cultural conflict: …
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My September in 32 seconds…
Here’s what my September looked like, in one second of footage from every day…
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September in one second every day. #1seme
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Just had a PR email suggesting that I write a sponsored post about how I slept while I was pregnant. …
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I’m reminded today that what I read has a huge impact on my stress levels. Stuff about social media, …
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Why do I aim to be at the station soon after 7am, when I don’t start lecturing until 11am? This is …
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Interesting interview with Instagram co-founder Systrom in 2012: Can Instagram live on if its …
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Instagram’s founders are leaving, possibly because of increasing interference from Zuckerberg. …
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Working in MacOS Mohave’s dark mode. Interesting - will take a while to get used to (if I …
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This is a beautiful little poem: Woodsmoke: A Poem
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This talk about human higher order needs and tech was just fascinating… David Mattin: New …
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Lots of failure you can learn from here - including the spray-on condom.
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Rolled up foam for chairs. Interesting. (Haven’t dared try one yet.)
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The #next18 live-blogging station set and ready.
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Apparently hotel Wi-fi doesn’t always have to suck.
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All wristbanded up for @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival #next18
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I have a desk mate for the afternoon…
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Well. I’m glad the horrible turbulence was at the start of the trip…
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Leaving behind a grey London for Hamburg and @nextconf and #next18
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Having one of those days that remind me why I’m self-employed. How did I put up with corporate …
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Hard to disagree with this: Bring Back the Shadows: The Case Against HDR
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Just blew some reward points on a Heathrow hotel the night before my flight to Hamburg on Wednesday …
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What could possibly go wrong?
Camping Tent Raft
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The babychino basked in the afternoon sun, blissfully unaware that a predator was about to pounce…
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Apple invents way more than Samsung or Google in phones - but “borrows” more, too. New iPhones, new …
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I’d love to see more cities do this: The entire city of Paris will be car-free for a day
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I’m pleased to say that The Guardian are now acknowledging their earlier daily podcasts — but …
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Goodness. Some of the Apple Watch Series 4 variants have slipped back 10 days in shipping already.
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Decided that I’m not going to upgrade my Series 2 Apple Watch to a Series 4. It still works great, …
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Catching up on the Apple news after the journalism event I’ve been at. Don’t need to upgrade my …
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Final proof that I love journalism more than I love Apple: I’ll be in the launch of some research …
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I’d love to see this book funded: Parkinson’s and the Tango Effect by Kate Swindlehurst: …
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This makes me sad. The Guardian was once a genuine innovator in the field of podcasts - and it both …
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Reading about the floods in Kerala and the clean up afterwards has been sobering. A year ago I …
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Fabulous reminiscences of the Public House Bookshop in Brighton which starts with an attack by the …
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Some interesting thoughts about the lack of distinctive richness in our online social profiles: …
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snigger ‘I Let Everyone Down’: A Blogger Apologizes For Not Posting In A While
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Wishing I’d brought a cot to the school “gate”.
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“Spray and Pray” is not a viable social media strategy for newsrooms. It’s worrying how often it is …
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Interesting piece on what’s shaping up to be GamerGate’s sibling,a dn another example of the extreme …
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Starting on this as soon as the girls get home: I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs …
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Provide something valuable, and people will pay: More than 11,000 people are paying (yes, paying) …
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Nice to see them cracking on with the flood defence work.
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One of the faintly depressing things about doing a newsletter is that within moments of pressing …
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That last post nearly had “kinky goodness” instead of “linky goodness” and now I want to launch a …
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Prepping the latest issue of my sporadic interesting reading newsletter Commonplace Reading. Sign up …
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A page that makes me say “thank God for ebook pricing”: The Routledge Handbook of Developments in …
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I was podding about on Twitter last night and was about to do a comment retweet on something when I …
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Nothing makes a self-employed person’s morning happier than the words “remittance advice” in his …
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Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? I found Zuckerberg straining, not …
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The internet is basically a stroppy teenager, getting in trouble with the authorities, and making us …
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I love blogging. I really do. But it does feel like getting traffic to OM&HB is harder then …
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Just for my microblog chums, this is the piece I was referring to: Don’t be an influencer, by a …
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Just spent a couple of hours writing a blog post, which pretty much guarantees nobody will ever read …
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Gah. Just spend a while constructing a post around a new feature of the CMS I use for One Man & …
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A little thinking on the serious violence and murders in India that follow WhatsApp-spread …
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This is a fascinating read: UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440
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Perfect day for a walk on Shoreham Beach
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I spent ages earlier looking for my green screen cleaning cloth. I just found it.
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Villiers Street, London - 1994
I’ve been scanning some old negatives in a pretty random way - just grab a packet and scan …
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Testing a new mobile working set-up, with the iPad Pro 12.9 and the new Mark II Brydge keyboard…
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Could the way we read online be contributing to the polarisation of politics? Quite possibly.
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My goodness. An update to Flickr!: All new Flickr galleries
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Homework time. #backtoschool
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Amazon is losing out to Google in the in-house spy…I mean “smart speaker”… market. This …
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On the psychological impact of social media: ‘I had trained my mind to flit like a nervous sparrow’
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While Mastadon is interesting - the fact it so closely replicated the Twitter experience means it’s …
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Parenting, Twitter-style
I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter Instead of family meetings where everyone …
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Abusive tweets to MPs ‘more than double’ between elections — given that Twitter’s user …
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Servalan was a defining character of Blake’s 7, and hence of TV culture for a …
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Pre-school shoe fitting. Hazel needs new school and casual shoes. 💰🙄 (grumpy Dad mode in full …
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Deploying the @fabsilofficial to renovate an old #tent
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Testing my original tent from 22 years ago! It’s not been used for 8 years, but is still in good …
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Testing the waterproofing on a 22 year old tent.
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Camp life. #camping #newforest #campingintheforest #ashurst #outwell
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Apples. (Doing a first pass on the photos from our camping holiday).
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Cycle racks in place. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
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Perfect day for a beach walk!
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Watching the babychinos being made in @tomfoolery.coffee
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OMG. Too much cute… We Didn’t Start The Fire (Harry Potter Parody)
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Amazing weather for a day at @springbarnfarm - not too hot, not too cold and some dramatic skies!
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One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0
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I’m excited to say that I’m a contributor to a new book on fixing our digital life, to be published …
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In severe danger of going full brony.
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I’m cringing now to beat the rush. The BBC is doing a new drama about journalism.
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Do I deserve a beer tonight?
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I suspect that the context collapse created by retweeting may be the single biggest mistake Twitter …
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Hacking your SIM card to hack your Instagram. There’s Bitcoin in them there account names.
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Reasons I’m glad I cleared up my study before starting work: I was able to grab my macro lens …
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The new Doctor Who writing and directing team. It’s a lot more diverse than in the past.
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Doing tab archeology. The current wave of tabs I’m working through seem to be from May(!).
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@adders on Instagram
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The web shouldn’t all be about recency - we stand to lose too much valuable information if we …
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This talk by @kevinmarks nearly five years ago is still painfully relevant now.
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Poked at Mastadon for the first time in a while. Great idea, but the UX still needs work. I’m quite …
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Twitter from the outside now looks like a massive world-wide frenzy …
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Calm Technology knows it is useful – but also knows its place
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I’m getting more verbose as I age. Set out to write 600 to 700 words. Currently sitting at 1,200.
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Do you what I like about smart speakers? They just sit quietly, waiting to be called upon, while …
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Coffee and the latest issue of Standart. Perfect.
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Enjoying my copy of @standartmag #nobodybuysbooks and my @aero.press winner collectors card
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Exploring the babychino options in town. This one, from Ginger & Dobschütz, got full marks from …
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This is a sobering read about the dehumanisation deep in the psychology of some Silicon Valley …
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Maybe writing about CMSes isn’t a path to viral content success - but it matters to me. 😎 Content …
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I love “less is more" journalism models. This one is from India: The Ken raises $1.5M in its …
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Some rather curious - and possibly co-ordinated - Instagram hacking going on. Worth watching.
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I just realised what you get if you spell my youngest’s name backwards. Hey, Iris…
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The mask slips, just a little: Facebook traffic to publishers is gone - and Campbell Brown just …
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How Facebook distorted human interactions on the altar of engagement.
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Nice contextualisation: How to get human time back from technology
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Really enjoyed editing and prepping for publication a guest post for the Next Conference blog. …
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Someone who self-describes as “brutally honest” is probably either a delusional bully or just plain …
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Once upon a time, I was generally excellent.
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Not getting on the wrong side of Iris if I can help it…
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Gotta say - I’m proud of my wee girl.
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The interesting thing not really explored by the article, is that the rating the author puts himself …
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Bluetooth keyboard for an iPhone? Sure!
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Love a bit of skyscraper porn: This week, images of Europe’s tallest skyscraper were revealed
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Interesting - Slack has shifted their blog off Medium to WordPress. Now at: slackhq.com
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Lovely piece about both the incredible potential of computational photography - and the romance of …
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My goodness, this makes me want to visit Sweden. (Especially the cabin/boat thing. Want.)
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You have to wonder if anyone at Facebook has ever heard the phrase “when in a hole, stop digging”.
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Watching your partner fall in love with someone else - on Strava. Leaky public data and unintended …
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The worst typo when you meant “general"
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I’ve been largely absent from Twitter for months. I’ve been giving a little thought as …
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“Civility always; servility never”: In this grim age of Trump and Brexit, online fury is a dead end …
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It’s getting to the point when I find a corporate or organisation “blog” that actually has an RSS …
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Sunday morning is coffee time!
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This is not the Beano of my youth - and that’s a good thing: Beano Launches New Comic Strip Focused …
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Hazel’s getting really good now.
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Under 50 e-mails in my inbox. 🙌🏻
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This is a really good listen on the social problems of the social web Ellen Pao on Ezra Kelin’s …
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Greta piece by Om Malik on follower counts and the dangers of seeing social media as a broadcast …
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This is a fascinating read on the need for context to properly frame historic photos and their …
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My little ninja’s successful first test. New belt!
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This really is another step towards the iPad becoming the default creative tool for many: Adobe to …
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Is Apple doing away with its in-built book printing services? Did I miss an announcement?
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Tactical approached to combatting misinformation only get us so far - and people are dying now. Time …
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I have to say, this is not the sort of story you hope to read about a former student: The Times Has …
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A place in the shade, an espresso, an iPad and my daughter’s Rainbows troop in the distance. Good …
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Now, this is how a cartoonist takes his revenge…
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Busy pulling together my curated reads newsletter for the first time in over three months (!). If …
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This is a compelling story charting the rise of a toxic online male culture that led to incel …
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This is a thoughtful and useful piece: You don’t have to live in public
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That was a long time ago. The book is browning at the edges…
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These are my notes from a talk by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at LeWeb back in 2014. He was starting to say …
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Goodness. Who know that my old pro gaming work might open the door to a new career? Digital …
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Bless Blizzard and the Overwatch team for doing something that allows me to write “a teeny tiny …
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The creator of the World Wide Web is fighting to reclaim it from the Duopoly - if you don’t care …
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Good morning. Hard at work in my favourite coffee shop.
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The Web has become anti-human
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t mince his words: “We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of …
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Note to self: never try to analyse the physics of PAW Patrol. (But where does the water for …
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Now my account is all fixed, I’m really enjoying micro.blog again. Thanks, @manton.
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Psychologists have looked into why “phubbing” is so harmful to our social lives - no big surprises, …
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Why the heck has Star Wars ended up with such a toxic fandom?
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This piece on making retail businesses into experience centres is actually quite depressing. I was …
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Oh, GoPro, you make great cameras, but your marketing is so dumb
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The sheer hell of living here on a day like today… 😇
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These boats need some TLC, though.
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Down by the coast is the best place to be in this heat.
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This looks like a good hire - hopefully Apple’s streaming video offering won’t be US-centric by a …
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My inbox is down to 10% of where I started - at 50 e-mails. Coffee time, and then I start catching …
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Ugh. I have unanswered email going back six weeks. I really did lose control of my diary.
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OK - about to nuke the newer of the two accounts. Hopefully I’ll still be able to post …
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One micro-blog account, twice. A seemingly irresolvable issue.
I’m a bit at a loss as to what to do with my account here. Due to some weirdness, I’m …
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Nearly done writing several thousand words for an actual book. How delightlyful old-school, in-depth …
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Overheard in my local coffee shop: “Oh, dear, we’re out of avocadoes.” OMG THE MILLENIALS ARE HERE.
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How this for slow blogging? I just published a post I wrote in 2008. Going online: be brave
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Facebook to small publishers: no Instant Articles for you.
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21st century communication: not only am I desperately behind on my correspondence, half the time I …
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That felt good. I did something that I thought other people might find interesting - and blogged …
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A reminder that Amazon often isn’t nearly as cheap as other options. (And a gentle plug for …
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Thought for the day: if you rely on Facebook to communicate with your friends, you are literally …
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iOS’s in-built screen recorder is an absolute Godsend for supporting family members.
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A long and unusually personal blogpost, which explains why I’ve been absent here, amongst other …
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Why do I find it easier to network to find my former students work, than to get myself more gigs? 🤔
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Gah. The result of being with my children for pretty much all of the last 10 days is that I don’t …
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I’m really happy with that WWDC keynote. Nothing that costs me money, and lots of quality of life …
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I’m enjoying the not-so-subtle shade being thrown at Facebook and its products in the screenshots …
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Astonishing to think this space tech is 19 years old now…
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Not sure this is a great message for the future of the journalism business…
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Just when you thought you were safe from GDPR - the app updates begin.
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RIP StumbleUpon. Once you were a great way of finding stuff to read in a lunch break.
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Bitcoin is a massive environmental threat - really
Astonishing. Bitcoin may be undoing decades of progress on renewable energy: By late next year, …
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Alas, Livejournal. Even George RR Martin has quit you now.
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Lord, this makes me nostalgic: 1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls - Flashbak
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Reading this post by a former colleague makes me realise that I’ve really lost the skill of …
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I have to confess, I paid basically zero attention to the royal wedding in the build up to it. But …
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Pitch of the day: I am writing because I would like to write an article reviewing the best …
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Finishing the day right: wine, iPad and RSS feeds
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So, it turns out that Storyful journalists could see which videos their newsroom clients were …
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“I am about to lecture you about…” is always a more accurate description of articles headlined “We …
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I’m ready for the flood defence works to be finished now. (I’m grateful and all, but…)
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I’m up to date on my invoicing. This is an unfamiliar feeling for me.
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After 5 years, I’m actually getting good at making a note of what fee was agreed for a …
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Hmm. My mobile sessions have shot up to just over half of traffic. That suggests that I hit an …
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One of those days when I thought I’d knocked it out of the park with a post — and everyone …
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Facebook’s approach to news is getting ever more elitist - and controlling.
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Sometimes wasted time is not wasted… On wasting time and triggering new discoveries
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This is insanely cool - customised Westwood, using Newton’s own Star Wars figure collection: …
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I should have a blogroll again.
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The man who coined the term blog has been blogging for 20 years.
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Five years of blog platform Ghost - a podcast
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Life lesson from the last week: potty training and illness co-inciding in the same child is not a …
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This post makes me both deeply nostalgic and deeply, deeply sad.
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The Stories format matters - because it tells us something about what the smartphone is doing to …
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Got a new look for those people who subscribe to my blog by e-mail.
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Having fun doing my homework
The last five weeks or so have seen me away from home on business more than I’ve ever been …
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Having fun doing my homework
The last five weeks or so have seen me away from home on business more than I’ve ever been …
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Today’s coffee geek lesson: If your aeropress starts making a mess, it’s time to replace …
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Today’s coffee geek lesson: If your aeropress starts making a mess, it’s time to replace …
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And on the way home… <img src=“ …
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That was worth the walk. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/f209b428f4.jpg" …
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Medium: destroyer of journalism
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Medium: destroyer of journalism
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Wow. Icro is lovely. Really lovely.
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Wow. Icro is lovely. Really lovely.
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Medium drives a final nail in the coffin of its publishing partners. Way to build trust there.
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Medium drives a final nail in the coffin of its publishing partners. Way to build trust there.
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In memory of the late, unlamented Klout, let’s remember the time its founder failed to defend …
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In memory of the late, unlamented Klout, let’s remember the time its founder failed to defend …
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We need to talk about hyperactivity in media - and why it’s a problem.
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We need to talk about hyperactivity in media - and why it’s a problem.
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Interesting Kickstarter for a book about the original emoji and their designer.
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Interesting Kickstarter for a book about the original emoji and their designer.
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Gosh, look at all the women in Facebook’s reorg…that aren’t there. …
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Gosh, look at all the women in Facebook’s reorg…that aren’t there.
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What’s next for Facebook’s newsfeed… (satire)
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What’s next for Facebook’s newsfeed… (satire)
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Beach Life
The sun is actually out for a Bank Holiday weekend, so we made the arduous five minutes‘ walk to …
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First water shoes day of the year. <img src=“ …
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First water shoes day of the year.
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IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
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IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
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IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
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A shellfull on the beach today.
🐚 🐚 🐚
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And exactly how am I meant to do that on a plane? <img src=“ …
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And exactly how am I meant to do that on a plane?
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Still struggling with two micro.blog accounts with identical names - and no idea which one each post …
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Still struggling with two micro.blog accounts with identical names - and no idea which one each post …
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Possible epic RickRoll in my near future. #ifswoco18 <img src=“ …
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Possible epic RickRoll in my near future. #ifswoco18
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Hello, Belinda Carlisle
#ifswoco18 <img src=“ …
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Hello, Belinda Carlisle
#ifswoco18
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Mr Rick Astley working it tonight.
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Turns out, Twitter is a video company now.
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Turns out, Twitter is a video company now.
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A new language for work, hobbies and meaning?
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A new language for work, hobbies and meaning?
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Probably not worth worrying about on the last day of the month. <img src=“ …
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Probably not worth worrying about on the last day of the month.
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Here we go again. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/4dc56245c3.jpg" …
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Sunday morning beach walk. <img src=“ …
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Sailing under stormy skies on #shorehambeach
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Calm out today. #shorehambysea
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This made me laugh slightly too hard: >“I’m pretty sure anyone who has kids knows how hard it is …
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This made me laugh slightly too hard: “I’m pretty sure anyone who has kids knows how hard it is to …
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Not entirely sure that setting yourself up as the purity police is a good approach to fixing the …
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Not entirely sure that setting yourself up as the purity police is a good approach to fixing the …
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Oh, dear. Started looking at a bunch of things and people I thought were interesting advocates for a …
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Oh, dear. Started looking at a bunch of things and people I thought were interesting advocates for a …
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A little help folks? Can you suggest some other people fighting for a better digital world, like …
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A little help folks? Can you suggest some other people fighting for a better digital world, like …
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Not hard to guess where I am today…
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I really love portrait mode on the iPhone X. It lifts ordinary snapshots into something quite …
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I really love portrait mode on the iPhone X. It lifts ordinary snapshots into something quite …
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Worthing #worthless campaign.
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The thing I loved about Saturday’s education protest is that it wasn’t the normal suspects, but …
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Home made protest signs are the best protest signs.
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Get in. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/7d96a7bd43.jpg" …
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Get in. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/7d96a7bd43.jpg" …
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Beach life. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/58d017d7d5.jpg" …
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Beach life. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/58d017d7d5.jpg" …
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Just another Saturday afternoon protesting school funding cuts. <img src=“ …
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Just another Saturday afternoon protesting school funding cuts.
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This looks like good news. Flickr is finally back in the hands of a smart, photo-centric company: …
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This looks like good news. Flickr is finally back in the hands of a smart, photo-centric company: …
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Heatwave evidence discovered on Instagram: <img src=“ …
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Heatwave evidence discovered on Instagram:
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Well, that does look like we’re having a heatwave, doesn’t it?
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I’m really excited by the theme of #NEXT18 in Hamburg this September: Digital Fix - because if …
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I’m really excited by the theme of #NEXT18 in Hamburg this September: Digital Fix - because if …
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This one’s growing up terrifyingly fast.
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Everywhere you go, everything you do, Zuckerberg’s tracking you…
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Everywhere you go, everything you do, Zuckerberg’s tracking you…
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First pub garden opportunity of the year. ☀️ 🍺
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Where did all those GDPR Consultants come from?
Benjamin Ellis:
> Actually, I’m not wearing a hat at all right now. I’ve taken it off to the …
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Where did all those GDPR Consultants come from?
Actually, I’m not wearing a hat at all right now. I’ve taken it off to the …
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British Airways Boeing 787 for the night flight home. <img src=“ …
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British Airways Boeing 787 for the night flight home.
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Sometimes hotel corridors look marvellously sinister: <img src=“ …
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Sometimes hotel corridors look marvellously sinister:
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Today’s office view: <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/06a4232187.jpg" …
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Today’s office view: <img src=“ …
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On a @british_airways @boeing 787 from Abu Dhabi. Premium economy for the night flight.
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Now this is a good idea: the UAE is planning day visas for passengers transiting through Dubai. …
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Now this is a good idea: the UAE is planning day visas for passengers transiting through Dubai. …
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You can’t beat moody lighting and flowers in a hotel reception, can you?
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Nice to have a hotel right next door to the client.
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Happy with my room. Now to get some 💤 <img src=“ …
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Happy with my room. Now to get some 💤
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Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
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Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
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Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
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First Microcast
Just a first attempt at using Wavelength.
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Well, blast. I just tried to add podcasting to my account, to play with Wavelength. I now I appear …
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Well, blast. I just tried to add podcasting to my account, to play with Wavelength. I now I appear …
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This feels pretty much like any mildly controversial conversation on Twitter these days.
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Oh, cool. iMovie for iOS updated for iPhone X - and now uses Metal for video processing. I can’t …
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Oh, cool. iMovie for iOS updated for iPhone X - and now uses Metal for video processing. I can’t …
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Addicts don't care what they give up
Trust me, the guy behind the register at the deli where I get my …
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This made me genuinely LoL: 21 Rules for Being a Better Thought Leader
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This made me genuinely LoL: 21 Rules for Being a Better Thought Leader
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I love this piece of art in the courtyard at the University of Maastricht.
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Maastricht station is quite impressive.
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Fourth country of the day: UK, France, Belgium and now the Netherlands. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇳🇱
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This chap does not look happy.
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Maastricht station is quite something.
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All Change
Chasing at Liège-Guillemins Railway Station in my way to Maastricht. I love the mix of classic 70s …
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Heading for the continent on the Eurostar.
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A decade since I last celebrated her birthday with my Mum. It does get easier, but never easy.
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Easter Adur-side Pub Walk
For the first time in what seems like weeks we had some lovely weather yesterday. I grabbed the …
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Flood defences going in behind Riverside Road. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
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Easter holiday forced route march with Daddy.
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As long as Twitter rewards hoaxing with attention, it’s going to get ever less useful for …
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With a bit of luck, my Disqus comments should have been moved across to the new URLs on One Man …
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I ain’t afraid of no dentist…
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Change is upon us. One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost - and I couldn’t be happier.
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So, here’s today’s interesting thought: I’ve been using FeedPress to track my number of …
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I suspect this is a particularly British thing - and especially Radio 4 listeners - but I really …
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Got the wok out and did a stir fry for the first time in an age. Thankfully, the girls ate it…
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Open RSS reader. First screen is mainly obvious April Fools. Close RSS reader.
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Flood defences looking good.
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Editing photos from last summer is making me excited for this summer’s return to France.
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The first one is the spookiest: iPhone in a 1937 painting - and in an 1860 painting. And 1918.
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Over the next six weeks work is taking me to Maastricht, Abu Dhabi, Atlanta and…
…Milton Keynes.
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Reading stage 8 celebration cake 👏🏻
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End of a long day. Tom Foolery pit stop on the way home. ☕️
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The App Store appears to be quite unwell this evening.
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I feel like a traitor to my generation for quite liking avocado toast, and not resenting the fact …
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Interesting post from @Stephtara about how Facebook seduced her away from blogging - but the …
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I find cooking the traditional Sunday roast a meditative experience. It really helps me unwind.
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I really enjoyed this episode of Ramblings about walking in London.
Back when I was single and …
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Upping our feeding game here in team 10, @zgarbz 😛
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Haze bounced back enough to go to her class - and the first step towards her green belt:
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Two sick children = little time for anything else.
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First step towards her green belt.
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> Facebook is what the web has become. Its closed nature (no linking) is forcing …
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Facebook is what the web has become. Its closed nature (no linking) is forcing Google to …
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Replacing Facebook.
The principal barrier to many people leaving Facebook is a manifestation of the network effect. It …
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I’d like to be able to say I enjoyed Zuckerberg’s cover of “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”, …
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The First Shoreham Flock
Tom Foolery Coffee Company.
First gathering of Shoreham-by-Sea digital and entrepreneurial people. A …
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A Brief History Of Mark Zuckerberg Apologizing (Or Not Apologizing) - the best bit is that literally …
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Talking of change l finally found the time for a much-needed haircut this morning…
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The tracks that will make life hard for Southern commuters tomorrow.
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Very festive. Just a bit late.
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This is why I’m in London on a Sunday Evening. Running a course tomorrow, and that looks like enough …
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Sometimes, I forget how lucky I am to live somewhere where I can take photos like this from my home …
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It’s technically spring here. ❄️ 🙄
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The @TryGhost team are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer: blog.ghost.org
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Another, more positive, HomePod thought: since its arrival my daughters now see any speaker without …
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Well, how about that. Facebook bans Britain First: Taking Action Against Britain First
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Apple’s acquisition of Texture (a digital magazine subscription app) means we should probably …
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My major HomePod Siri annoyance: when my girls ask for “My Little Pony: the Movie”, Siri replies …
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I’m old enough to remember when the discussion about “a Spotify for News” was …
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My irregular interesting reading newsletter is going out in an hour’s time. Sign up, if you …
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Oh, a lovely, tiny kickstarted type nerd joy has arrived:
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Nice sight waiting for me in my local coffee shop.
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Quick Coffee between sessions with students
80 Stone Coffee.
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Bad instagrammer leaves it a bit late to photograph his coffee.
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Rain does not interrupt play.
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Still missing you Mum, even after all these years.
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Serious signs of #spring in #shorehambysea
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Uninstalling all social media from my 12 inch iPad Pro - I want to make this my productivity and …
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For all the creepy, invasive tracking ad companies do, they still can’t figure out that sending me a …
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The Adur, 6.45am
I was early enough out of the house this morning that I had time to pause on the Adur Ferry Bridge …
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I have got the insane number of tabs i had open across five device down to under 20, and everything …
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I wonder how many sites are publishing RSS feeds but are blissfully unaware of it, just because they …
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I really like the ideas in this: Take your time: the seven pillars of a Slow Thought manifesto
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Presented without comment: The shop that buys your dead uncle’s porn collection (It’s a …
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Getting Sunlit…
<a href=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8ee84ba852.jpg"><img …
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Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.
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Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.
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Not sure why I’m bothering writing on my blog today, when basically my entire audience is either at …
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Seven years ago publishers were dying because they trusted Google for all their traffic. Now the …
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Another warning about the ease with which moral certainty can lead to us to slip into stereotyping …
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Listening to Oasis’s Wonderwall always reminds me of commuting by bus to Croydon to work on Hotel …
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Wikipedia is a bit like a sausage: the more you look at how it is made, the less appetising you find …
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I cannot even articulate how wrong this is…
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Listening to a 2003 playlist on Apple Music. This was the music of the year I started my blog. God, …
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My blog is 15 years old today. I’m not sure if that’s an achievement, or just sheer …
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Are GAFA coming for the news business? I hope not - but then, who would have seen them getting into …
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There’s something very British about seeing a couple of hundred families wrapped up against the cold …
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Digital artist in the making
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A post-mortem on Typed.com, a crowdfunded blogging platform that never really built up any momentum.
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I’ve transferred this old Typed post over to OM&HB, for archival reasons, really. There …
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Just downloaded the content I had on Typed, a blog platform that dies today. I backed it as a …
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The snow’s back, but not really settling too badly.
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Hello, Goodbye: making smart decisions about the digital tools we let into our lives. @manton is …
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This is me, basically: Dads hold candlelight vigil for Maplin
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Signs that I’m on a deadline: I’m descaling the kettle.
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Doing our bit for the birds. Poor blighters.
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World Book Day. Off goes Tinkerbell to school in the snow. 🙄
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Just snow dusted here this morning.
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Just snow dusted here this morning. <img src=“ …
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Nice to see Nosy Crow featured in the App Store today - I spoke at their conference a few years ago. …
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I love the fact my @fieldnotesbrand notebooks are always a mix of my work notes and my daughter’s …
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Tinkerbell prepares for school… #worldbookday
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> Now I see Google abusing their monopoly again, this time with AMP. They may call …
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Now I see Google abusing their monopoly again, this time with AMP. They may call the …
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On my way to a London on a cold, snowy morning.
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Got up to London super early today in case of snow problems. Thus I had nearly two hours in a café …
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It was a chilly, snowy sunrise at #shorehambysea station this morning.
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Today is the annual “Gosh, cameras routinely under-expose snow, don’t they?” day in the UK.
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Looks like the inevitable bursting of the Facebook Live bubble is upon us. Good. What a waste of …
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This was a nice surprise on our doorstep
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School run looking a bit different this morning.
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Church looking snowy. #shorehambysea
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That looks chilly. #shorehambysea
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The beauty of Kerala in India - I was lucky enough to visit on business last year.
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The beauty of Kerala in India - I was lucky enough to visit on business last year.
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Interesting - Ghost (the blog platform) toying with dropping support for AMP - a “monopolistic …
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Interesting - Ghost (the blog platform) toying with dropping support for AMP - a “monopolistic …
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Snow’s reached Shoreham-by-Sea, then…
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A painfully good take-down of the various proposed solutions to disinformation on Facebook
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Here’s some game history books funding right now that the gamers amongst you might be interested in …
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Typical commuter trying to exert dominance by progressively pushing his MacBook Pro forwards.
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I’d love to see this funded: a book of nature writing by women.
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Welcome to the Hotel Medium
There aren’t enough eye-rolls in the world for this one: The time you spend building your …
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East Street in the snow.
#shorehambysea
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That’ll be settling snow then.
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The online world’s tendency to publicly allow others to assign a numerical value to your creative …
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Learning to let things go may be one of the hardest lessons to learn in life.
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Kinda looking forwards to these flood defence works behind the house being done now.
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Kinda looking forwards to these flood defence works behind the house being done now. <img …
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Something rather lovely has just arrived: The Secret History of Mac Gaming. I backed this an age ago …
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Why did the chicken cross the road? DHL couldn’t deliver it.
Apparently, DHL isn’t satisfied with simply failing to deliver …
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Is the dream of the good digital citizen dead?
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Dramatic sunset this evening.
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The great KFC crisis of 2018 continues…
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Dramatic sunset in #shorehambysea
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The great KFC crisis of 2018 continues.
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Updates out for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Looks like just a patch for the character crashing …
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Even in the depths of the social media backlash, there’s reason for hope
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Looks like Facebook is playing fast and loose with its definition of news.
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Looks like Facebook is playing fast and loose with its definition of news.
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Cute artisanal coffee shops make dreary London days better.
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Iris is having a happy morning.
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Beach adventures for the girls earlier.
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Twitter users: “Get rid of the abuse and Nazis”. Twitter: “We’re killing the Mac app.” Twitter …
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Seems legit. 🤔
#mylittlepony #myhappyhorse
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Gorgeous day to spend at @springbarnfarm
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Nice example of a mag using digital to boost print.
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Fancy a little AR in your news?
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It’s not just journalism, politics has a Facebook problem, too.
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A Valentine’s fable of love, heartache and betrayal, more dramatic than anything on screen: …
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Anyone shocked by how Facebook is hanging the news industry out to dry is probably forgetting that …
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Our long international nightmare of Emoji Frgmentation might be over…
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6 years ago, I actually proposed this exact idea in an interview. And they mocked it. If nothing …
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It's not our attention that's being monetised, it's our data
The Centre for Human Technology doesn’t want your attention: What the Center identifies as …
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I’m beginning to regret moving One Man & His Blog to WordPress. It’s got so “heavy" …
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I’m beginning to regret moving One Man & His Blog to WordPress. It’s got so “heavy" …
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Pretending to be a pirate, but actually fighting a lazy eye.
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Pretending to be a pirate, but actually fighting a lazy eye. <img src=“ …
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Blogging: not dead yet.
I find this interview with Kottke to be hard going. I don’t — and possibly can’t — accept the …
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Blogging: not dead yet.
I find this interview with Kottke to be hard going. I don’t — and possibly can’t — accept the …
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Freaky - Twitter appears to be blocking posting of blogspot.co.uk domains (but not blogspot.com):
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If I ever write a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” you have my full consent to give me …
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Pretty sure this ridiculous display of journalistic pettiness and arrogance is symptomatic of the …
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Had a little play with the DJI Osmo Mobile 2. Nice little gimbal. Here’s a little footage shot …
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All you need is…
#love #valentines #valentinesday
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Gimbal time. #djiosmomobile2
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HomePod: I’ve just spent the last two hours listening to music and drinking red wine. It’s been a …
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HomePod: I’ve just spent the last two hours listening to music and drinking red wine. It’s been a …
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Just switched to listening to some gentle, evening-friendly classical on the HomePod, and clarity of …
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HomePod first impressions: really fantastic sound, Siri better than expected, works fine for me and …
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As a middle-aged dad of daughters, falling to the dark side has taken on a new and terrible name: …
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John Perry Barlow thought that the struggle for digital freedom would continue after his death. And …
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New flood defences in place. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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I really was lucky to grow up in such a breathtaking place…
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However well-intentioned it might be, I fear that “best practice" all to often means …
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The growing visual homogeneity of Instagram (This is my grumpy old man post of the day…)
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These photos of the abandoned Coventry Evening Telegraph building are amazing.
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It saddens me how lacking in green the UK is in this map of European tree cover.
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I’ve finally written about how much I’m enjoying micro.blog on my macro blog…
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I love what The Atlantic is doing with its comment section
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Up, awake and updating WordPress sites.
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It looks like we got ourselves a reader…
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Instapaper is a decade old? Wow. That makes me feel old.
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Cleaning up some scans of old, damaged slides. This is a mid-80s fencing competition in Scotland.
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Saturday morning in the coffee shop.
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Another view of Shoreham by Sea, one that might disappear soon.
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Dinner on the go. Busy life when you’re five!
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Apple earnings: looking forward, it does look like new lines are starting to contribute growth even …
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Just caught up on Star Trek: Discovery. They’ve really pulled it off: a Star Trek that’s true to the …
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The NYT fake followers piece is having some interesting consequences. Much needed sunlight in dark …
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Here’s an unusual view of #shorehambeach from #shorehambysea
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Things like this suggest to me that @manton has exactly the right idea in not displaying things like …
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Things like this suggest to me that @manton has exactly the right idea in not displaying things like …
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Some thoughts on fake followers and cargo cult influence
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Going old school on music today…
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You could basically replace this article about Brexit with an infinite number of Picard facepalm …
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What a stunning morning here in Shoreham-by-Sea
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What a morning. #shorehambysea #riveradur
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Surprisingly fun lecture today - possibly because had a lower turnout than normal - but really …
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Yorkshire puddings in progress…
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Yorkshire puddings in progress…
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Cold. Rainy. January.
Rioja time. 🍷
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One White HomePod ordered for day one delivery - looking forward to experimenting with it.
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How do we build an education system fit for the 21st century?
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Twilight in the churchyard.
#shorehambysea #sussex #churches #churchyard
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Good morning. #amblogging (h/t to @danblank for doing his version of this every day…)
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I imagine purgatory is much like Hayward’s Heath station at 9pm on a Wednesday.
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Sign that I’ve been flying more than travelling on trains of late: just hunted for my boarding pass …
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I imagine purgatory is much like Hayward’s Heath station at 9pm on a Wednesday.
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With Google no longer indexing older pages, and deletionists removing great swathes of human …
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Oh, Monday. Recommendation time. Micro Monday recommendation: @tibz - Thibault is a friend from his …
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This is the first year of my self-employment that I’ve been really disciplined about tracking …
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I’m approaching the point where I consider use of the phrase “can’t fault” to be …
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Pretty impressive departure lounges at CDG
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That moment when you realise the only music you have downloaded to your phone before a 14 hour …
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Here we go again… ✈️ SIN to CDG <img src=“ …
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Here we go again… ✈️ SIN to CDG
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Rain and traffic. It’s Friday night in Singapore. 🇸🇬
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The rather deadly looking meeting rooom art that’s been hanging over @nchanglin’s head all day.
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Nice casual working spaces here.
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Not a filter. Anti-solar gain dots on the windows of the building.
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Rain and newspapers in Singapore.
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Great space for a day’s training.
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Pushing back. See you in 12 hours… ✈️
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Remembered it! (KLM doesn’t allow Bluetooth headphones)
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Crucial long-haul detail sorted.
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Long haul economy face. #longhaulflight with @klm
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That feeling when you’ve packed to get all your stuff for two days in Singapore into your carry-ons …
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Oh, Facebook. You have no sense of irony, do you?
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Oh, Facebook. You have no sense of irony, do you?
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Beach Life part 3678
#shorehambeach
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Let’s see where journalism Twitter is on the five stages of grief about the Facebook newsfeed …
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A brief translation of today’s Facebook newsfeed news into English.
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The Facebook traffic apocalypse every smart publisher has been dreading is here: News Feed FYI: …
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Apparently I’m an academic now. Who knew?
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I loved the recent Quartz email about Victorian newspapers. So interesting, and such a good reminder …
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Resolved: this morning I shall do nothing else until I have caught up on my invoicing.
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Finally caught up with the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Beautiful mix of fun, silly, …
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Finally caught up with the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Beautiful mix of fun, silly, …
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If I wasn’t professionally obligated to keep track of Facebook, I would be very tempted to do …
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Good lord, this Le Web panel has not aged well. Scoble and Milo sharing a stage…
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Iris modelling for me.
Want to know what this is about? Link in bio! 😇
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We’re all vintage around here today.
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We’re having a vintage moment. #oillamp #victoriana
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The big iPad Pro has become my favourite way of working in surprisingly short order. I’m only …
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I have thoughts about GoPro crashing out of the drone market. They need to let go of their extreme …
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Well, crap. GoPro is getting out of the drone business. Does DJi actually have any competition?
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Danger: man at knowledge work…
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My irregular curated reads newsletter is going out shortly. Bag yourself a copy.
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If Facebook is the big out-of-town big out-of-town supermarket of the web, it’s time to browse …
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This is a nice idea to make HomeKit a bit more accessible to the phone-control resistant: Eve Button
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Life comes at you fast, Mr Cameron.
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Looks like Facebook is ceding the referral crown to Google. This is not a sudden SEO surge, more …
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I feel surprisingly liberated by the deletion of my Wikipedia page - it makes my blog the first, …
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Sad day. I just discovered that my wikipedia page got deleted over Christmas. It was massively …
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Bored Panda lives or dies at Facebook’s whim - this is a horrible way to run a business.
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Will journalists feed the tech backlash - or help explain it? Oh, I think I know the answer.
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Crafting with Hazel. This is fun.
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Daddy/daughter crafting morning.
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This may seem obvious, but it took me a while to figure out that it’s better to treat micro.blog as …
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😢 Watch Peter Capaldi’s TARDIS Console Room Get Deconstructed For One Last Time
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Well, this sounds cool: Germany has come up with the best solution to single-use coffee cups
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December in one second every day
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Walker on the beach. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach #beachlife #beachwalk
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Out playing with their Christmas brollies in the British weather…
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Here’s my #2017bestnine - India, Ilé de Re, branding, a watch strap, Hazel in @tomfoolery.coffee and …
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Giving the Christmas Brollies a workout…. ☔️
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Me rocking the denim leisure suit. #muchlatergram
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Down the pub with Pinkie Pie
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Despite appearances, not actually a parody, alas.
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An angel prepares… nativity night.
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Beginning to think I should do something about my dandruff…
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Posting from MarsEdit
So, how does posting from MarsEdit to micro.blog work? Well? I hope so!
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Posting from MarsEdit
So, how does posting from MarsEdit to micro.blog work? Well? I hope so!
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After a big chunk of marking, very, very happy with what I see. I was nervous when I took on this …
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After a big chunk of marking, very, very happy with what I see. I was nervous when I took on this …
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Lovely winter mornings. Perfect for walking.
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Lovely winter mornings. Perfect for walking. <img src=“ …
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Target word count: 1,000 words. Current word count: 1,700 words. Still, they’re 1700 good, …
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Popped downstairs from my home office to see tree decoration in progress…
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Ena is watching you. #enasharples #shorehambysea
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Deep in the downs, there is a farm…
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Hazel is rocking a hipster vibe here…
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It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas.
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Stunning morning, despite the sub-zero temperatures.
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It only took three attempts to get the headline typo free on this. Bring back the subs.
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A quick link post about the problems in digital media businesses is turning into a 1,000 word …
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Disturbing but not surprising news of the day. That LinkedIn connection request could be a Chinese …
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Not a bad sunset, all things considered.
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I fear Iris may have inherited the mad scientist gene from her mother…
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Christingle night: children and fire, always a popular combo… 🔥
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More evidence that Christmas is coming.
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I think Iris is enjoying the season…
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How BuzzFeed UK handles cutting 1/3 of its workforce will tell us a lot about the future of the …
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Coffee shop office kind of a day.
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Great Quartz Obsession e-mail about the hashtag
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FInally got the time to read Time’s person of the year, and the profiling and photography of the …
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Somehow I’ve ended up on PornHub’s PR mailing list. I am not sure how I feel about this.
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Welcome @thomask !
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Welcome @thomask !
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One of the reasons I love MarsEdit is that when I switched from Movable Type to WordPress, my …
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Another day, another training course.
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Today, I am mainly training.
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Any time my work intersects slightly with social media marketing “experts”, I end up feeling …
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Flood defences coming along nicely.
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Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.
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Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.
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Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.
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Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.
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The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors.
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The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors. <img src=“ …
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I am old enough to have learnt to not to blog every opinion that crosses my brainmeats. I am clearly …
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I am old enough to have learnt to not to blog every opinion that crosses my brainmeats. I am clearly …
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First portrait mode pic from my shiney new iPhone X
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Hazel PoP. iPhone X in portrait mode
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Ex-military prince from one of the oldest monarchies in Europe gets engaged to a mixed race woman. …
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Ex-military prince from one of the oldest monarchies in Europe gets engaged to a mixed race woman. …
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So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook: <img src=“ …
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So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook:
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Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of …
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Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of …
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Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace …
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Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace …
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The Next dystopian family
This morning I was greeted by the above delightful email from Next. Can it be that nobody …
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Sometimes it feel like nothing changes around here. And sometimes it feels like everything changes… …
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Sometimes it feel like nothing changes around here. And sometimes it feels like everything changes…
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Hazel and Iris stalking their natural prey: a bride
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It’s that time of the #Interhacktives year again…
(h/t to @neilperkin for introducing me to this…)
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Terrible things happen to pumpkins around here…
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That moment when you discover the only reward you get for a bunch of hard volunteer work -credit - …
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This may be the reddest pub I’ve ever been in…
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Storm tossed seaweed floating upriver in the Adur.
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Found a clue as to why Condé Nast is closing the print Glamour…
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Well, #autumn has most certainly come to #shorehambysea
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Iris “enjoying” a pub lunch…
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Orange belt celebratory cheesecake.
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Lively crowd for a 60th…
🎈 🎈 🎈
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Farewell, Hamburg. It’s been fun. #next17 is done. Can’t wait for #next18
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Post #next17 coffee tour stop 2
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Found a fancy coffee shop for post #next17 chill out.
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Top quality sci-fi dome for a tech conference… #next17
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Ah. @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival - two great tastes that go together so well… #next17
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Looks like the right place… #next17
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Today is a taunt @paulbradshawuk day.
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Sussex Scenes
[gallery ids=“7969,7970” type=“slideshow”] It’s a pretty damn good …
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Fair to say that Iris is pleased with her @svahausa dress!
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Bellingmug for being part of the #bellingcat crowdfunding. #journalism
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Precious thing - and memory #doctorwho
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Not bad as a #sunflower goes.
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In a tree. Doesn’t want to go home.
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Ice cream and adventure; it’s what the summer holidays are all about.
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Not 100% sure I have their attention…
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Reading challenge and babychino #animalagents
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I think Hazel might be excited. #mylittlepony <img src=“ …
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I think Hazel might be excited. #mylittlepony
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I feel Hazel is pleased with this #mylittlepony poster
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Nice to be home and enjoying ☕️ at @tomfoolery.coffee
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Privée.
#France #laflotte #door #sign #îlederé #iledere #latergram #travel #travelblog
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Juice and deep thoughts from a little thinker.
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This may be the worst sign in the world. #coffee #latergram #îlederé
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Social video training for @journalismnews’s @newsrewired + package… 🎥
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Beach Dreamin’ - ready to take my girls on the @beachdreamsfestival parade…
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Some fun bits of history on a client’s walls…
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Scilly sands
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A …
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Scilly retrospective
I’ve been taking a little time out this evening to edit (finally) some photos from a trip to …
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Supporting #pride in a subtle way today. The limited edition #applewatch Pride band is just lovely.
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However will I cope with the endless misery of business trips?
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Non-training, non-travel day - so a chance for a leisurely #breakfast.
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Just possibly not in Shoreham any more…
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Always good to start the day with a little light adulting: <img src=“ …
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Always good to start the day with a little light adulting:
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One of our @insectlore butterflies stopping to say goodbye to Iris as it leaves.
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Shingle beauty on Shoreham Beach
I’m lucky enough to live less than five minutes’ walk from a stunning beach. I know …
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New evidence emerges of the real reason for the dinosaurs’ extinction… 🍺
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This really is a beautiful beach. People under-estimate the beauty of a shingle beach.
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Sometimes, London, you’re unexpectedly weird.
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Hazel is here, and would like to discuss kicking your butt. 🙂
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Best start to the working week.
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@tibz.micro.blog Now - is this how webmentions work?
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@tibz.micro.blog Now - is this how webmentions work?
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Ah-ha. Now I can follow people in the app.
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Ah-ha. Now I can follow people in the app.
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Now, I need to figure out how to find and follow others. Hmm.
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Now, I need to figure out how to find and follow others. Hmm.
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Just setting up my micro.blog
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Just setting up my micro.blog
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Really enjoyed #DME17 - link in bio for coverage
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World’s worst boy band member #dme17
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Sign of the (connected) times…
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Enjoying @tomfoolery.coffee’s @horshamcoffee in the woods…
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Hard at work at @tomfoolery.coffee
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Nothing like a well-mown lawn to remind you that you're a middle-aged man now.
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Bloomin' lovely in the garden this weekend
Playing with a recent(ish) lens for my Canon M3, and finding incredible beauty lurking in our back …
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Easter weekend
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Just call me Easter 🐣Craft Master
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#PCKeithPalmer #pckeithpalmerrip
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Do you like my hat?
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That's a new approach to flower arranging…
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A single sign that’ll make you glad you’re a grown-up.
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Reboot
New address. New theme. Time to get going again.
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Foreman of the sandpit at work… 🚧
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Lunch in the park @gardencafehove
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End of a lovely day at @springbarnfarm. Lambs and bouncy cushions and swings and sandpits and lunch …
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Hipster Instagramming in progress.
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-6c in the hotel car park this morning. Nice ice effect on the car, though. ❄️
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Chilly morning down by the Adur in Shoreham #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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End of the weekend.
#shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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Big thoughts from a little person.
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I have been permitted entry to my brother’s hallowed wine cellar…
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Apparently it’s all about the landscapes. And me, when I was young, centuries ago. …
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#cold and #frosty.
#leaves #winter #ice
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Aldgate East is not what I remember. Admittedly, that was 20 years ago.
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That’s a nice, festive reception.
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Counting the marshmallow haul @tomfoolery.coffee
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We really have to do something about the #pokemon infestation in this house.
:
Something different about Hazel today. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
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High on the Dyke in the Downs
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Portrait of the man as a young student magazine editor
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2nd Autumn for Iris. The first where she can really enjoy leaves.
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City lights of old London Town.
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I think she might be a bit weary after school.
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THE place to be in Shoreham on a Friday night - if you’re four.
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Last of the summer #sunflowers
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Stunning morning light in the living room this morning.
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Post-school Daddy/Daughter treat.
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At a gig. Like a young person.
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I detect evidence of workshopping…
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This man designs for Facebook.
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Hanging out in nightclubs. During the day. For work.
Uh-huh.
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The flower displays here are quite something.
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Not exactly the mamil dream…
:
I feel a sudden pain in my future wallet.
:
German supermarkets are more exciting than British ones. Apparently.
:
Variety is the Steiff of life…
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This holiday is not going to plan.
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Suffering the standard Southern Rail thwarted anticipation. #southernfail
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The city, never sleeping. #newyork #manhattan #latergram
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View from the office. #newyork #prisma
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I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien, I’m an Englishman in New York…
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I’m looking forwards to hearing Pidgey’s thoughts on social video at #newsrw
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A celebration cake, abstracted.
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There’s no escape from baby jail.
:
Mini coffee fiend (via Pixma app)
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Yes, yes, I am compensating. Thanks for asking.
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Suited and booted on my way to the @solarteamgb launch.
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Nothing like gravy with home-grown rosemary and thyme. #cooking #sundayroast
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This week’s reading is here…
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And so it begins…
#mylittlepony
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Too cool for the paddling pool.
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It’s the #octonauts early 90s #Bitcam edition…
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Dramatic skies over the church. #shorehambysea
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Tom Foolin’ (and posting this using the new iOS share sheet, not the app…)
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Friday night, down the pub with these two reprobates.
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“You are a good blade. I shall bathe you in the blood of my enemies.”
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Beach bloom #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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There are eight different ways I can kill you with this, Daddy, unless you provide chocolate cake.
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Evening light #shorehambysea
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Bridge to nowhere. #shorehambysea #misty
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Morning conference with my office mates.
#homeoffice #legominifigures #smurf
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Unashamedly Instagramming my #breakfast.
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A little catchup reading… #blogging #bloggers #ukbloggers #ukblogger #blogospheremagazine
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Reach for the sky. #cranes #construction #building #architecture
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Adventure Team Tinworth… Go!
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Beach life. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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Hmmm. Cover lines of @blogosphere_magazine #blogging #bloggers
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Newly-minted yellow belt little ninja…
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Not a popular decision, it seems.
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Things I don’t miss about living in London #521
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Iris and I partied out on Christmas Day. (Photo from my sister-in-law.)
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Misty morning. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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Oh, yeah. That’s why I live here. #shorehambysea
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Our en suite is looking dead glamorous right now.
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My room in Lewisham circa 1994.
#MacLCII #applemac #lewisham #1990s
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Howzat? A piece of #cricket history.
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Always nice to carry a touch of Shoreham into London with me.
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The clouds doing drama again… #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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Buying a print newspaper? With my reputation?
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That’s what I call an evening… #shorehambysea #shoreham #sunset #twilight
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Finishing the day with coffee and cake…
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A little night #blogging listening to Simple Minds on #applemusic
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Hazel prepares to face Storm Imogen (or Immy, as it’s known in this house)
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Kicking off something rather cool… #britishsolarchallenge
:
Backstreet #brighton #latergram #red #night #instagood
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Adur afternoon #shorehambysea
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Finishing the day with an espresso @tomfoolery.coffee #dorasdaysout
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Dora on the train. #dorasdaysout
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Dora doing some digital strategy at @brilliantnoise #dorasdaysout
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Another day of adventures for Dora. #dorasdaysout
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Who is this girl of mystery?
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The #woods await.
#misty #sussex #devilsdyke #forest #latergram
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Another tag on the white belt for Hazel.
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Top quality views at the Devils Dyke today
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On my way to teach the #interhacktives. It is (a) too early and (b) too cold
:
Daddy legs proving useful in avoiding bumps for a new sitter…
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In case there was any doubt…
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Deep in the downs, @springbarnfarm
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There’s always something to look at in Brighton…
:
Surprisingly lovely morning.
:
New headshot, from @icreatelife_ 📷
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Can we talk about these ears, Dad?
:
Not sure about this parking strategy.
:
Gorgeous light after the rain this morning. #latergram #shorehambysea #shoreham
:
New mobile #blogging setup on test. Liking it so far…
:
Coffee and a new Apple Watch strap. A very satisfactory Christmas so far…
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Sneaky coffee with slumbering Iris.
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Looking lovely and Christmassy in my favourite coffee shop, @tomfoolery.coffee
:
Party dress for the festive period…
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Somewhere out there, the sun is shining
:
Last London commute of the year.
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Mistimed leaving @tomfoolery.coffee this morning…
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Some sort of subtle message here. Not sure I’m getting it…
:
London feeling almost Holmsian tonight.
:
Those glorious 15 minutes between finishing your chores in town and collecting your daughter from …
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The moment you realise you’ve been wearing this sticker all through a day-long training …
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Artic winds do not deter Hazel the Explorer.
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Commuter breakfast. Sheer glamour.
:
Not sure the spirit measures are seeing as much use as they should…
:
Possibly the worst drawing I have ever done on a whiteboard.
:
Headcorn. The name shouldn’t make me laugh - but it does. 🌚
:
Finishing the day very acceptably at @tomfoolery.coffee
:
A brief visit to Brighton, concluded. I can’t believe how little time I spend here at the …
:
Beyond decadent and into bourgeois with my train this morning.
:
Here’s a coffee shop that knows how to treat its customers right…
:
Where has the great fiery sky ball gone?
:
iPhone 6S doing a good job in tricky light…
:
14 liveblogs from #next15 - I think I’ve earned this.
:
I’m at a music festival. Is this my mid-life crisis hitting?
:
Epic flying weather this morning…
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Hello, old friend. #ipod1 #ipod1stgen #ipod
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Day 4: starting to look like a Brighton creative.
#selfie
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Not quite Cordon Bleu. But tasty none the less.
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Damn but filling these rings is addictive. #applewatch
:
Candles from the Bridge of Lights, remembering the dead of the Shoreham Aircrash
:
Bringing the cute. And a silly hat.
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“Morning, Daddy. I saved some cute for you.”
:
Lovely patterns in the sky this evening.
:
Back in the UK, and heading off to see my girls,
:
This is what a journalism department looks like in Singapore…
:
This part of the day inspired by @neilperkin 😎
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Human resource excellence: that’s me.
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I have new glasses. Did I mention?
:
Swapping SIMs - because the idea of being offline is unsustainable. 😎
:
Friday night is fine for flying.
:
Iris is leaf-watching again.
:
Iris is gripped by my sparkling conversation…
:
Turns out that the airport café is a distracting place…
:
A small army of original #lego space figures…
:
Just hanging around #olympus #camera
:
Ladies and gentlemen, the design stylings of Mr @dnhydn - devoted to the service of two nearly 3 …
:
Enjoying the view from Devil’s Dyke.
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Heaven is lying next to your sleeping baby daughter on a rug in the garden, under a gazebo and …
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Just time for a cheeky #espresso before collecting Hazel. #shorehambysea
:
Evening on #Shorehambeach #shorehambysea
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Mighty sky giraffe judges your sin…. #beachdreams #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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Warning: Canard hookers #beachdreams #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
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Beach life. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
:
Not a bad place to start a working day.
:
The Langham and the Beeb… #London
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11 year old iPod mini - still working.
#iPod #ipodmini #apple
:
Tell me, friends. Would I make a good hipster?
:
Polling station #selfie #ge2015
:
Afternoon light and a coffee
:
Evening beach walk #shorehambeach #shorehambysea #beach #boardwalk #latergram #twilight
:
The creeping Starbuckifiction of Sussex
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Evening in the churchyard. #shorehambysea #trees #shadow
:
Still and misty this morning on the bridge, as I head up to London for the second last time …
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Breakfast
A working breakfast at Tom Foolery.
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Doing a big, scary technical thing. With coffee.
:
Easter baking
[gallery link=“none” columns=“2” ids=“6486,6487”] Enjoying …
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Faded flag. #shorehambysea #shorehamhouseboats
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My TV isn’t enjoying #leadersdebate
:
Probably my most honest tweet of the year to date
@bjacksonuk @interhacktives Nah. I troll students from my own account.
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Life in plastic, it's fantastic
Morning in the Cotswolds
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Hazel is doing Instagram, while we wait for Sammy the Seahorse. This is her photo.
:
Oh, dear. #commuting #thameslink
:
Finally, a candidate I can get behind. #doge #votedoge
:
The five essential ingredients of a good event (at #odcamp)
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Getting ready for #odcamp day 2 - by mainlining #coffee (art by @drawnalism)
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Morning #commute, #ominous #cloud edition
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pre-#dawn #commuting #shorehambysea
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Beth talking to her #interhacktives successors
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Ladybird cake. On a stick. Oh, yes.
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Preparing for parental sleep-deprivation
Buzzfeed rounds up how horrible being sleep-deprived is for you:When you get consistently bad …
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City Newspaper MAs via the wand of Narcissus… #cityoj
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06.35 hours. What does the “0” stand for? 0h my God, it’s early. …
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Made with @instaweatherpro Free App! #instaweather #instaweatherpro #weather #wx #shorehambysea …
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Sometimes toddler play looks indistinguishable from a horror movie.
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Been a while since I did a #haircutselfie.
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Hazel missed the Princess memo… 😊
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My nephew has been bitten by the #lego #ninjago bug
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Morning on the bridge. #shorehambysea #light #dawn #sussex
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Winning awards for coffee, not modesty, in #shorehambysea #coffee #tomfoolery
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Inspired by @masakepic, here’s dawn light over #emeraldquay in #shorehambysea on #tuesday. …
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Some improvement needed…
#shorehambysea #shorehambeach
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Lovely #sunset on the #Adur with #shoreham in the background.
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Dora in position for the afternoon session at #meaningconf
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Dora auditioning for a speaker slot at the next #meaningconf
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Dora the Explorer… (Hazel’s toy has come to work with me today)
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This looks like a job for… BatSpoon!
#batman #comics #dc
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Oops. #boat #sunk #adur #shoreham
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After the thunder storm, yesterday #latergram
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Everything’s better with a stick…
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Starting
Sometimes you just have to start writing. I’ve barely written for over a week now. My blog(s) …
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Workspace, from on high #selfiestick #picstick
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Sunlight in the trees #nofilter
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Evening over the Adur #nofilter #sussex #shoreham
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Getting my Yosemite beta on today…
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Obligatory social media lunch shot
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Cheating on @smallbatchcc and feeling dirty. #whathappensinlondonstaysinlondon #beancheat
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#cloudporn from this morning… #latergram
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It’s work, I tell you, work!
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Into the Auto-Awesome Woods
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I confess: the code for Poitiers airport always makes me snigger…
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#harvest #fruit #blackberries
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Morning coffee
Enjoying a Tom Foolery coffee while catching up on e-mail and feeds on this beautiful morning…
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Standing on the beach… #latergram
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Oh, sweet bliss of in-flight charging. 😊
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Missing you, Dad.
Still missing you Dad, over a decade since you passed.
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Overheard at Waitrose
“Oh, the football’s on…” (Panic) “Which match, …"Why's this place so quiet?"
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Summer's start on the Beach
[gallery ids=“3371,3370,3367,3369,3368”] Summer finally hit the south coast over the …
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Lunchtime treat now my toddler is sleeping…
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Self quantification ahead… #jawboneup
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Beach Blooms
The beginning of summer beings blooms into life on Shoreham Beach’s shingle beach habitat.
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Wrong on so many levels. #marmite
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Nostalgia, saturation and digital photography
One of my projects this year has been to get on top of my digital photograph archive. Up until …
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Taking the iOS WordPress app for a spin
This is basically just a quick test to see if I can make the fancy photo display on my theme work …
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Resolved: time to move my blog
For the third time this year, I’m unable to access my blog because of a problem with my web …
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Spring: sprung
Today, the sun was shining, the trees were opening, and children (including my daughter) were …
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Finally got a decent coffee in NYC
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One evening in New York City
[gallery ids=“3330,3331,3332,3333,3334,3335,3336,3337”] I’m in New York again, …
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Hazel’s getting the hang of this coffee grinding malarkey…
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Views from the Adur Ferry Bridge
[gallery columns=“1” ids=“3320,3321,3317,3318,3319”] Two mornings a week, I …
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IKEA does cosplay
[youtube www.youtube.com/watch IKEA does cosplay. The mainstreaming of geek culture continues…
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Spring commute
[gallery ids=“3298,3297,3296,3295,3294”] A series of images I grabbed on my commute to …
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High Tide
High tide on the Adur from Emerald Quay
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Hazel’s breakfast (first course) #fruit #food #breakfast
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Sunrise over the Adur - #sunrise #river
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Yum. #burger #newyork #fries #latergram
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Afternoon coffee at @trufflesbakeryltd at Shoreham Airport
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I’ve nicked something from @neilperkin to use with the #interhacktives :-)
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Today, I train. For learning is good.
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Nice afternoon in London Town
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Demoted by Starbucks
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Two #coffee mugs. One for each hand. #thatkindaday
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Let them play
If we love our children and want them to thrive, we must allow them more time and opportunity to …
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Time travel
Right now I want to invent time travel for the sole purpose of finding my pre-fatherhood younger …
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That’s a win… @smallbatchcc in #shoreham-by-sea
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Life as a new parent
[youtube www.youtube.com/watch Damn you, Coke, for catching the new parent experience so very, very …
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#leweb bloggers - serious business
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Strangest #hotel corridors ever…
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Carol Pearson: the big bad wolf of endometriosis
Liveblogged notes from a talk at TEDxBrighton 2013
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Carol Pearson: the big bad wolf of endometriosis
Liveblogged notes from a talk at TEDxBrighton 2013
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Aral Balkan: can design save us from digital feudalism?
Liveblogged notes from a talk given by Aral at TEDxBrighton 2013 Today we stand at a crossroads. …
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OK, seriously excited now…
[youtube www.youtube.com/watch
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Strange ducks they breed in these parts…
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Ah. #london #architecture - that’s better.
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It’s before 9am and I’m taking photos of a #pub. What does this say about my life?
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That @neilperkin draws a mean skull and crossbones…
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Tunes station while Hazel sleeps in the car seat.
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I may have a battery “problem”.
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Night flight to Venus. No, wait, it’s Gatwick. Never mind. #easyjet
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Waiting for my flight to Berlin…
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#kingscross #architecture #roof
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Sweaty, slightly drunk ma’n who keeps bashing his Thinkpad against my MacBook Pro in an …
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If all's going well…
…then this blog is finally up and running in WordPress rather than Typepad. Much as I used to love …
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How to do interesting things at boring conferences at #bcsmu
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Coffee and calls #starbucks #phone #mobile #bluedress #landcam
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Looking up. #tree #leaves #summer #sun #blueskies
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Finally found a use for my #hellokitty pen (a joke birthday present) #analogcamera
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Bad teddie. #brighton #graffiti
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Another day in baby jail… ;-)
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Pod coffee's bad taste for the planet
But what bugs me most about pods isn't the marketing. It's the needless waste. …
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Towering, not revolving #analogcamera
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In the Kebab & Calculator for dinner… #youngones
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About as British as it gets… #fishandchips
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Summer's tasks begin
A homeowner. A dad. Doing the lawn on a Sunday afternoon, while my daughter plays on a blanket. …
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Keynote speaker @peterjamesuk talking peers, queers and racketeers at #brightonsummit
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Mr @steveinbrighton kicking off #brightonsummit
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View from London's Cheesegrater…
http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=124984 via revstansfilmblog.typepad.com Some …
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The Desk Agenda
A new plan for new productivity and a tidy workspace. Maybe. Oh, hello, Tripepad. It’s been a …
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Coffee with my mother-in-law
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Weirdest. Sleeping. Position. EVER.
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#3
Dramatic light on Shoreham Beach
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#1
New Year tranquility on Wandsworth Common
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Pretty good writing for five months…
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Space/time tree #tardis #christmastree
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When missing a train is a gift
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Playing with the new version of Instagram
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Wireless charging in progress… #lumia920
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First photos with a Lumia 920
So, I have in my posession for a while a Nokia Lumia 920 (I’m involved in a little work for …
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The Coffee Chair
My dream chair. Oh, yes.
People of the interwebs, please arrange for one of these to come into my …
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Dealing with some unfinished business.
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The day begins… #dawn #railway #train #sky #shorehambysea
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Two great drinks, together at last … #coffee #beer #coffeebeer
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Keeping warm… #stove #winter #Hipstamatic #Americana #BlankoFreedom13 #RedEyeGel
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Found: Tessa From ScaryGoRound
Found, while clearing through old boxes from our storage unit:
A sketch of Tessa from the old web …
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First birthday card from my daughter…. :-)
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I must have had this a long time…
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Two trains to #brighton and none to #shorehambysea - figures
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I think this is meant to be reassuring, but it comes across as a touch sinister…
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Keeping my students on the clock… #evillecturer
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The sinister squash plots your doom…
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So, is Christmas coming, then?
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Not sure that word means what you think it means.… ;-)
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The #interhacktives - digital journalism’s future…
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I am not impressed by my surroundings, Daddy.
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Berlin, a conker and the oddest of nostalgic moments
A fortnight ago, I was in Berlin. I love that city. Over the last year, it's …
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Eric Carle's Autumn
When I was a few years older than Hazel, The Very Hungry Caterpillar was my favourite book. How …
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Almost certainly not. #skyfall
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Wow - three years on FourSquare…
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Room with a green roof view #hotellife (in response to @lloydadavis)
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The people of NEXT Service Design #sd12
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Interesting stuff about disruption at #sd12
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Danger: liveblogger at work #sd12
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When did the bed get so big, Daddy?
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At a fantastic #LikeMinds discussion about the connected culture and its consequences…
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Never noticed this gate before
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The weaponised smile of a baby…
If there’s one thing babies do well, it’s living in the moment.
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Ready for adventure (take 2)
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I suspect the post-lunch audience may be “relaxed” for @cpev’s #bdmf12 session
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Preparing for worship at the church of marketing #bdmf12
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Token lunch-on-Twitter tweet
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Looks like baby Hazel gets something from #bdmf schwag bag…
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The tower has fallen. Flee! Flee for your lives!
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Eggs - stir - men -ate #dalek #doctorwho #bmmf
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Cameras in a coffee shop - how very #Brighton.
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Fussy coffee making methods FT #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40 #RedEyeGel
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Old #canon #camera #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40
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Storage upon storage… #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40 #RedEyeGel
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Chilling in the living room, with a cool breeze in from the balcony.
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I have fallen in live with a #coffee…
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It's Fnordday, right? Yeah, I think that's it.
My sense of time is slipping, sucked away by a baby’s obliviousness to such things.
Being …
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Popular organ music is a thing? Who knew?
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First dispatch from the nappy trenches
I’m a Dad. Here’s my first report from two weeks of nappies, feeds and broken sleep… …
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#coffee break at the Ropetackle in #shorehambysea
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"I prefer Fred"
I wrote a thing about the sad death of 1970s Doctor Who companion, Mary Tamm - the first Romana …
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Some people say that waiting is the sensible thing. Not I. #mountainlion
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Moored in the #quay - #boats #sailing #adur #shoreham-by-sea
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Display screen at #Microsoft’s London HQ:
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Come with me and watch the waves…
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Swamped #boats in #shoreham-by-sea
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The stickers improve it, I think
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Obligatory wifi on the underground instagram
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The clouds are doing drama well this morning
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Lewisham: killing you swiftly
A man in Lewisham Central, for example, lives for 70.8 years on average. In the Queen’s Gate ward, …
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Mr @amayfield’s 40th birthday cake
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Dancin' to Cantina Band
[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WpcmJ28Yg&w=640&h=360]) via …
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I guess I haven’t worn this jacket since Berlin…
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#leweb - @jamieoliver and @kevin
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Tasty, tasty Canon pancake
via theonlinephotographer.typepad.com Quite possibly my next photographic purchase…
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Down at the yacht club #boat #prow #yacht #green #instagood
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Leather dresses - a celebrity trend? Really?
Apparently leather is “in” for celebrity ladies looking to make a splash.
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Back when I lived in the East End 20 years ago, this was unimaginable…
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Batter begins… #sunday #roast #cooking #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1969
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Early Morning Adur Stillness
I was out of the house at 6am on Tuesday, to hit the FT Mobile event. The Adur was so beautifully …
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It lives! IT LIVES!
I was astonished to see this pop up in my app updates. I thought Typepad had long abandoned this …
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Saturday morning reading #ipad #instacrt
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#instacrt #forgotten #tv #attic
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’ere, Barry, think we got enough flags? #london #jubilee #flag #flags #unionjack #unionflag …
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Still obsessed with #instacrt
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#instacrt - what a mad, wonderful idea.
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This is the bit of coming to #london I hate - #commuting
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Financial Times iPad case - from #ftmobile gift bag
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Lunch with @nevillehobson and @gabriellenyc
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That looks like a cool way to camp…
via www.toxel.com Not sure high winds would add to the experience, though…
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This week’s #starbucks #itunes freebie
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New toy…uh…piece of professional equipment.
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The Coffee Ritual
I've become a great fan of the process of starting with roasted coffee beans and ending up with a …
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Design echoes #architecture #buildings #london #shard
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#gc5 in #moleskine | games don’t tell stories, people do #gc5
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#gc5 in #moleskine | gamesmanship
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#gc5 in #moleskine | story in games: vital or bs?
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#gc5 in #moleskine | tabletop RPGs informing video games
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Talking desktop RPGs at #gc5
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#gc5 in #moleskine | games at work:
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#gc5 in #moleskine - women in gaming:
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Sitting at the back is “in” at #gc4
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3D printed #shoes at #next12
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Blimey - I remember these… #next12
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I have a suspicion that the answer is “kittens”… #next12
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Does what it says on the badge…
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#coffee and #woodgrain #filterfree
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The sad pile of no show badges at #odcc…
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I think I might be early for #likemind Brighton…
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The joy of Due South
It's a programme that can't see a fine line without walking towards it and treading …
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Beware the elephant of intuition
Argument: Because the elephant of intuition is more powerful than the rider of deliberation, moral …
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#protest #shoreham #shorehambeach #rampion #windfarm #sign
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When I'm stressed…
Whenever I get stressed about finding work, about the fact that I’m going to be a father soon, …
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A #bench on the #beach - #seaside #shore #pebbles
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On the Barbados shore
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Sailing the Caribbean
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A taste of history #kodak #slidefilm #film #transparancy
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16-bit 11th Doctor
http://www.collegehumor.com/e/6749695 Brilliant satire of the last two …
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Calmness in the Cotswolds
[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURHLyw8ZJY]) Just to remind …
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The only Infographic that matters
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Unemployment & Life Expectancy
A worker laid off at age 40 could expect to die at least a year sooner than his peers. via …
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Nice looking new offices for them
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George Lucas and the failed narrative
Because suddenly there is a scene with Jabba himself, and …. nothing. He’s got Boba Fett with him …
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Sneaky half… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
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Yum… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
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Market day in #cirencester #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
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Travellers #Hipstamatic #RobotoGlitter #Pistil
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Simming the City
Oh, I lost way too much time to this back in the early 90s. The new version looks scarily …
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Bad news on the Blood & Chrome front
Now, the network has passed on the project as a regular series but is looking to do it as a digital …
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Starbucks wants Nespresso's business…
But the star of the meeting was the Verismo machine, which was put on display
for the first time …
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Pity - I was looking for a large…
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Full of Blood and Chrome, signifying…?
[youtube www.youtube.com/watch Really looking forward to this - and hoping it …
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Gardens in the sky
via remodelista.com Back in my Estates Gazette days, I used to write about green roofs a fair …
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I was born under a wandering' mind
A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more
“working memory”, …
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Aperture hates Flip
This window popped up when I installed the latest update to Aperture 3: 
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My morning office, after #likemindbrighton
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Three images of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
I've been playing catch-up with some un-processed photos in Aperture. These three are from our …
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Wild packs of coppers roam the streets of Brighton…
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A brief mood movie of Brighton in the winter.
I'm testing the repair of the video card of my …
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Here lies #london - I love these old city boundaries markers.
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Future of TV panel at #ftmedia12
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David Abraham of Channel 4 at #ftmedia12
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#ftmedia12 - investment panel
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#ftmedia12 - the future of digital journalism and news panel
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Jimmy Wales and Richard Waters at #ftmedia12
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#ftmedia12 liveblogging station
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Has #spring sprung? #daffodils #garden #flowers
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Charlie Higson reading from The Enemy: Geeks vrs Zombies
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Bathed in the first #light of #spring
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#coffee in #reflection #iphoneonly
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Time for a #coffee break on #nofilterfriday
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Mmmm… donuts ;-) #brighton #publicart
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#lostglove Queens Road, Brighton
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Mix Messages
I'm not sure what this "cover" of an iTunes Genius Mix says more about: pop's attitude to …
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Clearly, your bag is more deserving of a seat than all those people standing.
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The panel - @jobsworth, @jangles et al…
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I suspect @euan has grabbed an opportunity…
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Sometimes the first coffee of the day is the best
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#lostglove on Riverside Road, Shoreham Beach
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By the banks of the #adur #river #sussex
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The many people within Emmy Rossum
If there’s one thing that make me fall in love with a FashMag photoshoot, it’s when …
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The melancholy fate of the Shoreham starfish
A weekend walk along Shoreham Beach threw up this melancholy sight. Dozens of starfish on the beach, …
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Where the wealthy Tinworth brother works…
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Underneath the seat of power
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Sitting room only at #newsrw SMO session
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Listening to @artistsmakers talking at #popuppeople
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#Chichester mean time #clock #sussex
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Sheer Appeal
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Two #hearts #love #iphoneography
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Above the covers #architecture #building #construction #afternoonlight #hoarding #london …
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Gherkin city #london #offices #architecture #30stmaryaxe
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#espresso yourself #coffee #cup #iphoneography #starbucks
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Possibly the most ugly tech hub in the world…
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The news... it's so predictable these days
via www.facebook.com via www.badnima.com Do I really want to return to journalism? ;-)
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St Mary’s #church #shoreham-by-sea
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Looking Over, Looking Up
A couple of images from a stroll around the Wandsworth area of London …
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