2023-12-02: Ah, the horror on my daughter’s face was only matched by the delight on mine when Siri delivered The …
2023-12-01: Sad to see TinyLetter closing down. It was ahead of the curve on newsletters, but got bought by …
2023-12-01: It’s easy to claim you have ethical supply chains. It’s much harder to actually monitor them to …
2023-11-30: OMG: On TikTok, kids are making Christmas wish list PowerPoint decks My girls will use Keynote, or …
2023-11-28: Started reading: Flourish by Antonia Case 📚
2023-11-24: It’s beginning to look a lot like…
2023-11-24: ”’Was your world once wild?' a distant intelligence might ask. Yes, we’d say. Till it went …
2023-11-23: WordPress themes that are dependent on multiple plugins to function are a crime against all that is …
2023-11-21: The problem with WordPress’s 100 year plan. I would absolutely pay for a service to keep my …
2023-11-21: OpenAI’s interim boss seems… nice. 🤦🏼♂️
2023-11-17: Started reading: Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚 It’s this month’s Adventurous Ink book.
2023-11-17: Interesting update from Bluesky: They’ve hit 2m users, despite still being invite-only A web …
2023-11-17: I’m really happy with this little quality of life improvement from the Ghost folks. As a …
2023-11-17: The Gawker brand is coming back — but not the archive or the same approach, it appears.
2023-11-16: For years, Twitter was second only to to Google as a source of traffic to my blog. This month, it’s …
2023-11-11: A dalmatian pelican at the Arundel Wetland Centre.
2023-11-11: Sadly, I had no ducks left to give.
2023-11-11: Lovely to see someone whom I got started in blogging (I ran the network of businessss blogs he …
2023-11-07: Podcast listeners! I’m looking for podcasts with vibrant and well-managed online communities, be …
2023-11-05: Started reading: Enchantment by Katherine May 📚 Reminded to do so by this podcast with her.
2023-11-03: This is worrying: publications are using AI generated images of the Gaza conflict from Adobe Stock …
2023-11-03: I’ve spent a lot of time on alt text for presentations over the past five weeks, and more than …
2023-11-03: Put that phone down and go be bored: your creativity depends on it. (And other things worth …
2023-11-03: Worth a read: Mastodon Is the Good One
2023-11-02: Greetings from Storm Ciarán…
2023-11-02: Psst. The first one of these in months is going out this evening… 🤫🤫
2023-11-02: Sad times: Canon formally discontinues the last EOS-M cameras, saying goodbye to EF-M I used EOS M …
2023-11-01: Wind really starting to pick up now, as Storm Ciarán hits the south coast. Glad I don’t need to …
2023-11-01: Me: I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m a geek; I’m a journalist! Also Me: Just finished updating …
2023-11-01: Great to see Ghost building its new recommendations feature on open standards: it’s basically …
2023-11-01: Huh. Movable Type 8 is out. Once upon a time I’d have been really excited by that - but at $499 a …
2023-10-31: Happy Halloween 🎃! Screamer on duty outside our house this evening.
2023-10-30: I posted to my Substack for the first time in, um, two years, 10 months and 28 days. Hell of a …
2023-10-29: Having a gourd day. 🎃
2023-10-28: Nighttime in Farringdon, Autumn 2023.
2023-10-28: I’ve just bought my youngest the dry robe reviewed in this article. It’s great for our 7.30 am …
2023-10-26: So… blogs are dead are they?
2023-10-24: The first would-be competitor to X/Twitter to fail? Stand up, Pebble (formerly t2). Maxed out at …
2023-10-22: Currently reading: SOLO by Jenny Tough 📚
2023-10-21: I treated the girls to pancakes to celebrate the first day of half term.
2023-10-20: I know Ahsoka has not gone down well with a lot of adult Star Wars fans, but watching it with two …
2023-10-20: Jack Baty: The only way I’d pay Musk $1 to join Twitter (X) is if I could mail him a check. …
2023-10-20: Om Malik: Yes, teenagers are spending a lot more time on social media — just not as much on what we …
2023-10-19: The nice thing about X (formerly known as Twitter) being in a death spiral is I feel so much freer …
2023-10-18: Amazing how many people who have been happily driving around with a large container of highly …
2023-10-17: The next stage in human evolution?
2023-10-16: Picadilly Circus, London, Autumn 1991
2023-10-15: “Those who had a close relationship with nature used their phones half as much each day, took 90% …
2023-10-15: “Since the early 1990s, no country has met the basic needs of its population without overconsuming …
2023-10-15: “When 16,000 people across 18 nations were surveyed, it was found that the British people visit …
2023-10-15: Thesis: coffee never tastes better then when drunk from an enamel mug, poured from a flask, while …
2023-10-15: Started reading: Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚
2023-10-13: This screensaver in MacOS Sonoma makes me unexpectedly happy.
2023-10-13: I have fought with 301 redirects, and I have won. And now I fact the terror of Google Search console …
2023-10-13: So, if I’ve done everything correctly, my micro.blog no longer sits in the shadow of my “main blog” …
2023-10-13: And I’m back in the timeline. I didn’t realise that changing the URL of my blog would essentially …
2023-10-13: Literal standing room only for the lunchtime talk by BBC News’ Ros Atkins on explainers at City …
2023-10-11: Dave Winer has a real point here - and I’d love to see Mastodon fix it: Why Mastodon isn’t the one
2023-10-10: Time is different when you work on The Spectator, it seems.
2023-10-08: Turns out that if you go to bed super early on Saturday night, because you’re exhausted thanks to …
2023-10-07: John Gruber: X itself now feels like a third-rate Twitter knock-off.
2023-10-05: Fair point.
2023-10-04: I feel judged by my iPad.
2023-10-03: Sometimes, you prompt Midjourney, look at the results, and think “I’m going to have …
2023-10-03: Images from Hamburg and the Reeperbahn Festival. Deploying my camera on my annual working trip to …
2023-10-03: Why saving Harvard’s blog history matters — and why I’m sad I was unable to save the …
2023-10-01: A lot of character in this old, partially ruined house.
2023-10-01: No early morning drive to the pool this morning, as my eldest is unwell. So, I’m drinking coffee and …
2023-09-30: It has begun. 🎄
2023-09-30: Dave Winer: There is no good outcome possible from arguing on social media.
2023-09-30: Started reading: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) 📚 …
2023-09-27: I just accidentally connected via VPN, through a connection already going via a VPN. And that pretty …
2023-09-26: I’m doing it – but only on one Mac.
2023-09-24: Gen X erasure is real.
2023-09-24: Started reading: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght 📚
2023-09-22: Spectacular views over London en route to Heathrow.
2023-09-22: Podcast insertion ads are still so laughably primitive. All the British podcasts I downloaded while …
2023-09-21: A bar on stage feels very on point for a digital conference in the Reeperbahn Festival. #next23
2023-09-20: Late night on the Reeperbahn.
2023-09-20: I love the fact Hamburg Airport has an art gallery, rather than all the normal overpriced nonsense …
2023-09-15: Remember all those sessions about how voice and smart speakers would be the future of journalism? …
2023-09-15: It’s nice seeing the number of serious video recording apps for iPhone proliferating. The …
2023-09-13: An interesting move from The Economist, adding a new subscription tier for podcasts.
2023-09-13: We appear to have gone from the height of summer to autumn in four days.
2023-09-13: 📷 September Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: glowing.
2023-09-13: TIL that you can screenshot CarPlay.
2023-09-12: My wallet is safe from Tim Cook this time.
2023-09-08: Currently reading: Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 📚
2023-09-08: Breakfast of champions.
2023-09-07: Looks like it’s an “update all the Apple things” evening. Important security updates out…
2023-09-07: Listening to my boss’s inaugural lecture…
2023-09-07: I spent yesterday at a journalism innovation conference. If you want to know what the news …
2023-09-07: These seem like a more plausible scenario as time goes on: The case for Musk driving Twitter to …
2023-09-07: Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary people, I present for you the 21st Century, where we microchip …
2023-09-05: Just realised that in just over two weeks I’ll be in Hamburg again for NEXT23. The schedule …
2023-09-04: I’m officially old. Badgers is 20 years old. Mushroom. Mushroom. Snake.
2023-09-04: Begone, miserable doom merchants! Traditional social media’s stumble could actually be good …
2023-09-01: Currently reading: Rewilding the Sea by Charles Clover 📚
2023-08-29: This will do.
2023-08-27: Lovely afternoon for a cycle with my youngest.
2023-08-23: This is good news - a new Broken Sword game is coming.
2023-08-21: Two of my former students have been added to Russia’s journalist blacklist. I’m very proud.
2023-08-20: Somebody will be very sad about losing this chap.
2023-08-20: Starting my assault on the Wainwright Prize shortlist with A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors 📚
2023-08-16: Found a lovely place for breakfast in the port yesterday morning.
2023-08-16: It’s almost delightful that Trump’s Twitter addiction might be the cause of his eventual downfall.
2023-08-15: One unexpected surprise in upgrading from a 2006 car to a 2020 car: it got two software updates when …
2023-08-15: Hmm. Should I rename the “Twitter” category on One Man & His Blog to …
2023-08-15: Most publications needed a Twitter strategy. But is making an X strategy a good use of time anymore? …
2023-08-12: Why people are pulling up their fake lawns. Good.
2023-08-12: Why selfish co-workers stick together: a Cognitive Science paper published Monday by psychologists …
2023-08-12: Stanford neuroscientist demonstrates the quickest way to eliminate stress: “The physiological …
2023-08-11: A wet but enjoyable bike ride with the offspring this afternoon.
2023-08-11: The worst part of coming back from a good holiday.
2023-08-10: Back from holiday. What have I missed?
2023-08-07: Aaaaaaar!
2023-08-02: “Solastalgia is a neologism that is becoming commonplace. It describes a feeling of homesickness …
2023-07-28: Oh.
2023-07-26: Ugh. New inner needed at the very least.
2023-07-24: Breakfast with the scrap, now the schools are on holiday.
2023-07-23: This morning I shall mainly be monitoring streaming bandwidth.
2023-07-22: First day of the school summer holiday, obviously.
2023-07-19: A happy transatlantic delivery.
2023-07-19: I just read an attempt at a scathing take-down of Caitlin Moran’s new book on men. Guess the …
2023-07-18: Here’s my epic attempt to categorise and explain the microblogging landscape in Twitter’s twilight: …
2023-07-18: Currently reading: Corduroy by Adrian Bell 📚
2023-07-12: In the process of consolidating my personal blogging (going back to 2001) here on micro.blog. …
2023-07-12: Has anyone found Apple Mail, and iCloud accounts in particular, to have really shot up in the number …
2023-07-11: Oh, my. This is the man who created Clippy. (Ask your parents who Clippy was, kids.)
2023-07-11: On women who write while lying on their stomachs.
2023-07-08: There’s a takeaway near us that looks like it went out of business years ago. But no, it’s still …
2023-07-08: Is LinkedIn about to be enshittified? (Some would argue that it’s already there…)
2023-07-08: I just looked at my Facebook feed for the first time in a wee while. How many posts from the first …
2023-07-07: Today I learned that Ethernet is only 18 months younger than me. 🤯
2023-07-07: Finally got to spend some time writing in my favourite coffee shop this afternoon.
2023-07-07: Hard to disagree with this: Threads not launching in Europe is pure gold.
2023-07-07: Oh, dear. So sad. Too bad. Anyway… The Broke Ape Yacht Crash
2023-07-07: Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? …
2023-07-07: Just did the emergency security update on my Mastodon instance (to v4.1.3), and still have most of …
2023-07-07: Twitter is becoming a feature rather than a product: Substack has it, via Notes Instagram has it, …
2023-07-07: Chances of Threads ever getting an API for general use? I’d imagine they’ll be about 0%.
2023-07-07: My initial take on Threads: suprisingly good, but with a lot of missing features - and a huge data …
2023-07-07: I think Bluesky is the first social network I’ve not been able to get onto. Not been able to wangle …
2023-07-06: What to know about Threads, by the founder of Mastodon.
2023-07-06: And it’s live. I’m on Threads. No choice, really, given my work…
2023-07-05: Is the second-hand bookshop disappearing? Perhaps not. 📚
2023-06-25: Adrian Bell on newspaper experts: I have been suspicious of them ever since, years ago, I met a …
2023-06-24: So, I’m now on t2 (Twitter alternative from ex-Twitter folks). Anyone else on there?
2023-06-24: Staurt Ian Burns on Marvel and its impact on the film industry: Also, there’s no point …
2023-06-24: Utterly brazen.
2023-06-23: These two muppets are amongst the richest people on the planet, with a global impact on human …
2023-06-20: The phrase “deeply unserious” is becoming a thing, isn’t it? One of those meme-like phrases that …
2023-06-16: Nice work of the day goes to the cyclist who literally rode into me while I was trying to shepherd …
2023-06-14: That’s it. Time to quit Outlook and call it a day. I’m just not looking forward to a hot …
2023-06-12: Every year, while I’m supervising journalism MA students' final projects, I miss being a …
2023-06-11: Recreation is valuable in proportion to the intensity of its experiences, and to the degree to which …
2023-06-11: Winning at Wordle…
2023-06-11: Found a nice coffee shop to while away the hours while my daughters are on a Guides and Brownies …
2023-06-11: Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home …
2023-06-11: Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically …
2023-06-11: Beauty right by the front door.
2023-06-10: David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating: “All these advantages …
2023-06-09: When Zuck says that the Apple Vision Pro isn’t the vision of the future of computing he wants, all I …
2023-06-08: This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.
2023-06-07: What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇
2023-06-05: I bought the first iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There goes that streak.
2023-06-05: That’s the sort of keynote I like from Apple. Lots of new features for devices I already own, no …
2023-06-05: Ah, crap. I just got it. The two big “secret” Apple projects: the headset and the car. They’re …
2023-06-05: If I was on the Meta Quest team, I would not be looking forward to the next team meeting with Zuck.
2023-06-05: Ok. Apple Vision Pro looks really interesting. AR first, not VR. But I still can’t see myself buying …
2023-06-01: Dragonflies at Woods Mill.
2023-06-01: It may be a common cardinal beetle, but it’s uncommonly beautiful.
2023-05-29: Beach flower.
2023-05-28: The wind farm has really grown on me over the years.
2023-05-28: The gull parade.
2023-05-28: Oh, nuts.
2023-05-24: Squee.
2023-05-20: Having an 80s moment.
2023-05-20: Saturday morning pancakes.
2023-05-19: The sun going down over micro.camp…
2023-05-19: Micro camping.
2023-05-18: Wow. Engagement on posts in my Substack Notes feed has collapsed. Only the very biggest newsletter …
2023-05-17: Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with …
2023-05-17: There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. — A Sand County Almanac by …
2023-05-17: Started reading: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
2023-05-11: Hello there.
2023-05-11: RIP Dooce. One of the true blogging pioneers. I worry that the history of those early days is being …
2023-05-09: Final Cut Pro on the iPad — and they’re announcing this before WWDC? This is exciting stuff.
2023-05-06: Penny Mordaunt cosplaying as Britannia. Still, Britain has a bit of a cultural thing about women …
2023-05-06: All the faith leaders coming into the coronation together, and then our Hindu Prime Minister and our …
2023-05-06: All this fuss over an impractical new hat. Reminds me of my late Mum, actually.
2023-05-04: Bunting is occurring.
2023-05-04: 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 …
2023-05-04: Peter Bihr on the death of the search and social web: “That means two major driving forces of the …
2023-05-04: Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months …
2023-05-04: May the Fourth be with you.
2023-05-03: These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they?
2023-05-01: Up on the Downs as the rain hits.
2023-05-01: Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world. …
2023-05-01: micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post: …
2023-05-01: This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current …
2023-05-01: This is the way.
2023-04-30: I needed this.
2023-04-26: Turns out that a bardcore cover of the Mando theme is basically just… The Mandalorian theme. This is …
2023-04-23: Started reading: In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado 📚
2023-04-23: “But if there is no risk in my writing, no fear, there is no pleasure. I have to make myself fed …
2023-04-22: Currently reading: A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚
2023-04-21: Never really got into Picard Series 1 & 2, but I have loved every moment of series 3. My Friday …
2023-04-19: Earning some Dad points for myself by installing Minecraft Legends on the Xbox, ready for …
2023-04-18: Scenes from a commute.
2023-04-17: Some notes on Substack Notes.
2023-04-17: I’ve been called “Tim” twice in emails already today, and it’s not even 10am …
2023-04-16: I’m beginning to get the hang of keeping my Mastodon instance updated. Not as easy as, say, …
2023-04-15: An awful lot of people on the internet seem to be under the illusion that being nasty to people …
2023-04-15: Storm brewing in the deer park.
2023-04-15: Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is …
2023-04-14: Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.
2023-04-14: Blimey. Over 16 year of Twitter use has generated a near 1Gb data file.
2023-04-13: Reach for the sky.
2023-04-13: Probably of marginal interest to the folks here, but I wrote a little about how journalists should …
2023-04-12: 20 years ago today.
2023-04-12: Substack Notes: first impressions Substack Notes is in a really weird place at the moment. It’s basically just a bunch of newsletter …
2023-04-11: Like father, like daughters.
2023-04-11: “Dad, I forgot to add Frozen songs to my playlist. Can I have more iPad time to sort it?” “Hazel, …
2023-04-10: Down by the sea on a blustery day.
2023-04-09: Sunrise over Shoreham Beach, during the Easter Sunday dawn service.
2023-04-08: Beach life.
2023-04-08: Back in your in-boxes: season two of Engaged Reading Time starts here.
2023-04-08: 358 tabs open on my iPad Pro. I suspect my Easter project should be cleaning them down. (It was over …
2023-04-08: This piece from Robin Sloan is looking more prescient by the day: the last decade’s platforms are …
2023-04-08: Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly? What a …
2023-04-07: On GM swapping CarPlay for subscription services. Jason Snell: The arrogance in believing that GM should force people to bend their digital lives in …
2023-04-07: I might need more popcorn for the current Twitter versus Substack squabble. Possibly a beer, too.
2023-04-01: My annual subscriber patch is here from Outdoor Swimmer magazine. I love these.
2023-03-31: My train is running late due to… rain. Completely understandable. I mean, who expects rain in the …
2023-03-31: I suspect the percentage of the population who know what an owl bear is will go through exponential …
2023-03-31: Bit of a shocker: gal-dem magazine is closing. It had a passionate following - I’m genuinely …
2023-03-31: This should chill events businesses: the big games show E3 has been cancelled, in part because …
2023-03-30: Ooof. Brutal take on the Substack crowd-funder.
2023-03-25: Morning, troops. If you’re looking for things to read over your morning coffee this Saturday, boy do …
2023-03-24: Hey, @help, am I missing something, or is the only way to trigger a webmention send manually adding …
2023-03-24: In the couple of days since I wrote this post, the chances of TikTok getting banned in the US have …
2023-03-21: The girls are eating fish fingers and custard. Yes, they’ve just watched The Eleventh Hour.
2023-03-18: Interesting legal analysis of the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
2023-03-17: News about our beaches like this makes me ashamed to be British.
2023-03-16: I sometimes think the local birds eat better than we do…
2023-03-13: Interesting to see that Automattic have acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. The Fediverse …
2023-03-12: William Davies on The Reaction Economy: The individual is not conceived in the same way as in the …
2023-03-11: Currently reading: Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk 📚
2023-03-09: I’m still stupidly excited that I’ll be teaching on City’s new MA in Podcasting …
2023-03-07: A general US TikTok ban edges closer…
2023-03-07: This is absolutely stunning drone footage of the Matterhorn.
2023-03-06: Iris wanted to watch some Doctor Who. So, we started at the beginning. The very beginning…
2023-03-06: Lots of writing to do today — so lots of coffee will be drunk…
2023-03-06: One thing I miss about growing up in Scotland: walking home after dark in the snow, and seeing the …
2023-03-05: Two damn decades of writing the same blog. Yes, One Man & His Blog is 20 today.
2023-03-05: Wood and tile. #mbmar 📸
2023-03-05: Your Sunday morning swimming pool white board wisdom.
2023-03-04: After spending most of the winter feeling cold when out and about, I bought myself a new coat in the …
2023-03-04: Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
2023-03-03: I want that sticker.
2023-03-03: Sometimes solitude is possible, even in the heart of London. #mbmar 📸
2023-03-03: The Good Apple and the Bad Apple John Gruber: “Putting the legality of Apple’s anti-steering rules aside, I think they make the …
2023-03-02: The perfect weather for a beach walk this afternoon. #mbmar 📸
2023-03-02: A rather lovely hagstone - and a deep one - found on a quick beach walk this afternoon, trying to …
2023-03-02: 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 …
2023-03-02: Your swimming pool whiteboard wisdom for the day.
2023-03-02: A fun evening, watching our students grill the hell out of a former prime minister. All under the …
2023-03-01: Any discussion of games journalism that doesn’t include YouTube at its heart doesn’t …
2023-03-01: Yeah, not getting in that way. It’s looking pretty secure. #mbmar 📸
2023-03-01: I have seen the future of smart glasses and it‘s as ugly as sin, apparently.
2023-03-01: Stressful morning with a happy outcome: my eldest got her first choice of secondary school.
2023-02-26: What a difference a couple of weeks makes. The sun is up for our early morning pool run. The views …
2023-02-22: A walk down memory lane to 1994, when this young chap (me) had his view of journalism shifted by the …
2023-02-22: We did the thing yesterday.
2023-02-22: Just corrected a typo in a blog post published… 10 years and 20 days ago. Ooops.
2023-02-19: Adventure time.
2023-02-15: Plausible Analytics providing both Search Console integration AND Google Analytics import is making …
2023-02-15: Finally got my (consulting/training) work inbox down to double digits. Plenty of people will be …
2023-02-15: 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 …
2023-02-15: This is one hell of a story: Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
2023-02-15: Free speech absolutism excludes China, it seems.
2023-02-15: I enjoyed the conversation between @manton and @danielpunkass on Core Intuition about the shifting …
2023-02-12: Started reading: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby 📚
2023-02-10: Holy flip, that’s a lot:
2023-02-10: Good to see that the Musk rat is experiencing the same as the rest of us: cratering Twitter …
2023-02-09: I’ve just revamped the look of my Ghost blog One Man & His Blog, and am very happy with …
2023-02-09: 14 years ago, someone registered a domain name for the local church. Nobody remembers who. Somebody …
2023-02-09: This pen is a blast from the past. Early 2000s blogging, when Movable Type and Typepad seemed like …
2023-02-07: First time using my iPhone as a webcam for my training course this morning. It worked great. One of …
2023-02-07: Google’s Bard is singing a whole new song. Could this be the start of a whole new age of …
2023-02-06: Ah, the sweet satisfaction of landing one of the free EV charge parking spaces in the morning.
2023-02-05: And, really, nothing is more political than the way we engage with the world around us. We have an …
2023-02-05: The origin of the phrase “up sticks”: ”Instead they used Gypsy tents of the traditional style, a …
2023-02-05: We’re coming back into the light. The sun was rising as we drove to the pool this morning, after …
2023-02-04: Beware: killer clowns and hangry bears.
2023-02-03: My kind of diversion.
2023-02-03: I declared RSS bankruptcy last night, marked the 5,000+ articles which were unread in NetNewsWire as …
2023-02-03: Great post by Matt Genmell on why we should give ourselves permission to write shorter, less weighty …
2023-02-02: Visiting.
2023-02-02: I’m really looking forward to seeing what comes of City’s Creatives in Residence scheme.
2023-02-02: This is an interesting read: it appears that a seratonin deficiency might not be the key cause of …
2023-02-01: I have 300 open tabs on my iPad. Tonight, I wage war on them. (By “wage war” I mean “read and decide …
2023-02-01: Home learning on teachers’ strike day, thanks to BBC Bitesize.
2023-01-30: Took me too many years - but I finally got that last elusive micro.blog badge…
2023-01-30: Lovely sunrise over Hassocks station this morning.
2023-01-29: This morning’s wisdom from the crack-of-dawn trip to the pool for my daughter:
2023-01-28: SUPpers and swans.
2023-01-28: On the D&D OGL mess: “This is a community that literally invented the term “rules lawyer.” WotC …
2023-01-27: I know their days are numbered, but nothing quite beats a free charge at the station while you’re up …
2023-01-26: Lovely to see some blue sky again today. It’s been a hard January, and this was the lift I …
2023-01-25: Ivory has won promotion to my iPad dock…
2023-01-25: So, this post proved more controversial than I expected. I expected pushback on my warning about …
2023-01-24: Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in, just around the corner from my house.
2023-01-24: HomePod and AppleTV updates are out this evening.
2023-01-24: Ivory from Tapbots is now on the App Store. Trying it out now for my Mastodon needs…
2023-01-24: I can’t quite bring myself to delete my last copy of Twitterific. I’ll do it soon, but …
2023-01-23: iOS, macOS and watchOS updates all ready for you in Software Update.
2023-01-23: The tide was far enough out today that we actually had something approximating sand! -
2023-01-22: Touching.
2023-01-22: Interesting set of links from Alex Roddie.
2023-01-22: “We need somehow to press the reset button, and completely rethink how we see our relationship with …
2023-01-22: Started reading: The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚
2023-01-22: Cold and icy up at Lancing College this morning.
2023-01-21: Finished reading: Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚
2023-01-21: On a doorway in the Brighton Lanes. Harsh, but fair.
2023-01-20: Quite a show.
2023-01-20: Somewhere in all that is my eldest, preparing to sing her heart out. I first came here 23 years ago, …
2023-01-20: My first time back at the Dome in maybe 15 years. Last time I was here, it was to see Pink as a …
2023-01-19: Wow. The new micro.blog homepage is a massive improvement.
2023-01-19: It’s official. Third party Twitter apps are dead. Not a surprise given the events of the last week — …
2023-01-19: Oxford Street is looking a lot more down market than I remember, but parts of it still impress.
2023-01-19: A moody, frosty bridge on my way to London this morning,
2023-01-19: Yikes. Currently 166 tabs open on my iPad.
2023-01-18: Lovely, frosty morning on the beach this morning.
2023-01-18: I just don’t understand why people think £250 for Airpods Pro - single user devices, with a lifespan …
2023-01-18: That’s it. Revue is gone, killed off by the new “management” of Twitter. Once a great service, …
2023-01-18: Feeling slightly guilty that our internet is fine, while the internet from the same provider is down …
2023-01-18: Frost on the roof, sun on the river.
2023-01-17: Ah, it’s Winterwatch week. That’s a pleasant surprise.
2023-01-17: Quite the sunset this evening.
2023-01-17: Well, it may be sub-zero in the garden this morning, but spring is still a’coming…
2023-01-17: Craig Hockenberry: “It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. That notion …
2023-01-17: Universities are already rethinking teaching and assessment in the light of AI tools.
2023-01-16: Home, from the bridge.
2023-01-16: If a book is called Silence, but isn’t really about the absence of audible noise, what is it really …
2023-01-15: Nice to get the Apple Fitness “Ring in the New Year” challenge in the bag.
2023-01-15: ”I had to use my legs to go far away in order to discover this, but I now know it is possible to …
2023-01-15: Every Sunday, I tell myself the early starts are worth it. And sometimes it’s really true.
2023-01-14: Complex clapping game in progress. 🤷🏼
2023-01-13: My weekend reading has arrived. 📚
2023-01-13: It turns out that glass-sided bridges require more maintenance than you’d think.
2023-01-13: Some fun weekend reading for you from my soon-to-be-defunct Revue newsletter.
2023-01-13: Metal cover of the A-Team theme. Perfect Friday fodder for those of us of a certain age.
2023-01-13: Twitter’s API appears to be down, breaking any third party client access to the service. And …
2023-01-13: What do you think the chances of the Revue integration on people’s Twitter profiles just …
2023-01-12: Looks like Hasbro is learning that you can create a community, play host to a community, but never, …
2023-01-12: Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in just around the corner.
2023-01-12: The courage and talent of Laura Price, whom I had the privilege of teaching a few years ago, …
2023-01-12: 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 …
2023-01-11: There’s a guy down the river collecting old boats. He seems to be working on them. It annoys some …
2023-01-11: This looks worryingly like the Royal Mail has been hit by a ransomware attack.
2023-01-11: The science of stupidity Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right …
2023-01-11: It’s interesting how many publications do “predictions for the year ahead” posts - and how few of …
2023-01-10: The sea is bringing in some big bits of jetsam right now.
2023-01-10: The sea was putting on an impressive show earlier.
2023-01-09: Walkers and shingle shifters on the beach this afternoon.
2023-01-08: Up on the Downs this morning.
2023-01-08: Nice wooden boat coming ashore on the slipway.
2023-01-08: I love it when a book randomly mentions where I live: ”I was also looking forward to experiencing …
2023-01-08: Back into the “7.30am swimming lesson for my eldest” routine for Sundays. As ever, a flask of great …
2023-01-07: From the library towards the church.
2023-01-07: From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚: “Deep down in the ocean, below the waves and ripples, you can find …
2023-01-07: From Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚: “A seam of bullying ran unchecked through the school, …
2023-01-06: Yup, just walking home through the graveyard. 😨
2023-01-06: The time has come to…
2023-01-05: Twelfth night, so saying farewell to our mighty wee tree.
2023-01-05: Just survived the slightly nerve-wracking process of upgrading my Mastodon server to 4.0.2. All went …
2023-01-04: That kind of a day.
2023-01-04: Here’s my top 10 posts of 2022 from my work blog. Interesting that the journalism world is really …
2023-01-03: Probably our last festive activity of this Christmas season.
2023-01-02: Family lightsabre action.
2023-01-02: A sticker on my laptop, back in 2010. I’d love a 2022 version of this (although I doubt it …
2023-01-01: New Year’s Day walk with the extended family.
2023-01-01: Happy New Year from (a house in) London!
2022-12-31: The wisdom of @patrickrhone spreads.
2022-12-30: “Hello, I’ve got a burning desire to go somewhere online where groups of people will …
2022-12-30: Matt Buck compiled some great links and videos to mark the passing of satirist John Bird.
2022-12-25: Home from midnight Mass: 12.30am Girls up: 6.30am 😴
2022-12-25: Midnight Mass, Church of the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach.
2022-12-24: Crib service in 15 minutes… My daughters will be playing the roles of “Magus” and “innkeeper”.
2022-12-24: Newsletter delivery via RSS has a name. It’s called blogging. This is literally what we were doing …
2022-12-22: Yes. Yes, I do.
2022-12-22: Started reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚
2022-12-20: Presented without comment.
2022-12-19: Tower Bridge by night.
2022-12-19: London very on brand this morning.
2022-12-19: Started reading: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚
2022-12-19: Off to London for work. The last commute of the year!
2022-12-13: It’s “update all the Apple things” evening! iOS/iPadOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1 are …
2022-12-13: Blimey. Musk has disbanded Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council. He’s not even pretending …
2022-12-12: Euan Semple on the importance of doing fuck all: “We feel driven to achieve more, to …
2022-12-12: Potential album cover.
2022-12-12: Ice Ice Baby
2022-12-10: This is a nice one:
2022-12-10: A quick video of the Shoreham-by-Sea Santa SUP this morning:
2022-12-10: More SUPping Santas!
2022-12-10: Oh, that is dangerously tempting.
2022-12-10: What’s SUP, Santa?
2022-12-10: Bottomed out at -2.5°C last night. Pretty cold for these parts.
2022-12-09: Artificial grass is evil: “Fake turf is the manifestation of a deep cultural weakness, expressed in …
2022-12-09: Started reading: Edge of Cymru by Julie Brominicks 📚
2022-12-09: Worthing Pier from Shoreham Beach, 8/12/22, 4.10pm
2022-12-09: Cold enough that I’ve actually put on my rarely-used woolly hat for the commute this morning.
2022-12-08: My beloved Canon M50 is back from the camera doctor and working once more: And here’s one of …
2022-12-08: Another wave of angst over Musk fiddling with the blue tick systems, I see. And all because Old …
2022-12-08: First night we’ve gone below zero this winter. Plenty more to come, I’m sure.
2022-12-07: Heavy Metal x Indian Singing This is just brilliant: [via Boing Boing]
2022-12-07: Holy crap, this Rackspace email outage looks very bad indeed.
2022-12-07: I wonder what microposts look like on WordPress.
2022-12-07: MarsEdit 5 is here. Still no Ghost support, but looking good for my other blogging. And yes, this is …
2022-12-06: People have a long and inglorious tradition of mangling my surname, but this is a new one for me…
2022-12-06: Thesis: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made.
2022-12-06: Turns out there’s no market for VC-funded upbeat tech “journalism”: Future is …
2022-12-06: Ah, the good old days, when people aspired to blogger style not influencer style…
2022-12-05: In Brighton on business for the first time in years. When I started out in business for myself …
2022-12-04: D&D drops the word “race” Dungeons & Dragons announcement: we understand “race” is a problematic term that …
2022-12-03: Started reading: The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent 📚
2022-11-28: Seeing “Tom Baker” and “Death of the Doctor” trend together on Twitter was a scary moment, but …
2022-11-28: 🎲 Me in #7TTRPGs Ordered by “amount written for”, to the best of my memory: Hunter: the Reckoning Demon: …
2022-11-27: Hitting the sack early (for me, at least) as I’ll need all the energy and motivation I can manage to …
2022-11-27: This is a lovely reflection on the joy of the old, the analogue and the enduring: Personal …
2022-11-27: Finished reading: The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer 📚 Wonderful book. Review forthcoming.
2022-11-27: Feeling deprived of my weekly dose of inspiration from the swimming pool whiteboard this morning.
2022-11-27: Morning coffee from a flask in an enamel mug while my daughter swims.
2022-11-26: That’s a commitment I’m not prepared to make, alas.
2022-11-26: Hello, Saturday.
2022-11-25: It’s nearly time for our ritual trip to Spithandle to hunt down a wild Christmas tree. Next weekend, …
2022-11-25: Working with people who show a real commitment to what they do is an absolute blessing.
2022-11-25: Good morning from a crisp, Autumnal but delayed commute.
2022-11-24: I retain the determination to complete the November micro.blog challenge this year. Less than a week …
2022-11-23: I get more wary of applying a software update the older I get. I miss the old devil-may-care …
2022-11-22: One unintentionally positive outcome of the cost of living crisis is that we have less food …
2022-11-21: “Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.” — Robert Macfarlane, …
2022-11-21: Sunset approaches. Shoreham Fort, around 4.15pm.
2022-11-21: I have earned this today.
2022-11-21: I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the …
2022-11-21: Some interesting nature reads to kick off your week.
2022-11-21: Charles Arthur in his newsletter this morning: “Self-obsessed Twitter is the very, very worst …
2022-11-20: How culture changes: ”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, could …
2022-11-20: Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊♂️
2022-11-20: Repeat a difficult thing often enough and it becomes a habit and then a pleasure. And so it is with …
2022-11-20: I’ve just realised how appropriate it was that I was reading Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill in …
2022-11-19: After revelling in non-fiction for the last few years, I have really rediscovered the novel this …
2022-11-18: It turn out that one can tire of London without tiring of life. It’s nice to be home in Sussex.
2022-11-18: Weather like this almost makes the early start worth it.
2022-11-17: I know that the phone has the advantage of being the camera you always have with you, but I do enjoy …
2022-11-17: I’m just not ready for this…
2022-11-16: I try to avoid spending too much money in franchise chains, but when your small, indie coffee shop …
2022-11-15: This may have been one of the first music videos I watched on a computer: It was included as an …
2022-11-15: aluminium aluminium aluminium
2022-11-15: Social media isn’t dead — it’s regenerating.
2022-11-14: Weird. My #mbnov post from yesterday didn’t make the “all posts” Discover timeline. I wonder why.
2022-11-14: A good pub is one you don’t want to leave.
2022-11-13: Life doesn’t always go to plan. The secret to resilience is to just adjust and forge new paths …
2022-11-13: Really not used to singing “God save the King” yet.
2022-11-13: Youth organisations and veterans together on Southwick Green, marking Remembrance Sunday.
2022-11-12: Well, dealing with the flat tyre put pay to our planned afternoon out. But, given how tired the …
2022-11-12: Oh, great. Screw in the tyre.
2022-11-12: Matt Birchler: “I heard someone recently describe Twitter as a social network where the users hate …
2022-11-11: The evening light was putting in a wonderful display earlier.
2022-11-11: Right, I’m now using my own Mastodon instance for work-style stuff. Anyone interested in …
2022-11-11: Finally solved the email problem, and my personal Mastodon instance is working. A few more tweaks, …
2022-11-10: I just discovered that the minister from my childhood home carried on working well into his 80s. …
2022-11-09: We’re not even half way through November, and I’ve seen my first Christmas tree. 🎄
2022-11-09: There’s a certain joy to early starts in the autumn, and this morning’s early trip to the station …
2022-11-09: OK. So, I just set up a Mastodon Instance. 🤓
2022-11-08: Amazing news for non-iOS mobile journalists and filmmakers - Lumafusion is now on Android and …
2022-11-08: I’m just an ordinary guy, looking at the weather, and asking it to stop pissing it down before …
2022-11-07: Well, I think we all now have more insight into how hard it is to run a social network well…
2022-11-06: Well, I’d completely forgotten just how much noise the echo of 30-odd primary school children and a …
2022-11-05: I’m having an idiot evening. I was just about to build a special page for Microblogvember and then I …
2022-11-05: It is very odd and sad to see the life and death of a young journalist you used to chat with at …
2022-11-05: Gah. Great website. No RSS. No newsletter. Protected Twitter account. How am I meant to know when …
2022-11-05: Sadly, a birthday weekend doesn’t make me exempt from the business of being Daddy taxi for most of …
2022-11-05: Reading everyone’s “admiration” posts made me realise that, at this point of my life, I rarely …
2022-11-04: 🤔 I have a certain admiration for the attempt to move people over, but I’m not sure it will work.
2022-11-04: It’s a rough morning, watching friends and former students getting fired from Twitter. …
2022-11-03: Well, I suppose the good thing about the reports that Revue (owned by Twitter) will be gone by the …
2022-11-02: Working late at the office, adding a feast of links to Moodle, for the journalism students to …
2022-11-01: Well, it might have been chucking it down all day, and the wind has thrown things around the garden, …
2022-10-31: Enjoying Halloween on a warm but wet night. A modest haul of sweets for the girls, but good fun in …
2022-10-31: Has anyone seen any news outlets doing anything interesting on Mastodon?
2022-10-30: This is a great resource for people thinking of starting a blog: Get Blogging! [via @manton]
2022-10-29: London being London in its charming way.
2022-10-28: So, it looks like the deal is done, and Elon Musk has acquired Twitter. It’s certainly the end of …
2022-10-23: I think this is spot on. British politics — or, at least, the Tory party version of it — is now …
2022-10-23: More good advice from the morning swim classes whiteboard.
2022-10-22: Autumn sun through the oak.
2022-10-22: A few moments of tranquility while the girls play.
2022-10-22: Lovely bit of sulphur tuft, there.
2022-10-22: Caption competition…
2022-10-20: I asked Siri to “play something I’ll like”, and it’s been back to back 80s …
2022-10-18: This is fascinating. I’ve noted students doing this despite the slides being available for them to …
2022-10-17: Quite the sunset tonight.
2022-10-17: This is a good look back at She-Hulk Attorney at Law. Insightful about how it played with audience …
2022-10-17: I sincerely hope that the focus Long Covid has brought to post-viral syndromes will be extended much …
2022-10-16: Words of wisdom at the 7.30am swim.
2022-10-15: A lovely little discovery – an acorn cup fallen into another plant.
2022-10-15: The path through the woods.
2022-10-14: I’m really enjoying all the photos from around the world making up the Day in the Life of the …
2022-10-14: Breakfast at the Talking Hands café, after my train was cancelled. Hassocks, Sussex, in the UK. …
2022-10-09: Started reading: The Way Through the Woods by Long Litt Woon 📚
2022-10-09: Sometimes getting up early for my daughter’s 7.30am swimming class is totally worth it.
2022-10-07: Home to find, happily, that my eldest has survived her year 6 residential mostly intact…
2022-10-07: Morning commute.
2022-10-06: An image from a time, a place and a life far away. And long gone.
2022-10-06: A terrifying photo of me as a pimply teenager has just emerged from the film scanner. I will not be …
2022-10-06: Well, this is not at all what I was aiming for when I prompted Midjourney, but it’s very …
2022-10-02: Undergraduate student me, early 1990s…
2022-10-02: A photo from a promotional photo-booth for a long-dead social network at a long-dead conference…
2022-10-02: 7.20am Lancing College. Another nice, relaxing Sunday. 🙄
2022-10-01: Just a family of swans out for a Saturday stroll…
2022-09-30: Happiness is getting one of the few free charging spaces at the railway station.
2022-09-29: Just over three years ago, I flew back from Hamburg, little suspecting that it would be so long …
2022-09-28: All the evidence – with more reported this morning - is that hydrogen won’t be a good path to …
2022-09-23: The crazy battery life of Apple Silicon Macs and iPads really makes days of live event coverage in a …
2022-09-22: Finally got my hands on a copy of the new book I co-authored…
2022-09-22: One of my favourite parts of coming to Germany.
2022-09-22: The stage is set. Ready to go! #next22 #hugthesystem
2022-09-21: Hamburg by night.
2022-09-21: Most people still wearing masks on the S-Bahn in Hamburg.
2022-09-21: Compulsory facemasks on the flight to Hamburg. #next22 #hugthesystem
2022-09-21: Waiting at Heathrow for my first flight in three years. I haven’t missed airports.
2022-09-18: Quick Review: Coasting Finished reading: Coasting by ELISE. DOWNING 📚 I enjoyed this more than I expected. On the surface, …
2022-09-16: Local family out on the river.
2022-09-16: The problem with studying and lecturing around online communities is that you don’t only get …
2022-09-14: Yikes. This is going to hit a lot of people very fast: Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using …
2022-09-13: On the road again 25 years ago, I worked near Oxford Street in London. One lunchtime, I popped into the HMV store …
2022-09-12: Back in my favourite sneaky reading spot, after the summer break. Daughter learning piano, I’m on …
2022-09-12: They’re alway there. Always above us. Always watching…
2022-09-11: Amazing mist up on the Downs this morning.
2022-09-10: Updating a self-hosted Ghost site from my iPad. With good coffee, of course. 🤓 ☕️
2022-09-08: Weird. I just realised that after singing “God save the Queen” every now and then my whole life, …
2022-09-08: The Queen is dead. Long live the King.
2022-09-07: The outdoors rescue/location features of the Apple Watch Ultra and the iPhone 14 are an impressive …
2022-09-07: Apple killing the physical SIM card in the US… #AppleEvent
2022-09-07: I really like the Apple Watch Ultra. But I haven’t seen the price yet… #appleevent
2022-09-05: This is a really good defence of RSS as the basis of podcasting. If you’re involved with podcasting, …
2022-09-05: Evening on the beach.
2022-09-05: This is a fantastic idea for getting more reading done.
2022-08-30: Currently reading: Ditchling Walks: in Eric Gill’s Footsteps by Lorraine Harrison, in search …
2022-08-30: Trying out solar-powered tech. Working well so far.
2022-08-30: Campfire reading. Currently reading: Coasting by Elise Downing 📚
2022-08-29: Night in the woods.
2022-08-24: Currently reading: Mistletoe Winter by Roy Dennis 📚 Such a melancholy book. It’s absolutely bursting …
2022-08-24: Apparently I’m in the mood for photographing sunflowers at the moment.
2022-08-24: Lovely light on the Adur this afternoon.
2022-08-24: A field near Petworth in the heart of the English summer.
2022-08-23: The more we learn about the Warner Bros Discovery / Batgirl mess, the weirder it seems.
2022-08-23: A long dive into the current and future fortunes of the tarnished newsletter platform Substack. The …
2022-08-23: Wow. Tinder’s a decade old. It’s been two decades since I dated, (happily married!) and …
2022-08-22: Took me a while to adjust to vegan burgers, but I’m really enjoying them now. A fine example from …
2022-08-22: Summer’s not over while the sunflowers still look this good.
2022-08-19: My eldest, playing an iPad game: “10pm is about the time a grown-up goes to sleep.” My …
2022-08-17: Looks like there’s urgent security updates out for all the major Apple platforms this evening. …
2022-08-13: A few images from the beginning of our holiday two weeks ago: Wightlink to the Isle of Wight, and …
2022-08-12: I am faintly baffled as to why anyone would think that I’d like to run a piece about going …
2022-08-11: Hwæt!
2022-08-11: I think it would be fair to say that my teenage record buying was not cool.
2022-07-27: My youngest is enjoying a trip to the local Lidl far too much.
2022-07-24: Finished reading: The Earth Beneath My Feet by Andrew Terrill 📚 Quite a remarkable book. It takes …
2022-07-24: Last early morning trip to the swimming pool before the Autumn. Rewarded with some lovely views.
2022-07-22: Lovely still afternoon on the river.
2022-07-21: What’s the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated with experiential social …
2022-07-20: Well, fibre to the premises certainly makes a difference…
2022-07-19: Coastal blessings - the warmest it got yesterday was 33.5° in the back garden. Everywhere in the …
2022-07-19: Instagram is dead. Or, at least, it’s no longer recognisable as a photography app.
2022-07-18: The back garden’s hit 29℃, closing in on our predicted high of 31℃ today. Windows all shut and …
2022-07-17: I’m not quite sure when and how it happened, but I’ve slowly become a mornings person. I was always …
2022-07-15: It’s been a long time since I walked over this bridge.
2022-07-15: Winnersh Triangle Station is pretty small for a station right by a big office park. It’s barely more …
2022-07-15: Yesterday morning in Crewe and this morning in Winnersh.
2022-07-14: Doing a lot of this over these few days of work…
2022-07-11: Finally done on a client report that’s been hanging over me for a while. Treating myself to a …
2022-07-10: Lovely brunch prepared by my daughter!
2022-07-10: Fascinating seeing Shoreham Beach from the other side of the harbour entrance for once.
2022-07-08: And there we have it: Elon Musk Moves to End $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter
2022-07-06: And… breathe.
2022-07-02: OK. I admit it. This is absolutely my kind of feature: “Memes can be thought of as a form of …
2022-07-02: This feature is going to have to work hard to convince me of its thesis… (From the latest Standart …
2022-07-01: Sugar rush incoming.
2022-06-30: Booked in to get fibre to the house, rather than just fibre to the cabinet, next month. Really …
2022-06-26: Cosmopolitan place, Shoreham.
2022-06-26: Meanwhile, down by the lifeboat station.…
2022-06-23: Calling Michael Gove the Levelling Up Minister does make it sound awfully like he spends all day in …
2022-06-23: I told a student I would give her piece a “tense check”. And I’m still giggling …
2022-06-23: So, turns out your keyboard works better if you turn it on. 🤦🏼♂️
2022-06-21: Tough economic times are already hitting eco charities and sustainable businesses just at the time …
2022-06-21: Sitting, working, on the balcony, and wondering why I don’t do this more.
2022-06-19: Best badge ever.
2022-06-18: I’ve got a feeling we’re being watched here in the churchyard…
2022-06-17: All ready to see my youngest get a Gold Award at the Funky Friday assembly…
2022-06-12: The beach, late this afternoon.
2022-06-10: Oh, no. Julee Cruise Has Died, Aged 65. The Twin Peaks soundtrack was the backdrop to my uni years, …
2022-06-07: I love this light. Wouldn’t fit in our house, but looks great in this pub.
2022-06-07: Does the glamour never stop?
2022-06-06: Choosing Peter Capaldi to narrate a nature documentary builds in a vague irritation at humanity’s …
2022-06-06: Leaving behind the #wwdc22 keynote to watch something more important…
2022-06-06: My big lesson from yesterday’s Platinum Jubilee street party is that I’m now officially …
2022-06-01: My most common typo for “metaverse” is “meat verse” which is ironic, given …
2022-05-27: Good grief - 5G in central London is quite something…
2022-05-25: So, by botching a Spotlight search for Teams, I accidentally opened a search for “teacup …
2022-05-23: 👻5️⃣ Ghost 5.0 is here…
2022-05-21: Finished reading: From the Mull to the Cape by Richard Guise 📚 A pleasant enough read. Entertaining …
2022-05-20: Whoops.
2022-05-19: I found out today that one of my good university / student magazine buddies passed away some weeks …
2022-05-18: Netflix’s itchy cancellation finger has made me less and less likely to start watching a new …
2022-05-16: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 16: Time All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
2022-05-16: Not one of my better looks… On the Suffolk coast, circa 1993.
2022-05-15: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 15: Clouds All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
2022-05-15: I might get used to these “swimming pool by 7.30am” Sunday starts. Today is not the day that …
2022-05-14: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 14: Fence All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
2022-05-14: Well, yes, you need to protect your magazine brand. But maaaaaybe check that the business hasn’t …
2022-05-14: These are my people.
2022-05-13: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 13: Community All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the …
2022-05-13: I was completely unaware that today was Friday the 13th until I read John Naughton’s daily post. Two …
2022-05-13: Was slightly thrown to see @maique out of context — in the Fastmail newsletter.
2022-05-12: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 12: Tranquility Down by the harbour arm, sharing half an hour and hot drinks …
2022-05-11: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 11: Maroon All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
2022-05-11: Thanks to today’s theme from @challenges, I find myself debating whether my hoodie is, in …
2022-05-11: After years of doing digital work, editing a (print) book can be a challenge. “Oh, I’ll pop a …
2022-05-10: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 10: Pot I’m fond of this pot. And yes, I know that the pot inside the pot is …
2022-05-10: Can anyone point me to the master list of May Photoblogging prompts? My attempts to locate it have …
2022-05-09: This is very good. And no, it’s not what you’re assuming… BBC Reveals Secret “Woke …
2022-05-09: I have no idea what differentiates a badge and a brooch. Anyone?
2022-05-09: We’ll see more of this: Apple’s Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office …
2022-05-09: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 9: Bloom
2022-05-08: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 8: Union The union of car and house. I’ll eventually get used to the …
2022-05-08: Nobody warns you about the “getting your daughter to swimming lessons for 7.30am on a Sunday” part …
2022-05-07: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 7: Park
2022-05-06: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 6: Silhouette
2022-05-05: I’ve given the May photoblogging posts their own category. It’s a good incentive to keep …
2022-05-05: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 5: Earth When we moved in, our garden was full of rubble from the old boat …
2022-05-05: Obligatory democratic selfie.
2022-05-05: This may be the best ever typo-driven page: Welcome to the Meatverse. (I particularly like …
2022-05-05: Due to poor typing on my part. auto-correct just turned “evangelists” into “Eva …
2022-05-04: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 4: Thorny
2022-05-03: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 3: Experimental Who doesn’t love pond dipping? A fun science experiment for …
2022-05-02: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 2: Photo
2022-05-02: The more I look at this, the more disturbing it is.
2022-05-02: Bank holiday breakfast in a wee café deep in the Sussex countryside.
2022-05-01: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 1: Switch
2022-04-29: I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment …
2022-04-25: Auntie Beeb says it’s true, and I believe Auntie: Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon …
2022-04-25: It’s time to stop embedding Tweets in news stories…. (And it’s nothing to do with Musk…)
2022-04-25: The odds of anyone with a blue tick and a very substantial following actually, truly deleting their …
2022-04-23: Nice new paint job on one of our local pubs.
2022-04-21: “Because here’s the thing about comfort, ease, security - it can topple into insipid inertia …
2022-04-19: Down on the river, SUP-style.
2022-04-18: Being a persistent shit-poster on Twitter and rather thin-skinned about criticism strikes me as an …
2022-04-18: Quayside ladder, high tide.
2022-04-17: Richard Durrant playing during the sunrise this morning.
2022-04-17: More images from the sunrise Easter service this morning.
2022-04-17: Sunrise on Easter Sunday.
2022-04-16: A tiny escape on Good Friday.
2022-04-16: My feelings were ambivalent - social media and the internet have introduced me to many wonderful …
2022-04-15: What’s SUP, Doc?
2022-04-15: New research shows that leg exercise - in particular weight-bearing leg exercise like walking - …
2022-04-15: Such a beautiful morning.
2022-04-15: Morning coffee by the sea.
2022-04-13: One way where I match the stereotype of the middle-aged Dad is my obsession with correct dishwasher …
2022-04-13: Jonathan Haidt: “A mean tweet doesn’t kill anyone; it is an attempt to shame or punish someone …
2022-04-13: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid “Once social-media platforms had …
2022-04-12: Some beautiful prints of British wildlife, signed by nature presenters and celebrities. 50% of the …
2022-04-09: My Mark 2 is finally here – only a year after Studio Neat planned. Still, worth waiting for.
2022-04-09: Apparently students these days buy their clothes by the kilo…
2022-04-07: I suspect I have written more words this week than any other week so far in my life. And it’s …
2022-04-05: The couple of years since the allegations about Warren Ellis came to light have been on long …
2022-04-04: It may be bitterly cold here in Sussex, but the beach knows it’s spring. The first of the plants …
2022-04-03: Weekend Nature Reads: the Good News, Bad News edition… Sometime’s it’s hard not to …
2022-04-02: I do wonder if one of the triggers of moving from independent consultant to small agency is that …
2022-04-02: This is a fascinating tale of a man who enjoyed taking photos more then developing the, creating a …
2022-04-02: Finished reading: Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell 📚 Took me quite a while to get through this …
2022-04-02: Flippin’ ‘eck, this is worrying: The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing And yes, it’s climate change …
2022-04-01: Online lecture mode.
2022-04-01: I have survived six hours of lectures via Zoom with my sanity largely intact. (My wife suggests …
2022-03-31: Iris loves her piano lessons, but I suspect she enjoys playing with Snufkin more…
2022-03-31: 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 …
2022-03-26: Chillin' by the harbour arm.
2022-03-23: I love this time on a Wednesday.
2022-03-23: “People claim they enjoy winter, but what they really mean is they enjoy winter as a livener, a …
2022-03-22: I suspect that this is the first time I’ve worn this gilet since the autumn, given that I just found …
2022-03-20: So did you know it was World Rewilding Day? I didn’t until just now… Pity. This is such an …
2022-03-20: An unusual beach find today.
2022-03-19: Watcher on the bridge.
2022-03-18: Perfect commuting reading…
2022-03-17: Oh, hurrah. Discord is finally Apple Silicon native.
2022-03-17: The house in the woods…
2022-03-15: Gmail of the Beast
2022-03-15: It was a great sunset yesterday. 🌅
2022-03-10: Yikes. Mystery mummified body found in convention centre walls…
2022-03-10: Just playing around with Glass. Anyone out there using it? Here’s my profile.
2022-03-10: Best hag stone discovery in a while.
2022-03-09: Very mixed feelings about the new edition of Hunter: the Reckoning. I’m glad it’s back, …
2022-03-09: I’ve always been very aware that Substack is heavily VC-backed, and that creates pressure to …
2022-03-09: Well, I suppose it was inevitable that Substack would do this. But it changes the dynamics of the …
2022-03-09: Listening to Apple-centric podcasts the day after an Apple event is a good reminder that pretty much …
2022-03-08: Continuing my obsession with Apple Watch fitness challenges, I just got the International Women’s …
2022-03-06: Let me distract you from the geopolitical horror of the moment with some good nature reads…
2022-03-06: Selfie in shadow and wood.
2022-03-06: Car Play is one of those things that you don’t understand the value of until you’ve used it. And, …
2022-03-06: A protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Shoreham’s East Street yesterday. 🇺🇦
2022-03-03: Dreich.
2022-02-27: A Seaford seafront walk this afternoon.
2022-02-27: This is officially my new favourite warning sign.
2022-02-27: Up and out for a self-defence class for the girls.
2022-02-26: Coffee and chat with my youngest at Tom Foolery.
2022-02-26: This piece in the most recent Standart takes on a whole different tone given what’s happening in …
2022-02-25: First time this year that I have finished a day’s lecturing at City, and it’s still been light when …
2022-02-20: Weather like this makes isolation easier…
2022-02-20: Some good reading (and viewing/listening) about nature and the great outdoors. Some of it will make …
2022-02-20: Stuck inside and desperately missing the outdoors… 🤞🏻for a negative lateral flow soon.
2022-02-19: Images from Ukraine as they prepare for possible invasion. How powerful photography can be in …
2022-02-18: A time lapse from the height of Storm Eunice earlier.
2022-02-17: Our house has apparently had enough of those Donny Downer negative lateral flow tests, and are going …
2022-02-15: Morning beach walk #2: cold, grey and a wee bit bleak. Still, was home before the rain hit.
2022-02-14: Two Apple Fitness Awards day:
2022-02-14: Morning beach walk #1: Valentine’s Day Lovely sun, but a cold wind, and plenty of spray in the …
2022-02-12: Tony Blair in The Times: “All social media has taught us is that there are a lot crazier people out …
2022-02-11: Another day’s lecturing done.
2022-02-11: The person sitting in front of me on the train has a coffee that smells so good it’s almost torture. …
2022-02-09: The reality of Partygate Martin Fletcher in the New Statesman: Partygate is not about left versus right, or Remainers versus …
2022-02-07: Some waves for you.
2022-02-07: Why political activists spend so much time fighting their own side Ian Leslie: Note that Ataöv suggests that differences don’t cause conflicts; conflicts create …
2022-02-07: Second screenbreak of the day: cleaning and refilling the bird feeders.
2022-02-07: Giving myself a commute One of the clichés of working for ourself is that, when you’re self-employed, your boss is an …
2022-02-06: Today’s edition of “spot the raptor”.
2022-02-05: We made a friend in the churchyard this afternoon. 🐿
2022-02-05: Currently reading: Nature Cure by Richard Mabey 📚 This is an engrossing read. To write with such …
2022-01-30: Getting up early on a Sunday t9 take the girls to their swimming classes is challenging, but this …
2022-01-29: A morning long black in relaxed surroundings.
2022-01-28: Just started: Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs 📚 I’ve been looking forward to this …
2022-01-27: Finished reading: The Farthest Shore by Alex Roddie 📚 Excellent book — and timely. Full review at …
2022-01-26: Nice to have a bit of company while I was chilling out down by the harbour arm.
2022-01-25: “To be very online is to be in a toxic collective solitude where everyone is battling their own …
2022-01-24: This is just joyful. 🎵Worries for another day🎶
2022-01-24: While enjoying Winterwatch on the BBC, I got to wondering why summer is the only season that doesn’t …
2022-01-21: Martin Belam: “I also saw someone else describe NFTs as “content-free DRM” and reader, …
2022-01-19: Enjoying a walk by the harbour arm, while my youngest has a piano lesson.
2022-01-14: Charge!
2022-01-14: It was frosty on the beach again, this morning.
2022-01-14: Well, that arrived quicker than I expected…
2022-01-13: This is one of the more thoughtful takes I’ve seem on dealing with the problem of online anonymity …
2022-01-13: The Undeath of the Author (With apologies to Barthes.) “But social media has tilted things so that books by …
2022-01-13: The masocism of social media “When was the last time you were out in public and felt actively rejected by someone you felt …
2022-01-13: Respect to the people having a morning sea swim at 0°C this morning.
2022-01-13: A frosty morning on Shoreham Beach.
2022-01-12: Sunset from the harbour arm.
2022-01-12: A fond farewell to a long-serving car. I had the Fire Engine (as we called it) for over 12 years.
2022-01-12: John Naughton: “Polarised thinking may make people feel comfortable in their righteousness; …
2022-01-10: “If you climb a mountain but don’t Instagram the view from the summit, have you even climbed …
2022-01-09: Tiny thespians at work…
2022-01-09: Just put some petrol in the car for what could well be the last time ever. Changes…
2022-01-07: Good morning from Shoreham Beach.
2022-01-04: Lovely profile of the people behind LumaFusion, my go-to video editor - and an iPad app.
2022-01-04: Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic: “The acceptance and fellowship that online …
2022-01-02: This is a rather nice one. Trafalgar Square, early summer 1994.
2022-01-02: More West End candids from 1994.
2022-01-02: A few candids shot around London’s West End in early summer 1994. Sure, the fashions date them …
2021-12-31: Here’s the posts that caught your attention on my site in 2021. Happy New Year to you all!
2021-12-29: Finding a stolen and burnt out motorcycle near their grandma’s house was an education for the girls…
2021-12-25: A very merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it!
2021-12-22: Somebody’s not enjoying the festive season.
2021-12-22: Night boat to nowhere, Worthing.
2021-12-22: “Organisers are people who have noticed what is happening and want to do something about it. …
2021-12-22: “The way nature brings peace to my busy mind feels like one of the most abandoned parts of who I am. …
2021-12-21: This rather elderly angel used to top my late parents’ Christmas tree. And now she tops ours.
2021-12-21: So, after having two vaccinations on Saturday (flu and COVID booster): Sunday I spent barely able …
2021-12-18: I suspect that the best use of my evening would be ensuring that there’s enough good coffee …
2021-12-18: Two jabs in one session: Covid: 💉💉💉 Flu: 💉
2021-12-18: The iPad Pro is the best coffee shop computer yet invented. Thank you. I will not be taking …
2021-12-16: Time to slay the iPhone tabs monster…
2021-12-15: One for GoPro folks: New firmware for the Hero 10 Black, including more 24fps modes.
2021-12-15: Down by the harbour arm again. It’s cold and grey, so I had the beach to myself, apart from a …
2021-12-15: Some useful trends amongst the Web 3.0 / Metaverse hype picked out here.
2021-12-12: Currently reading: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for …
2021-12-11: We have our Christmas tree.
2021-12-10: Fantastic lanterns at Light Up Shoreham this evening.
2021-12-10: Taking a quick break down by the harbour arm.
2021-12-10: When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch.
2021-12-09: I’m pretty sure I read this story 15 years ago, except it was Second Life people were getting …
2021-12-09: The low light capabilities of the iPhone 13 Pro continue to impress me.
2021-12-09: These people are mad. Admirably, impressively mad. But mad. A 15 mile walk. In December. In their …
2021-12-07: A rubicon has been crossed. I just scanned a QR code in a print magazine to open a webpage.
2021-12-07: This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a …
2021-12-07: At last, I threw down my article and smote its ruin upon the mountainside. I’m off to have a …
2021-12-07: 13 years ago, taking a film in to be developed already felt antiquated. I suppose I’d had …
2021-12-06: I am happy to report that you can now get my witterings from my notebook as a (free) weekly email.
2021-12-06: I noticed a little while ago that all the posts I did for TEDxBrighton back in 2012/13 were no …
2021-11-29: Shoreham sunset.
2021-11-29: A frosty morning down on the beach.
2021-11-29: If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the more British politicians say that …
2021-11-29: A lot of a individual creator newsletters are basically a week’s worth of old-style blogging (lots …
2021-11-28: This is a lovely wee story of how a camera was lost in the Highlands, but found and reconnected with …
2021-11-27: Castlehill, Edinburgh, Spring 1994.
2021-11-27: About time: Discord working on macOS app that runs natively on M1
2021-11-24: Proof-of-work crypto comes with a substantial climate cost: Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit …
2021-11-22: 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 …
2021-11-22: This is probably a symptom of getting old, but I find getting Black Friday emails (a) in the UK and …
2021-11-22: Some thoughts about Doctor Who, present and future 📺 Flux This series feels like the format Chris Chibnall’s Doctor Who should always have been. It’s the …
2021-11-21: Dramatic light over the sea today.
2021-11-21: Chilly beach walk with the girls.
2021-11-21: A newsletter that is half about NFTs and crypto and half about decarbonisation is an uneasy mix, …
2021-11-20: We’ve got a goshawk lunching in our back garden.
2021-11-20: Not sure I could rock this look, 29 years later…
2021-11-19: I now know what a lakh is.
2021-11-19: Spending an enjoyable evening looking at journalist-created newsletters from India and surrounding …
2021-11-18: I love writing. I hate getting started on writing.
2021-11-14: Night in the Quay.
2021-11-13: Always sound advice.
2021-11-10: Blimey. I think Substack is down.
2021-11-08: Do I have the mental bandwidth left to update a theme on one of my Ghost blogs? Hmmm.
2021-11-08: Cory Doctorow is not pulling his punches on NFTs.
2021-11-08: Are you an outdoor or wild swimmer? Then fill in the 2021 Trends in Outdoor Swimming Survey to help …
2021-11-06: One of those headlines that takes on a whole new level of “ick” if you’re a Brit: …
2021-11-06: Today, I turn 50. Please respect the privacy of my family and I at this difficult time. Thank you.
2021-11-06: UK has “no intention” to deliver COP26 pledges says Cambridge scientist: “The …
2021-11-05: Gunpowder, treason and plot. 💥
2021-11-04: While my frantic week isn’t yet done, my reward has arrived. Looking forward to spending time …
2021-11-04: One of the great moral panics of the last few decades debunked: Massive Study Finds No Link Between …
2021-11-03: Today, it’s exactly 20 years since I wrote my first blog post. I’ll write more about this tomorrow. …
2021-11-02: Evening walk at Woods Mill.
2021-11-01: Interesting. Is anyone else unable to access Quora with iCloud Private Relay on?
2021-10-29: 🚨 Important discourse. 🚨 Will the Metaverse save journalism?
2021-10-27: It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the …
2021-10-27: Commuting mask watch: down to about 10% of people wearing masks on this Southern train. Very thinly …
2021-10-26: One day I will manage to swab myself for a lateral flow test without retching. Today is not that …
2021-10-26: Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log …
2021-10-25: MacOS Monterey is a weirdly bland update — having been using it for a couple of hours, you could …
2021-10-25: Om Malik on the iPod 20 years on: Maybe knowingly (but more likely unknowingly), Apple had made a …
2021-10-25: Let’s do this…
2021-10-22: And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.
2021-10-22: Doc Searls on supply chains: “But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than …
2021-10-22: Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.
2021-10-21: The “Christmas Stocking Fillers” PR emails have started arriving, despite the fact I’ve never once …
2021-10-18: Well, that was a pretty clear admission that Apple had spend five years going the wrong way with …
2021-10-12: Climate journalism needs both fixing and expanding. This is a great step in the right direction.
2021-10-12: Here we go again: Premature Blogging Death Notice #357.
2021-10-08: Today, I had managed the sort of productivity that if I managed every day, my life would be a lot …
2021-10-07: Shell game.
2021-10-06: Yikes. You might want to change your Twitch passwords — there’s been a huge data leak.
2021-10-06: Back at City, ready to teach journalism again. 18 months ago, I walked out of here during one of the …
2021-10-06: Officially back in London.
2021-10-06: First commute to London in 18 months. It’s… quieter.
2021-10-05: Zoom fatigue hits women and new hires disproportionally.
2021-10-04: We’ve turned Facebook into a single point of failure - and now we’re paying the price.
2021-10-04: Let’s all hope @manton knows what he’s doing with border gateway protocol…
2021-10-04: Facebook being down might actually ease the petrol crisis, now that there’s no way for people …
2021-10-04: Slightly perturbed to discover that my daughters think that I’m basically Izzy Moonbow…
2021-10-03: The plastic pollution culprits — and other links worth reading.
2021-10-02: Day 2: It’s never fully dark, down by the river. #mboct
2021-10-02: There’s something quite nice about a day so wet and blustery that you feel no guilt at all about …
2021-10-01: Day 1: My daughter couldn’t resist reaching out to touch these fishy up-cycled spoons at the …
2021-10-01: I see the inevitable 15.0.1 update is out for your Apple device bug-fixing pleasure…
2021-10-01: It feels like a crunch is coming in the UK petrol crisis in my part of the country, at least. Those …
2021-09-28: A dramatic evening beach walk.
2021-09-28: The deadlines of my working life used to be defined by when the presses needed to roll. Now, …
2021-09-28: A first play with the iPhone 13 Pro’s cinematic video mode.
2021-09-26: Well, I wasn’t expecting My Little Pony: A New Generation to deliver some of the most on-point …
2021-09-26: Macro mode on the new iPhone is pretty impressive.
2021-09-24: Helloooo </Terry Thomas voice>
2021-09-23: I wonder what would happen if I just started posting on a neglected blog, and saw what happened?
2021-09-23: Selfie shot with the new GoPro Hero 10.
2021-09-21: Journalistic clichés to avoid like the plague. Note to self: rewrite before posting.
2021-09-21: The text recognition in photos that’s part of iOS15 is pretty damn impressive.
2021-09-21: Gotta say, shipping the new GoPro in a plastic bag somewhat undermines the “plastic free packaging” …
2021-09-21: I’m really leaning into the Dad joke thing right now.
2021-09-21: 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 …
2021-09-20: The new Netflix CGI He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the kid-friendly reboot not the Kevin …
2021-09-20: In less than two weeks, we’ve gone from “so hot in my study, I had seat beading on my …
2021-09-17: Just ordered a new iPhone for the first time in four years. That’s the longest I’ve held …
2021-09-14: New iPad Mini? That’s my wife’s Christmas present sorted, then.
2021-09-14: Only Apple can get me to watch an hour-long advert.
2021-09-13: Ah-ha. Big Sur 11.6 finally shows up for M1 Macs. Apparently today’s wave of Apple updates …
2021-09-13: Huh. Weird. My pre-M1 iMac has the MacOS 11.6 update, but not my M1 MacBook Pro.
2021-09-10: Well, hello.
2021-09-08: Quite a sunset over the river tonight.
2021-09-08: Oh, gosh. An I about to buy a new phone gimbal? I am, aren’t I?
2021-09-08: And yes, that includes washing it.
2021-09-08: Today’s exciting lunch break: cleaning the tent post-camping trips.
2021-09-06: Just booked my first evening out in Brighton since the pandemic began. I shouldn’t be — but I …
2021-09-06: When I had a Real Job (™), I used to routinely ignore work email when on holiday, and come back to a …
2021-08-27: My classy, elegant meeting space this morning…
2021-08-23: Just spent a happy couple of hours revamping a neglected blog, ready to start posting on it again …
2021-08-14: One of the things I love about visiting Woods Mill is that you can get beautiful images before …
2021-08-06: The seductive lure of cognitive bias. Don’t look too hard, or the story might melt away…
2021-08-05: Our lunchtime companion at Woods Mill.
2021-08-05: Spiked beauty.
2021-08-05: The only surprise here is that it took this long: The ‘Men Go Their Own Way’ Subreddit …
2021-08-05: It is slightly terrifying to realise that, as of this autumn, I will be in a position to do …
2021-08-03: Ulysses (a writing app) gets the ability to update Ghost posts — support for updating micro.blog …
2021-08-02: By the river’s edge.
2021-08-02: Thoughtful piece on the tenor of social media interactions by Roxane Gay.
2021-08-02: Receipts:
2021-08-02: Twitter Social Distancing — why I’m stepping back from Twitter for a month.
2021-08-01: The inverted man.
2021-08-01: “I do not demand a gin palace at every corner, merely that it is written into the constitution of …
2021-07-31: So, about the Doctor Who news…
2021-07-28: Merely a meerkat.
2021-07-25: Should your bookshelves reflect the person you are now, or should they encapsulate all the versions …
2021-07-24: Is it even social media if you don’t occasionally post photos of your lunch?
2021-07-24: Not something you see every day in Shoreham…
2021-07-23: I much prefer the feel of matt dust jackets when reading a hardback book to glossy ones.
2021-07-22: John Naughton’s review of An Ugly Truth, a new book about Facebook, makes it sound like …
2021-07-20: How can you not?
2021-07-20: The absence of iPadOS 14.7 from last night’s round of updates is curious…
2021-07-19: Evening on the Adur.
2021-07-19: Schmigadoon! is an intensely joyful slice of TV.
2021-07-17: Beach flora.
2021-07-15: Ha ha. No, no and more no to this terrifying idea. There’s absolutely no way I want Facebook to have …
2021-07-15: I have coffee and a piece on supply chains to finish. Wish me luck.
2021-07-15: Beach break.
2021-07-15: Self-solving tech problems are my favourite kind.
2021-07-11: Last night I had intense dreams about Swedish third wave coffee shops. That’s about as on-brand for …
2021-07-09: The problem with working on a MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro side-by-side is that I keep trying to …
2021-07-09: Today is my “Max Vax" day — two weeks since my second dose. 💉💉🎉
2021-07-03: I am happy to report that, as of this weekend, all adults in my household are fully vaccinated. 💉💉 …
2021-07-03: UK schoolchildren faking positive lateral flow COVID tests to get two weeks off school — using …
2021-07-01: Just had a depressing email about the planned final withdrawal of the .eu domain name I used to own, …
2021-06-30: A good reason for a drizzly beach picnic last weekend…
2021-06-30: 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 …
2021-06-27: Up at stupid o’clock for a podcast guest appearance…
2021-06-26: Concert time down near the Beach.
2021-06-26: The Bear on the Adur.
2021-06-26: Having a coffee in Tom Foolery with my daughters. It almost feels like the old days again. ☕️
2021-06-25: Mr Hancock and his rules People died alone, not even able to hold the hands of loved ones, because they followed rules Matt …
2021-06-25: I’ve done the double! 💉💉
2021-06-24: Coffee date with my youngest.
2021-06-24: Although I no longer live anywhere near Deptford, I’m pleased to hear that the local swimming pool, …
2021-06-24: This is a great piece about the mixed blessings of being a Doctor Who fan. I suspect it will …
2021-06-24: Today, in a career first, I received a press release about a toilet brush. Not any old toilet brush, …
2021-06-23: This plan to make Oxford Circus a car-free pedestrian piazza absolutely needs to happen.
2021-06-23: Beach walk selfie.
2021-06-23: If you ask me, this is nothing but a pile of junk.
2021-06-22: It’s easy to forget that long before Vox was the site we know now, there was a blogging …
2021-06-20: Luca, the new Pixar movie on Disney+, proved a perfect Father’s Day watch with my girls. It’s a …
2021-06-20: Fathers Day gifts from my girls.
2021-06-17: Another afternoon’s remote training ahead…
2021-06-12: This is a really, really interesting podcast on how to reverse polarisation in society. …
2021-06-11: This week it has become abundantly clear to me that some tasks are better done on a big screen, and …
2021-06-08: See you, open rates. It was good while it lasted. Apple closes down open rate tracking
2021-06-07: Missed the live WWDC keynote stream, so here’s the plan: Read the previews on Apple.com Scan the …
2021-06-07: An engaged newsletter audience is better than a big one. (And I managed to write it without making a …
2021-06-05: Friendly wee chap in the churchyard this morning.
2021-06-05: First library visit since the first lockdown! 📚
2021-05-31: Nostalgia.
2021-05-29: Walking.
2021-05-28: Genomics and pandemics and the avoidable crisis Zeynep Tufecki: The latest news from the United Kingdom, which has better genomic surveillance than …
2021-05-26: Online culture is now just culture: Dominic Cummings References Spider-Man-Pointing Meme To …
2021-05-26: Well, now. Amazon Makes Deal To Buy MGM For Nearly $8.5 Billion
2021-05-23: Amen to this: If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time …
2021-05-23: I will never cease to be amazed by the speed with which my daughters can make our living room …
2021-05-23: Watching last week’s Countryfile has me thinking about drones again. There’s some fantastic …
2021-05-23: Now, that’s better.
2021-05-21: I know I should move on from being annoyed when people use “blog" when they mean “blog post”. …
2021-05-21: Gosh. Gee whizz. What a surprise.
2021-05-21: This is a fascinating story of how and why aerosol spread of COVID-19 was discounted for far too …
2021-05-19: There is not enough side-eye in the world for this: Google revives RSS. Google, some of us remember …
2021-05-19: Dear Substack writers, Crossheads massively enhance the readability of your precious multi-thousand …
2021-05-18: Birthday party in progress: pin the tail on the Gnasher…
2021-05-17: This was the very first piece I wrote in my self-employed life, back in 2012: What is post digital? …
2021-05-15: I’ll be honest — editing these photos is making me hungry.
2021-05-15: Macarons anyone?
2021-05-15: Strawberry feast.
2021-05-14: This is a good read (ha,ha) in light of @manton’s new trial bookshelf feature here: Why …
2021-05-13: Nature really doesn’t understand the rules of storytelling…
2021-05-13: This week I have more good old-fashioned phone calls than Zoom or Teams meetings. It’s such a …
2021-05-11: Lovely afternoon down on the beach.
2021-05-11: Look at me, updating node.js from the command line like I have the first clue what I’m doing.
2021-05-11: I think I’ve found a way to articulate the discomfort I’m feeling in my work: I’m …
2021-05-10: Current status:
2021-05-10: For creativity to thrive, digital needs to learn its place…
2021-05-10: “Normal people—with regular lives and real jobs—have soap operas and reality shows. People who are …
2021-05-10: Millennials are hated for being defiantly uncool “From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s young …
2021-05-10: I just managed to lose a cup of coffee in the living room. How’s your Monday going?
2021-05-10: Wow. Just found a classic example of misusing “proof links”. A writer on Medium making certain …
2021-05-10: It turns out that our local church uses some rather dated tech…
2021-05-07: Hmmm. Does anyone have any idea why my micro.blog site wouldn’t pick up an analytics code put in the …
2021-05-07: Always worth taking time out to feed our feathered friends.
2021-05-07: Bottoming out On Wednesday morning, I hit a low. My family has been lucky during the pandemic — none of us have …
2021-05-07: Zero for two so far on ATT
2021-05-06: Want: Hexagonal garden office on stilts.
2021-05-06: The beach is going for drama this afternoon.
2021-05-06: I have done a democracy. 🇬🇧
2021-05-05: Having one of those days where I wonder why I bother with the stress of being self-employed. …
2021-05-04: It’s lovely to see the vegetation sprouting again on the beach — a sure sign that summer is on …
2021-05-04: Dear Substack writers, It is not compulsory to have an opinion on the Basecamp mess. Yours, Adam …
2021-05-04: Looks like there are security updates for Apple things out — urgent ones, too. Looks like I’ll be …
2021-05-02: 🎵 You’re driftwood… 🎵
2021-05-01: This is an absolute shocker: last night someone cut down an osprey nest at Llyn Brenig in Wales, …
2021-04-30: Just replaced the Cat 5 on the wired elements of our home network with Cat 7 cables. Boy, I know how …
2021-04-29: This is genius: Paddington in Film
2021-04-29: Why Substack stealing the big name columnists won’t kill newspapers — and why it might …
2021-04-27: The masked FaceID unlock works great on my iPhone running iOS 14.5. A nice little quality-of-life …
2021-04-21: I know everyone’s talking about the “paid podcasts” bit of yesterday’s Apple Event, but …
2021-04-20: So, if M1 Macs can run some iOS apps as well as Mac apps, and the iPad Pro now uses an M1 chip… …
2021-04-20: So happy to see Apple go back to colour in the post-Ive era.
2021-04-20: From our trip to Wakehurst last week:
2021-04-20: So, 100 hours on from my first vaccination jab, the side-effects have been negligible. My arm was …
2021-04-20: Finally, I’ve had my post-lockdown haircut.
2021-04-18: So, it turns out that the downside of being married to a woman with a PhD in Immunology is that I …
2021-04-16: 💉 #1
2021-04-15: Six thoughts about the Substack local initiative.
2021-04-14: Are we losing the fight on content moderation? If so, what should we do instead?
2021-04-13: Hazel, Dora and the leaf skeleton
2021-04-13: My first jab booked for Friday! 💉
2021-04-12: I think the obsession with newsletters is obscuring the bigger story: that the growing prevalence of …
2021-04-11: While pulling together this list of weekend reading I remember thinking how often I was linking to …
2021-04-11: Anyone else using a Mac found that their rate of genuine emails filtered to spam has shot up in …
2021-04-11: Hiking dates are a thing? Seems like a good way to destruction test your relationship…
2021-04-09: I think my daughters might be prematurely middle-aged:
2021-04-08: I am HERE for headline puns that combine Doctor Who and typography: Time’s New Roman
2021-04-08: Sometimes it’s amply clear that these are chalk downs:
2021-04-06: Easter walk at Woods Mill.
2021-04-06: There’s a metaphor here about nature and technology…
2021-04-06: Medium introduces the blogroll. Wait — have I somehow slipped back 20 years to 2001?
2021-04-01: Up and at ‘em early this morning for a last pass on a really interesting research report I’m …
2021-03-30: OK. This doesn’t feel like good news: Getty Images is acquiring Unsplash.
2021-03-30: Spring really came to Shoreham-by-Sea, yesterday. I took advantage of the lockdown easing to have a …
2021-03-29: Bat kerb.
2021-03-28: M1 MBPro life: “Right, I’ll just send this video over to Compressor to render out while I make a cup …
2021-03-24: I do like to get down and dirty with a server once in a while:
2021-03-24: Today seems to be a 5/10/15 years ago day: Medium pivots and seeks to reduce editorial staff? 2016! …
2021-03-23: The very old and the very new in a port town.
2021-03-23: This, from @colinwalker, is what so many people miss about blogging at its best: There is no truly …
2021-03-22: A rare moment Yesterday morning, I did something I’ve never had the chance to do in the last eight years: I lay in …
2021-03-22: It’s World Osprey Week, as European ospreys start returning to their nests for the breeding season.
2021-03-22: Now, can I post to micro.blog from Ulysses OK?
2021-03-21: A digest of nature-centric reading (and viewing) to round out your weekend.
2021-03-21: Last night, we finished the last of the Christmas mead — just in time for spring.
2021-03-13: New boats in the Adur.
2021-03-13: Beach fishermen.
2021-03-13: Not this way, apparently.
2021-03-13: Sea chains.
2021-03-13: Beach finds.
2021-03-13: Down by the harbour wall.
2021-03-09: This is not the real view from my house - but neither is it a Zoom background…
2021-03-09: On the Harry & Meghan interview and the UK media.
2021-03-07: The Shoreham Harbour pilots' boat coming back in after meeting a container ship offshore.
2021-03-07: Spring is here!
2021-03-06: The Ernst Hagedorn coming into Shoreham Harbour this afternoon.
2021-03-05: The uncomplicated way year ones express their joy in seeing their school friends over Teams is …
2021-03-04: They really want the train to stop #worldbookday
2021-02-25: It’s very much a Gray Day today.
2021-02-25: I’ve just realised what I miss most about face-to-face lecturing: the after lecture chats. Nobody …
2021-02-21: Taken this afternoon. Spring is coming.
2021-02-21: Some weekend nature-centric reading and viewing for you.
2021-02-21: Cooking “last day of half term” pancakes for my daughters.
2021-02-20: New fancy coffee brewing method to kick off the weekend right.
2021-02-19: Mask upgrade.
2021-02-18: The combination of stupidly fast yet silent when dealing with lots of video and other tasks is still …
2021-02-18: First take-out coffee of the year.
2021-02-15: I do like the geometry and colours of this image.
2021-02-15: This sign has met a premature end, but I look forward to the day when its ilk are no longer needed.
2021-02-15: I’ve seen how this movie ends — and it’s not pretty…
2021-02-15: Finally got a flexible boom arm for my Mevo streaming cam. I’ll have my home training studio just …
2021-02-15: I do miss the days when my home office was my home office (as a self-employed person), rather than …
2021-02-15: This is quite an important intervention from Nature: Coronavirus is in the air — there’s too much …
2021-02-14: It may be cold, but the beach is the beach.
2021-02-14: I think they’re plotting something.
2021-02-13: I’m not saying it’s cold — but here’s a frozen boat we found.
2021-02-13: I think we were making him nervous.
2021-02-13: New hat!
2021-02-13: 9 days until we need to homeschool again. Bliss.
2021-02-13: New Year, New Lens One of my joys during this year of lockdowns and restrictions has been rediscovering photography …
2021-02-12: Well, this morning I had to reset my router to factory settings and rebuild my network to get …
2021-02-11: One thing that being married to someone with a PhD in immunology has taught me: take any …
2021-02-11: Not the morning conference(s) I expected to be attending at this point in my career, but it is what …
2021-02-10: Ouch. This Big Sur upgrade nightmare is exactly what has happened to my sister-in-law. Looks like I …
2021-02-09: Team Tinworth lockdown work and homeschooling station for the day.
2021-02-09: Planetary, a decentralised social network, officially launched yesterday. I’ve been on the …
2021-02-08: I would read this.
2021-02-08: Well, I suppose it counts as snow.
2021-02-07: When you head towards the beach, it’s easy to forget that Shoreham is still very much a …
2021-02-07: We found a great hagstone yesterday.
2021-02-06: More low tide discoveries.
2021-02-06: Low tide adventures.
2021-02-06: The “staycation” semantic drift is complete, isn’t it? The accepted usage now seems to be “a holiday …
2021-02-06: Description of the day: “Human YouTube comment section Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of all …
2021-02-05: TIL: There’s a Wikipedia page for my surname. And it’s not terribly informative.
2021-02-02: Shoreham-by-Sea fishing boats.
2021-02-02: 😱 The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
2021-02-02: Another day done. Goodnight, friends.
2021-02-01: Evening
2021-01-31: This bit of boat decoration is cute, unless you’ve seen Toy Story 3, in which case it’s …
2021-01-30: Beach walk views
2021-01-30: Low tide on the Adur.
2021-01-29: Oh, Wix websites are a pain. They have a “blog” section, they even publish RSS feeds - …
2021-01-27: Something new.
2021-01-26: An interesting set of predictions for 2021. If the world shifts its focus from solving the COVID …
2021-01-26: Oh, marvellous. Well done.
2021-01-26: Knackered after homeschooling. Updating all the iOS things to 14.4 because it’s brain dead work, but …
2021-01-26: Low tide on a rainy afternoon is not the most photogenic time in the Quay.
2021-01-26: Scenes from homeschool: 👧 “What does ‘dour’ mean?” 👱🏻♂️ “If only there was some sort of book that …
2021-01-24: Plenty of people enjoying the waves down at the Beach today.
2021-01-24: Be a fox, not a hedgehog One interesting idea in Matthew Syed’s Sunday Times piece on how social media sound bite …
2021-01-24: Evening on the beach.
2021-01-24: Fascination read about Mar-a-Lago: the secret history of Trump’s Florida retreat
2021-01-23: On the shore.
2021-01-22: Repeatedly misspelling “audience” is probably not good, when you’re running a new …
2021-01-22: Emails from luggage companies are getting ever more desperate.
2021-01-22: Lockdown isn’t easy. I’m having a rough day. It’s OK if you are, too.
2021-01-20: Podcasting is 20 years old today. Here’s the story of the first podcast feed.
2021-01-20: Trump, QAnon and the limits of the “viral” metaphor to describe online communities — some thoughts …
2021-01-19: I’m not sure this is going to work.
2021-01-18: Hard to argue with this message.
2021-01-16: Bit wet out today.
2021-01-16: Dusk on the boardwalk.
2021-01-16: Brighton by night. Shot on Shoreham Beach, at dusk
2021-01-14: Some ocean-based learning resources for parents struggling with homeschooling.
2021-01-13: Oh, this is just perfect: Wondermark #1523; In which Hot Takes are Served Fresh
2021-01-11: It deeply bothers me that on-going access to a whole load of important and significant writing from …
2021-01-11: Socially-distanced beach walk.
2021-01-11: Well, it took less than a week of lockdown before I saw someone in a local Facebook group calling …
2021-01-11: Shout out to fellow working parents who are trying to navigate both earning a living and …
2021-01-10: A cold and frosty morning on the Beach, and it’s not lifting.
2021-01-08: This is an interesting call for focus on libraries and archives in the digital age, in the face of …
2021-01-05: Ryan Broderick: I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, …
2021-01-05: Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week.
2021-01-05: Anyone who thinks Bill Gates can create a vaccine-delivered microchip that controls people has …
2021-01-03: I sometimes think that winter beach is the best beach.
2021-01-02: Saturday night internet culture nostalgia: In 2006 they were taking the hobbits to Isengard …
2021-01-02: My daughters’ rendition of “We wish you a Merry Lockdown and a Happy New Tier” is simultaneously …
2021-01-02: Workin’.
2020-12-31: Less than 12 hours to finish a book and meet my reading challenge goal…
2020-12-30: I just learnt that Jackie Cassada, an acquaintance from my old White Wolf/RPG writing days, has …
2020-12-28: How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
2020-12-28: Beach life in Tier 4: where better to take your permitted exercise?
2020-12-27: Evening on the beach.
2020-12-27: Storm Bella has passed, but it’s still very blowy down on the beach.
2020-12-24: Maybe just regretting a little that I offered to handle the live-streaming of midnight mass tonight.
2020-12-24: Lovely weather for a Christmas Eve beach walk.
2020-12-24: Oh, elf. How I hate you.
2020-12-20: 🙀 What real estate agents are finding in empty offices right now
2020-12-20: I can vouch for the accuracy of this feature: Six things only people who were forced to do social …
2020-12-20: Oh, do you remember when we used to go to “coffee shops” and other people would make coffee for us? …
2020-12-20: Love a bit of garden office porn.
2020-12-20: Oh, my. A year before the Brexit vote and the Trump election, I linked to reporting about how …
2020-12-20: I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, …
2020-12-18: Archive spelunking Managed to resurrect all but one of the broken links on this 14 year old post. (The reason why is a …
2020-12-17: We really need to talk about trust in journalism.
2020-12-17: Breakfast of champions.
2020-12-16: This eco cabins are just irresistible to me. One day. One day.
2020-12-15: These two things can both be true: Herd immunity is a real, valid scientific concept. Attempting to …
2020-12-15: Listening to my daughter’s Zoom singing lesson is making me very proud and a bit emotional. As …
2020-12-15: And now COVID19 is [hitting the coffee supply chain]sprudge.com/covid-19-…). Enjoy that cup …
2020-12-15: This is interesting, and ties in with what immunologists I know have been saying for a while: …
2020-12-15: There’s plenty of discussion of journalism business models. There’s some discussion …
2020-12-14: I’m not saying we’re deep in middle age, but there is considerable excitement in this …
2020-12-11: A quick digest of some worthwhile or interesting nature and outdoors reading.
2020-12-11: There’s a good reason we should temper the current Substack enthusiasm in journalism circles …
2020-12-08: A restaurant in Île de Ré, from back when I used to travel overseas. And go to restaurants.
2020-12-07: Frost on the roofs this morning. The girls were very excited. The adults, less so.
2020-12-06: Didn’t take them long to find the refilled feeders.
2020-12-06: I used my new MacBook Pro for an hour this morning to monitor a livestream I was running, dived into …
2020-12-02: Conspiracy theories: making the gullible feel insightful in your Facebook feed right now.
2020-12-02: So… this is my first post from a Mac powered by Apple Silicon.
2020-12-01: Spending far too long looking at video of myself has been one of the major downsides of the …
2020-12-01: This is a good piece: I found the wall-to-wall COVID coverage very hard to cope with back in the …
2020-11-30: Blogging is a discipline: it’s a practice of expressing your thoughts in writing, routinely, …
2020-11-30: It was a gorgeously foggy morning this morning:
2020-11-29: I am, and have been for as long as I can remember, a pedestrian by preference. Walking is my …
2020-11-28: Has anyone else come to quite enjoy wearing a mask? I like seeing the fashion choices people make …
2020-11-27: Last night, I faced the dilemma of going to bed early, or staying up and having some quiet time to …
2020-11-26: After years of having the house to myself for several days a week, it’s hard to adjust to …
2020-11-25: Much as I hate to admit it, structure and focus make a huge difference to a client Zoom call. But …
2020-11-25: Lovely day for a beach walk.
2020-11-25: Requiem for a lamp I’m saying “goodbye” to an old friend this morning. For the last 23 years, whenever I’ve …
2020-11-24: Eight months ago I was forced into delivering online training by the pandemic. Even after mass …
2020-11-24: Chris Cook in this morning’s Tortoise email: “The challenge is how we all get to the finish …
2020-11-24: Today’s lesson: do not record your Zoom sessions locally, if you have multiple incoming streams. It …
2020-11-24: Revamped online lecturing and training setup working well. 👍🏻
2020-11-23: The power of disinformation to capture people’s minds is terrifying. Watching a friend’s …
2020-11-22: As someone who spent my entire childhood north of the border, the increasing likelihood that …
2020-11-21: Today’s beach walk did not feel autumnal at all. Between the waves and the overcast skies, not …
2020-11-20: Burn out or fade away? Tonight, it’s a bit of both.
2020-11-19: It’s just possible I’ve found a solution to something that’s been bugging me all year. 🤞🏻
2020-11-19: OK. A week in I am prepared to say this: Big Sur is bloody lovely and it has completely reignited my …
2020-11-18: As I child, I railed against my dependence on sleep. As an adult, I embrace it. Night, all.
2020-11-18: New, chez Tinworth.
2020-11-17: Wake. Take children to school. Train people via Zoom. Collect children. Feed children. Read bedtime …
2020-11-16: I regret I didn’t take more notes in the early days of the first lockdown. It was an unusual, but …
2020-11-15: I need to remind myself more often that it doesn’t actually matter how far I am from my goals, as …
2020-11-14: They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re altogether ooky, …
2020-11-14: Facing the sea.
2020-11-13: The fact that the entire British political establishment is waiting anxiously for a blog post makes …
2020-11-13: Media artisans and their tools…
2020-11-13: Quite proud of this:
2020-11-13: One thing from the before times I really miss: just grabbing my laptop or iPad and heading to a …
2020-11-13: First impressions of Big Sur: amazingly fast on my ancient 2013 MacBook Pro. The visual refresh …
2020-11-13: Hello, Big Sur. (That sounds like something from a really bad prison movie: “Jim, if you want to …
2020-11-12: The balance of my wardrobe has changed during the eight months of lockdowns and remote working. I …
2020-11-12: Looks like the Big Sur update is in the process of completely hosing Apple’s online services. …
2020-11-12: Should I?
2020-11-12: Charles Arthur: […] classical orchestras are just tribute bands for old music 🤯
2020-11-12: Today’s experiment: my Canon M-series camera as webcam…
2020-11-11: I’d love to say that I’ve got used to the famine/feast aspect of self-employed life. But it would be …
2020-11-11: ”Before Ramsbury, I was a nowhere man, living, as my parents did before me, in a multitude of places …
2020-11-11: Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos…
2020-11-10: The new “Apple Silicon" MacBooks looks very tempting as a replacement for my elderly MacBook …
2020-11-09: The vaccine news is, at least, promising. It does give us a glimpse of a future where the virus is …
2020-11-08: There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms …
2020-11-08: Just successfully sourced my coffee filters from a local business rather than going reflexively to …
2020-11-08: Shell.
2020-11-07: Met this chap on our beach walk today. Seemed nice enough, but not very talkative.
2020-11-07: Today’s news about the US presidential election gives me a little hope for the first time …
2020-11-06: It’s not exactly puzzling why we chose to live here, is it? There’s something utterly magical to me …
2020-11-06: Birthday beach walk with my daughters.
2020-11-06: I’ve slipped out of the habit of using my 9.7 iPad Pro, and that means I’d forgotten what a lovely …
2020-11-06: This is strangely delightful in the twilight world of an uncertain presidential result: Neon Trump …
2020-11-05: Hospital visit concluded. My youngest’s head wound cleaned and glued together. And I didn’t have to …
2020-11-05: Have to say - I wasn’t expecting to be spending time in A&E on the first day of lockdown.
2020-11-04: So, lockdown it is, from tonight. I’m very lucky to be living very near to these places. It’s …
2020-11-03: My family continue to astonish me. I’m a lucky man to have these people in difficult times.
2020-11-02: Things that have become a routine part of my life since the first lockdown began: moving around …
2020-11-02: Sometimes you have to get something out of your head before you can concentrate on the other things …
2020-11-02: 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 …
2020-11-02: How’s the UK Covid app doing? Oh: “The “world-beating” NHS Covid app, downloaded by 19 million …
2020-11-01: Today, had the makings of a dreary, dreich day. But time with good friends helped me recover from …
2020-11-01: Autumn roof, from below.
2020-11-01: TIL: never try to shove a 1080p stream down a 720p pipe.
2020-11-01: Misty, dreich morning in Sussex.
2020-10-31: How the year 2000 web reacted to the tense election standoff between Bush and Gore. Useful …
2020-10-31: Just spent 30 minutes catching up on newsletters. My, do some well-known journalists suffer without …
2020-10-30: Parole by election John Naughton on why the US election is consuming his brain, despite the fact he lives in the UK: …
2020-10-30: Today is a Zoom-free day. That is a good day.
2020-10-29: Lovely walk with the girls, despite the dreich weather.
2020-10-29: Should you turn on your video camera during online training?
2020-10-28: Another day in front of the ring light…
2020-10-27: Ah, the BBC’s Autumnwatch. Balm for the soul.
2020-10-26: Here’s an unexpected pandemic side-effect: after six months of recording online training seasons and …
2020-10-26: Half term adventures.
2020-10-26: Wellies was the right decision.
2020-10-24: I walked up into Old Shoreham yesterday, to pick up some things. It’s interesting seeing the traces …
2020-10-24: Interesting opinion piece on the hijacking of the word “freedom” and why we need to push back with a …
2020-10-21: Telling the stories of our wild places (by way of another childhood reminiscence).
2020-10-21: Well now. Substack is adding custom domains for everyone (which is good), but is changing $50 to do …
2020-10-21: I just started looking for some data for a lecture, and the third result was one of my own …
2020-10-21: Handy guidance here for leading journalists and authors: How to Avoid ‘Zoom Dick’ …
2020-10-21: If you’re going to write 500 words summarising a report, you could at least do the reader the …
2020-10-21: The garden office as ‘sanity shed’ is a nice idea for those privileged enough to have …
2020-10-21: I know it’s a thing some SEOs like to recommend, but I do find webpages with no publication date on …
2020-10-21: Interesting piece. The start of a shift from “proximity to work” to “proximity to lifestyle …
2020-10-21: I’m trying an experiment. I’ve switched my default search engine on my iPhone to DuckDuckGo, and …
2020-10-20: Shoreham Beach, 8.55am
2020-10-17: Lo! There comes a Toast Cat!
2020-10-15: So, I thought I had the whole 20 seconds hand washing things sorted. And then the Apple Watch update …
2020-10-14: Beach silhouettes.
2020-10-14: Shoreham Beach, UK / 2020-10-14 / 8.49am Walking home around the quay after dropping my children at …
2020-10-13: Apple ProRaw actually looks quite interesting. Be interested to see how quickly the major editing …
2020-10-13: Lisa on the roof, talking environmental stuff amongst the solar panels is cool.
2020-10-13: I’d be more excited by 5G coming to the iPhone if I thought I’d be going anywhere in the next six …
2020-10-13: “Something only Apple can do” is going to get really annoying really fast.
2020-10-13: On the sofa for the Apple announcements, and my daughters have joined me…
2020-10-13: Shaping up to be a nice Autumn day down by the river.
2020-10-13: Morning beach walk.
2020-10-12: Just rewatched Frozen 2 with my daughters. Anna is clearly the most thirsty of Disney heroines. 🍿
2020-10-12: Uggh. One of those days where I’ve been working solidly since 9am, bar 10 minutes in the …
2020-10-12: Well, you can tell I just topped up the suet ball feeder, because it sounds like there’s an …
2020-10-12: I just betrayed my principles and did a rant as a Twitter thread not a blog post. I shall say 3 …
2020-10-11: This is going to scare people unnecessarily: Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions – …
2020-10-11: I love our beach.
2020-10-11: Incredible light streaming into the house this evening.
2020-10-09: Current status:
2020-10-09: Today I learnt that COVID has led to the permanent closure of London’s cereal cafés.. 🥣😢
2020-10-08: That’s quite a sunset.
2020-10-08: Fear my mighty traybake powers.
2020-10-07: Mackerel skies.
2020-10-05: Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media (Or why your spicy hot …
2020-10-05: Schadenfreude as a personal indulgence, not a public performance
2020-10-05: Why we need a new framework for discussing powerful women — and it’s all the fault of the …
2020-10-05: It’s disturbing how easily the California fires slip off our radar, just as the Australian …
2020-10-02: 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” …
2020-10-02: Well, I never thought I’d reach a point where the US president announces he’s ill with a potentially …
2020-10-01: I just experienced this when I had to pop out in the car briefly. It’s a big improvement: …
2020-10-01: Spending my evening editing the videos of yesterday’s lectures. I know how to live.
2020-10-01: It’s possible that our HomePods are the most used pieces of digital tech in our house at the moment. …
2020-10-01: This is a fascinating long read. It suggests that COVID-19 is largely spread by a small number of …
2020-10-01: Cygnet.
2020-09-30: Today’s learning: six hours of Zoom feels very different to six hours of in-person lecturing. …
2020-09-30: Lecturing kit, COVID-19 style.
2020-09-30: Today, I am mainly thinking about the health impact on lecturers of spending six hours in front of …
2020-09-27: A promise of new life.
2020-09-26: Fantastic day out walking with the girls. So tired, but so happy.
2020-09-24: And finally, we have the app.
2020-09-22: Oh, sweet joy. iOS14 has brought emoji search to the iPhone. 🙌🏼
2020-09-22: That URL looks completely legit and I shall be claiming straight away. 🙄
2020-09-19: Weekend cooking. 👌🏻
2020-09-19: A nice early autumn surprise in the garden.
2020-09-18: Interesting. You can now find Substacks written by people you follow on Twitter.
2020-09-18: This one of those rare things, an online quiz actually worth doing. It’s a test to see if you can …
2020-09-17: As a palate cleanser after that last post, here’s Martin’s enjoyable ramblings about classic Doctor …
2020-09-17: Everything wrong with both Facebook and internet fandom in one screencap.
2020-09-17: Percentage chance I would use smart glasses from Facebook: 0%
2020-09-16: Just a reminder to folks (especially journalists) who rely on their iOS devices for work. You REALLY …
2020-09-15: One thing that makes me sad about the Apple Event: a few years back the Fitness+ announcement would …
2020-09-15: What the heck is going to differentiate the iPad Pros if the iPad Air has the A14, the new keyboard …
2020-09-15: Remember, in the UK, the government can break international law if they find it inconvenient, while …
2020-09-14: This is a spectacular, but sobering, piece of animated short film making: Selfish
2020-09-14: John O’Nolan: ”Twitter is a place for outrage masturbation and little more.” Not completely …
2020-09-13: Duck!
2020-09-13: Oxford vaccine trial resumes - always the most likely outcome, but a relief none-the-less.
2020-09-12: And… breathe.
2020-09-12: Finally.
2020-09-10: Looking for a new magazine? I wrote about three favourites of mine. 🤓
2020-09-08: Pubs 👍🏻 Offices 👍🏻 7 people in the park. 👎🏻 Yup. That all seems logical. 👀
2020-09-08: Autumn comes when the ospreys leave. 🍂
2020-09-07: Working like this might actually tempt me back into a proper job. Probably not, mind. But it could.
2020-09-07: Once you know an AI is grading your work — you can game it. The next decade is just going to be a …
2020-09-06: On social media pile-ons Melissa Harrison: Moreover, I’ve learned not to join in with Twitter pile-ons, or insult or …
2020-09-04: Look at this cute fellah.
2020-09-04: A buzzard, drifting lazily over the Woods Mill car park.
2020-09-04: Into the woods.
2020-09-04: Homestead.
2020-09-04: This “shed” is basically pornography for writers.
2020-09-02: The absolute genius of “Black Lives Matter” as a phrase is that its very existence provokes evidence …
2020-08-31: Evening sea swim.
2020-08-31: My procrastination is weird. For example, I’ve nearly finished what will become issue 2 of …
2020-08-29: I’m doing my best to keep the bird feeders topped up today. The sudden cold snap means they’ll be …
2020-08-29: Rainbow over Shoreham Beach yesterday.
2020-08-29: My July in one second every day.
2020-08-29: Sitting by the sea while my daughter has a socially distanced outdoors Rainbows meeting.
2020-08-28: Some interesting thoughts on the future of newsletters. I certainly think many newsletters resemble …
2020-08-25: I’m glad people are starting to talk about this. The coffee cup and plastic bag situation has …
2020-08-25: Uh-oh: Second national lockdown warning as R rate rises ”[…] on Friday the Sage advisory group said …
2020-08-25: Beach cleaning after (Storm) Ellen.
2020-08-24: Managed a little time on the beach before the rain hit.
2020-08-24: I couldn’t figure out why my mouse wasn’t working this morning, until I turned it over. Well played, …
2020-08-21: Fiddling around with a side project while my daughters do their martial arts class via Zoom.
2020-08-19: So much “nope” in this vision of a home office cubicle.
2020-08-17: The faceless mob of Twitter accelerants.
2020-08-17: Sea swim with my tiny limpet. 🌊
2020-08-17: Trying a small productivity hack today: doing half hour bursts of email, and then closing the app …
2020-08-16: Beach life.
2020-08-16: I’m currently reading The Daring Of Della Dupree by Natasha Lowe 📚 to my daughters. They are …
2020-08-15: The “aircraft engine housing and car wash brushes” look for garden gates is in, in, in, this summer.
2020-08-15: John Witherow, editor of The Times, in his morning newsletter: Put simply, Britain is an …
2020-08-14: In praise of the cloudy summer's day After a week of glorious sunshine and sweltering sunshine, it’s a relief to see clouds …
2020-08-14: The over-50s are coming for your TikTok. And they’re taking no style prisoners.
2020-08-14: As soon as the sun goes in, we get the beach back to ourselves. This was absolutely heaving a few …
2020-08-14: There are worse places to catch up on a few emails.
2020-08-13: Tempting.
2020-08-13: Upgrade for our Zoom future.
2020-08-12: Right here. Right now.
2020-08-10: Well, this is not great. I hope this does not survive the beta into release: Apple News+ in iOS 14 …
2020-08-09: Chris Eccleston returning to Doctor Who in a series of full cast audio adventures. What fantastic …
2020-08-08: Evening in the Quay.
2020-08-08: Absolutely absorbing read from Ed Yong at The Atlantic about the complexities of the immune system, …
2020-08-08: Currently reading: Ring The Hill by Tom Cox 📚
2020-08-08: Stunning skies yesterday evening.
2020-08-07: This was a very long time ago in the Cairngorms.
2020-08-07: Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of …
2020-08-06: Poirot after Christie I’m currently reading and enjoying The Mystery Of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot …
2020-08-06: Here’s one reason every journalist should write a newsletter for a while: nothing teaches you more …
2020-08-06: I am embarrassed it has taken me until my late 40s to understand the difference between a good …
2020-08-05: The pandemic lockdowns seem to have kicked the tablet market back into growth. Apple has 38% of the …
2020-08-04: Well, this makes sense: Social media is addictive if you like embarrassing people
2020-08-04: A rather busy key worker at Nymans yesterday.
2020-08-04: Schools, Covid-19 and the risk of unintentional misunderstandings. Sometimes they way we write …
2020-08-01: Lots of people using the slipway behind our house today.
2020-08-01: This is an adorable version of something that every parent who has been working from home the last …
2020-08-01: This sums up pretty nicely why I, as a teenager in the 1980s, completely fell in love with this …
2020-07-31: This sunflower has self-seeded from below our bird feeder. What a lovely surprise.
2020-07-30: Typo of the day: “toe-hugging”. Less green than tree-hugging, and just possibly a bit more kinky.
2020-07-30: Um. Get your GoPro merch?
2020-07-30: Trump just used a massive dead cat to distract from appalling US economic news.
2020-07-29: A devastating consequence of the pandemic and lockdown: the National Trust are making over 1000 …
2020-07-27: The current wave of newsletters are often compared to the early blogs - but most of them miss one …
2020-07-27: Sign on the equipment in the local playpark. One day, it’ll be an historical oddity blithely ignored …
2020-07-27: Beach detail.
2020-07-24: The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.
2020-07-24: An additional mask, now they’re compulsory in shops.
2020-07-23: We get some surprisingly big ships on this stretch of the river.
2020-07-22: Buoyant bird.
2020-07-21: Beach life.
2020-07-19: My eldest daughter loves performing. She never voluntarily passes up the opportunity to be in the …
2020-07-19: Darling buds of July.
2020-07-19: Girls in the wood.
2020-07-19: Window in the canopy.
2020-07-18: A momento of my old life as a hotel and restaurant journalist.
2020-07-18: It turns out that 1970s and 80s Lego is still exciting to today’s children…
2020-07-16: I’m loving the way micro.blog plugins solve a few pain points I have with the platform - but which …
2020-07-15: This is bleak news: Guardian announces plans to cut 180 jobs. 70 are editorial jobs. Best wishes to …
2020-07-15: Just paid for another year of micro.blog. You’re stuck with me, folks.
2020-07-14: Hand-writing this post using Scribble and my Apple Pencil in iOS 14. That was easier than I …
2020-07-13: Evening swim selfie.
2020-07-13: Exploring the idea of the blogletter. What differentiates it from a more traditional newsletter?
2020-07-12: Current status:
2020-07-11: Evening on the beach.
2020-07-10: Evening in the garden.
2020-07-08: Early evening beach walk.
2020-07-08: After three months with almost no time for anything but work or homeschooling, it feels good to …
2020-07-07: Hand sanitiser gels contain microplastics. 🤦🏼♂️
2020-07-07: A wee visitor to our garden at night…
2020-07-07: Homeschooling break in the garden.
2020-07-07: Here’s one way to look at Facebook in a culture war context: the conflict is already there, …
2020-07-07: Ming-Na Wen is indisputably awesome.
2020-07-05: Maltese boats. Vivid memories from a holiday to Malta very nearly 20 years ago.
2020-07-05: The view from our back garden in Dollar, Scotland, 30 years ago. Photo by my late mother.
2020-07-05: Looking back at locked-down May in 1 second every day.
2020-07-04: Down by the Adur.
2020-07-03: The news we need, if not the news we deserve: Dogmatix to Get His Own Asterix Comic Book
2020-07-03: Reusable containers safe during Covid-19 pandemic, say experts. Time to get the Keep Cup out again.
2020-07-03: One unexpected - but happy - side effect of lockdown: I’m now wearing jeans of a waist size I …
2020-06-30: It is just possible that 1989 Adam was trying a bit too hard.
2020-06-29: This was a useful read for me - and I suspect might help others: How to engage with life when you …
2020-06-29: Malta in early autumn 2000. While the clothes certainly date it, the complete absence of phones is …
2020-06-27: More lockdown creativity: This is the most unusual version of Tubular Bells I’ve come across - but …
2020-06-27: My daughter just uttered the phrase: “No. You are NOT selling my precious Shakespeare books!” BRB - …
2020-06-27: Clare Foges: Politics can either be a parlour game of ideological point-scoring or it can be the …
2020-06-26: I am middle-aged enough that I really am very excited about my new compost bin. 🌱
2020-06-26: 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, …
2020-06-24: This is lovely: The Archers Theme as you’ve never heard it - with the cast at home !
2020-06-24: Wow. Olympus is selling off its camera division. I first got serious about photography with a Trip …
2020-06-24: Today’s Social & Digital lunchbreak digs deep on narcissism, toxic communities — and Nazi …
2020-06-23: 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 …
2020-06-23: Phew. My MacBook Pro just scrapes into the Big Sur compatibility list. This time next year I suspect …
2020-06-22: Well, having Adobe and Microsoft both on board already will make the ARM transition for Macs much, …
2020-06-22: MacOS Big Sur: love the new design, but feel like they’re just trolling us with the name now.
2020-06-22: Automatic hand-washing detection and timing on Apple Watch! That’s as Covid-y as it gets.
2020-06-22: Controversial opinion: I prefer this keynote format.
2020-06-22: Dance workouts on Apple Watch. Oh, yes. 💃 ⌚️ (Watch-based cycling navigation seem vital in a …
2020-06-22: I can barely read my own handwriting. Good luck to iPad OS in figuring it out.
2020-06-22: So… if your phone runs out of battery, your car won’t start or open?
2020-06-22: Cycling directions in iOS maps in iOS 14 🚴♂️ 🎉
2020-06-22: They have a real aversion to static shots in this pre-recorded WWDC keynote, don’t they?
2020-06-22: The new iOS 14 widgets just announced at WWDC are going to be amazing on iPad.
2020-06-22: Wow. Empty Steve Jobs Theatre. Striking way to acknowledge the unusual times.
2020-06-22: 👀 Heavy Coffee Drinkers Want Coffee A Lot More Than They Actually Like It ☕️
2020-06-22: The Into the Wild bus has been Removed by the Alaska guard. Probably a good thing, but the end of an …
2020-06-22: The UK’s contact tracing app fiasco is a master class in mismanagement - and the piece highlights …
2020-06-22: Niches, networks and the secrets of TikTok revealed.
2020-06-22: Tech false economy So, today I’m working on a brand new iMac - the first time I’ve bought a new Mac in over …
2020-06-22: I’m actually more interested in how — visually — Apple chooses to do the WWDC keynote later on …
2020-06-21: What’s collective noun for a group of SUPpers?
2020-06-20: When the Rampion Wind Farm was announced, I was worried about its impact on the feel of the beach. A …
2020-06-20: Kitesurfers on Shoreham Beach
2020-06-19: Well, I am deeply disheartened to read this about Warren Ellis. Is it that we as a society rewards …
2020-06-18: This lockdown concert by Madness is a real balm to the soul. Nicely done.
2020-06-18: Turns out it’s easier to say “world-beating” than actually deliver it. Who knew? …
2020-06-18: Has the meaning of the word “blog” changed? Sadly, I think the answer is “yes”.
2020-06-17: Blimey. Plurk. The microblogging service where I was [marginally more popular than …
2020-06-17: This one was a big hit for me back in the day. I can still recall the frustration and anger I was …
2020-06-17: This is remarkable. A 12 year old blog post - and both the links in it are still live: How To Be a …
2020-06-17: Home schooling parents: a nature documentary on Disney+ is a perfectly valid natural history lesson, …
2020-06-16: Beach fun.
2020-06-16: Beach.
2020-06-15: Today’s Social & Digital Lunchbreak is out. Let’s not talk about what happened to it last …
2020-06-13: We’re still weeks away from re-opening swimming pools in the UK. We’re so lucky to live …
2020-06-12: My talented sister-in-law talking about Hogarth’s The Madhouse at Sir John Soane’s …
2020-06-12: Hit a million views on Unsplash.
2020-06-11: An old schoolfriend of mine, Nichol Wheatley, has become an accomplished and talented artist. And …
2020-06-11: Sometimes, you only realise how unwell you’ve actually been when you start feeling better. Today, I …
2020-06-09: Still COVID-free.
2020-06-08: Current status:
2020-06-08: Quite a sky this evening.
2020-06-07: Better broadband please. kthxbai
2020-06-06: A Tender Key of Place.
2020-06-05: Evening on the beach.
2020-06-01: After some thought, I put today’s social & digital lunchbreak outside the reg wall, …
2020-05-31: How to foster ‘shoshin’ - the beginner’s mind. Such a good discipline.
2020-05-31: Fish.
2020-05-28: Finally getting back to the beach. It’s amazing the difference removing the feeling that the …
2020-05-27: Nice evening for a swim…
2020-05-27: 30 seconds of Shoreham Beach for you:
2020-05-26: Shoreham Beach is a rare vegetated shingle habitat. And it’s just coming into bloom now. Stunning.
2020-05-26: What you need to know about Dominic Cummings John Naughton: I’ve been reading Cummings’s blog since long before anyone had ever heard of him. …
2020-05-25: First sea swim of the year. 🏊♀️
2020-05-24: Kite surfers off Shoreham Beach.
2020-05-23: Beach life.
2020-05-23: Photographer friends: can you recommend a good hand strap?
2020-05-22: “You’re muted” has been uttered more often in the last two months than in all the rest of human …
2020-05-22: Ingenious - forces social distancing on trains, while making it easier to commute by cycle: …
2020-05-22: I want a kilt version of this social distancing ‘petticoat dress’.
2020-05-22: There are probably a lot of future PhD theses in exploring why masks have become such a polarising …
2020-05-21: An evisceration of Google Classroom Khoi Vinh: Google Classroom’s lackluster design is actually perfectly in line with the way we’ve …
2020-05-21: The pandemic office job needs flexibility Rory Sutherland: I was influenced in this by the work of Nassim Taleb, who argues that a high degree …
2020-05-20: Om Malik: Is Shopify ready to be double-crossed by Facebook? “Curse your sudden but inevitable …
2020-05-20: The Cambridge University decision seems sensible - push the low-hanging fruit online, work on how …
2020-05-20: What will the pandemic do to real estate and the way we live in cities? Here’s a little bit of …
2020-05-19: Your waves for today.
2020-05-19: Blogging in the cramped internet BLDGBLOG, mourning WIRED ending Bruce Sterling’s blog: […] the pull of regular blogging—the …
2020-05-19: My wife is making two cups of tea - for herself. This is going to be an interesting day…
2020-05-18: Beach school this morning.
2020-05-17: I miss cinemas. The longer this goes on, the more I realise what I miss and what I don’t from …
2020-05-17: The time finally arrived. The lockdown haircut had to happen.
2020-05-16: A little beach calm for you.
2020-05-15: Actually made it to the beach for the first time this week.
2020-05-15: So. Our printer just broke. It’s probably the shock of being used more in the last six weeks than in …
2020-05-14: Between home-schooling and trying to sustain a self-employed income, I don’t think I’ve …
2020-05-13: Oh, the Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival is going virtual. That looks like a fun distraction.
2020-05-10: I have won the viral apocalypse. Please send tribute.
2020-05-09: Lockdown bank holiday camping. Yes, that’s our back garden. ⛺️
2020-05-08: Caterpillar.
2020-05-08: Fly past.
2020-05-08: Ed Yong’s reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic really is superb, like this piece on the …
2020-05-08: This is new to me, despite being three years old - and is quite lovely, if a little melancholy: The …
2020-05-08: 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 …
2020-05-06: A stunning late afternoon down on Shoreham Beach.
2020-05-05: After three mildly stressful days, the results of the PCR jury are in: and I’m clean. (I was asked …
2020-05-04: My four year old daughter has just declared that I am the leader of all journalism in the world, and …
2020-05-04: Listening to the Independent Sage group talking online, once again I’m struck by how willing the …
2020-05-04: Three learning byproducts of the current crisis Things I have learned through reading about Covid-19, which aren’t actually about it: I need to …
2020-05-03: Generally not a huge fan of Nietzsche, but in thinking about social media and how you should behave …
2020-05-01: Oh, dear. Here’s a piece advising SEOs to use fact check markup for marketing purposes. This is why …
2020-05-01: 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 …
2020-05-01: 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 …
2020-05-01: That’s about as socially distanced as it gets.
2020-05-01: Lockdown skies.
2020-04-30: Moody sunset last night.
2020-04-28: Lockdown reasons to be cheerful… Some folks here on Shoreham Beach are being a lot more creative with lockdown than I’m …
2020-04-27: Me pre-lockdown: Do we even need a printer at home any more? Me in lockdown, and homeschooling: We …
2020-04-26: This fella dropped by while I was lounging in the garden.
2020-04-26: Current view.
2020-04-25: Our family lockdown exercise. I love these three so very much.
2020-04-25: Bluebells in the garden.
2020-04-25: If you give your article a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” I will not read it.
2020-04-23: I’ve got the perfect background for the next few Zoom meetings. Very professional, I think.
2020-04-23: When lockdown eases, which approach do you think companies will choose? Allow more remote working? …
2020-04-22: Consequences, consequences: WarnerMedia Is Rethinking Theatrical Release Model Huge TVs with good …
2020-04-22: Evidence, I think, that my daughters are handling this lockdown more productively than me. The worst …
2020-04-22: D-Nile Odd, odd 36 hours. It turns out that I was in emotional denial about how much the world has and will …
2020-04-21: Rough day - two bad pieces of news about two different projects means things are looking financially …
2020-04-21: Ballet class via Facebook Live.
2020-04-21: Agenda: Tuesday 21st April Difficult evening last night. I found it hard not to think about all the things that this situation …
2020-04-20: My weekend project was taking a moribund blog, exporting it, migrating it to a new platform and …
2020-04-20: Agenda: Monday 20th April Morning all, With at least three weeks to go before there’s any chance of easing this …
2020-04-19: Spectacular caterpillar nest in a tree.
2020-04-16: This is fascinating. Ash trees most likely to overcome killer disease if they stand alone: The …
2020-04-12: The Goodies helped define my humour and view of the world as a child. This makes me unspeakably sad: …
2020-04-11: Tonight I am transcoding an Easter Service video, produced remotely by multiple local households, …
2020-04-11: Prepping a video for the local church. Not how I expected to be using this kit…
2020-04-10: Here’s the big question on my mind: how does journalism survive the Covid-19 crisis? And I …
2020-04-09: Not walking with daddy.
2020-04-09: Dr Tinworth and I started watching The Mandalorian last night. OK, I now understand the fuss. It …
2020-04-09: Lovely 13th Doctor short story from ex-Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat: The Terror of the Umpty …
2020-04-09: Testing video setups is much harder when you actually have to share your home with the rest of the …
2020-04-08: Socially distanced martial arts classes begin…
2020-04-08: Funny how my plans for the year have now largely boiled down to: Don’t die. Don’t go …
2020-04-07: The co-founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom has re-emerged with a blog and It is all about coronavirus …
2020-04-07: We can’t fight the big hiatus. So, we have to embrace it. Embrace the Pause: time to plan and …
2020-04-06: I have just remembered that once, a very long time ago, I drank whisky, smoked a cigar and chatted …
2020-04-05: Daily exercise.
2020-04-05: The speed with which some local folk have started demanding that martial law be imposed is quite, …
2020-04-04: Mum, Christmas day, 1983.
2020-04-04: Time-lapsing again.
2020-04-03: I’m gonna be really good at these motionlapses by the end of 🔒⬇️
2020-04-03: Life blossoming in the espalier trees.
2020-04-03: Nearly 14 years ago, then-French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy talked to the attendees at …
2020-04-02: I’m really enjoying the process of pulling together my daily distractions newsletter. Finding …
2020-04-02: And so it goes. Another morning in lockdown.
2020-04-02: Somebody is being far too generous about my linguistic competence.
2020-04-02: Shooting random time lapses, because why not?
2020-04-01: Remember folks: stay the f*ck at home
2020-04-01: April is here. Off I go on trying to post on One Man & His Blog at least once a day: Viruses, …
2020-04-01: One reason the UK is struggling on Covid-19 testing: centralised policy decision are leaving labs …
2020-03-31: John Gruber: How to Open the Emoji Keyboard While Using a Hardware Keyboard on iPadOS But the …
2020-03-31: Seven’s a good age for learning to code in Swift, right?
2020-03-30: Dominic Cummings in isolation as pressure mounts over NHS testing - I suspect that means that pretty …
2020-03-29: Well, the quasi-lockdown in the UK is really good at showing up who are the selfish people in your …
2020-03-29: Parenthood involves far more gluing toys back together than I expected, to be frank.
2020-03-29: So, today I corrected one small piece of misinformation about the government’s position, and got …
2020-03-29: We need more than great coronavirus reporting right now. We also need distraction — and journalists …
2020-03-29: How BBC Radio 4 is going to keep The Archers going during Coronavirus lockdown.
2020-03-28: One for the Blake’s 7 fans…
2020-03-28: Here I am in the Stockport Advertiser in July 8th 1976:
2020-03-28: Oh my, oh my.
2020-03-28: Oh, my.
2020-03-28: Blossom in the garden. Nature’s beauty continues, oblivious to our anxiety. And it is a balm for it, …
2020-03-28: Dear fellow journalists, It is not necessary to give every article an intro linking it to the …
2020-03-28: Is it right to be shopping online for non-essential goods right now? A good piece by Rachel Moss for …
2020-03-28: Where is the coronavirus information campaign? This is a good point in an otherwise rather run-of-the-mill “tutting at the tutters” …
2020-03-26: Clapping for the NHS in Shoreham-by-Sea.
2020-03-26: A new take on my Engaged Reading Time newsletter. 3 links a day. None of them about the coronavirus. …
2020-03-26: I’m slightly jealous of people who are dealing with lockdown boredom. Luckily, I still have enough …
2020-03-26: Consequences a’coming. Any way back from this? The Cornish revolt against second-home owners.
2020-03-26: This is a challenging read, that slowly brings me around to a position I never thought I’d hold: We …
2020-03-26: This morning: teacher Now: cook Afternoon: back to working Evening: 🥃 Repeat for an indefinite …
2020-03-24: Perfect timing for the quasi-lockdown: Disney+ is live in the uk
2020-03-24: Tuesday Yesterday was a good day. After a bleak start to the morning, I managed to find my mojo and buckle …
2020-03-23: There are times when I think one of the fastest ways to stop coronavirus misinformation spreading …
2020-03-23: A quick history of technology lesson - now the girls understand why the return key is called the …
2020-03-23: Computing lessons with Mr Tinworth. The pupils are learning that there’s more to iPads than games.
2020-03-23: Currently staring at a newly-arrived “while you were out" card from a delivery company. I mean, …
2020-03-23: Monday I do find myself wondering about the long-term mental health implications of this crisis. …
2020-03-22: Well played, Beach Deli. Well played.
2020-03-22: Highly socially distanced beach walk. Hoping the idiots who are carrying on as normal don’t take …
2020-03-21: A Tory rebellion for the self-employed? 10 Days That Changed Britain: There is a growing Tory backbench rebellion on the lack of measures …
2020-03-21: That’s one way of social distancing.
2020-03-21: Doing Brownies at home.
2020-03-21: Not one of my better timed recent purchases…
2020-03-21: “Does anybody remember the old days, the days before, when we used to have coffee shops and pubs, …
2020-03-20: Looks like the whiteboard has arrived - ready to start delivering courses remotely.
2020-03-20: Look, I know the world doesn’t need more “how to work from home" pieces. But I wrote mine …
2020-03-20: Every gamer who is now working from home and video conferencing is feeling very smug about their …
2020-03-20: Just saw my daughters off to school for the last time for the foreseeable future. Homeschooling from …
2020-03-19: At this difficult time, I would like to reassure everybody that, for the sake of the nation’s — nay, …
2020-03-19: All respect to the Debenhams marketing team for giving it everything they’ve got in this …
2020-03-19: ‘Conan’ To Air New Shows Beginning March 30 – shot in his iPhone: ”The new shows will be shot …
2020-03-18: Has anyone seen any reporting on how the anti-vaxxer communities are reacting to the pandemic?
2020-03-18: So, I’d like to apologise for wishing to spend more time with my family, whilst holding the monkey …
2020-03-18: Why Coronavirus social distancing is negatively impacting social media content moderation.
2020-03-18: Facebook’s moderation problems last night - what you need to know.
2020-03-18: This is a sobering, but thoughtful, read: We’re not going back to normal. No, I don’t …
2020-03-17: Twitter’s role in a time of global pandemic,
2020-03-17: 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 …
2020-03-17: My daughters are currently in the bath pretending to be antibodies attacking a virus as it binds to …
2020-03-17: Video from my wife of Victoria Station this morning at around 10am. She estimates it was 80% quieter …
2020-03-17: Supermarket delivery is being overwhelmed Lewis Dormer: 25% of UK shoppers polled by RetailX have reduced or completely stopped shopping …
2020-03-17: Hard to disagree with the last line of this, although I hope we’ll see better behaviour, too.
2020-03-17: Behaviour change is hard. But if we don’t evolve - we suffer the consequences.
2020-03-17: Social distancing at my local coffee shop.
2020-03-16: I have no words for this: The UK Only Realised “In The Last Few Days” That Its …
2020-03-16: Well, things are getting a little, um, motivating. I’m self-employed, and make the major part …
2020-03-15: Good day on the hagstone front.
2020-03-15: Rustic.
2020-03-14: My January in one second everyday. (I always seem to be playing catch-up with these.)
2020-03-14: Pleased with this one. The print is long gone - it was in display in a photo cube and was bleached …
2020-03-13: So. After supper Iris gets down, grumbling a bit. And then sits in the corner assiduously writing. …
2020-03-13: Reporting on COVID-19. Trying to amplify signal, not noise.
2020-03-12: Let this destress you in the midst of the current mess: A Joyful Flash Mob Plays Beethoven’s …
2020-03-12: So, based on what is emerging from my scanner as I work, I was quite a cute toddler. Unexpected.
2020-03-12: 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, …
2020-03-12: This is one of the best and most measured pieces I’ve read on Coronavirus (from a scientist): Rupert …
2020-03-11: Hidden in the UK budget - the government will levy an additional 2% tax on social media companies, …
2020-03-11: I worry that coffee shops (and elsewhere) now refusing to let customers use reusable cups because of …
2020-03-11: A London hairdresser marketing its way through Coronavirus.
2020-03-11: Om Malik on how social networks lose our trust.. Thought-provoking.
2020-03-10: Cleaning up negative scans in Photoshop on my iPad is quite soothing.
2020-03-09: Rather concerning, if not surprising piece: Russia ‘hired network of Britons to go after …
2020-03-09: Britain is currently split between those buying every roll of toilet paper in sight, and those who …
2020-03-09: Well, the course I was running today may have been cancelled (yes, Coronavirus-related), but the …
2020-03-09: Hard to disagree with this one: Quote of the Day
2020-03-07: Well, the panic buying is clearly still happening. This is Waitrose in Worthing a few hours ago - …
2020-03-07: Post-Nature Tots babychino from the Woods Mill café.
2020-03-07: Morning in the woods.
2020-03-06: Oh, fabulous. Coronavirus means we’re back to disposable coffee cups: Starbucks Will No Longer …
2020-03-06: This is a rather concerning piece from over the pond: ‘It’s Going to End in Death’: Doctors Say U.K. …
2020-03-05: It’s fun looking back on my old “blogiversary" posts - like this one from 11 years ago, …
2020-03-05: Well, now. One Man & His Blog is 17 years old today. That’s astonishing. It’s …
2020-03-04: Oil consumption just fell off a cliff…
2020-03-03: After school beach club.
2020-03-03: Beach mental health break.
2020-03-03: Could the coronavirus be a globalisation inflection point? Maybe. If we want it to be.
2020-03-03: I have managed quarter of a century as a journalist without hearing the phrase “fronted …
2020-03-03: Children in school. Bird food topped up. Dishwasher on. Coffee made. Dammit. It’s time to do …
2020-03-02: I do wonder if the double-whammy of the climate crisis and the coronavirus might make us think a …
2020-03-02: David Allen Green’s characterisation of us entering “Brexit: Season 2" is a useful one, I …
2020-03-02: Actual interview with actual scientist for those who are overwhelmed by inexpert hot takes on …
2020-03-01: Spectacular sunset as storm clouds approached this evening.
2020-03-01: This made me chuckle:
2020-03-01: Sea still lively in the wake of the storm.
2020-02-29: Craig Mod, in his Roden newsletter: “What I find most dangerous about Twitter is that it can …
2020-02-29: Trees and the climate crisis The trouble with trees: I do worry, however, that a destructively naive view of nature and a rush …
2020-02-27: I was doing some site analysis for a client, when it occurred to me that I’d never registered …
2020-02-27: 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 …
2020-02-26: Interesting piece from The Atlantic suggesting that the coronavirus is likely to join the cold and …
2020-02-26: This is an absolutely fantastic essay on how fragile the cultural works created on the web have …
2020-02-25: Nic Tinworth, Hong Kong trail community legend, dies aged 44. This is sad news. Nic and I were …
2020-02-22: Well, this is troubling. ¼ of all climate crisis tweets appear to be generated by bots - and 95% of …
2020-02-21: A day of exploring with my girls. Making progress on a long walk.
2020-02-21: This post by Euan Semple, which is an expression of moral relativism (or adjacet to it, at least), …
2020-02-20: Brexit consequences: Google moving UK data to the US - where data protections are weaker.
2020-02-18: Polarisation wears an unexpected face in today’s Engaged Reading Digest.
2020-02-18: Iris is having an artistic moment.
2020-02-17: Kinda struggling to believe that Facebook can’t afford enough developers to do an iPad app.
2020-02-16: Looks like Storm Dennis has abated enough that the kite surfers are heading out again.
2020-02-15: This is a fascinating, and troubling, German investigation into the way corporations are funnelling …
2020-02-15: The girls appear unimpressed by my efforts to get them to go for a walk in the face of Storm Dennis
2020-02-15: 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 …
2020-02-15: Podcasting the great outdoors - one of the ways I try to disconnect from work over the weekend.
2020-02-14: Spotify is trying to become podcasting’s gatekeeper. We musn’t let them.
2020-02-14: I’m pleased with this one, winding up our VUCA series for NEXT Conference: Embrace ambiguity …
2020-02-14: Riders on the shore.
2020-02-13: My major lesson this year so far is that the right new coat can do wonders for your self-image. Good …
2020-02-13: Watching the boats on the Adur rise as high tide approaches.
2020-02-13: 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 …
2020-02-12: This video might challenge your ideas of what you can do with an iPad: Editing Podcasts with Ferrite …
2020-02-12: 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 …
2020-02-12: This is absolutely one of the things that makes me uncomfortable about most newsletter software. It …
2020-02-11: Plain old driftwood.
2020-02-11: The information ecosystem is badly polluted — and journalism is playing its part. We need to clean …
2020-02-11: Great newsletter from David Mattin on the creation of the technocratic elite. This is shaping up to …
2020-02-10: Beach sign
2020-02-10: The (brief) time we decided to share the beach with Storm Ciara yesterday…
2020-02-10: Rob Beschizza: Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety …
2020-02-10: Actually getting out of the house to work – it’s far too rare at the moment.
2020-02-10: After Ciara This was the garden at 8am this morning, after the worst of Storm Ciara had passed: Not too bad, …
2020-02-10: Typical Medium post: “I’ve never been married, but I’ve spend 20 minutes with a search engine, and …
2020-02-09: Gotta say, it’s a bit breezy out today…
2020-02-08: A letter of recommendation. Great as ever.
2020-02-08: Mac photo editor Luminar 4 Sends Data to Facebook in the Background by Default. I’m glad I stopped …
2020-02-07: Laterns above the Adur
2020-02-07: Well, this reads like the opening of a horror novel: Inaccessible first-floor Wisbech property for …
2020-02-06: Beach plant. One of the nice things about Shoreham Beach is that, as a protected and rare habitat, …
2020-02-05: Gnome Hide
2020-02-05: Welcome to the 21st Century. Now patch your lightbulbs to stop them being hacked…
2020-02-05: The head of Apple News steps down after less than a year. It’s looking like the most troubled of …
2020-02-05: A new report on UK news consumption during the general election shows that many of the things we …
2020-02-04: Reading some embargoed research - and it is basically 😱. Huge shift to the way I think about .
2020-02-04: Spot the children’s beginning reading book.
2020-02-04: Volunteers needed.
2020-02-04: TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed - and the challenges ahead are beginning to emerge.
2020-02-04: Y’know, normally I mourn layoffs at a content website. But I’ll make an exception for The Daily …
2020-02-03: Reflect.
2020-02-03: Russell Davies always does such creative One Second Everydays: January 2020
2020-02-02: Sight.
2020-02-01: Open.
2020-01-31: I’ve never come across any device that’s better for writing on than an iPad. There might be a big …
2020-01-30: Unsplash’s Year in Review makes for fascinating reading - and the images are stunning.
2020-01-29: Well, this is one way of dealing with it: The Daily Dot, Nahila Bonfiglio: Influencer gets revenge …
2020-01-27: On my Om, Om Malik: iPad at 10. An affair forever: ”And after so many years, I can confidently say …
2020-01-26: The great unsolved mystery of the last 22 years: we still don’t know what she gonna look like with a …
2020-01-23: I don’t tend to procrastinate on difficult tasks. It’s the boring, repetitive ones I put off …
2020-01-22: Finally started watching Halt and Catch Fire. I now want to listen to a lot of 80s music. 📺
2020-01-21: Took a riverside walk today. It’s a good reminder that Shoreham-by-Sea is still very much a working …
2020-01-20: Sunset silhouettes.
2020-01-20: This is rather lovely, too. Classic on the outside, modern on the inside: John Pawson designs his …
2020-01-20: This is an excellent set of suggestion of how to write a better newsletter.
2020-01-20: Good Lord, this is a lovely house: Forest house of stone and glass is reflected back in water
2020-01-19: Shell game.
2020-01-19: Lovely hagstone find on the beach just now.
2020-01-19: Hagstones - the sea’s beautiful gift for the mindful.
2020-01-18: 💕
2020-01-18: Flickr’s goals for 2020.
2020-01-16: What the actual f***?: Well-heeled climate deniers are buying Youtube ads on major brands' videos …
2020-01-16: I’m not a great one for making too much of New Year, but it is a great marker for doing some …
2020-01-15: Brighton, from Shoreham Beach.
2020-01-15: Quite a day, down on the beach… <img …
2020-01-13: My old employer — RBI — has all but completed its exit from journalism. Its answer to the problem of …
2020-01-12: Guess how this ended…
2020-01-12: The house in the woods.
2020-01-11: Oh, Lord. I just tried to swipe to scroll a print magazine. 🤦🏼♂️
2020-01-11: I’m pleased with this for 49p.
2020-01-10: I feel seen: Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again
2020-01-10: What’s the best thing you’ve read online this week?
2020-01-09: Lies, damn lies and Facebook metrics. The network’s inflated video views killed College Humour, …
2020-01-09: Vimeo appears to have a new social video creation tool in beta: vimeo.com/create
2020-01-09: Just occasionally, bad things happen to bad people in an amusing enough manner to give you faith in …
2020-01-08: OK. This is… quite a story: The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a …
2020-01-08: Newsletters are a particularly brutal medium. You put in the work, craft something you are proud of …
2020-01-08: Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
2020-01-08: I’m trying something new - triggered because I couldn’t get this stuff in my usual links digest if …
2020-01-08: Headline of the day: It’s Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons
2020-01-08: There’s a slug on the kitchen window this morning. Our kitchen is in the first floor. I can’t decide …
2020-01-07: Dry January? I’ll drink to that… 🥃
2020-01-07: This week has given us a rather ominous look into the future of political #journalism: Dominic …
2020-01-07: Why aren't we taking Australia's bushfire apocalypse more seriously? David Wallace-Wells: But the response to what’s transpired in Australia — again, over a period that …
2020-01-07: If you haven’t been paying attention to just how massive the bushfire crisis is in Australia, …
2020-01-07: Oooooh, Matron… Operio collection by Dead Lotus Couture aims to put latex “in every wardrobe”.
2020-01-07: Good morning waves.
2020-01-06: Journalism's Facebook narrative Dave Winer on journalism’s narrative around Facebook: Saying online is dangerous is like …
2020-01-06: The scam of pseudo-attention metrics Seth Godin: Part of the scam is that the pyramid scheme of attention will somehow pay off for a lot …
2020-01-06: It is quite remarkable that one of the biggest things to happen in UK politics so far this year… is …
2020-01-06: Who broke journalism? Om Malik: ”I would like to add that greedy and short-sighted executives and media company owners …
2020-01-06: Consume Better — recommendations from the team at Hamburg’s NEXT conference (including myself) …
2020-01-06: It’s well-known that women are under-represented amongst both Wikipedia editors and …
2020-01-05: I’ve reached my daily reading goal on Apple Books. I’m using it to try to push myself to spend …
2020-01-05: Currently reading: Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods. Enjoyable short fables about …
2020-01-05: Found on the beach this morning. Someone’s feeling patriotic, clearly.
2020-01-04: Bridge.
2020-01-04: Sunset on the Adur.
2020-01-04: Buckle up. Here we go again: Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of …
2020-01-04: I included this photo in my latest Engaged Reading Digest because I like it so much. It’s very …
2020-01-03: Wow. The memory cheats sometimes. I tend to think of my early years in editorial development as …
2020-01-03: My children have finally discovered the ability to sleep in… …2 days before they go back to school. …
2020-01-02: I have learnt more about video encoding and transcoding in the last three months than I expected to.
2020-01-01: Is it me, or is Gruber a bit pissed (in the British sense) in the latest Talk Show? 🥴
2020-01-01: My December in one second every day.
2020-01-01: Starting the year as I mean to go on: The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020
2019-12-31: Happy New Year, you. Yes, you.
2019-12-31: The year is done — so it’s time from my annual round-up of One Man & His Blog’s top 10 posts of …
2019-12-31: I have reached the point in coffee fussiness where, after being disappointed with a coffee when …
2019-12-31: 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 …
2019-12-31: Quite a sunset yesterday.
2019-12-30: Interesting thoughts on flow in blogging apps (the same applies to all CMSes, I think): Scripting …
2019-12-30: If you still believe that there’s a discernible formula to a successful podcast: Text …
2019-12-30: Germany Has Created Dedicated Work Visas For Esports. (I’m fascinated by how few countries are …
2019-12-30: Somebody’s turned down the contrast on Sussex.
2019-12-29: Plenty of drama in the sky off Shoreham Beach today.
2019-12-29: Are we sleepwalking into a dystopia? The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we …
2019-12-26: Headline of the day: Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono
2019-12-26: Perfect weather for trying out my Christmas coat…
2019-12-25: Practice ‘scruffy hospitality’ : Your home doesn’t need to be picture-perfect to …
2019-12-25: Merry Christmas from one man (and his blog).
2019-12-24: Just an intimate dinner for a few chums, wot.
2019-12-24: A very Victorian Christmas at Tyntsfield.
2019-12-22: Why we need to feel the photos
2019-12-21: I think this bauble crop is nearly ready for harvesting.
2019-12-20: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest: killing comments, surviving after redundancy, getting better …
2019-12-19: Oooh, my sister-in-law is in Vouge.
2019-12-19: Heh. One unforeseen side-effect of having a newsletter - you get to see who is already on their …
2019-12-17: As a lecturer, nothing makes you feel better than a student who turned in something pretty mediocre …
2019-12-16: Newsletters are beginning to over-whelm my in-box. Time to try out Feedbin’s ability to …
2019-12-16: This is a really interesting view from inside the BBC: GE19 - from the presenter’s chair.
2019-12-15: I found my parents’ old tree angel, so she’s back in service after a decade off.
2019-12-14: This is a useful read: What does the future hold for progressive politics after the Conservative …
2019-12-13: Andrew Sullivan’s profile of the newly-elected PM from last week is worth revisiting in light of …
2019-12-13: Great analysis from the FT data team: last night, Labour lost the working class.
2019-12-13: Three questions about the UK’s journalism and social media landscape after the General …
2019-12-13: I think this is an interesting read. To hold the seats they took this election, the Tories will have …
2019-12-12: God, there are times when I hate being right. This really is one of them. Everyone blames algorithms …
2019-12-12: Tonight I will be staying up for the exit poll and no longer. I want to face whatever tomorrow …
2019-12-12: Hard to disagree with this. If only he’d been on the ballot…
2019-12-12: Toxic It says something about the toxic state of British politics that I recorded a podcast about my …
2019-12-12: I have a nasty feeling that in 20 years’ time, our children will be asking why we wasted so much …
2019-12-11: Here’s an inspiring fella: The beach clean-up crusader
2019-12-11: A round-up of some of the big misinformation stories surrounding the general election.
2019-12-11: Lovely morning down by the Adur.
2019-12-09: Worrying side-effect of the internet ban there: people’s social media accounts are dropping to …
2019-12-08: Winter beach.
2019-12-08: Paint the whole world with a 🌈
2019-12-08: Beach walk.
2019-12-07: My November in one second everyday.
2019-12-06: Making the most of a blustery day on the beach.
2019-12-05: Making nature routine.
2019-12-05: My daughter won the school limerick competition. I’m trying not to literally explode with pride - …
2019-12-05: Revolution Games, David Vaughan-Jackson: Beyond a Steel Sky – Release Update Always disappointing …
2019-12-05: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest is all about the memes - but not in a fun way. (Bonus Baby Yoda …
2019-12-05: A pretty brutal examination of cancel culture, the psychological motivators, and its inherently …
2019-12-05: Chilling tale of how an ordinary teenager can be progressively radicalised by… memes. And people …
2019-12-04: Compelling — and troubling — dive into the weaponisation of memes.
2019-12-04: After school beach trips - not just for the summer!
2019-12-04: Yesterday, the Reuters Institute published some research into podcasting and journalism. …
2019-12-02: Frost hit last night. I think autumn is done and winter is here. ❄️
2019-12-01: Festive holly.
2019-12-01: My Podcast playlist for Sundays has the best episode names.
2019-11-30: Finally, the coveted micro.blog 30 day pin is mine.
2019-11-30: There’s nothing better than a nice, fussy way of making your coffee…
2019-11-30: Satisfaction is Always Available
2019-11-29: Shoreham’s looking festive tonight.
2019-11-29: I back the Contract for the Web because the vast potential of it for humanity is being undermined by …
2019-11-28: Abstaining From Social Media Doesn’t Improve Well-Being, Experimental Study Finds - a relief for …
2019-11-28: Spam of the Beast
2019-11-27: Now, that was a tiring couple of days.
2019-11-26: Canary Wharf was starting to look festive earlier.
2019-11-25: The mere existence of deepfakes is eroding our sense of shared reality - even if we’ve never …
2019-11-25: The need for deliberative digital spaces Digital democracy will face its greatest test in 2020 - Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Guardian: Facebook, …
2019-11-25: (Country) walking to grow your subscriptions, radicalised on Reddit, and more good reads from the …
2019-11-25: Fascinating interview with a Mastadon founder. A little glimpse of how the internet could have been …
2019-11-25: There are many fine advantages to working from home. Dealing with my wife in her full-on …
2019-11-24: Autumn mist.
2019-11-23: Lovely Autumn day in Shoreham-by-Sea - between the rain, at least.
2019-11-22: Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under” 🤯
2019-11-22: Toy justice is swift and brutal in these parts.
2019-11-22: A well-used semicolon can be a thing of beauty.
2019-11-22: Wow. Flashback five years to when Hazel and I appeared in a software advert. I am happy to say I …
2019-11-22: This week I learnt that the Opera browser is now owned by a Chinese investor, that Opera News is …
2019-11-21: opens Twitter reads for 2 minutes goes to bed despairing of humanity 🛌💤
2019-11-21: It’s probably a sign that I’m over-tired and need some sack time, but I’m bloody …
2019-11-21: Having used both WordPress’s Gutenberg editor and Ghost’s block editor, I have to say, I …
2019-11-21: This may be the most perfect Star Wars image ever.
2019-11-20: Do you want Hulks, universe? Because this is how you get Hulks: Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever …
2019-11-19: Honestly, the British retro gaming scene appears to be one big old cesspool.
2019-11-19: New iOS and iPadOS bug fix update hit last night, if you missed it: MacUser, Jason Cross: Apple …
2019-11-18: Fingers crossed that I am on the final stage of a difficult evening, and will be home for a whisky …
2019-11-17: Memex 1.1, John Naughton: Foresight, ignored — the founders of Google foresaw the possiblity of …
2019-11-16: I was initially excited when I found this site for Sussex bloggers, because it felt very like the …
2019-11-15: Computational photography raises some serious questions about the nature of reality, and how we …
2019-11-15: Phones and Tablets are killing the PC Steve Jobs Was Right: Smartphones and Tablets Killed the P.C.: Apple’s latest iPads are different. …
2019-11-14: What’s the go-to iOS Mastadon client these days?
2019-11-13: Some links that are worth your time - from the psychology of social media outrage, to a celebration …
2019-11-13: My top artists on Apple Music in 2019. I’m not a raging brony. It’s my daughters. …
2019-11-13: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a 16” MacBook Pro - and they appear to have fixed the keyboard - by …
2019-11-13: An interesting read for those interested in the psychology of social media: BPS Research Digest: The …
2019-11-12: I’ll be very sad if this proves to be true. I started becoming serious about photography once I had …
2019-11-12: For those of you on devices that support it, and are in the right time zone, One Man & His Blog …
2019-11-12: Yo dawg we heard you like Moodle so we put some Moodle in your Moodle so you can Moodle while you …
2019-11-12: How to fix your Twitter timeline using this one clever trick…
2019-11-12: This is kind of awesome: turning old VHS cassettes into clothes…
2019-11-11: I’ve been fiddling around with my Ghost templates, and now fixed it so that comments only show on …
2019-11-11: This is a wonderful read from a couple of years ago: What Richard Dawkins could learn from …
2019-11-10: Beautiful Remembrance service at Church of the Good Shepherd this morning. The two minutes’ silence …
2019-11-10: Naked trees.
2019-11-09: Funghi at Woods Mill.
2019-11-09: Today at Woods Mill. The dirty secret? This was four adults…
2019-11-08: Adur sunset
2019-11-07: Before and after.
2019-11-06: Well, that was possibly the lowest key birthday I’ve had in my 40-something years on the …
2019-11-06: If you love coffee, this is an essential read on coffee prices - and the threat to producers it …
2019-11-06: Nice piece from the BBC breaking down how a fact became misinformation through omitted context, and …
2019-11-05: Imagination Unbound (video) This is an interesting watch, and visually inspiring in its own right:
2019-11-05: I did not know this: Why Saying “Namaste” is Culturally Insensitive and NOT Just a Yoga Term.
2019-11-05: Mean Yes, I know that this was yesterday’s prompt, but I didn’t get to it (even though I …
2019-11-05: OK, the app became garbage, but I do miss having something called iTunes on my Mac. It was such an …
2019-11-04: Possibly the least surprising thing Dave could write about JsonFeed. And the fact I remember the …
2019-11-04: Nothing suspicious about this at all. Nope: No 10 blocks Russia EU referendum report until after …
2019-11-04: Well, hello Photoshop on iPad.
2019-11-03: “Media style” 🤔
2019-11-03: Lordy. Pac-Man Gets An Official Theme Song for 40th Anniversary It’s called - wait for it - Join The …
2019-11-03: Such a beautiful crisp, autumn morning, with a lovely “after the storm” feel.
2019-11-03: Beautifully peaceful with plenty of birdsong at the station this morning.
2019-11-02: Spending the day liveblogging Open Data Camp 7 in London.
2019-11-02: Stickered up for the day.
2019-11-02: Early start to London. Not what you’d call busy at the station.
2019-11-01: Pretty much her idea of heaven.
2019-10-31: Four witches, a cat and a vampire just left my house, to demand sweets with menaces. 🎃
2019-10-31: Happy Halloween!
2019-10-31: The digital is inescapably political. It’s time to accept that.
2019-10-30: Breakfast of champions
2019-10-29: OMG. Otter emoji. 🦦
2019-10-29: Hello flamingo! 🦩 (New emoji in iOS 13.2)
2019-10-29: Lovely sight to start the morning.
2019-10-28: Weird. My big iPad Pro took much, much longer than any other device to update to 13.2.
2019-10-28: Oh, hello. iOS 13.2 is here. Time to update ALL THE THINGS again. (Including HomePods and AppleTV.)
2019-10-27: Still a few traces of summer in an autumnal morning.
2019-10-26: Through the library window.
2019-10-26: Gotta say, my old school friend the artist is pretty fancy these days…
2019-10-25: Nice to have company for my daughters’ martial arts class.
2019-10-22: Ghost 3.0 has just launched - and it’s got built in tools for building a membership site for …
2019-10-21: I apologise to the affront to your ears, but I’m on a podcast: [Micro Monday - 70: Adam Tinworth aka …
2019-10-21: Well, now, what say you people of micro.blog? Scott asked: Although, does anyone use feed readers …
2019-10-21: This is an engrosssing podcast about the early days of raptor reintroduction in Scotland. We’ve come …
2019-10-21: Crikey. I wrote this 11 years ago - and it’s still as relevant now: “Interesting” is the basis …
2019-10-21: Not only is 8chan struggling to get back online — its co-founder is actively working to keep it that …
2019-10-21: Either this gentleman doesn’t understand One Man & His Blog’s audience - or I don’t…
2019-10-20: Autumn mist Distinctly misty and autumnal at Lancing College this morning.
2019-10-18: I think it’s fair to say that today’s weather has been changeable…
2019-10-18: Inktober is one of my favourite “internet challenges”. It fills my feeds with such interesting …
2019-10-18: This is the sort of thing that happened more often in the pre-platform days of the internet: A Free …
2019-10-18: Biorecycling plastics with enzymes Carbios' new factory will use enzymes to biorecycle plastic: In a matter of hours, the enzymes …
2019-10-18: Oh, this is so cool: Grad student defended her dissertation while wearing a skirt made of rejection …
2019-10-18: These are absolutely stunning. Well worth checking out: John James Audubon’s Birds of America
2019-10-18: The reason to study Latin Report: Students Who Take Latin Have Better Chance Of Summoning Demon Later In Life:: “According to …
2019-10-17: Take some time to listen to Birdsong Radio today - and consider how much poorer we’ll all be if we …
2019-10-16: I know it’s fashionable to diss HomePods, but they are hugely popular in the Tinworth household.
2019-10-16: Oh, good work to whomever wrote that headline: Government scraps online ‘porn block’ …
2019-10-16: Yahoo Groups is shutting down. Wow. The history of a lot of great early online communities is about …
2019-10-15: Marvel Shocker: Kevin Feige Takes Over Comics as New Chief Creative Officer. Wow. The movies guy is …
2019-10-15: Oh, look. Yet another round of iOS updates.
2019-10-15: RIP Meetup. $2 per RSVP will kill the platform stone dead.
2019-10-15: Good Lord, I suspect that this is only going to increase the determination of the rebels: Police ban …
2019-10-15: New GoPro day…
2019-10-15: This was a fantastic session by Eliza Filby from NEXT conference last month, looking at the …
2019-10-15: One positive thing about Catalina: I can open the Music app without it bringing my Mac to its knees. …
2019-10-15: Not something I’d considered before - but accurate: The Delicate Nature of Comparing Smartphone …
2019-10-14: Fascinating bit of tech nostalgia: This is How Film Cameras Added Dates to Your Photos:
2019-10-13: Now, that’s a sunset.
2019-10-13: Why blogging still matters, even after 25 years:: “The furore over social media and its …
2019-10-12: O RLY?
2019-10-12: “Oh, God, don’t upgrade to Catalaina if you want to keep using our software” has been a recurring …
2019-10-11: A round-up of some of the research: Social media and depression
2019-10-11: YouTubers: more influential than newspapers What Does PewDiePie Really Believe? A few weeks after the Poway shooting, Kjellberg’s publicist …
2019-10-11: Finally caught up: August in one second everyday.
2019-10-11: I think, after seven years, I might finally be getting the hang of Moodle.
2019-10-11: 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 …
2019-10-11: Facebook builds the wall Manton Reece: Saying goodbye to Facebook cross-posting/ Facebook is walling its properties ever …
2019-10-11: The new Catalyst-based Twitter for Mac is out.
2019-10-10: Good news: MacBook Pro happily upgraded to Catalina. Bad news: installer refuses to touch my desktop …
2019-10-09: Apple ditches Trash can name in the UK with Catalina update in favor of a boring one: “Regardless, …
2019-10-09: What do we call podcasts that aren’t podcasts? Good question from Dave Winer.
2019-10-08: Heads up, folks. If you’re seeing huge battery drain on iOS, Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app could be the …
2019-10-08: Oi, old geeks out there. Your favourite memes from the past 20 years. Go. And remember: Ceiling Cat …
2019-10-08: Someone set us up the bomb.
2019-10-07: After more than three hours on the road, I pull up at home, and can hear the sea crashing on the …
2019-10-07: Do you think she’ll give me a lift home?
2019-10-06: Why is the day of rest never a day of rest?
2019-10-05: Woods Mill this morning. Although autumn was clearly in the air, you wouldn’t know it from this …
2019-10-04: Goodness. This makes me nostalgic for living in Scotland. And concerned for its future.
2019-10-04: Here we go again: Amazon Prime Video disappears from iOS App Store and Apple TV
2019-10-04: Who knew that The Wurzels covered Pulp’s Common People?
2019-10-04: Oh, my…
2019-10-04: Ah, the 70s.
2019-10-04: Today, I am digitising my childhood records while I work.
2019-10-04: Elon Musk hired a really unpleasant person to investigate the cave diver he insulted. Musk’s a …
2019-10-04: Giving this a try - I still rely on Instapaper a lot for work: Michael Tsai: Instapaper Safari App …
2019-10-04: This is a sobering watch. The plastic industry’s long fight to blame pollution on you.
2019-10-04: “What’s the angle we should take on this Facebook story?” “I know! Agism!” 🙄 You Are Probably Too …
2019-10-03: Last month in one second per day.
2019-10-03: Hey, there’s an IndieWebCamp in Brighton later in the month. Need to see if I can arrange to …
2019-10-03: This morning’s fun game: where has my wife hidden my aeropress?
2019-10-02: Interesting academic analysis of the bizarre, disproportionate response some men have to her: …
2019-10-02: I am surprised by how quiet this university is at 9am compared to later in the day. I shouldn’t be. …
2019-10-01: Well, I’m very tempted by this: Gizmodo, Andrew Couts: GoPro’s Hero8 Black Is Boring—and …
2019-10-01: Not often I look back on conference food with affection - but the NEXT conference lunch bowls were …
2019-09-30: Seriously high tides here yesterday. How much higher will they go today?
2019-09-29: A tense moment at fairy hospital: will Vidia fly again?
2019-09-29: Super high tide again today.
2019-09-29: I think this is my favourite of the new watch faces in WatchOS 6.
2019-09-28: Portrait mode on the iPhone X: still a winner.
2019-09-27: Back to the 80s Very much today’s mood:
2019-09-26: Protecting yourself from social media jealousy Julia Buckley: Most of the advice I’ve seen on the issue of comparisons has been around the fact …
2019-09-26: Om Malik: Headline hyperbole & article without info
2019-09-26: Happy news for me and the other blog platform I routinely use: iPadOS and Ghost
2019-09-26: Early days yet - but iPadOS 13.1 may well have ensured that my MacBook Pro doesn’t get replaced. I …
2019-09-26: My perfect travel companion Oh, Lordy. I need this: Luckily my birthday is coming up soon… [via Boing Boing]
2019-09-26: A week ago, I saw a badger on my way to the airport. Thinking about it is still making me happy.
2019-09-24: Yes, iOS13.1 is out (including iPadOS). Go get it, brave folks…
2019-09-24: Deep breath…
2019-09-23: A little editing on the sofa, using LumaFusion and my iPad Pro. Soooo nice.
2019-09-23: This is one of the features of iOS13 I’m really looking forwards to having. But I’m …
2019-09-23: This is utterly glorious film photography geekery: New Website Sets the Record Straight: There is No …
2019-09-23: Saving this to read later.
2019-09-23: Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza: Disney almost bought Twitter but backed off because “the nastiness is …
2019-09-21: My spirit animal is Benton Fraser from Due South. Thank you kindly.
2019-09-21: Normal for Next. :-)
2019-09-21: Okay.
2019-09-21: I often think that the most dangerous phrase in the English language is “it’s simple”.
2019-09-20: Current status: 🍷 🛋 🇩🇪
2019-09-20: Today’s workspace at #next19
2019-09-20: This end of Reeperbahn is a bit whiffy at 8am.
2019-09-19: Feeling very much like waiting for iOS13.1 next week, rather than risking my phone on iOS13 right in …
2019-09-19: Current status:
2019-09-19: The first 20 minutes of #NEXT19 in 20 seconds
2019-09-19: What’s outside our universe? A thought-provoking talk to kick off #NEXT19
2019-09-15: Lovely sunny day today - but Wednesday was a different story.
2019-09-14: Such a fungi to spend the morning with. 🍄
2019-09-14: Fabulous day for Nature Tots.
2019-09-13: Fascinating. I didn’t realise Pinterest did monthly updates on trends across the platform.
2019-09-13: What you need to know about yesterday’s Google algorithm news (if you’re a journalist).
2019-09-12: I think that was the first newsletter to my paying members I was really, really happy with. Now to …
2019-09-12: Nature: How social networks can be used to bias votes This is rapidly becoming an existential issue …
2019-09-12: This is quite a big point too many journalists miss: Media Literacy will not create trust in …
2019-09-10: The only thing from that keynote I’m 100% getting: Apple Arcade. Might get a new watch… strap. Might …
2019-09-10: That trade-in price for my iPhone X makes that tempting.
2019-09-10: Wasn’t expecting the always on Apple Watch. Nice upgrade.
2019-09-10: I have two very excited little girls who have just seen the Apple Arcade trailer. Good price for the …
2019-09-10: Here’s one great reason to love the DJi Osmo Mobile 3 if you’re involved in social video production:
2019-09-10: Scrummy blue skies today.
2019-09-10: Living by the sea really bring it home to you how polluted our waters have become with waste.
2019-09-09: Treating myself to a nice aeropress coffee after my wet and windy walk. ☕️
2019-09-09: Oops.
2019-09-09: Jane Manchum Wong ”It appears to me that Medium wants to double as a Reader app in an experiment. …
2019-09-09: Having the sort of day where I write what I thought were two thoughtful and useful posts, and the …
2019-09-09: Politicians love presenting us with apparently simple solutions to complex problems. It’s …
2019-09-09: Does journalism have an understanding problem? (tl;dr - yes!)
2019-09-09: Since the end of my days as RBI’s head of blogging, I don’t really get much change to …
2019-09-08: Trying something new: Walking With Daddy
2019-09-08: A year or so back I won an XBox One S. What games would you recommend for me, as a very lapsed …
2019-09-07: Some stunning flowers at Nymans today.
2019-09-07: I made this!
2019-09-07: Messy drinker.
2019-09-06: In a Pub in Fowey Eating dinner by the sea - how very civilised. In a Pub in Fowey
2019-09-06: Not what it looks like
2019-09-06: “If it bleeds, it leads" as a central organising principle for news reporting might be one of …
2019-09-05: “Of course you can wear whatever you want to my wedding, sister”. And she did.
2019-09-05: I have no idea what to make of this: Tinworth Iced Tea
2019-09-05: Six Colors, Jason Snell: The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that. Agreed. I …
2019-09-04: A walk through the blogging graveyard Moving from Feedly to @NetNewsWire via Feedbin has been largely a positive experience. The one …
2019-09-04: This looks spectacularly lovely - but is waaaaay out of my price range: Bang 8 Olufsen unveils …
2019-09-04: The traditional camera bloodbath is here, it appears. On my Om, Om Malik: PhotoRealism
2019-09-04: Wow. Fell behind on these. Here’s July - over a months ago - in 1 Second Everyday.
2019-09-04: Look at this. A blog post with actual comments. That takes me back…
2019-09-04: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest - chat apps in protests, how the internet is changing our …
2019-09-04: This is why I carry on blogging.
2019-09-04: Understatement of the day: ”It’s almost seven years, now, since David Cameron decided that an EU …
2019-09-03: Interesting, but not transformative. It’ll help with the mental heath issues around social …
2019-09-03: Unintended consequence of the day: Wild popularity of CBD forces Christian bookseller to rebrand
2019-09-03: My lunch meeting has arrived.
2019-09-03: Working in the M&S Café while my wife and daughter do some final school shopping. I am getting …
2019-09-03: The slow erosion of the democratic norm Rachel Sylvester makes an important point in The Times: Democracy is about persuasion rather than …
2019-09-02: It’s been a long time since these two shared a spot in my dock together.
2019-09-02: Spending a lot of time in spreadsheets today. Not something that happens a lot in my work, but …
2019-08-31: Don’t look now folks, but I think autumn might be here…
2019-08-30: A nice reminder that blogging was always a complicated and often unpleasant community. Shakesville’s …
2019-08-30: Does anyone else use FeedBin? Considering trialing a switch from Feedly - but would like some …
2019-08-29: This is a fascinating theory (based on a source) on why Apple’s sudden change in beta releases …
2019-08-28: Prorogue — or prorogation?
2019-08-28: Well the good news is that a lot of people have a much deeper understanding of how our parliamentary …
2019-08-26: Serfing USA Jeremiah Owyang : Chances are, you’re probably a serf.: To modernize the last word of Mikhail …
2019-08-26: I’m taking a new approach to link posts on One Man & His Blog. What do you think? Feedback …
2019-08-26: This is a massive dose of nostalgia - I was on a lot of these networks. But, thankfully, not all: …
2019-08-26: This is a lovely story, beautifully drawn.
2019-08-26: The art of pseudo-science in politics This sums up how many articles and books cloak nonsense claims in a thin skin of scientific …
2019-08-26: A wee update on life, work and blog. Nothing alarming, just trying to figure out how to avoid …
2019-08-24: Shades weather, innit.
2019-08-22: A day when I find a new pretentious coffee shop is always a good day.
2019-08-19: So, the reason for my silence here over the last couple of weeks was that I was holidaying in a …
2019-08-18: A fruitful garden
2019-08-18: Possibly the most manly thing I’ve done all year…
2019-08-18: Garden harvest.
2019-08-17: Back from holiday to a dull, rainy Sussex. Ho-hum.
2019-08-11: A Circle of Words: emails to blogs to newsletters
2019-08-06: Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial …
2019-08-06: Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her …
2019-08-04: It’s just been that kind of a day.
2019-08-01: Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the …
2019-07-31: Pub sign angles are a surprisingly good guide as to how windy the day is…
2019-07-29: The garden was in fine form today, in the few moments I could steal away from work.
2019-07-28: The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare. Sweet dreams. :-)
2019-07-28: Bit blowy today.
2019-07-27: I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time. Result.
2019-07-27: I’m not sure that this acquisition will “produce value”. These are sites with …
2019-07-27: Unsurprising to anyone who has lived in Scotland: Scotland generating enough wind energy to power …
2019-07-27: Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the …
2019-07-27: The latest Black Hat SEO technique: find articles from defunct sites linked to by major news …
2019-07-27: Reasons I love blogging #3478: I spend several minutes Googling “Ted Danson flossing" for a …
2019-07-27: Tumblr as we know it is dead, as a pile of corporate obfuscation makes clear. What’s left is a …
2019-07-26: This one still works.
2019-07-26: Found some ancient history…
2019-07-26: Nothing is more stupid for a country than not educating its children On recent British politics: ”For sensible people, it raised the question: what kind of society …
2019-07-26: This is a worthwhile project: Preserve & digitize 30,000 historic New Orleans newspapers 28% …
2019-07-25: There is a particular danger zone for bad sleep decisions. And I am right in it now. 💤
2019-07-24: Sea kitty.
2019-07-23: Beautiful sunny day in Shoreham by Sea.
2019-07-23: Today’s status:
2019-07-23: Flipping ‘eck. I can’t wait to use this. Pixelmator Pro update integrates its entire app inside …
2019-07-22: If you use the Speedtest app on your iPhone, press and hold on the Go button. After a while… …
2019-07-22: Fading into twilight
2019-07-22: I see it’s “update all the Apple devices” night.
2019-07-22: One thing I’ve learnt about myself in recent years is that things like Apple Watch straps and GoPro …
2019-07-22: 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 …
2019-07-22: The screen time "problem" We’re told that too much screen time hurts our kids. Where’s the evidence?: However, in a world …
2019-07-22: The underlying price of digital-only friendship To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome: This withering of primate familiarity in the face …
2019-07-22: 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 …
2019-07-22: I think this photo pretty much sums up my life.
2019-07-22: Practicing the art of productive procrastination, by tidying up my Ulysses app.
2019-07-21: One of the better spur-of-the-moment decisions I’ve made in recent years was the creation of a …
2019-07-20: In other news, today I met a ferret.
2019-07-20: Today has been rather posher than normal…
2019-07-20: We be rollin’, they be hatin’
2019-07-19: My eldest on holiday last year.
2019-07-18: The Comfortably Dumb - Om Malik follows up in his post about his growing discomfort with embedded …
2019-07-17: This is fascinating - there’s a new visual language evolving around doing drama in vertical videos: …
2019-07-16: Random discoveries via navigation apps Lovely, random experience this evening. Apple Maps brought me an unexpected route home, showing me a …
2019-07-16: I think my authorised app connections to Flickr need some updating… (iPhoto 2??)
2019-07-16: I’m with Om on this. I’ve replaced our Alexa device with a HomePod as I’m no longer …
2019-07-15: Well now. I did a vlog from Scotland. Vlogging is really not my thing. What do you think?
2019-07-14: ln defence of selfies - an interesting take on the social context of photography and sharing.
2019-07-14: More catching up - February in 1 second everyday
2019-07-12: The Decline of Historical Perspective - Neil hits the nail on the head here. And yes, it’s worrying.
2019-07-12: Catching up - this is January in 1 Second Everyday.
2019-07-11: New Microsoft Store at Oxford Circus Microsoft opening a new store right on Oxford Circus in London today. Nice clean lines - but it …
2019-07-11: I do love the feel of the new “grove” style Apple Stores.
2019-07-10: Listening to Andy’s 20 year journey at the Flock event in Shoreham-by-Sea.
2019-07-10: My June in 1 second everyday.
2019-07-10: Settled up my second payment on account with the taxman. Slowly, but surely, breaking the habit of …
2019-07-10: Why innovation fails.
2019-07-09: Catching up with the MacBook news. Prices finally getting down to where they need to be, but a new …
2019-07-09: Trapped in the attention farm Dave Winer: Ever notice that mostly what people post on Twitter is designed to get attention for …
2019-07-08: After a productive day in front of a screen (or three), I have just treated myself to 40 minutes …
2019-07-08: This is a compelling account of life in a (failing) digital content startup: The Rise and Fall of …
2019-07-08: ‘We’re anti-influencer’: ice-cream truck makes Instagram ‘stars’ pay …
2019-07-08: So, when everybody’s in-boxes are cluttered with newsletters in about 18 months' time - will …
2019-07-08: Oh, DJI. I’m not sure encouraging non-consensual voyerism is the right way to sell your products…
2019-07-08: Breaking: social media verification processes still suck.
2019-07-08: How The Correspondent plans to handle audience engagement.
2019-07-08: 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 …
2019-07-06: Teaching 4 year olds to use saws. 👌🏻
2019-07-05: I find this troubling. We can no longer rely on Google being a gateway to the older parts of the …
2019-07-05: Time to get moving on mobility — for the planet’s sake…
2019-07-05: Yesterday’s view…
2019-07-04: Pride-ful.
2019-07-04: Many PostIts died to bring us this strategy…
2019-07-03: The philistines in this hotel have turned the coffee machine off for the night. HOW VERY DARE THEY.
2019-07-03: It’s all glamour in the consultancy business, I can tell you…
2019-07-01: Looking lovely in the evening sun… 🌻
2019-06-29: Getting a bit dry round here…
2019-06-28: Tide’s out…
2019-06-28: This will probably get me into trouble, but I’m quite excited by Jony Ive leaving Apple. …
2019-06-27: Blimey. Ive leaving Apple to form his own firm - but Apple will be one of his first clients.
2019-06-23: This really was not the plan for this afternoon.
2019-06-22: The street where I grew up.
2019-06-22: Hello, Edinburgh.
2019-06-22: I have a suspicion that a child may have used this seat before me…
2019-06-20: I have got to bring my tab habit under control. There’s no point opening all these damn …
2019-06-20: The New Wilderness No two companies have done more to drag private life into the algorithmic eye than Google and …
2019-06-20: Finished drafting tomorrow’s newsletter for my paying subscribers. Feeling good about it (although …
2019-06-20: Morning office:
2019-06-19: Is messenger app interoperability feasible without destroying encryption?
2019-06-17: Warning for highly polarising politics… I poked into why #notjewish was trending on Twitter, and why …
2019-06-17: Interesting discovery while booking a trip: it’s no longer safe to assume budget hotel chains are …
2019-06-17: Online community dynamics change as the membership grows. In particular, most networks require …
2019-06-16: Busted the macro lens out, too…
2019-06-16: Teeny, tiny frog.
2019-06-16: Tree-mendous Fathers’ Day.
2019-06-15: Crafting time chez Tinworth.
2019-06-15: New toy…
2019-06-15: Lovely morning down by the Adur as I walked home this morning.
2019-06-14: Here’s one from the archives - that’s me on the left, taking a photo of the chief scout, …
2019-06-14: Seeing this magazine on sale in my local newsagent is odd. I associate it so strongly with my Mum …
2019-06-13: Boats on the Adur
2019-06-12: Bit more perhaps?
2019-06-12: Here’s a soothing 20 seconds of beach life for you…
2019-06-12: Got up at stupid o’clock this morning to catch a train and attend the launch of the Reuters …
2019-06-12: Great Micro Monday @hollyhoneychurch and @macgenie (catching up on a commute). Thanks. Thinking a …
2019-06-12: Just preparing my notes from this morning’s Digital News Report 2019 launch event for publication - …
2019-06-11: Relax - digital is efficient, so we don’t need to be…
2019-06-10: MG Siegler: ”Facebook, an app where people share baby photos and conspiracy theories…” 🔥
2019-06-10: Passing though Croydon. It’s almost 22 years since I worked here. Not far off half my life ago… and …
2019-06-10: I find upgrading firmware on devices a surprisingly satisfying process.
2019-06-10: Weather could be better, though.
2019-06-10: Nice to be heading up London late enough to drop a bag off at the charity shop and get a coffee from …
2019-06-08: Of all the things to find, a shopping list from my Mum, who has been gone over a decade:
2019-06-08: Go on. Guess which option I picked.
2019-06-08: It’s 2019, and, yes, you still need to own your content.
2019-06-07: MailOnline’s traffic absolutely brutalised by Google algorithm update. Let the jokes commence.
2019-06-07: So, um, the answer to “Fake News" might have been available the whole time… in Finland?
2019-06-07: Further evidence that I’m turning into a grumpy old man of the interwebs: Writing about the internet …
2019-06-07: Working on a Friday, unusually, due to a day swap with my wife. Throughly dreich out there today, so …
2019-06-06: What’s bringing you joy this morning, people of micro.blog?
2019-06-05: Craig Federighi on iPadOS: “It’s become a truly distinct experience. It’s not an …
2019-06-04: Jason Snell (@jsnell) on why Catalyst apps might be good for… …the iPad. ”Basically, the better the …
2019-06-03: Here’s what excited me about the WWDC keynote today. The iPad Pro lifestyle just got more …
2019-06-03: Thank you, micro.blog folks. I enjoyed sharing the keynote with you!
2019-06-03: My favourite sort of Apple keynote: I have no strong desire to buy anything new as a result of it, …
2019-06-03: All in all, that feels like Apple worked its way through a big old list of things people have been …
2019-06-03: iOS13 supported devices: “New software features will be available this fall as a free software …
2019-06-03: I love it when they do these developer-specific sections in the WWDC keynotes. I mean, they mean …
2019-06-03: I knew nothing about Minecraft before this demo. And I know nothing about it after this demo.
2019-06-03: Twitter for Mac is coming back…
2019-06-03: Marzipan is now officially Project Catalyst.
2019-06-03: Well, that Pro pricing did NOT go down well…
2019-06-03: Nice to see the iMac G4’s best feature back in the new Pro Display XDR.
2019-06-03: Uh. The demo fail on the new iPad selection gestures is not encouraging… The guy’s clearly nervous …
2019-06-03: And there we have it - both external drive support on iPad, and the ability to import files traight …
2019-06-03: iPadOS!!! FINALLY! Snoopy happy dance
2019-06-03: Oh, fabulous. Multi-user support for HomePods is great news. Our living room HomePods get a huge …
2019-06-03: Those elongated ovals from the new version of the TV app seem to be a major design trend in iOS13.
2019-06-03: Oh, wow. That’s a big upgrade on iOS photo editing. But that video editing is even more exciting. …
2019-06-03: Beauty influencers. From the internet. Ah-ha.
2019-06-03: Wow. Sign-in with Apple. It makes perfect sense as an extension of Apple’s privacy policy. It’ll be …
2019-06-03: I do enjoy Craig’s dad jokes, but then, I am very much a Dad.
2019-06-03: Focus on iOS speed two years running? Nice.
2019-06-03: 📺 🐟 👍🏻
2019-06-03: And my eldest is just going to love that lyrics feature.
2019-06-03: OK, Tim Cook just won in our household. Multi-user support in tvOS will be so handy for the Tinworth …
2019-06-03: Screen break beach walk.
2019-06-03: Forest and soul I agree with every word of this:
2019-06-03: Forest restoration via doggo What an amazing way of reseeding a forest: Border collies Das, Summer and Olivia were outfitted …
2019-06-03: This is both a chilling read - and a surprisingly hopeful one: The Undercover Fascist
2019-05-25: This starts off as road crash viewing of a middle-aged meme warrior - but actually goes somewhere …
2019-05-25: Parents spending thousands on YouTube Camp. “Per a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, …
2019-05-25: Ugh. @danielpunkass can’t get his patch into WordPress. Open Source in theory rather than practice?
2019-05-24: The only positive thing I can find to say about May’s premiership is this: I’m glad it …
2019-05-23: River life
2019-05-23: The Trouble with AMP
2019-05-22: Right. This is a good as my liveblogged notes from Hacks/Hackers London this evening at Twitter UK …
2019-05-22: It’s been so long since I used the Underground regularly that I’ve reverted to being a Tube N00b.
2019-05-22: There’s a man on my train wearing a hat with a crown over it, an imitation smart glass HUD, a cape, …
2019-05-21: How we Dooced blogging — and its community This Vox profile of Heather Armstrong — Dooce — is a deeply melancholy read: In the time that …
2019-05-19: Nice view as I crossed the bridge this evening.
2019-05-18: Current view.
2019-05-18: Today, I have made all the fritters.
2019-05-17: This is a sobering read by James Kirkup: The truth about David Cameron and the ‘mad, swivel-eyed …
2019-05-17: Shoreham Beach, two years ago.
2019-05-17: Inner voice: “This keyboard is filthy. I should clean it before I write any more.” Deep inner voice: …
2019-05-15: Wow. DJI are going head to head with GoPro with the DJI Osmo Action Camera. The Hero 8 had better be …
2019-05-14: Probably my most self-aggravating work habit is composing emails in my head - and then never getting …
2019-05-14: Politics warning: right-wing comics activists are abusing Twitter’s policies on transphobia to …
2019-05-13: I see it’s an “update all the Apple things” day again.
2019-05-12: Today’s beach life:
2019-05-11: Extinction Rebellion die in at the Shoreham by Sea farmers market.
2019-05-09: What’s that sound? Oh, it’s the influencer bubble popping: ”Most global internet users …
2019-05-09: Finally got around to adding another of my key services to my site: Live Event Capture - where I …
2019-05-09: Self-employment is basically a years-long oscillation between being stressed about money and being …
2019-05-08: My notes from the RSA event Schools Without Walls might be of interest to the education-minded …
2019-05-08: The rain, it raineth every day ☔️
2019-05-06: Iris amongst the irises.
2019-05-06: Loving nature is a political act It seems impossible to me to be, now, passionate about nature and not be also both political and …
2019-05-05: It was windy yesterday at Woods Mill, but the sound is just lovey.
2019-05-05: I love this photo of Iris in the woods from yesterday.
2019-05-04: Nesting…
2019-05-02: Here’s something I don’t often do: a review. It’s of Freewell’s All Day Filters …
2019-05-02: What’s good in your world today?
2019-05-02: Shaping up to be a lovely day.
2019-05-01: Today’s workplace.
2019-04-30: Wow. This video of an osprey female protecting her eggs in the heart of Storm Hannah is quite …
2019-04-29: This is a compelling read about life in the outer circles of Silicon Valley: ”A film of …
2019-04-29: Never bet against the phone…
2019-04-28: Working on old negative scans does make me miss the grain and texture of film photography - but I …
2019-04-28: Sunday adulting. 🌷
2019-04-28: Fascinating how much cars date photos, even after “just” 15 years.
2019-04-27: Big fan of the Extinction Rebellion art style.
2019-04-26: Yikes. An RPG book I contributed to being offered for £115 on eBay!
2019-04-25: I’m so dizzy, my head is spinning… …because my daughters brought some horrible virus home for …
2019-04-24: The guest WiFi at Twitter UK’s pretty good…
2019-04-24: Thanks to my daughters, my iPad Smart Keyboard is looking particularly fabulous today…
2019-04-21: Easter egg hunt 🐣
2019-04-20: And here’s the final image of Adam, a sculpture at the Eden Project, shot back in Spring 2004.
2019-04-20: Enjoying working in Pixelmator Photo to clean up some old negative scans:
2019-04-20: There was a lot of construction work still happened at the Eden Project back in 2004. I loved these …
2019-04-20: Eden Project, 14th April 2004
2019-04-19: Talented investigative journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead in Derry last night. I knew her, and was …
2019-04-18: Exciting times on the Woodland Trust Osprey Cam. Aila (the female) has been in the nest for most of …
2019-04-18: Facebook has finally banned a swathe of far-right hate groups, including the BNP, EDL and Britain …
2019-04-18: The Wind in What's Left of the Willows… Time for a #wilderfuture. Yes, I am an old tree-hugger and proud.
2019-04-18: The price of hedgehog influencers? Salmonella…
2019-04-18: Facebook uploaded 1.5 million users' email contacts without permission. Just as well Facebook has …
2019-04-17: This is a telling piece of reporting from the Irish Times. It’s clear that members of the ERG are …
2019-04-17: Interesting that Facebook saw Apple News as a competitive issue: ”The company discussed setting up …
2019-04-17: Wow, this is a telling quote: ”But he brightened when he turned to one of the topics that, …
2019-04-17: And there we are: ”To this emotional story, Facebook had a programmer’s rational response”
2019-04-17: Engineers versus investigative journalists From the WIRED piece everyone is talking about: ”Investigative journalists are like pit bulls. Kick …
2019-04-15: I’m a journalist, and one deeply interested in the future of journalism, and its business …
2019-04-15: The platforms are not the internet John Naughton: In reality, the problem we have is not the internet so much as those corporations …
2019-04-11: Good piece by James here, pointing out that Assange is a pretty horrible person - but that …
2019-04-11: Whatever you think about Assange and Wikileaks, his arrest this morning will do nothing to stop the …
2019-04-10: I really need to stop letting my blogging slip as soon as my life gets busy. It’s such an …
2019-04-10: Making a (small) splash on Unsplash.
2019-04-10: I’m really passionate about this: the journalism business should be unlocking the incredible …
2019-04-07: Time to test micro.blog’s video hosting…
2019-04-05: Don’t expect free stuff just because you have 2,000 Instagram followers. The “marketing via …
2019-04-05: Ooh, live ospreys nesting webcam from Scotland: LIVE: Loch Arkaig osprey cam
2019-04-05: Ah, my weekend reading is here.
2019-04-03: Yet another Facebook developer leaks private data An insanely large Facebook data breach: The Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva and an app …
2019-04-03: Fascinating talk about personal responsibility and social media on the State of the net podcast.
2019-04-03: Woe betide any pony that fails to perform to the expectations of Iris.
2019-04-03: Weird flex for a CMS company, but OK: ”Today Automattic is announcing Happy Tools, a suite of …
2019-04-03: This is how hyper-partisan sites die: Inside the spectacular fall of WorldNetDaily, the granddaddy …
2019-04-03: May not have thought relative mug and scanner positioning through properly…
2019-04-03: My wife: ”My lifelong career love affair has only ever been with bioscience but what a huge, …
2019-04-03: One of the interesting things about the current MacBook Pro keyboard problems is that it’s …
2019-04-02: AirDrop is such a handy feature of Apple devices. It doesn’t get enough kudos.
2019-04-02: It looks like I last wrote about Google+ nearly five years ago — and only to declare it not dead. …
2019-04-02: So, here’s a video from a defunct satire site, about a defunct social network, found via a …
2019-04-02: Wow. Early 2010s-era One Man & His Blog. In many ways, the “classic” era of the …
2019-04-02: Wow - Google+ integration in search. I had completely forgotten about that.
2019-04-01: Something my daughters will never do…
2019-04-01: Bittersweet memories of 1999 Wow. The current batch of negatives I’m scanning right now really capture a moment in time. …
2019-04-01: Just preordered The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson, because it …
2019-04-01: The Traditional Photograph Versus The Social Photograph I like this distinction a great deal: Jurgenson told me that he draws a distinction between the …
2019-04-01: On the ERG: ”Nobody deserves the ERG, though, which is to politics what food poisoning is to dinner …
2019-03-31: Spring appears to have arrived in our garden.
2019-03-31: 10 Mothers’ Day without you, Mum. Still missing you.
2019-03-30: Thought for the day:
2019-03-29: Literally the most CoE thing ever: Brexit Crisis: Church of England to host Emergency Tea Parties
2019-03-29: Apple cancels AirPower: “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high …
2019-03-29: This is an unusually good idea from Twitter: “Twitter is exploring how it can annotate offensive …
2019-03-29: Learning from Mueller Andrew Sullivan: Mueller Summary Is a Big Win for America Mueller is someone we should study if we …
2019-03-29: 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 …
2019-03-27: Just spent 8 hours in this room with a great bunch of journalists and communication pros, talking …
2019-03-27: Want to be an influencer? There’s a bot for that: A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media …
2019-03-26: Everything you need to know about me can be summed up thus: I used to write RPGs professionally, but …
2019-03-26: Hello.
2019-03-26: WIRED on how Google warped the hyperlinks - with quotes from me!
2019-03-25: Got to say, I’m most excited for Apple Arcade. There’s some games I want to play in there, starting …
2019-03-25: Quick first thoughts on Apple News+. How do you feel about it?
2019-03-24: Beachscape with fisherman and detectorist
2019-03-21: Worth remembering that “reduce” and “reuse” both beat “recycle” in the sustainability hierarchy: …
2019-03-21: 😱 🌊 Tourist Posing for Photo Gets Blasted Off Rock by Huge Crashing Wave
2019-03-21: By their fans you shall know them… PewDiePie fan unleashes ransomware that encrypts hard drives until he gets 100M subscribers One of …
2019-03-21: Apple’s Final Cut Pro X upgraded to version 10.4.6 - and this is interesting: “Detects media files …
2019-03-21: Like many people, I suspect, I signed the petition not because I think there’s a realistic chance of …
2019-03-21: My daughters have very carefully, precisely and secretively placed 10p coins under their chairs. I …
2019-03-21: Oh, dear. When did I enter that demographic? Thanks, Facebook.
2019-03-21: The “Revoke Article 50" petition is closing in on ¾ of a million, and gaining about 3k …
2019-03-21: Joining the rest of my family in marking World Down Syndrome day:
2019-03-21: Yay. My micro.blog Kickstarter stickers are here!
2019-03-21: The speed with which this is gaining signatures is quite something. 100s of extra signitories every …
2019-03-20: This makes me very nostalgic for an earlier era of Apple.
2019-03-20: This is terrifying: England could run short of water within 25 years
2019-03-19: The spread of footage from the Christchurch terrorists attack is clearly unacceptable. To curtail …
2019-03-19: Happy news of the day: my Essential Analytics for Media Professionals course is sold out.
2019-03-17: I’ve come across a number of blogs in recent weeks that have “moved to Instagram”. One thing is for …
2019-03-17: 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 vegetable …
2019-03-16: Deconstructed.
2019-03-15: Blimey: Disney Reinstates Director James Gunn For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’
2019-03-15: Computational photography and videography is just fascinating: Researchers Found a Way to Extract …
2019-03-15: This is a serious and useful look at the digital context around today’s horrible terrorist atrocity: …
2019-03-15: This sounds like a fascinating read. Preordered: Homesick: Why I live in a shed 📚
2019-03-15: I had awesome wallpaper as a child. (That’s not me - it’s a school friend).
2019-03-14: Oooooh. A kernel panic. How retro.
2019-03-13: How little we change: Ancient Britons Traveled Hundreds of Miles to Attend Pork Fests at Stonehenge
2019-03-13: The kids are revolting ”Theresa May said they are wasting teachers time – the response was that …
2019-03-12: Mum & I, outside Stirling Castle, in the early 80s.
2019-03-12: I remember, as a child, learning about the great fallen civilisations of the past - and wondering …
2019-03-12: You can catch up on all my posts from last week’s useful news:rewired conference here. Lots to …
2019-03-10: Storm sisters
2019-03-10: Fun down on the beach today…
2019-03-08: New shoes!
2019-03-08: Love the cover of the latest @standartmag by @grigorybabich. Stunning work.
2019-03-08: Coffee with Eevee!
2019-03-07: Journalism clearly needs new business models. Yesterday’s panel discussion at news:rewired had …
2019-03-07: The Adventures of Rapunzel and Mildred Hubble. #worldbookday #worldbookday2019
2019-03-04: Today I learnt that Engagdget is nearly a. year younger than OM&HB and I feel like such an …
2019-03-04: How Influencer Language Is Killing Instagram ”As with any social network, there comes a point of …
2019-03-04: Why the UK cannot see that Brexit is utterly, utterly stupid: ”Orwell must be turning in his grave …
2019-03-04: My coat still smells of woodsmoke from Nature Tots at the weekend. This is keeping me happy on a …
2019-03-03: Time for tech to get out of its difficult teenage years, and grow the fuck up.
2019-03-03: Utterly self-indulgent blog post of the day: What the heck is GoPro doing producing a limited …
2019-03-03: We really didn’t spend long on our customary Sunday beach walk today. Storm Freya is battering the …
2019-03-03: Bit of a token clean today as the girls were in danger of being blown off the beach by storm Freya. …
2019-03-02: Iris made a nest at #naturetots #sussexwildlifetrust
2019-03-01: My goodness, but these are appealing to me.
2019-03-01: Today’s Iris obsession: liferings
2019-02-28: Reporting on the Momo Challenge has not been journalism’s finest hour. It’s a failure of basic …
2019-02-28: Interesting that Pinterest is leading the way on this. People do not pay nearly enough attention to …
2019-02-27: I preserve the secrets of @nextconf by making my notes basically illegible to anyone but me.
2019-02-26: Stunning evening down by the Adur.
2019-02-26: Once again, Facebook is trying to avoid the costs of its scale - but the human cost of its content …
2019-02-26: Shoreham by Sea’s sign game is 💯 this morning:
2019-02-26: Drinking today: Edgecumbe’s AA Kisii Peaberry ☕️
2019-02-25: Some Ghostly resources for independent publishers. Nice combination of a newsletter and a site full …
2019-02-25: I am procrastinating. And I am procrastinating because I am scared. Bad adders.
2019-02-24: The fam at @nymansnt
2019-02-24: Beware the beach #illuminati
2019-02-24: Totemic discovery on today’s #2minutebeachclean
2019-02-24: Sunday beach walk
2019-02-24: Own up. Who left the window open last night?
2019-02-22: Either it’s foggy - or I need new glasses.
2019-02-22: Word of the day, courtesy of an @ernestjournal back issue… slubberdegullion is official part of my …
2019-02-22: Inconsiderata - an ode to digital technology and influencers: Override quiet and thoughtful people, …
2019-02-22: Fog is making the Adur impressionistic today.
2019-02-22: I have a Brydge keyboard for my trusty old 9.7 inch iPad Pro and I suddenly have my perfect …
2019-02-22: I have a suspicion that there would be a decent market for adult Hula Hoops, that fit on adult-sized …
2019-02-20: Some useful thoughts on the appeal of newsletters — and the appropriate tone for writing them.
2019-02-20: With Assistant update, Google says Nest has secret microphone 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ I still can’t …
2019-02-20: Fascinating: A week of podcasting with only an iPad Pro. More and more of the things “you can’t use …
2019-02-20: Today in poor ratios: I will spend between five and six hours travelling to do one two hour lecture. …
2019-02-19: Why blogs still matter even in the resurgent newsletter age. (h/t @cdevroe for the original link)
2019-02-19: Lessons from 1000 editions of a links newsletter. It’s all about the basics.
2019-02-19: The rest of the “information wants to be free” quote (because I’m annoyed at how often …
2019-02-19: I call this piece “the entitlement of SEO spammers”. 🖼
2019-02-18: Winchester does ruins magnificently.
2019-02-18: Coffee Break Edgcumbes Coffee Roasters & Tea Blenders. A coffee break in a great wee coffee place on the …
2019-02-18: This is not at all disconcerting.
2019-02-18: Beautiful sky over Winchester this evening.
2019-02-17: Cracking edition of my newly-renamed newsletter going out in the morning (if I do say so myself). It …
2019-02-17: It seems increasingly clear to me that the societal stress we’re experiencing right now was …
2019-02-17: Dave Winer: Discourse is not Twitter’s strength, not because of the thread structure, rather …
2019-02-17: 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 …
2019-02-17: Lessons from two months of #2minutebeachclean For the last couple of months, my daughters and I have been doing a #2minutebeachclean pretty much …
2019-02-16: I know all the hip joints!
2019-02-14: Still can’t quite believe that I turned down the chance to work on this beauty - but it was the …
2019-02-14: An article designed for @ismh… The joy of collecting old tech
2019-02-14: The Zuckerberg Obfuscation
2019-02-13: News that will fill my daughters with joy in the morning - but which is filling me with dread, …
2019-02-13: Optimism is cool: Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what …
2019-02-13: The Freelancer Mindset: it's a trap! The Psychological Trap of Freelancing People who attach dollar signs to their time — or “value time …
2019-02-13: Dangerous shop.
2019-02-13: Wow, Blogger really is being neglected isn’t it? The last substantive update I can find is from …
2019-02-13: Productivity in the home office this morning: could be better.
2019-02-12: First signs of spring. (Which means it’ll be snowing within the month…)
2019-02-11: Fin.
2019-02-10: Late night London.
2019-02-10: Scenes from a beach walk.
2019-02-10: TIL: Apple proposed the forthcoming set of emoji covering people in wheelchairs, with service dogs, …
2019-02-09: 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 …
2019-02-09: Just tried to explain 70s/80s linear TV to my children, in all its pre-daytime TV, pre-streaming …
2019-02-09: This is totally bodacious: Captain Marvel: Official Movie Site
2019-02-08: To give you some sense of how unwell I’ve been - it’s now 60 hours since I had a coffee. 60 hours.
2019-02-05: And here’s your depressing reminder that Brits using .eu domain names will probably lose them. For …
2019-02-05: The problem with being a one-man band is that you handle your own DNS faff. Back when I had a Real …
2019-02-05: I love Uses This. Such a simple idea: short profiles of various people and the tools they use to get …
2019-02-05: A translation of Zuckerberg’s “15 years of #facebook” post from Zuck to English. (Now with …
2019-02-05: Those are both creepy and beautiful: witch of the farm
2019-02-04: A translation of elements of Mark Zuckerberg’s 15th Facebook anniversary post from Zuck to …
2019-02-04: It’s stuff like this that makes me realise that I’ve been writing about digital media …
2019-02-04: A reminder for long-term Flickr users: deletions start on free accounts tomorrow.
2019-02-04: Scared but excited right now.
2019-02-04: OK. Let’s talk about that bloody egg — and why it does matter. Yes, it’s come to that.
2019-02-03: Now, that’s my kind of article.
2019-02-01: Despite the cold, it’s a really lovely day here on the coast.
2019-02-01: Even a little snow makes a three year old joyful.
2019-02-01: The mighty thaw is well underway on the Sussex Coast.
2019-01-31: That’s looking more like snow.
2019-01-31: Apple kills Google’s internal apps as well.
2019-01-31: If you want to convert me to a viewpoint, you’ll succeed much more often by highlighting the …
2019-01-30: Facebook has officially passed beyond parody.
2019-01-30: If you come up with a business idea, and multiple ways of expressing that idea - and then fabulous …
2019-01-30: I like the ceiling in here.
2019-01-30: Well, this makes me a happy GoPro user: GoPro Plus now offers unlimited uncompressed video storage …
2019-01-30: If you squint, you can see the snow. Just.
2019-01-29: Apple News has more users than you might expect.
2019-01-29: Crikey - my blog had more mobile and tablet viewers than desktop ones for the first time ever. I …
2019-01-29: There’s far too much truth in this: How digital media killed itself
2019-01-28: I love the neologism “memeocracy” to describe the impact of influencer culture in the attention …
2019-01-27: Apple’s mobile journalism porn - I love the way Apple keeps making the #mojo case for us.
2019-01-27: A calmer moment in a stormy day by the sea:
2019-01-26: Shoreham may be blessed with one of the best library views out there.
2019-01-25: Just when you think Facebook can’t go lower — it manages it…
2019-01-25: Well, that’s one way of stopping regulators from breaking up your company, I suppose. …
2019-01-25: 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 …
2019-01-25: Daddy/daughter baking day.
2019-01-25: The latest issue of @anxymag is here - all about masculinity. Time for a coffee and a read.
2019-01-25: One that required a bit of focus, but not too much. Bring on next month’s #AppleWatch challenge.
2019-01-24: I just had a really, really bad idea. I should do nothing about this idea. 👀
2019-01-24: Apple News Expands to Canada in iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4 - Apple’s rolling this out very slowly …
2019-01-24: Ugh. Buzzfeed is laying off over 200 people. They do great work, and they have some fantastic …
2019-01-24: No wonder my chair was uncomfortable - I’ve been sitting on this for the last hour:
2019-01-23: Thingification: “All these potentially powerful attempts at building a new world using new tools …
2019-01-22: An epitath for Livejournal Ars Technica: Such is the nature of the erosion of our once-beloved digital spaces: there’s none of …
2019-01-22: January 2018 in photos - looking back at a year ago.
2019-01-22: The one thing that disappoints me about most “links" newsletters I follow is that they rarely …
2019-01-22: Why political posts on Facebook will always be polarising.
2019-01-21: This is fascinating, both in its use of cartooning for storytelling and for the way insular …
2019-01-21: A cold and frosty morning on my way to London.
2019-01-20: Gorgeous day on Shoreham Beach. The sun is counteracting the cold nicely.
2019-01-19: Suffolk coast, January 2001
2019-01-18: MG Siegler: ”That is to say, I think this new iTunes announcement finally signals the end of iTunes …
2019-01-18: This interview with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is… painful.
2019-01-17: I wrote a very long thing about Facebook, WordPress, CMSes and local journalism. I cater to a very …
2019-01-17: Take a deep breath, bibliophiles. Marie Kondo of Netflix’s Tidying Up: she’s not coming for your …
2019-01-17: It’s been a stressful week, but the view from my office window is incredibly calming today.
2019-01-17: My hard working film scanner doing its thing.
2019-01-17: One of the reasons I enjoy scanning my old negatives is that when a photo of my parents emerges, it …
2019-01-17: Sadly, this is probably accurate: Facebook Doesn’t Need to Fool You
2019-01-16: Study: Dark-roast coffee protects human DNA from damage: This led the scientists to believe that …
2019-01-16: Sharing photos of yourself 10 years apart is a completely harmless social media meme. Right? Uh, …
2019-01-15: I can also see a meaningful boat out of the window. There may be a meaningful oat on the floor, …
2019-01-15: So… the US president is serving people fast food burgers, the British political class are imploding, …
2019-01-15: Strange old story about a social media fantasist making up an entire life of tech influencing from …
2019-01-15: It’s just light streaming from glass… Euan Semple: So to go back to the funny little text boxes that so many of us nowadays spend our …
2019-01-15: I like this: people have got their sense of pace of tech change wrong, simply because they …
2019-01-14: Fresh out of the film scanner: my late father and I in the mid-90s. Still miss him.
2019-01-14: Making your social media more sane - this is actually a great idea.
2019-01-14: On the off chance you missed it - here’s my thoughts on the key findings of the Reuters …
2019-01-13: Guide’s badges in the 21st century: vlogging
2019-01-10: Your regular Internet of creepy things update.
2019-01-10: Here’s my takeaways from the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 report …
2019-01-10: Does anyone else find the phrase “innovation hub” faintly depressing? “This - here - is …
2019-01-09: 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 …
2019-01-09: Today, I find myself wondering how my Facebook experience would change if I pared my number of …
2019-01-09: I have finally learned to write algorithm without having to look up the spelling. Yay.
2019-01-09: The internet has opened up whole new avenues of psychological and sociological research hasn’t it? …
2019-01-08: I admit this might be a sign that parenthood has rotted my brain - but I believe Babs Seed from My …
2019-01-08: Still a great and apposite piece: How to get human time back from technology.
2019-01-08: This is my regular reminder to myself that actually posting to One Man & His Blog does wonders …
2019-01-08: One day I will come across an example of “MSM won’t report on this!!!!" which I …
2019-01-08: Well, I’ve been enjoying great battery life on my MacBook Pro since it came back from a …
2019-01-08: Facebook is trying to achieve global scale without paying the local price - and that’s …
2019-01-08: China is making podcasts pay - big time. And it’s not based on advertising.
2019-01-08: Today, I forgot the cardinal rule of marriage: I let my wife know that something annoyed me, and now …
2019-01-08: Nice morning down by the river.
2019-01-07: I have tidied up and modernised every post on my blog tagged Doctor Who in a burst of pointless busy …
2019-01-07: Iris: “Daddy, chair are for sitting in, not putting laptops on.” Busted by a 3 year old.
2019-01-07: The culture wars in one tweet.
2019-01-07: I’m not sure that, even seven years on, that I’ve really adjusted to being …
2019-01-07: First proper day back at my desk since mid-December. The email is soul-crushing.
2019-01-06: Playing with the 4k option on the DJI Osmo Pocket:
2019-01-06: Bedrock rock beds.
2019-01-06: Moody day in the beach. (Can you spot the Iris?)
2019-01-05: I have a nasty feeling Iris is pretending to be me…
2019-01-05: Grabbed the opportunity for a quick beach walk this afternoon. The beach is very much in winter …
2019-01-05: Catchy as the headline is, the real story is a government agency trying to frustrate a legitimate …
2019-01-04: Facebook wants us to know that it’s the real victim here.
2019-01-04: I see Zuck has learned his lesson and is dealing with things with all due humility now… Mark …
2019-01-04: Warrior robots in a coffee shop.
2019-01-04: Grrrr.
2019-01-04: Controversial: Italy invented coffee culture. Now it’s a coffee time capsule.
2019-01-03: Another interesting bit of analysis of the Apple revenue miss: Apple Lowers Revenue Guidance Due To …
2019-01-03: Drinking coffee in Brighton’s Ship Street. It’s been five years since I did this with any frequency. …
2019-01-03: Happy about this - I have at least one new Ghost-hosted project in the works, and I may well start …
2019-01-03: Interesting take from Om Malik about the bad Apple trading news: Appleocalypse: An unfashionable …
2019-01-02: Watching.
2019-01-01: Lovely day at Nymans.
2019-01-01: 😂
2018-12-31: A pre-New Year party for the little ones with some wonderful neighbours. Perfect way to end the …
2018-12-31: Well, this year was all about the Shoreham-by-Sea landscapes… #topnine2018 #topnine #bestnine2018
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2018-12-31: Here we go: the top 10 posts on the NEXT Conference blog in 2018. One of them was the very first …
2018-12-31: Digging through the top posts on the Next Conference blog, I found this 2017 piece from Martin Recke …
2018-12-30: Shoreham Fort
2018-12-30: More #beachlife
2018-12-29: Vlogging?
2018-12-29: Beach Life.
2018-12-29: Beach life.
2018-12-29: Facebook apologists are real – they really are.
2018-12-28: Beaver Bombers at work? Today I learnt of the existence of Beavers Bombers: While one theory suggests they escaped from a …
2018-12-28: Crime in progress, but the lookout is on watch…
2018-12-28: The Danger of Medium Dave Winer The danger of Medium is two-fold. Without competition, and right now they don’t …
2018-12-28: On the Care and Feeding of Your Favorite Blogger Here’s the thing - support comes in all …
2018-12-27: Lady who lunches.
2018-12-27: Beautiful moomin show. Iris loved it.
2018-12-27: Current status:
2018-12-27: Moomin magic is about to begin.
2018-12-27: Moomin magic (and mischief) about to occur…
2018-12-27: Iris at the Box Office.
2018-12-26: Look, someone 😇 has made our local heros more festive.
2018-12-26: Beach walk, ‘cos it’s Boxing Day innit?
2018-12-26: 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 …
2018-12-26: Down by the Adur. (Boxing Day walk)
2018-12-25: Imagine my surprise to discover that an “influencer” who had vaguely intersected with the area I …
2018-12-25: The children are less enthused by this stage of the meal preparation…
2018-12-25: Prepping Christmas Dinner while watching the Countryfile Christmas Special. Because, yes, I am …
2018-12-25: Time to get the turkey in.
2018-12-25: A very merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!
2018-12-24: The way my hair’s going, I figure I’m about 10 years and a beard from making a decent Santa.
2018-12-22: Today has challenged my understanding of the word “elf”.
2018-12-22: Number of open tabs on my iPad: 0. Days since this was last the case: 3,130.
2018-12-22: Free audiobooks from Apple Well, this is a great Christmas gift: Apple Books has published six exclusive audiobooks this week, …
2018-12-22: The great pre-Christmas tab purge is underway. Wish me luck.
2018-12-22: Hello. @manton delivers Christmas three days early!
2018-12-19: Honestly, what the hell is happening at Medium? Its latest moves seem to suggest it is becoming …
2018-12-19: Strong and stable. Spoiled for stabilised filming right now - working in some tests for my blog.
2018-12-19: Five influencers influencing…
2018-12-19: Oh, the irony.
2018-12-19: Oh, look - one of my photos is on Devon Life: www.devonlife.co.uk/devon-chr…
2018-12-19: I might need to take a vow of silence for the rest of the year, given how badly I appear to be …
2018-12-19: I have a gimbal in my pocket. The miniaturisation of video continues, and the results are …
2018-12-19: Early Christmas present to myself. Uh, I mean to my work. Uh, yes, my work. That’s it. cough.
2018-12-19: I am ridiculously happy to finally have the time to get a post up on One Man & His Blog - even …
2018-12-17: To misquote Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand the ethical problems with …
2018-12-17: The man who pioneered modern tech journalism no longer feels he can justify using Facebook-owned …
2018-12-15: Today was the sort of day when having a GoPro was what made getting any footage feasible.
2018-12-14: ⚠️ Warning - photobomb in progress…
2018-12-14: New green belt
2018-12-14: 21st century life: I spent a while last night updating the software on my lightbulbs… 💡
2018-12-13: Barbados, November 2011
2018-12-13: My sister-in-law has a PacMan coat. 👌🏻
2018-12-13: Morning coffee feels very festive today.
2018-12-12: 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 …
2018-12-12: New coffee shop, new part of London. Oh, the consultancy life.
2018-12-11: Five years ago today:
2018-12-11: 10 years ago today.
2018-12-11: Not what you want to see outside your favourite coffee shop in the morning…
2018-12-10: Open.
2018-12-08: Just booked a night in a budget hotel in Milton Keynes. Will this endless glamour never cease?
2018-12-08: Peak hipster.
2018-12-08: Time to choose a Christmas Tree 🎄
2018-12-08: The angel of cheekiness descends…
2018-12-07: Somebody just tried to explain what Likes are for to me. 🤔😂
2018-12-07: I’d be happy if this happened: Canon To Get A Stake In GoPro’s Future?
2018-12-05: This morning I am catching the OMGEarly train to London.
2018-12-04: The new @blogosphere_magazine is here, so I’ve done a tasteful #influencer style shot to celebrate. …
2018-12-04: On the upside, Tumblr’s bandwidth costs are about to drop precipitously, I suspect.
2018-12-04: Stunning Autumn morning Walking Iris to nursery was a genuine pleasure this morning - it’s just an incredible day. Cold, but …
2018-12-04: Morning view.
2018-12-04: Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don’t call back when asked for evidence. …
2018-12-03: Ready to Webinar…
2018-12-03: One of the interesting aspects of consultancy life is getting small spells in a whole range of …
2018-12-03: My downtime on ghost(pro) last month… …didn’t exist. For the third month running. Nice work, …
2018-12-02: Night time.
2018-11-30: And let's not forget October… (yes, playing catchup) October 2018 in one second everyday from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.
2018-11-30: November in 30(ish) seconds This was our November:
2018-11-30: Apple’s new group FaceTime ad is awesome:
2018-11-30: First Ghost with Koenig and now WordPress with Gutenberg. Publishing platforms are changing fast. I …
2018-11-30: Xeni Jardin on the Sandberg/Soros mess: If she was willing to do this over a mere billionaire, …
2018-11-30: This is how credit card details were harvested from BA. I bet you use one of the sites on the list. …
2018-11-30: 🤦🏼♂️ Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros
2018-11-28: DJI leak reveals teeny-tiny Osmo Pocket gimbal Oh, this looks exciting for #mojo folks.
2018-11-26: Looking good on the way back, too.
2018-11-26: Different view for my “commute” this morning.
2018-11-25: Beach life.
2018-11-24: Hello.
2018-11-24: Dr Pancakes is IN.
2018-11-24: Last night I dreamt I was interviewing Jony Ive at Apple Park. Never gonna happen, but my goodness, …
2018-11-23: So, I’ve done the photos thing. Thanks @cleverdevil - looks good!
2018-11-23: Success - new belt! #soobahkdo
2018-11-23: Testing times for Iris… #soobahkdo
2018-11-23: I feel this e-mail subject line is unlikely to be bettered today:
2018-11-23: Iris wants you to know that she has pizza 🍕
2018-11-22: While I do still love a good paper book, there are times that digital books are just so much more …
2018-11-22: 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 …
2018-11-22: Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. (Prince Charming, Prince Charming)
2018-11-22: Post-social network community building needed Warren Ellis I feel like I want to see some more thought around getting the fuck off social …
2018-11-22: Time to kill off follower counts on social networks: As we increase the time we spend online, we …
2018-11-21: There’s no place like gnome
2018-11-20: I was baffled and slightly depressed in what I was seeing in the analytics I was looking at. And …
2018-11-20: Looks like Instagram’s down for a good chunk of the world. Average mental health of the …
2018-11-20: Just topped up the bird food. Minor avian riot in progress in the back garden.
2018-11-20: 5 degrees, rainy and grey. British autumn is here at last.
2018-11-20: Old Toys I’m slightly concerned that I appear to have grown up in the last few years. Despite the exciting …
2018-11-19: Build that web
2018-11-19: I had my first proper (but quick) play with Adobe Premier Rush - and I’m tentatively impressed.
2018-11-19: So, I wrote about the unintended consequences of partisan satire (based on the excellent WaPo story …
2018-11-19: MediaGazer is really good at inflating my ego in a really unearned way, by putting me in some …
2018-11-19: Just cleaned the en suite toilet so yes, obviously, I’m procrastinating.
2018-11-18: Here’s a horrible insight into how digital tools and age-old psychology can turn satire into …
2018-11-18: Touching. I feel very special…
2018-11-17: Coffee date.
2018-11-17: Stunning autumn morning in #shorehambysea
2018-11-16: I need to have words with my teenage self about keeping negatives clean.
2018-11-16: It’s amusing to see just how badly timed Zuckerberg’s decision to flip off a bunch of …
2018-11-15: Only seven months between episodes…
2018-11-15: The Ides of May There are times when I almost feel sorry for Theresa May. She is clearly trying her best to deliver …
2018-11-15: Here’s my incredibly sophisticated micro casting set-up, using Wavelength on my phone…
2018-11-15: 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 …
2018-11-15: There’s some new research out on smart speakers and news - and it’s a mixed bag. Use is …
2018-11-15: Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting typos…
2018-11-15: Really nice, measured take on the state of the iPad Pro from Charles Arthur.
2018-11-15: I really recommend listening to this talk by Indy Johar from NEXT conference. Challenging and …
2018-11-14: Writing something to an embargo deadline for the first time in as long as I can remember. I almost …
2018-11-14: This is an absolutely brutal takedown of Medium’s UI and on-boarding experience - published on …
2018-11-14: Despite my previous post, I do enjoy binging on @Monday I find immersing myself in the community for …
2018-11-14: Catching up with a backlog of @monday posts is an odd experience - Just been through a run with a …
2018-11-13: Over a decade since my first download from the App Store. Not much use now.
2018-11-13: This is super-handy: a Google web tool to optimise images for the web.
2018-11-13: It bothers me that people think that Apple’s green initiatives are just “marketing”. It is …
2018-11-12: A caravan of bots and other updates from the misinformation wars.
2018-11-12: Stan Lee has gone to the great bullpen in the sky. RIP, Stan. Thanks for all the hyperbole and …
2018-11-12: Y’know. I just realised - reading blogs used to - and often still does - make me happy, curious and …
2018-11-12: The problem with not working between Thursday evening and late Monday afternoon is that your in-box …
2018-11-12: Remember that Roman thing of having a slave whispering “remember you are mortal" to a …
2018-11-12: Fantastic issue of The Discourse, looking at the dynamics of online hostility - you really should be …
2018-11-12: Things I am not going to do: take marriage advice from a never-married 23-year old “top writer in …
2018-11-11: I feel like those last two books are less likely than ever to get written… George R.R. Martin …
2018-11-11: 11/11/18 - we shall remember them
2018-11-10: Thou shalt not pass
2018-11-09: If Apple could push iOS on iPad forward as fast and as thoughtfully as it’s developing the iPad Pro …
2018-11-08: Headline of the day: Satanic Temple Sues Netflix, Warner Over Sabrina Statue Copyright
2018-11-08: I still find the idea that Apple has in-house metallurgists oddly cool.
2018-11-03: Aberdeen, I am in you. #odcamp
2018-11-01: 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 …
2018-11-01: Turns out friction might be good in social sharing.
2018-11-01: Wikipedia has a paid editing problem — and it might be getting worse. I was approached by a paid …
2018-11-01: Flickr makes some smart changes to its account structure while throwing some serious shade on …
2018-10-31: Missed Halloween with my girls, but based on the evidence they had a great night. 🎃
2018-10-31: Some good updates to Flickr. Now there’s a phrase I didn’t expect to be writing.
2018-10-30: Me, during today's Apple event Me during the first half of the Apple event: Me during the second half of the Apple event:
2018-10-30: Noting in recent times has made me as old as realising that The Guardian pioneered live-blogging 19 …
2018-10-30: Watching the new iPad Pro stuff, I’m becoming increasing convinced that my current MacBook Pro will …
2018-10-30: OK, this is why Tim is so excited. He’s an iPad Pro man.
2018-10-30: Blimey. Rare stage appearance from Angela Ahrendts.
2018-10-30: Oh, hello Mac Mini. Welcome back.
2018-10-30: Yeah, the 100% recycled aluminium thing is cool. Nice work, Apple. Long-lasting devices made from …
2018-10-30: Ooooh. TouchID without the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Air.
2018-10-30: Tim Cook really does seem unusually enthusiastic today.
2018-10-29: Getting spooky around here.
2018-10-29: “Influencers” — cheapening the web one post at a time.
2018-10-29: Vogue says “bonjour” to Hong Kong and “au revoir" to Snapchat.
2018-10-29: Y’know, if Twitter really does pull Likes from its platform, it really validates one of the design …
2018-10-29: Twitter to UnLike Likes?
2018-10-28: It’s useful to remember that social media can be tremendously helpful at times, even in the current …
2018-10-28: It seems clear that Zuckerberg has a more total control over Facebook than, say, Jobs ever did over …
2018-10-28: Now, this is an old pen. #sixapart #movabletype
2018-10-28: Our back garden tree is handling the daily countdown to winter admirably.
2018-10-28: Case in point: my two most used blog platforms - ghost and micro.blog - are both new(ish) and have …
2018-10-28: A non-obituary for blogging The “blogging is dead” meme that seems to have settled into the consciousness of swathes of media is …
2018-10-27: Hey, you, the library crew.
2018-10-25: Oh, Google. This is shameful. How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ - The New …
2018-10-25: Epic skies!
2018-10-25: My contribution to the digital fix debate is out in print… …in German.
2018-10-25: Revisiting Next Conference, aurally. 🎧 Oh, to be in a Hamburg coffee shop now!
2018-10-24: Many #interhacktives hands make…
2018-10-24: It’s that time of the #interhacktives year…
2018-10-22: The Final Days of Johnston Press - and the parlous state of local journalism in the UK.
2018-10-22: The conclusion of today’s experiments: my 5 year old MacBook Pro is still good for 4k video …
2018-10-22: Blogging is dead… …unless you’re in fashion, where you’re influential enough to appear …
2018-10-22: How people silence each other on social networks - some useful research.
2018-10-22: Government needs to break the tech roach motels. Data portability FTW.
2018-10-22: Firing up Final Cut Pro, and seeing if my aging Mac can actually handle some 4k with decent proxy …
2018-10-21: Queen of the whole damn forest
2018-10-19: Dusk feeders
2018-10-19: Bloody hell: Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs Still, he has a consistent pattern …
2018-10-19: I, for one, welcome our new Swedish Queen and a return to farcical aquatic ceremonies as a …
2018-10-18: Just a fungi to be with.
2018-10-18: This is interesting - despite some of the recent backlash, podcasts are still big enough business …
2018-10-18: Having a very Brighton morning.
2018-10-18: Brighton, I am in you.
2018-10-18: I never knew there was an Autumn emoji. 🍂
2018-10-16: Autumn is well and truly here.
2018-10-16: My brain is a ridiculous place. I have an enforced day off because my youngest is unwell - but I’m …
2018-10-12: I have co-authored books with Chuck. Chuck is a good person. This makes me very cross.
2018-10-12: This is an eye-opening read about the biggest issue of the next 15 years: How to deal with despair …
2018-10-11: Barbados, late 2011 I’ve just been pottering around editing some old photos, from our last pre-children holiday. …
2018-10-11: Now, that’s what I call release notes. 💯 👌🏻
2018-10-11: Finally writing the three new training course descriptions I’ve been itching to launch for …
2018-10-10: I backed this film on Kickstarter, and can’t wait to finally see it: Dieter Rams wants Silicon …
2018-10-10: Feeling guilty about accidentally leaving my reusable coffee cup behind.
2018-10-09: If you’re a Brit who remembers the 70s, this album is a joy: Matt Berry - TV Themes
2018-10-09: Such a lovely, simple concept: Technology is no longer scarce, our attention is. Technology is …
2018-10-09: Just been editing and adding links to this #next18 piece, and David Mattin’s framework for …
2018-10-08: Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure I’ll skip the obvious jokes and just …
2018-10-08: This is a whole bag of “nope” from me: Facebook announces Portal, its new video chatting hardware
2018-10-08: This, right here, is why men need feminism, too. Clichéd gender roles are harming both sexes. How …
2018-10-07: The weekend finishing on a high note.
2018-10-06: The new raincoat passes muster.
2018-10-06: Friday’s End
2018-10-05: Stunning weather up on the South Downs today.
2018-10-05: Selfies Have Led to 259+ Deaths Since 2011 🤦🏼♂️
2018-10-05: I’ve run out of Aeropress filters 😱
2018-10-05: What a stunning morning,
2018-10-04: Hello, micro.blog. Show me nice things to remind me why I like social media…
2018-10-04: The two basics of digital #journalism that too many people forget: Attention and Atomisation
2018-10-04: Much as I love Wikipedia, its process for assessing the notability of people is seriously flawed, …
2018-10-02: Oh, hello.
2018-10-02: The best single feature in Safari is its ability to search all the open tabs on any device tied to …
2018-10-02: “Hey, Siri. Play something I’ll like.” “OK. Let’s press play. Here’s the Corrs.” Oh, we’re going …
2018-10-02: What I loved about this #next18 talk by @ecomoliterno — apart from the energy of the delivery — was …
2018-10-02: My family is actively trying to reduce our use of Amazon. This talk from @t3killer at #NEXT18 was an …
2018-10-02: Andrew Keen’s five point plan for fixing digital, from #next18.
2018-10-02: New academic research suggests that automated accounts used the film to stoke cultural conflict: …
2018-10-01: My September in 32 seconds… Here’s what my September looked like, in one second of footage from every day…
2018-10-01: September in one second every day. #1seme
2018-10-01: Just had a PR email suggesting that I write a sponsored post about how I slept while I was pregnant. …
2018-09-30: Current status:
2018-09-30: I’m reminded today that what I read has a huge impact on my stress levels. Stuff about social media, …
2018-09-27: Stunning day.
2018-09-26: Why do I aim to be at the station soon after 7am, when I don’t start lecturing until 11am? This is …
2018-09-25: Interesting interview with Instagram co-founder Systrom in 2012: Can Instagram live on if its …
2018-09-25: Instagram’s founders are leaving, possibly because of increasing interference from Zuckerberg. …
2018-09-25: Working in MacOS Mohave’s dark mode. Interesting - will take a while to get used to (if I …
2018-09-23: This is a beautiful little poem: Woodsmoke: A Poem
2018-09-22: Hamburg, this afternoon:
2018-09-21: Current status:
2018-09-21: My kind of place.
2018-09-21: This talk about human higher order needs and tech was just fascinating… David Mattin: New …
2018-09-20: Lots of failure you can learn from here - including the spray-on condom. Yes, really.
2018-09-20: Rolled up foam for chairs. Interesting. (Haven’t dared try one yet.)
2018-09-20: The #next18 live-blogging station set and ready.
2018-09-20: Apparently hotel Wi-fi doesn’t always have to suck.
2018-09-19: Badged. #next18
2018-09-19: All wristbanded up for @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival #next18
2018-09-19: I have a desk mate for the afternoon…
2018-09-19: Well. I’m glad the horrible turbulence was at the start of the trip…
2018-09-19: Leaving behind a grey London for Hamburg and @nextconf and #next18
2018-09-18: Having one of those days that remind me why I’m self-employed. How did I put up with corporate …
2018-09-17: Tonight’s agenda:
2018-09-17: Hard to disagree with this: Bring Back the Shadows: The Case Against HDR
2018-09-16: Beach picnic
2018-09-16: Just blew some reward points on a Heathrow hotel the night before my flight to Hamburg on Wednesday …