Me, during today's Apple event

Me during the first half of the Apple event:

Distracted Apple Fan

Me during the second half of the Apple event:

Look at those Pros

Noting in recent times has made me as old as realising that The Guardian pioneered live-blogging 19 years ago.


Getting spooky around here.


Vogue says “bonjour” to Hong Kong and “au revoir" to Snapchat.


Y’know, if Twitter really does pull Likes from its platform, it really validates one of the design decisions @manton made for micro.blog.



It seems clear that Zuckerberg has a more total control over Facebook than, say, Jobs ever did over Apple: Facebook’s Flawed DNA Makes It Unable to Fight Misinformation


Now, this is an old pen. #sixapart #movabletype


Our back garden tree is handling the daily countdown to winter admirably.


Case in point: my two most used blog platforms - ghost and micro.blog - are both new(ish) and have very different ideas of what publishing could look like. Innovation in publishing tech should be interesting to those interested in publishing.


A non-obituary for blogging

The “blogging is dead” meme that seems to have settled into the consciousness of swathes of media is both patently wrong - glance at fashion or travel for a moment - but also rather dangerous for them. Just because the technology is no longer the newest thing, doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. Much like printing presses, really.


Hey, you, the library crew.


Epic skies!


My contribution to the digital fix debate is out in print… …in German.


Revisiting Next Conference, aurally. 🎧 Oh, to be in a Hamburg coffee shop now!


Many #interhacktives hands make…


It’s that time of the #interhacktives year…


The Final Days of Johnston Press - and the parlous state of local journalism in the UK.


Blogging is dead…

…unless you’re in fashion, where you’re influential enough to appear in marketing emails.


How people silence each other on social networks - some useful research.