That was a long time ago. The book is browning at the edges…

These are my notes from a talk by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at LeWeb back in 2014. He was starting to say things we weren’t ready to hear back then…

For focused writing, Markdown is your best friend. Tru dat.

Goodness. Who know that my old pro gaming work might open the door to a new career? Digital companies are using after work D&D games to boost morale.

I’ll roll 2D10 to that!

Bless Blizzard and the Overwatch team for doing something that allows me to write “a teeny tiny digital murder rodent" in a Serious Piece I am writing right now.

The creator of the World Wide Web is fighting to reclaim it from the Duopoly - if you don’t care about re-decentralising the web, you don’t understand how important it is to all of us.

Good morning. Hard at work in my favourite coffee shop.

The Web has become anti-human

Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t mince his words:

“We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places,” he told me. The increasing centralization of the Web, he says, has “ended up producing—with no deliberate action of the people who designed the platform—a large-scale emergent phenomenon which is anti-human.”

Beer, beer, beer… what?

Note to self: never try to analyse the physics of PAW Patrol.

(But where does the water for Marshall’s backpack water jets come from?)

Now my account is all fixed, I’m really enjoying micro.blog again. Thanks, @manton.

Psychologists have looked into why “phubbing” is so harmful to our social lives - no big surprises, but it confirms what you might guess. It’s the psychological equivalent of refusing to sit at a lunch table with a child.

Why the heck has Star Wars ended up with such a toxic fandom?

This piece on making retail businesses into experience centres is actually quite depressing. I was writing about this nearly 20 years ago for Estates Gazette, and people are still struggling with it.

Oh, GoPro, you make great cameras, but your marketing is so dumb

The sheer hell of living here on a day like today… 😇

These boats need some TLC, though.

Down by the coast is the best place to be in this heat.

This looks like a good hire - hopefully Apple’s streaming video offering won’t be US-centric by a year or two in: Apple hires BBC Films veteran for its international development team

My inbox is down to 10% of where I started - at 50 e-mails. Coffee time, and then I start catching up on invoices and diary management.