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

The page shows a German text by Adam Tinworth titled Vom unschuldigen Idealismus zu pragmatischen Lösungen, discussing two decades of internet culture.A hand is holding a black book titled Digital Fix with orange text and additional smaller text in German.


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

A list of podcast episodes from the NEXT Conference, each labeled as waiting to download.

Many #interhacktives hands make…

Several people are collaborating to build a structure using uncooked spaghetti and string on a white surface.

It’s that time of the #interhacktives year…

A person wearing a green long-sleeve shirt is assembling uncooked spaghetti strands while a measuring tape lies on a white surface nearby.

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


The conclusion of today’s experiments: my 5 year old MacBook Pro is still good for 4k video editing (with proxy media). But the desktop really isn’t up to it. New iMac in my future, I expect.


Blogging is dead…

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

A stylish woman posing outdoors promotes the #doabitofDebenhams campaign encouraging followers to share their fashion looks inspired by bloggers.

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


Government needs to break the tech roach motels.

Data portability FTW.


Firing up Final Cut Pro, and seeing if my aging Mac can actually handle some 4k with decent proxy media settings.

A software interface is showing various background tasks in progress, including transcoding, importing media, and rendering, each with a progress bar and percentage completion.