Doc Searls on supply chains:

“But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than braided rivers spreading outward from many sources through countless deltas) is impossible to reduce to any one formal cause.”


Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.


The “Christmas Stocking Fillers” PR emails have started arriving, despite the fact I’ve never once done a gift guide in 18 years of writing my blog.

Maybe this year’s the year? 🤷

What stocking fillers would be appropriate for journalists, anyway?


Well, that was a pretty clear admission that Apple had spend five years going the wrong way with their laptops, wasn’t it?


Climate journalism needs both fixing and expanding. This is a great step in the right direction.



Today, I had managed the sort of productivity that if I managed every day, my life would be a lot happier and calmer.

I actually think I can spot two reasons why that happened, so… 🤞🏻


Shell game.


Yikes. You might want to change your Twitch passwords — there’s been a huge data leak.


Back at City, ready to teach journalism again. 18 months ago, I walked out of here during one of the production weeks, completely unaware that it would be so long before I’d be back.

But it’s good to be back.


Officially back in London.


First commute to London in 18 months. It’s… quieter.



We’ve turned Facebook into a single point of failure - and now we’re paying the price.


Let’s all hope @manton knows what he’s doing with border gateway protocol…


Facebook being down might actually ease the petrol crisis, now that there’s no way for people to flag up that a petrol tanker has just arrived at a garage in their local Facebook group.


Slightly perturbed to discover that my daughters think that I’m basically Izzy Moonbow…


The plastic pollution culprits — and other links worth reading.


Day 2: It’s never fully dark, down by the river. #mboct


There’s something quite nice about a day so wet and blustery that you feel no guilt at all about just chilling out in the house.