Archive

2023

23 March : Three good presentations
10 March : Clip Recaps turns YouTube into text
9 March : Playdate's human comms
8 March : My Playdate pal
7 March : No x 4
6 March : Things people say about my working in the open training course
2 March : Detached from reality
28 February : Opinionhavers are the new stakeholders
28 February : A simple portfolio HTML template
27 February : Happy to help
23 February : Broken post
22 February : Be charmingly pushy
21 February : How to be a better radio interviewee
17 February : Your new stuff is better than your old stuff
15 February : The value of your spoken words
14 February : What's changed round here
13 February : Sometimes you need an editor more than you need a writer
13 February : Photos and opinions and whatnot

2022

14 December: Projects 66–94
12 December: Some great feeds
25 November: Our poor cat
24 November: How will your words exist in the world?
18 November: The beginning and the end of Twitter
12 November: iA Presenter connects your slides to the web
11 November: The rich moron
9 November: Sarum Lights 2022
6 November: How Mastodon is different
28 October: People are great, generally
13 October: That's 1031 albums listened to
7 October: Some ups and some downs
6 October: Happy birthday, book!
4 October: A Swiss masterclass
30 September: There was a medical emergency
24 September: My plan for Parliament
23 September: We went away
5 September: What it's like working with an editor
29 August: The old bonds
26 August: Playing with Polygon Camera
25 August: A middle-aged man goes paddling
8 August: A new Working in the open training course
14 July: Hello from Studio Galen
6 July: Welcome to Humdon
2 July: Lights on the Elizabeth Line
1 July: UX London 2022
19 May: Daydreaming is better than doomscrolling
18 May: Encounter in Moscow
17 May: Sponsoring the Low Carbon Design Institute
5 May: Speaking at UX London
30 April: If you love the web, you should help Noah Grey
21 April: Improv our time
13 April: Come to Beyond Curious
10 March: Why these Welsh weeknotes are so good
9 March: On the Leanpub podcast
17 February: Talking about agile comms at DigiShift
15 February: The agile comms ebook
13 February: What using RSS feeds feels like
12 February: Write slides that help you say “This is…”
17 January: Splish splosh

2021

28 December: The 'How to make a video' video
23 December: When 'website' means different things to different people
16 December: Projects 45-65
1 December: How we made the book
26 November: Talks links for the talks I did this week
15 November: Light show at Salisbury Cathedral
23 October: The agile comms handbook alphabetically
19 October: The agile comms handbook punctuation
6 October: The agile comms handbook
26 September: Yorkshire rocks
23 September: Ending Monochrome
1 September: Ending Unreel
25 August: 309 albums short
4 August: Taking back control
3 August: Over in Osea
2 August: Farewell Frank
15 July: Asking for paper that people no longer possess
14 July: Many browsers make light work
13 July: Living with covid means living with inconvenience
29 June: The contexts, they switch
1 June: Photos from May
29 May: CD of the day
15 May: Is it bluebells?
5 May: Photos from April
27 March: Let teams talk to other teams
26 March: Some videos about content design
24 March: A bank with a human voice
1 March: Photos from February
5 February: Sometimes, conversation is the best kind of editing
4 February: Writing for the web by drafting with the web
31 January: Photos from January
27 January: All first drafts are bad drafts
27 January: How to be clear
26 January: How to write like you speak
6 January: Where the light is falling

2020

31 December: Still European
18 December: Projects 25-44
7 December: Publish well, don't send
5 December: A birthday walk on Gare Hill
13 November: Week 1 in my new office
22 October: Burrington Combe on a wet Thursday
14 October: 10 years of revolution
10 October: The splinter
6 October: Taking my pink socks for a walk
28 September: Sitting on Charmouth beach
2 September: Tips for writing good weeknotes
18 August: Rules for swearing in client meetings
13 August: 18
13 May: An idea for self-service checkouts
7 May: Many things are ok
20 February: Stickers for the RSS massive
6 February: The Tellisford loop
10 January: Giles on the radio

2019

29 December: Walking in 2019: done
20 December: Long weekend in Sicily
20 December: Projects 19-24
7 November: Remembering the TRS-80
9 October: An Instagram experiment
12 September: A newsletter called “monochrome”
11 September: Turn question slides into statements
31 August: Tides in Tenby
22 August: A quick photo alphabet
18 August: Visiting the New Art Centre
12 August: Listening to 1001 albums
26 July: Mooching around Munich
25 July: Jony Ive video outtakes
4 July: bwrss wrap-up
3 July: Garden update
30 June: Walking in 2019 update
27 June: Walking from Teignmouth to Dawlish
1 June: Black and white and RSS
29 May: Monknash in the mizzle
22 May: A middle-aged man goes running
15 May: Driving through Tywi Forest
18 April: Tulips in the city
17 April: Perpignan, etc
24 March: I went marching
27 February: Improving doingpresentations.com
22 January: Walking in 2019
20 January: Things 0004
15 January: Dead Christmas trees
5 January: Projects 13-18

2018

17 December: 31 albums
9 November: Things 0003
31 October: Photos from October
22 October: Storyboarding on stickies
21 October: Things 0002
19 October: Plan comms, not too much, mostly blogging
5 October: Things 0001
28 September: Photos from September
10 September: 4AD and floppy hair
7 September: Last day in Plymouth
6 September: Not looking at Twitter
30 August: Photos from August
28 July: A modern library
27 July: Photos from July (inc Ireland and Antibes)
12 July: Long weekend in Ireland
28 June: Photos from June
28 June: Photos from my trip to Boston
31 May: NOT_ifications
30 May: Photos from May
30 May: Agile communication tips
30 May: Moments from pop music history
1 May: Photos from April
23 April: Making better corporate video
19 April: Scapple and OutlineEdit
15 April: Repetitive endings
30 March: Photos from March
13 March: Collecting things
7 March: Strategic thinking with blogging and stickers
28 February: Photos from February
20 February: My favourite government posters
29 January: Photos from January
12 January: A shower’s worth of radio

2017

31 December: Misc images, December 2017
30 December: Projects 6-12
30 December: A walk from Tisbury
25 October: Autumn colour at Stourhead
15 October: A stone in my wallet
14 October: Being John Appleseed
3 October: A week in Greece
2 October: Very Vienna
24 September: Thoughts about permission
7 September: Exactly 500 words on falling over
3 September: I ❤️ Pembrokeshire
21 July: A bit of a week
3 July: Projects 1-5
29 June: Kilve and St Audrie’s
15 June: Stickers tell tiny stories,
11 May: Digital is something you are
3 May: Colours in Copenhagen
7 April: Don't say you're a “thought leader”, just show you can think
3 March: Pick a domain that’s easy to say
3 March: About doingpresentations.com
30 January: Blockbox and Antiblockbox
26 January: Mostly up, then mostly down
19 January: Project 0
18 January: Thinking out loud about internal communication

2016

11 November: GDS blog posts this year
9 November: One day of happy things
15 August: Party in Cove
24 July: Upfest in Bristol
31 May: Quick break in Menton
14 March: Presenting is performance, so rehearse like you’re doing a show
8 March: #seeingthings
18 February: Visiting the Doctor Who exhibition
15 January: Start in the middle when you get stuck writing

2015

27 November: Say no to notifications
20 November: Slack doesn't kill email, it just moves text somewhere else
9 November: A blog is your brain, over time, on the internet
16 October: Use the human voice, not the corporate voice
10 August: Use the words normal people would use
26 June: Super Inventy in Crouch End
17 April: What I'm listening to
10 April: Thinking about photos, printing out photos
9 April: From a jungle to a garden
20 February: Visiting the Fleet Air Arm museum
20 January: Thinking out loud about linklogging
8 January: How to play balloony
6 January: The internet column archive

2014

10 December: Bus ghosts
15 November: How far will you fly around the galaxy?
5 November: Mostly browsers
2 November: a short break in Calpe, Spain
12 September: Bring back the voices
5 September: On having a proper job
2 September: Anti-strategies
29 August: Holiday in Devon
11 August: 30 days of music
3 July: How we fixed our Lego storage problem
29 May: This hour takes me back
30 May: Holiday in Dorset
28 May: The Wedding Present stop for a tea break
14 May: Luvly, a book I made out of old bits of internet
26 April: Strategies for agile creatives
4 April: Turning point
28 March: A visit to the Museum of Computing in Swindon
23 March: Misc photos from March
14 March: Weak note, 14th March
28 February: Photo roll for February
27 Feb: Strategies for people like me
21 Feb: The Story 2014
15 Feb: My step-dad's old papers, thoughts about how long things last
31 Jan: Photo roll for January
31 Jan: Weak note, 31st January
24 Jan: Weak note, 24th January
17 Jan: Weak note, 17th January

2013

31 December: Flooding in Bradford on Avon
30 December: Photo roll, December
13 December: Weak note for Friday, 13th December
29 November: Weak note, 29th November
22 November: Weak note, 22nd November
8 November: Weak note, 8th November
25 October: Weak note, October 25th
18 October: My blue room
18 October: Weak note, October 18th
15 October: Bad transport poetry
11 September: A few days in Turkey
11 September: Parasailing in Turkey
9 September: Up the Shard
1 September: Sheila's 80th birthday
5 August: A few days in Cornwall
18 June: A conversation about privacy
10 June: Lego show!
26 April: The stag party
22 April: Dad's 70th birthday
18 April: Backstage with Kraftwerk
16 April: Jack's 80th birthday in Steyning

2012

6 November: Things I learned while making video case studies for the Government Digital Strategy
3 November: Members of 70s rock band ELO discuss the lyrics of 'The Diary of Horace Wimp'
1 November: A visual history of gilest.org
4 October: The xx go for a pizza
1 October: On iPads, computing, and powerlessness
20 September: The angry archaeologist
12 September: Voices
4 September: Croatian heat
1 September: Colourscape
20 May: A cookie law template letter for web developers
15 May: Olympic flags in BoA
6 May: John Peel's record collection - the Spotify playlist

2011

17 April: My butterfly friend
20 March: Ale and Porter

2010

28 September: Photos from September and family weekend
29 August: Photos from August
29 July: Photos from July and holiday in France
1 July: Screenplay: Monsters under the bed
29 June: Photos from June
29 May: Photos from May
29 April: Photos from April
31 March: “Eating,” an EP of silly acapella songs

2009

20 December: Photos from 2009
24 September: Pet rescue
14 September: Mouse for lunch
31 August: Nursery rhyme insurance claims
15 August: Gums
21 July: Recording London
20 July: Dear Royal Mail
28 April: Planning for the next GeoCities
30 March: On the MPs expenses scandal
20 January: The roof, a short story

2008

5 December: Grumpy dad says
5 October: Barney's big day
5 September: First day at school
6 August: How the Daily Mail stole one of my photos
22 July: A story of replication and journalism
7 July: A middle aged stag weekend
7 July: We love the web, you and I
12 May: NASA, William Smith, and me
5 March: Is this band dead?
8 February: Exploring the Somerset Coal Canal

2007

14 September: Permanent and long term web content
15 August: Barcelona trip
13 August: Dennis Hawes, 1923-2007
15 July: Woolley Street Festival
6 June: Hayfever time again
1 June: In the dungeon
20 May: Plastering, by JT Sawyer
10 May: Accident and Emergency
27 March: Blog's what you make it
23 March: Speed
6 March: A few days in Spain
1 March: Breakfast with the White Stripes
5 February: It must be hell living with a writer
23 January: In the recording studio with the Cocteau Twins
18 January: Excitement and adventure by the Kennet and Avon canal
17 January: My victory over the washing machine
3rd January: A local councillor tries out weblogging

2006

1 November: The unwritten rule
19 September: Kidsequences - the things that change when you become a parent
27 August: A Freecycle webapp
26 August: Yay and yay and humbug
10 April: Adventures in alternate realities
6 April: At the Sunflower Cafe
4 April: The GTD Prayer
24 January: Taking two toddlers for a walk - a case study
23 January: Exploring London's place names

2005

20 December: The why phase

2004

25 October: Screenshot anxiety
22 August: Bandwidth anxiety
18 August: The secret of effective recycling
13 August: Why photocopies are called photocopies
14 June: How chess has changed
2 June: Talking to Doc Searls about Cluetrain - five years after it was published, an interview with one of the Cluetrain Manifesto authors
24 May: What other people are doing
24 May: Selected associations from the Directory of British Associations, edition 15
20 May: Exploring Wiltshire's place names
11 May: What is it about running?
5 May: Downing Street blogs
4 May: To Bath by towpath
19 April: Sophie's embedded objects, a strange snippet of fiction
16 April: My victory over the plumbers - how I fixed my shower
6 April: Talking to Ward Cunningham about wiki
23 March: The repairman
22 March: An interview with Lion Kimbro
3 March: Waiting for Tony Blair
1 March: Tips for moving house
25 February: In Mr Salvat's coffee room
6 February: Interview with a parent - my son reflects on my parenting skills, or lack thereof
6 February: From Selcuk to Pamukkale
20 January: A chatty owl
19 January: The removal men
16 January: In the playcentre
14 January: Society, culture, and public toilets
6 January: From little baby to little boy - reflections on how the boy is learning language

2003

17 December: Wake up mummy and daddy - more talking
30 November: House hunting
12 November: Toddler talk - my son learns to speak, and entertains me too
1 November: Special delivery - this is how long it takes to unpack the shopping with a small child helping
8 September: Interview with Matthew Somerville
19 August: Barney's first words
2 June: ATTACK WAVE 1 COMPLETED - memories of a certain video game
29 April: Deb Barham, RIP
25 April: My new new routine - managing baby another way
15 January: My new routine - managing baby one way

2002

22 October: Being in a band - memories of rehearsals in remote village halls
14 August: Introducing Barnaby - our boy is born, and our lives are changed
31 July: The iris scanning cash machine
20 June: Cyprus trip
14 June: XCOM 2002
25 January: How to catch mice - the page that topped Google for said activity for some time
9 January: A month in Miami

2001

9 April: Making our first garden

2000

1 November: Naked body art
1 October: A week in Morocco
1 October: Touring Italy by train
4 September: Sam's birthday
3 March: Our first trip to Turkey

1999

1998

1997

1995

Holiday in Turkey