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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)
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
1 September:
Back to Devon again
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
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 February:
Waiting for Tony Blair
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
11 January:
What big business can learn from weblogs
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
2 June:
The Prince, the PC, and me
1 June:
Notes on slugs
10 May:
Palm Pilot things
20 April:
Travelling in Oman
15 March:
Online Journalism Awards 1999
12 March:
The ultimate online ego trip
13 February:
Review of
The French Mathematician
, by Tom Petsinis
3 February:
The first online election
1998
9 December:
Björk is a genius
lump.txt, my obligatory hospital story
Toronto and Niagara
1997
Brilliant Minds: the story of 80s pop band Furniture
Ground Force
Our honeymoon in India
1995
Holiday in Turkey