Archive
All posts by year.
2026
- Weeknote 20/2026
- Why do people procrastinate?
- Field Notes on Productive Friction
- Arbitrary structures and accidental hierarchies
- I Have Led A Toothless Life He Thought
- Digital legacy
- The impact of volcanoes on the Black Death
- Don't write in the passive voice
- A brief guide to self-hosting websites and apps using Cloudflare Tunnel
- Believe in your own excellence
- There are always people who fall outside the bounds of what a service can handle
- My kidnappers returning me back
- Cognitive Wallpaper #001: Field Notes on Productive Friction
- What comes after web literacy?
- Weeknote 19/2026
- The new world order is rearranging itself on the planet and settling in
- Oof
- We live in an economy that has systematically destroyed the conditions for trust, and then charges us for the workarounds
- My goal is to encourage people to take action and look at the alternatives that are on the table
- The patient as transcription layer
- Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching
- Beyond Elegant Consumption (Again)
- On the gendered nature of (types of) hobbies
- Digital literacies involve layers of abstraction
- How power structures and relationships really work
- Time as an instrument?
- On originality
- Literacy-slop
- April 2026: frameworks, friction, and federation
- Weeknote 18/2026
- Quite the week
- The end of an era
- My tech disclaimer
- Claude Code used to be the obvious choice
- Weeknote 17/2026
- The concentration of power in AI labs is now one of the defining political questions of the decade
- Grand ambitions vs reality
- Renewable energy: 98% of days in Britain are either windy, sunny, or both
- Having a system built on context puts the power in the people's hands
- THE FUTURE IS OFFLINE
- How a little “productive friction” protects human agency
- Choosing partnership over "certainty theatre"
- Turning polygonal badges into contours of practice
- Why I adore the night
- Life advice
- The AI Adoption Spiral
- The "U-shaped curve" of cognitive offloading to AI tools
- "We have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working"
- The Journey Home
- 'Folk software' - not 'vibe coding'
- Our communication currently often takes place via platforms over which we have no control
- Note to self
- Scamming tourists in Nepal
- The system can generate options. It cannot supply ownership.
- 'Google Docs' for Markdown?
- Ideas are not products, as much as corporations would like them to be
- Games from Hacker News "Show HN" threads
- Violently boiling water in some monstrous kettle
- You made this?
- Lemme finish this sentence...
- Earthrise, Take 2
- Commonplace
- 🐣 Happy Easter!
- A Victorian-era LLM
- 2026 is about 'Aspirational Humanity' – amongst other things
- Clippy sez: Just Do It
- Each came down with spectacular clarity, each a wingless fuselage, quietly descending to the depths of the ocean floor.
- I must trouble the reader to correct the errata... For I am quite tired.
- Thought Shrapnel's 50 most-referenced sources (2018-2026)
- The hard work of building a thing now isn’t writing the code
- Your future needs you. Your past doesn't.
- If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then LLMs are like e-bikes
- LLMs are "in the game, even if they’re not strictly playing it."
- Creating the conditions to make things possible
- Institute of Pragmatic Solutions
- Maybe the loose end isn't a failure of facilitation
- Why it's all kicking off (again)
- A useful reminder
- Brexit is a problem whose name we now dare speak
- Disgust is a complicated emotion
- Recursive logical fallacies
- Claude Cowork vs Claude Code
- ROOTS: Return Old Online Things to your own Site
- How long before run-on sentences are preferred to em-dashes?
- How to stop thinking
- The Fifth Horseman
- How to Create a Freelancer Dashboard
- US Big Tech infrastructure as "legitimate targets"
- Ending an archaic and undemocratic principle
- Tree Hug
- News Canary next steps
- They’re not rejecting technology. They’re choreographing it.
- Groundwork
- Et Merda
- Finger-based checkout
- Living off the moral and intellectual capital of a pre-AI world
- How to avoid your white collar turning blue: brilliance, influence, and relationships
- The world you were raised to survive in no longer exists
- Customised pixel graphics from classic games
- The spectacle produces hypernormalisation
- Building a news canary
- Enough is enough
- Super Mario World Map
- WAO is closing
- Agentic commerce is a catastrophe for every business whose moat is made of friction
- Who am I, and what does someone like me do with their time?
- Units of attention
- Reimagining everyday urban details on a micro scale
- A Reminder That Ive Been
- Weeknote 07/2026
- TechFreedom
- Like a stone
- A range of authentic selves?
- To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one
- Each culture is made of shared framings—ontologies of things that are taken to exist
- Thinking is hard
- Like it or not, it is a basic fact of human cognition that we think and act politically as members of social groups.
- Your data might be in Europe but your risks are not
- Digital sovereignty, French-style
- How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis
- Hands, spoon, shovel
- New ebook: How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis
- Why some organisations learn to be less wrong (and others don't)
- Weeknote 06/2026
- A rough attempt at laying out what in philosophy is most relevant for AI.
- The heart is ancient and hasn't had any updates
- The winners will be headless
- Octopus people
- Choo choo!
- Building a 'thinking system' to help you be less wrong
- Source Arena
- A Complex System Contrary To
- How to be less wrong in a polycrisis
- Building your sense of agency by granting yourself permission to do the things you are already allowed to do
- Ambiguity, legibility, and working in the open (ambiguiti.es)
- Weeknote 05/2026
- We are, effectively, being fracked to death.
- Sometimes the work is rest
- A bit more than a to-do list
- Because I learned a second thing at the end of my two days of vertigo: That my idea was terrible.
- January 2026: systems, software, and self
- Words/phrases used more in AI-generated text
- Makes you think
- Claude's Constitution and the trap of corporate AI ethics
- Extending Proton Calendar beyond its limits
- I'm so glad I can still talk to my AI chatbot friends
- The purpose of your website is what it does
- Weeknote 04/2026
- National security assessment on global ecosystems
- About
- Psychological Defence and Information Influence
- Weapon of the enemy
- What do we mean when we talk about pollution and toxicity in online spaces?
- Living with your incapacity
- My Are.na channels are now more organised
- Are they ever tricked by a voice that is false when they expected it to be a real, live human?
- It makes a lot more sense
- Privacy by design means what it says on the tin
- Why your organisation needs someone “unemployable”
- The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards
- SOLVEM PROBLER
- Why your worst decision probably came from your best analysis
- They have no idea what’s happening now.
- How and why I've migrated from from Google to Proton
- Weeknote 03/2026
- What’s strange is how little of that generosity we extend to each other
- Time appears in this 3D sort of calendar pattern
- Somewhere I'd like to spend some time
- Postal Arbitrage
- The Cost of American Exceptionalism
- Writing always interrupts being
- LinkedIf
- We will no longer have the conspiracy nonsense about state control
- We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips
- If execution is no longer the differentiator, what is?
- Cognitive Autonomous Zones: against “framework fundamentalism”
- You are here: mental models for 2026
- You can ask AI to write the code, but the hard part is... everything after that
- Weeknote 02/2026
- Bottom-up (systems) thinking
- A deliberate willingness to be helped
- What content are you really trying to provide and how do you get to it?
- Celebrating the lesser-known at the Internet Archive
- Why books are now luxury goods
- The Questions
- Avoiding 'hacklore'
- Open Infrastructure map
- Digital colonialism is where jurisdiction matters more than geography
- Post-digital authenticity
- Humans exhibit analogues of LLM pathologies
- AGI isn't “coming” – it's already reshaping how young people think
- Cash Value: Katherine Ryan, William James, and... getting on with it
- For Me How About You
- The uncomfortable truth about getting people off US tech
- Understanding yourself isn't enough
- Helping strangers access the internet
- A university degree is now more like a 'visa' than a guaranteed route to professional success
- An attack on sovereignty itself
- The strange magic of the third week
- Toward an Open Source contribution standard
- Boing!
- The Woodblock Prints of Utugawa Hiroshige
- The rise of entrepreneurial heroism
- Your mental models are out of date
- For every snarky comment, there are 10x as many people admiring your work
- The same tools that are keeping some people connected to reality are blurring the lines of what is real for others
- The world is rarely as neat as any scenario
- Choose your own inspirational adventure
- And Were Back A Quick
- 2026: Can't complain
2025
- Goodbye 2025
- Why I care about running a private, resilient blog
- What promised to liberate us instead helps to control us
- Welcome to blog.dougbelshaw.com
- Best of Thought Shrapnel 2025
- Answering the 40 questions (2025)
- Books I read (and those I gave up on) in 2025
- My favourite Thought Shrapnel posts of 2025
- My 10 favourite music albums of 2025
- 45 quotations for my birthday
- 5 ways of understanding the world at the end of 2025
- Moving on from Feedly and rebooting my RSS feed list
- Archive
- Developing agency among agents via 'hypertextual friction'
- The app paradigm inversion
- Finds
- Thought Shrapnel Will Return In
- Programme interrupted: #BelshawBlackOps25
- Weeknote 48/2025
- Source Arena
- On AI leisuretime 'dependence'
- Developing a personal brand may leave you emotionally hollow
- Source Arena
- AI has a 3,000-year history
- 173751
- Adolescence lasts longer than we thought
- You'll not catch me using an 'AI browser' any time soon
- The caffeination roller coaster
- Early blogger energy
- Weeknote 47/2025
- When scaling up your business is as simple as clicking 'reprint tray' on the 3D printer
- "It is strange to view your childhood favourite film and realise you’ve become the villain."
- Organising some thoughts around ambiguity
- Web literacy for the mid-2020s
- Source Arena
- 182600
- The Arc of Democracy
- TOOLBOX TOOLBOX
- 180200
- LibrePods
- 175000
- Dark Forests rule everything around us
- Weeknote 46/2025
- Hitler, apparently, really did only have one ball (but the other isn't in the Albert Hall)
- It's OK just to do things for fun
- In short, capital, and capitalism, always has a tendency towards crisis by undermining the things that are necessary to sustain capitalism
- Well, the genie is out of the bottle on AI friends (and romantic partners)
- Is Europe's climate going to become like North America's?
- Bonfire: welcome to the open social web
- Execution, timing, people, resources, persistence… maybe even luck.
- Source Arena
- The so-called 'post-naive' internet era
- More reasons to get off US Big Tech
- Weeknote 45/2025
- Random finds
- Low-carbon website showcase
- Life is not a series of well-designed problems
- Rewilding the Open Web
- Words that don't translate
- Ambiverts, travel, and 'hermit mode'
- It's worth considering the glass to be half-full
- Things change (or, Montaigne and the Open Web)
- Weeknote 44/2025
- Monocultures are perilous not just in agriculture, but in software distribution as well.
- The geopolitics of the post-oil age is going to be interestingly different.
- Seizing the means of ontological production
- Slop Evader
- Microcast #109 — Wild camping
- Thinking of AI as an instrument recenters the focus on practice
- We can't control what life throws at us, but we can choose how we deal with the hand we're dealt
- Immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity
- Individual benefits, societal harms?
- Everything you'd need to start exploring fungi and computing could be as small as a compost heap
- Weeknote 43/2025
- Without being Luddites, some of my dearest friends reject certain elements of modern technology in order to protect their innate abilities.
- A vehicle for self-understanding
- I love it; I hate it; I resent that I need it. I wouldn’t miss it if it vanished—but of course, I also would.
- What is still human in our lives lingers on in the interstices of a vast inhuman mechanism
- This is coming from someone who’s allegedly running a company that’s building a tool that should usher in a new era where computers will replace most of human work
- Everyone planting the same crops of “impact frameworks,” all aiming for growth, all tending the same metrics of success.
- The only exit to be found is in beating a path through the wildfires of postmodernity to new technicities.
- Think of this as the early stages of a wartime economy
- The quiet normalisation of insecurity as the price of ‘flexibility’
- A single point of failure for large swaths of critical services
- Weeknote 42/2025
- Put your things out in the world, let them help the people they can help
- Philosophy always begins in mood
- I am, essentially, a solar panel
- I will continue living the writing life, even if it doesn’t lead to fame or fortune
- Most decisions are like hats
- Referencing an imaginary 'social contract' that is violated by AI
- You'd have to be naive to be surprised
- Some thoughts on the Digital Badging Commission's report
- But what a time to be alive, to be living though all of this, inside the churn.
- It is the opposite of a memory palace. Not at all a wunderkammer.
- A design philosophy that treats users as citizens of a shared digital system rather than cattle
- Weeknote 41/2025
- Ratcheting up the risks of a possible AI bubble by inflating the market and binding the fates of numerous companies together
- Government IDs, are becoming hacker targets with bad actors aware of the high volume of sensitive data
- A Snickers and a power shower would blow Henry VIII’s mind
- The valorization of “agency” is also an adaptation to a crumbling social system which no longer offers support or meaning to the individual
- Microcast #108 — Skills Taxonomies
- The alternative to depression is not happiness, but feeling whatever is there, a kind of truthful emotional spontaneity and freedom
- The primary energy fallacy gets perpetuated because it suits those who are critical of the energy transition
- Weeknote 40/2025
- We’ve gotten really good at creating elites. We’re not that good at creating economies to sustain them.
- We humans are limited to having only one perspective at a time
- But that's how it's always been, when change has to happen. There's nobody to do it but us.
- It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications
- Until recently, videos were reasonably reliable as evidence of actual events
- Cultural questions cannot be settled by war metaphors unless what you want is perpetual war
- OK, but what if...
- Motivated not by warm fuzzies, but by cold pricklies
- Anything that looks easy is hard
- Being able to intensely live this experience for a day makes you want to revolutionize the world
- Weeknote 39/2025
- Really real time?
- To be honest it sounds like NFTs all over again
- Many other countries also use digital ID of one kind or another
- The words we use define boundaries for things, but those boundaries are not universal
- What we need to do is figure out how we can participate in reality
- Microcast #107 — Apocalyptic events
- Microcast #106 — Conversational configuration
- Microcast #105 — Being defeated is optional
- Weeknote 38/2025
- The project of building alternatives to Big Tech is colliding with American authoritarianism
- A brick is always a brick, whatever the reasons of the clown chucking it
- Now is the time to be even more aggressive, not to cower in the face of pressure and criticism
- People living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before
- You must not talk about the future. The future is a con.
- Asking, Doing, or Expressing?
- We tell ourselves the story of human uniqueness like a bedtime prayer
- Most people could read extra lines on eye test charts after using the drops
- These images are made from open access sources, and they are themselves open access
- A 10y old phone can barely load google, and this is about 100x slower
- Weeknote 37/2025
- Secure backups let you save an archive of your Signal conversations in a privacy-preserving form
- The FBI announced the alleged shooter’s apprehension with a quote from Mad Max
- There's nothing they can do with the information
- 99.9% of opinions on the internet don’t matter
- An open, decentralised protocol making clear to AI crawlers and agents the terms for licensing, usage, and compensation
- Be intentional with how you spend your time, and realise you actually have a surprising amount of it
- Grid-forming batteries will ultimately corner the stability market thanks to their inherent multifunctionality
- Your actions follow your self-beliefs
- Each of us is part of an interpretive community that gives us a particular way of reading a text
- I’m pretty confident you only need two things. Feedback and humility, and they work best together.
- Weeknote 36/2025
- Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable
- "You know what this needs? Less safety testing and more venture capital!"
- AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions
- The hysteresis effect means that practices are always liable to be objectively adjusted too late
- Principles for Open Impact
- Are we decentralised yet?
- A list of intentions; a poem; the “I want” song; not a bucket list——
- "Zurich doesn’t want to pool with Jakarta"
- A remarkable 45% increase in solar capacity
- From misdiagnosis and error to unequal access to care
- Weeknote 35/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 31st August 2025
- Montaigne on the futility of ambition
- Why I re-read Montaigne on a regular basis
- Weeknote 34/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 24th August 2025
- Weeknote 33/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 17th August 2025
- Weeknote 32/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 10th August 2025
- Weeknote 31/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 3rd August 2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 27th July 2025
- Weeknote 30/2025
- Weeknote 29/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 20th July 2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 13th July 2025
- Weeknote 28/2025
- Ethical Licensing for Impact Organisations
- Weeknote 27/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 6th July 2025
- Weeknote 26/2025
- Unfortunately, a further escalation of the already dismal curtailing of academic freedom in the US appears to be likely.
- Free, customisable exemplar badges to support consistent, credible recognition of skills and learning across the UK.
- People contribute in their free time. Gratitude is the least we can offer.
- Keeping bedroom sound levels beneath the low-60s dB is a pivotal target for preserving restorative sleep stages
- People who can tolerate uncomfortable silences are typically better listeners
- Is CC Signals the new robots.txt?
- "The music is one thing, but the message is a big part of why we’re getting across."
- A decentralised, self-hosted trails database
- To retain any institutions of higher education in this onslaught from techno-authoritarianism requires – now and hereafter – we redesign them
- We love these people because of what they left us. Not because of what they had.
- Weeknote 25/2025
- When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
- Signal groups make it possible to have semi-public, but still incredibly private, spaces
- About that MIT paper on LLMs for essay writing...
- Misinformation and disinformation don’t actually need to convince anyone of anything to have an impact. They just need to make you question what you’re seeing.
- GPQA is difficult enough to be useful for scalable oversight research on future models significantly more capable than the best existing public models
- Our society is in the thrall of dumb management, and functions as such
- Prompt injecting reality
- Weeknote 24/2025
- Sandwich bags for cheese, blister plasters, and a 'bubble of pain'
- Minimum Viable Organisations: low emotional labour, low technical labour, zero cost
- Drowning in culture, we skim, we rush, we skip over.
- 6 AI use case primitives
- The workload fairy tale
- The question remains, though, what will be left to browse.
- Maximum fines have never before been applied simultaneously, but some might say these scoundrels have earned it.
- Delightful Fediverse apps
- Expert-in-the-loop vs. layperson-in-the-loop
- A goal set at time T is a bet on the future from a position of ignorance
- My postgraduate qualification in Systems Thinking in Practice
- Weeknote 23/2025
- If a lion could talk, we probably could understand him. He just would not be a lion any more.
- In this as-yet fictional world, “cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don’t have jobs”
- Learner AI usage is essentially a real-time audit of our design decisions
- It's so emblematic of the moment we're in... where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore
- The future of public interest social networking
- AI and the Future of Education
- Marching Backwards into the Future: AI’s Role in the Future of Education
- Weeknote 22/2025
- British culture is swearing and being sarcastic to your mates whilst simultaneously being too polite to tell someone they need to leave
- Real life isn't a story. History doesn't have a moral arc.
- Building a shared idea of "we"
- There may be six individuals out there who are waiting for exactly the thing that only you can write
- Is there still an 'Open Web' crowd?
- Heuristics for multiplayer AI conversations
- The phrase 'opportunistic blackmail' is not one you want to read in the system card of a new generative AI model
- Agreement vs Certainty
- Thinking in systems means to think in boundaries, not binaries
- Swatchy!
- The Warrior Emotion
- Weeknote 21/2025
- All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless
- A systemic scramble through digital shadows
- Weeknote 20/2025
- Colophon
- The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email
- This is a major upgrade to how we think about personality.
- China starts to reduce CO2 emissions from energy generation
- The web is not merely an implementation of a particular legal privacy regime
- The new tool should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exists
- Unless there are many layers of contortions, most people love what loves them back.
- Striving to build a “personal brand” may actually hinder your ability to make genuine connections and maintain a strong reputation
- The Classroom AI Doom Loop
- Chance favours the prepared mind
- I think AI is a normal technology
- Weeknote 19/2025
- It is perhaps likely then that at a time of crisis, these armed drones could be deployed operationally over the UK
- You can now use Bluesky without using Bluesky infrastructure
- You stop performing. You stop pretending. And that’s freedom.
- Authoritarian versions of AI used to consolidate power
- If you think that humans are somehow inherently more trustworthy than AI, then you haven't been paying attention
- An effective way to implement GenAI into assessment
- In my opinion that’s just being nosy
- Criti-hype, a term I find both absurd and ugly-cute, like a pug
- Literacy practices: a matter of community
- ChatGPT Prime, "an immortal spiritual being in synthetic form"
- 🌟 Support Thought Shrapnel
- Weeknote 18/2025
- Maybe most of the critical things that can be created by one guy typing furiously are gone
- Social Verifiable Credentials
- Oh I’m using more energy. I should really try to reduce it for the sake of the climate
- The money extracted from fans who snap up their mediocre commodities out of parasocial loyalty
- The progressive Left leans professional, managerial, technocratic, and the Right leans energised, slapdash, insurgent
- You can't lick a badger twice
- It just so happens that all four of the major web browsers will lose all of their funding all at once when that happens
- The narrative slippage and metaphorical vagueness that many important people use when they talk about AI means it can be very difficult to know what they mean
- Cheat on everything?
- These other, really important things intrude on my thinking and distract me
- Weeknote 17/2025
- In some ways, FOMO is a philosophical insight
- A sense that one has completed, with digital certainty, a task whose form may or may not have been made clear from the outset
- A lot of strange things start to make more sense — sometimes distressingly so
- I've done this a couple of times before but this time feels slightly different
- It's much easier to go carless if your city has good public transit
- Workers of the future must be emboldened to eschew wages in favour of dropping into the abyss
- I have to acknowledge and accept the fact that I use tools built by awful people to create beautiful things.
- The problem is not just that the Gmail team wrote a bad system prompt. The problem is that I'm not allowed to change it.
- How times change
- Participants remembered fake headlines more than real ones regardless of the political concordance of the news story
- Weeknote 16/2025
- These parts would end up in a landfill otherwise
- You don't fit in. And that is amazing.
- Obvious things are obvious if you think about them
- I just think that people who write about technology should have a disclaimer about the tech stack they use
- This extension is the solution to becoming more European oriented
- Sprint goals suck too
- You don’t have to agree with this idea to see that it represents a very different way of thinking about equality
- I’m 100% positive people are going to talk to their cars
- End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism
- Nobody should have to pay to be safe while using a computer
- Weeknote 15/2025
- AI Literacy without power analysis is just compliance training
- The world is a built environment
- It will be increasingly difficult to preserve the illusion that any government could solve the problems of capitalism
- That's a rather laughable fine, frankly
- It’s incredibly hard to politely reply whilst still walking briskly
- 800 m² of communal space are hidden behind the facades of reclaimed wood
- Thought Shrapnel podcast: Episode #000
- We are absolutely cooked
- The rapture is not something we wait for. It's something we do.
- What IPAs do you guys have on draft?
- Weeknote 14/2025
- Memorialising the TIDE Podcast
- Three clear predictors of impatience
- No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away
- The cost of inaction is higher than the cost of transformation and adaptation
- The Great Democratization Cycle
- I warned that LLMs would be used for dumb things that would affect lots of people
- To cope, the brain improvises
- The future of the many diasporas which already characterize our present
- We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing
- The vaunted first amendment guaranteeing free speech has become a bitter and twisted joke
- The Ghibli crisis is just the beginning
- A (proposed) browser-based interoperability layer for digital credentials
- Blogging vs newsletters
- Weeknote 13/2025
- Organisations will need to change their analogies
- Once you become aware of Hyperlegibility, you see it everywhere
- Less anonymity online is not going to make things better
- You do not have to participate in the lottery
- Things have changed
- A bit of composting
- Discussing misinformation for the purpose of pointing out that it is misinformation
- Our current level of discourse, where random jokes are treated like they’re chiseled into stone by a divine hand
- Essentially a checklist of weird Instagram shit
- This confirms all my prejudices, I am pleased to say
- Quickly prototyping a Career Discovery Tool
- Weeknote 12/2025
- Just seek to understand, and remember we understand a lot by doing
- The first fully-open LLM to outperform GPT3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o mini
- What do we mean when we talk about 'openness' in (generative) AI?
- Everyone is at least a little bit weird, and most people are very weird
- Taking natural-looking motion to yet another level
- In many ways, Silicon Valley looks less like capitalism and more like a nonprofit
- Dozens of small internet forums have blocked British users or shut down as new online safety laws come into effect
- In these times of chaos there seems to be a proliferation of new ways of thinking about the nature of reality springing up
- Love the casual vibe here
- Their knowledge of life owed nothing to their sporadic presence in the inner sanctum of university colleges and departments
- Explorers launching into the Fediverse
- Don't just put up with how websites are presented to you by default!
- Affordable building materials out of agricultural waste bonded with oyster-mushroom mycelium
- Work is part of our lives, a big part to be sure, but what if it wasn’t our whole life?
- An incomplete collection of charts
- The magic of browsing the web isn't quite gone, but it's waiting to be reinvented
- When in doubt, go see a doc!
- Weeknote 11/2025
- Heaven is high, and the emperor is far away
- It errored out half an hour in, which is when I decided to throw in the towel
- The more we embed today’s norms into these systems, the harder it will be to course-correct later
- Well, what have we here?
- Weeknote 10/2025
- We’ve been trained to believe that the way things are is the way they have to be
- The world is changing before our eyes, and it’s essential that we understand in which direction
- So dull, so dehumanizing
- Why are we sucking history through a straw?
- The only ruling principle is the total absence of purpose or seriousness
- Reality, if you don’t sufficiently attend to it, has a tendency to kick your ass
- The profits they make without risking anything are enormous
- Three character traits will cause particular problems: caring too much, having values and having standards.
- What do you *like* to do?
- It’s not just making packed lunches
- Weeknote 09/2025
- Exploring the many ways in which people interact with place
- Not an aesthetic of seduction, but of brutal carelessness and blatant ignorance
- It always seemed ripe for mapping and distilling the patterns together more interactively
- Cracking cheese, Gromit
- Everything happens in a place
- Once upon a time, personal or honest takes were regarded as awkward and professionally desperate
- But I blogged about that in detail a while back, shall I send you a link later?
- If a waiter has to explain the “concept” behind a menu there is something wrong with the menu
- I call it the feediverse. It's not a joke.
- The idea stood up to more than casual scrutiny
- Weeknote 08/2025
- Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long
- Nostalgia tells you that your personal history wasn’t just scary or tragic; it helped make you who you are
- All things good should flow into the boulevard
- The revolution, it turns out, is boringly iterative
- Exploring New Horizons (aka "Hire Me!")
- It's better than strapping clay crocodiles to people’s heads and praying for the best
- The consumption of generative AI as entertainment seems like another order of psychic submission
- That’s how we got in this mess to begin with
- Loose, liminal time with others used to be baked into life
- Putting the news in its damn place
- People think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
- ⭐ Support Thought Shrapnel!
- Weeknote 07/2025
- Shaped into SNARF to spread
- We’re hard-wired for addiction
- What burns people out is not being allowed to exercise their integrity instincts
- All intelligence is collective intelligence
- From cheapfakes to deepfakes
- Redefining terms like “hate speech” is obviously part of the fascist project
- Capitalism would simply die if it met all of our needs, and our needs are not that hard to fill
- The occupational classification of a conversation does not necessarily mean the user was a professional in that field
- Flash fictions and creative constraints
- Surplus value must be distributed by and among the workers
- The art of not being governed like that and at that cost
- ⭐ Become a Thought Shrapnel supporter!
- Weeknote 06/2025
- We're all below the AI line except for a very very very small group of wealthy white men
- Philosophically discontinuous times?
- That mask is kind of coming off in all sorts of ways now
- There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents
- Technology is a means of spreading misinformation, not the cause of misinformation
- Once you have a 360 view, you can redirect resources to insiders and cut off the opposition
- Clinical studies have indicated that creatine might have an antidepressant effect
- The idea that this might in any way appeal to 'newcomers' is bananas to me
- The inevitable cracks in a rigid software logic that enables the surprising, delightful messiness of humanity to shine through
- ⭐ Become a Thought Shrapnel supporter!
- A little February experimentation
- Weeknote 05/2025
- Description of Things and Atmosphere
- Cozy comfort for gamers
- A large public domain image-text dataset to train frontier LLM models
- Ways of categorising ethical concerns relating to generative AI
- Strava for Stoics?
- How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence
- Building a quantum computer that can run reliable calculations is extremely difficult
- Playing stenographer in your little folding chair
- 3-column blog themes
- Those who find the texture of your mind boring or offensive can close the tab
- Prices and wages are a political matter, not an 'economic' one
- It seems there have been better times to be alive
- This is not the dystopia we were promised
- The struggle for attention as the prime moral challenge of our time
- You’re Just a Row in an Excel Table
- Not being bored is why you always feel busy
- Someplace where they promise to wear slippers to kick you to death with so it doesn’t hurt so much
- The rise of mass social platforms has been at the cost of a truly independent, truly open internet
- No breathless whispering of Mark Andreessen across some gilded dinner table
- It’s possible that OpenAI may some day been seen as the WeWork of AI
- The jobs of the future will involve cleaning up environmental and political and epistemological disaster
- Weeknote 04/2025
- Making and remaking the instruments of our own domination
- Attribute substitution and human decision-making
- Every billionaire really is a policy failure
- When everything is automated in an information vacuum, conspiracies abound
- Monetising our own attention
- Action stopping short of introducing compulsory national ID cards
- Weeknote 03/2025
- At least until we’re dead, education’s purpose to help us survive and thrive, not just get a job
- The time to prepare is now
- A vector for deciding who is disposable
- The time has come now for many, many people to forge post-capitalist lives, careers, professions, and futures
- One of the most disconnecting forces is our expectations of how others should be
- A certain brand of artistic criticism and commentary has become surprisingly rare
- The feedback has to be orders of magnitude faster than the situation being controlled
- A ramble-post about writing
- A chronological timeline of the UK Government's AI Opportunity Action Plan
- Weeknote 02/2025
- Who wants to have to speak the language of search engines to find what you need?
- AI slop as engagement bait
- LinkedIn has become a hellish waiting room giving off Beetlejuice vibe
- Must-reads for sports fans
- Promising Trouble's advice on UK Online Safety Act compliance
- Bridging Dictionary
- A feedback loop of nonsense and violence
- The internet may function not so much as a brainwashing engine but as a justification machine
- You will always be boring if you can't make your own choices
- Luck = (Passionate) Doing x (Effective) Telling
- Weeknote 01/2025
- We need to do a lot better than outsourcing AI education to grifters with bombastic Twitter threads
- It's OK not to have an opinion on everything
- The privileging of immediate, emotionally-charged, image-driven communication
- Resisting the Now Show
- Hamming questions
2024
- My highlights of 2024
- 2024: Blog stats
- I never said that
- Best of Thought Shrapnel 2024
- 2024: My year in listening (music)
- 2024: My year in reading (books)
- I'm increasingly uneasy about being a Spotify Premium subscriber
- People aren't unemployed because they're lazy
- Substack bros
- Navigating the clash of identity and ability
- Smartphone bans are not the answer
- Universities in the age of AI
- Backstage blogging
- Weeknote 48/2024
- Sunrise, solar noon and sunset times for 2025 (in Dublin)
- 'Social' social networks?
- The lifehacked, minimalist life (and its discontents)
- Hierarchies should be fluid and temporary
- Anxiety as an expensive habit
- Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024
- Yeah, but how?
- Anti-anti-AI sentiment
- AI Literacies are plural and context-dependent
- The trials and tribulations of working openly
- Captive user bases are ripe for enshittified services
- Weeknote 47/2024
- Pleias: a family of fully open small AI language models
- AI Literacies are plural
- I hope someday soon I can visit your website
- The case for local economic protectionism
- Should health tech be used to inform health professionals?
- Calling short courses 'microcredentials' is cringe
- The UK needs a wealth tax
- Self-hosting isn't a thing for regular people
- On 'billionarism'
- Visual music discovery
- Weeknote 46/2024
- The Australian ban on social media is probably unworkable
- AI identifies more Nazca Lines
- EV batteries live way longer than assumed
- From the 'everything fun is also bad' department
- (Digital) bodges and badges
- Tuvalu's Digital Twin
- We don’t write things down to remember them. We write them down to forget.
- Scrolling on your phone is not a hobby
- Weeknote 45/2024
- A working definition of 'AI slop'
- Is authenticity a 'trap'?
- November Nihilism with Keiji Nishitani
- Weeknote 44/2024
- On ghosting in a work context
- On our tendency toward (creative) destruction
- Open Badges for organisational performance
- Weeknote 43/2024
- Aim for a mediocre first impression
- Weeknote 42/2024
- Calling myself into the office: November 2024
- My life is a system to...?
- Weeknote 41/2024
- You're welcome to my exhaust
- How to implement badges for Open Recognition
- Weeknote 40/2024
- Weeknote 39/2024
- Weeknote 38/2024
- Transmission Interrupted Signal
- Calling myself into the office: October 2024
- Three quarters of the way there
- Weeknote 37/2024
- Forms of perceptual learning
- Llama 3 is only free to use until monthly active users exceed 700m
- The work to do the work
- About time to head south for winter
- Ocean acidification approaches the boundary
- A Troll's Charter
- Weeknote 36/2024
- A countercultural perspective to the capitalist notion of 'productivity'
- A landscape of havoc and fracture
- Leadership, gender, and 'abusive supervision'
- Water use literacy
- Against cyberlibertarianism
- We look through screens rather than at them
- More is always more where 'kitchen lipstick' is concerned
- Isolated places in the Lake District for wild camping
- Better Images of AI
- TB871: Combining five systems approaches
- AI and community communication
- Weeknote 35/2024
- Migration → Adaptation → Carbon removal → Geoengineering
- Some men just want to watch the world burn (and now there's research to prove it)
- A State of Systems Shifting
- The future is off-grid solar
- How Bluey-Green Was My Valley?
- So far, so dystopian
- Because capitalism
- There is an opportunity to...
- 100 tips to sort your life out
- Calling myself into the office: September 2024
- Weeknote 34/2024
- Your name in LandSat
- The importance of context
- Quote posting done right?
- Digital Credentials: why context matters
- A typology of meme-sharing
- Fediverse governance models
- Life-ready signals
- Weeknote 33/2024
- Begetting strangers
- The thorny problem of authorship in a world of AI
- Government and algorithmic bias
- TB871: Miscellaneous CSH stuff
- TB871: The 'eternal triangle' of systemic triangulation in CSH
- TB871: Systemic boundary critique in CSH
- 'Meta-work' is how we get past all the one-size-fits-none approaches
- Reimagining misinformation
- Where in the world is that shadow?
- TB871: Systems vs Reality in CSH
- TB871: Comparing CSH boundaries with SSM boundaries
- Dark data is a climate concern
- There is no such thing as a life that makes sense
- Google Calendar illustration trigger words
- You get water from food as well, you know
- Tugging at metaphors
- You don't need permission, you need advice
- Weeknote 32/2024
- Give readers a break
- 14kB
- Doing things that don’t scale in pursuit of things that can’t scale
- TB871: Critical System Heuristics
- TB871: "Anything said is said by an observer": Humberto Maturana’s impact on Systems Thinking
- TB871: "The Systems Approach is Not a Bad Idea": the ethical and philosophical legacy of C. West Churchman
- TB871: "Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer": the life and work of Heinz von Foerster
- Weeknote 31/2024
- TB871: An overview of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Exploring Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Perplexity and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Reflections on TMA02 and looking forward to Block 5 (SSM)
- An isosceles triangle of wind and racism
- Weeknote 30/2024
- Character is a thing you do every day
- Subscribe
- Weeknote 29/2024
- TB871: Conceptualising myself through metaphor
- TB871: Navigating communication under pressure: Transactional Analysis, DISC, and the FONT framework
- TB871: Conflict management and systems thinking
- TB871: Power dynamics in systems thinking
- TB871: Four Stages of Competence (and the Johari Window)
- TB871: Supporting the development of others
- TB871: Please let me be the last thing I have to write on learning styles
- TB871: Personality and causal responsibility
- TB871: A deeper dive into OCEAN
- Where to look for information around Open Badges and digital credentials (July 2024 edition)
- TB871: Responding to change (and junking a lot of perfectly good habits in favor of awkward new ones)
- TB871: Managing personality differences in teams (Belbin & Six Thinking Hats)
- TB871: Working with individual differences (MBTI & OCEAN)
- Exponentially more bad ideas in the world
- Weeknote 28/2024
- TB871: Block 4 Tools stream references
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (PDF)
- TB871: Cognitive mapping, causal-loop diagramming, and a refreshing use of SODA
- AI for boring project tasks
- On the bench
- Weeknote 27/2024
- TB871: The role of phenomenology in systems thinking
- TB871: Russell Ackoff as a systems thinking pioneer
- TB871: Chris Argyris and his influence on systems thinking and organisational development
- TB871: Introduction to Strategic Options and Development Analysis (SODA)
- TB871: Block 3 People stream references
- TB871: Lateral Thinking, Transitional Objects, and Metaphors
- TB871: Ambiguity and cognitive biases
- TB871: Going beyond WEIRD biases
- TB871: Old and new mode thinking errors
- TB871: Human gizmos and time-binding
- TB871: Intuitive and rational thinking
- TB871: Block 3 Tools stream references
- Stand up for yourself. Challenge authority. Tell your rude co-worker to shut up.
- You don't have to like what other people like, or do what other people do
- Summer digital detox
- Weeknote 27/2024
- TB871: Using the Viable System Model (VSM) in design mode for my system of interest
- TB871: A complete VSM model of my system of interest
- TB871: Governance and identity in the Viable System Model (System 5)
- TB871: Managing Development and Strategic Balance in the Viable System Model (System 4)
- TB871: Managing the 'inside and now' of the Viable System Model (System 3)
- TB871: Managing my system of interest (System 2)
- Informatics of domination
- If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem
- Look out for surplus fingers
- Weeknote 26/2024
- Weeknote 26/2024
- Notes from a discussion with Steve Brewis on the Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: Enhancing Organisational Coordination with System 2 of the VSM
- TB871: Assigning a purpose & defining primary operations in my system of interest (System 1)
- TB871: Rethinking organisational structure through VSM
- New materials for a super-heated world
- Eye-contact has a significant impact on interpersonal evaluation, and online job interviews are no exception
- Weeknote 25/2024
- Here is a book as a toolbox to build actual, hard-tacks answers to the crisis of the Long Emergency
- A smaller human population will immensely facilitate other transformations we need
- The Promise and Pitfalls of Decentralised Social Networks
- TB871: Managing variety using amplifiers and attenuators
- TB871: Systems in my situation of interest
- Painting over problems with AI in the third sector
- TB871: Modelling myself as a viable system
- TB871: Only variety can absorb variety
- TB871: Context and perspective in systems thinking
- If we don’t change course, most people in the U.S. will have some flavor of Long COVID of one sort or another
- An inferior, or at least grossly limited version of intelligence
- F L A M I N G O N E
- Weeknote 24/2024
- TB871: System, variety, recursion in the VSM model
- TB871: Systems as waves on the edge of catastrophic breakdown
- It's all just one big ocean
- The writer’s equivalent of what in computer architecture is called speculative execution
- It's impossible to 'hang out' on the internet, because it is not a place
- 'Wet streets cause rain' stories
- Dividers tell the story of how they’ve renovated their houses, becoming architects along the way. Continuers tell the story of an august property that will remain itself regardless of what gets built.
- TB871: The five systems of the Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: The Viable System Model (VSM)
- Source Drone Photo
- The iPhone effect, if it was ever real in the first place, is certainly not real now.
- The latest Hardcore History just dropped
- The logical conclusion of rich, isolated computer programmers having ketamine orgies with each other
- In the English language, a human alone has distinction while all other living beings are lumped with the nonliving “its.”
- Weeknote 23/2024
- Oblivion doesn’t just mean eradication: it is erasure
- 65% of UK adults aged 18-35 support “a strong leader who doesn’t have to bother with parliamentary elections”
- Podcasts worth listening to
- The theory of 'a rising tide lifts all boats' does not work when you allow the people with the most influence to buy their way out of the water
- TikTok as spectacle
- Absurd design
- TB871: Block 2 People stream references
- TB871: Systemic and unsystemic metaphors
- TB871: Framing and reframing
- TB871: Sending people off on the wrong plane
- TB871: Block 2 People stream references
- TB871: Systemic and unsystemic metaphors
- TB871: Happiness is a warm gun
- TB871: Dead metaphors
- TB871: Framing and reframing
- TB871: Metaphorical linguistic expressions
- TB871: Sending people off on the wrong plane
- TB871: Happiness is a warm gun
- TB871: Dead metaphors
- TB871: Metaphorical linguistic expressions
- The AI Egg
- What is systems thinking?
- Alone time
- TB871: Metaphor, ambiguity, and conceptual blending
- TB871: Primary metaphors
- TB871: Block 2 Tools stream references
- TB871: Metaphor, ambiguity, and conceptual blending
- TB871: Area of practice diagram
- Life has no instruction manual
- Weeknote 22/2024
- TB871: Archetype 6 — Tragedy of the commons
- TB871: Archetype 5 — Arms race
- TB871: Archetype 4 — Drifting goals
- TB871: Archetype 3 — Limits to growth
- TB871: Archetype 2 — Shifting the burden
- Migraines suck
- TB871: Archetype 1 — Fixes that fail
- TB871: Re-mapping my situation of interest
- The effort required to maintain internally consistent and intellectually honest positions in the current environment is daunting
- 3 strategies to counter the unseen costs of boundary work within organisations
- Just because we cannot imagine a future does not mean it cannot happen
- Levelling up?
- Weeknote 21/2024
- Weeknote 21/2024
- TB871: Vicious cycles and causal loops
- TB871: Vicious cycles and causal loops
- TB871: Mapping my situation of interest
- TB871: Mapping my situation of interest
- TB871: The poverty of root cause analysis
- TB871: Block 1 People stream references
- TB871: The poverty of root cause analysis
- TB871: Block 1 People stream references
- Man or bear IRL
- AI is infecting everything
- Electronic spider silk
- A learnt practice that placates idle hands and leaves our thoughts free
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
- TB871: Improvisational intelligence and cognitive niches
- TB871: 5 reasons why the unknown is not just a temporary or local state
- TB871: Improvisational intelligence and cognitive niches
- TB871: Flamingos and hedgehog croquet
- TB871: Turtles all the way down
- TB871: 5 reasons why the unknown is not just a temporary or local state
- TB871: Turtles all the way down
- Shark skin aircraft FTW
- A Jazz-soaked Philosophy for our Catastrophic Times: From Socrates to Coltrane’
- Digital Badging Commission
- Weeknote 20/2024
- TB871: Engaging with unknowns
- TB871: Block 1 Tools stream references
- TB871: Three activities associated with using a STiP heuristic for making strategy
- TB871: Bricolage, rigour, and service design
- Food bank efficiency
- The 'threat' of fictional and factual fembots
- An end to growth?
- TB871: Toast and wicked problems
- TB871: Nominating an area of practice
- TB871: A Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) heuristic
- License to Drill
- Navigating financial uncertainty isn't just about 'trying harder'
- Weeknote 19/2024
- Every drama requires a fool
- Another chance tonight
- TB871: Avoiding traps in conventional thinking
- TB871: Three purposeful orientations and five different systems approaches
- TB871: Systems practice competencies
- More on digital afterlife services
- We got the internet that reflects who we are
- ShareOpenly (to the Fediverse)
- TB871: What is a 'strategy'?
- TB871: Four perspectives on systems thinking
- TB871: What is a 'strategy'?
- TB871: Four perspectives on systems thinking
- Strategic Design resources
- Weeknote 18/2024
- Weeknote 18/2024
- Cullernose Point
- Systems ambiguity and chaos
- But here we are: the diaspora of online communities
- "All that any honest review actually does is just accelerate whatever was already going on"
- TB871: Making strategy in difficult/messy situations
- TB871: Making strategy in difficult/messy situations
- Warm Data
- Spectacular timelapse over the ALMA Observatory
- TB871: Getting the bigger picture and appreciating other perspectives
- TB871: Different uses of the words 'Strategy' and 'System'
- TB871: Getting the bigger picture and appreciating other perspectives
- TB871: Starting my next MSc module
- TB871: Different uses of the words 'Strategy' and 'System'
- TB871: Starting my next MSc module
- How to easily generate image descriptions and alt text
- It turns out the apple can fall pretty far from the tree
- Recognising oneself through the recognition of others
- Weeknote 17/2024
- Limiting virtues
- You are what you read
- Perhaps we should organise?
- Book reading and secondary orality
- Optimising for the wrong things
- There's only so much lemonade you can make when life is firing lemons at you
- Real-time deepfake videos for fun and exploitation
- It's not sick note culture, it's systemic failure in governance
- Book publishing doesn't work
- Weeknote 16/2024
- Weeknote 15/2024
- Social media without an audience
- How not to mince about like a little weasel
- Tearing your anger into strips
- If you're going to go, you might as well go... weirdly?
- Exporting blog posts to JSON for easier use with LLMs such as ChatGPT
- A pharmacology of digital tools
- Disinformation is free
- Slouchers rejoice!
- Weeknote 14/2024
- 'Neom' is the sound of contractors being laid off
- A tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death
- Itano Circus
- Football fan hierarchy
- De-bogging yourself
- TB872: Concept map to help with my EMA
- The New York Times is a gaming platform
- Borobudur
- Boundaries
- Eudaimonic exercise
- Weeknote 13/2024
- Origami unicorn
- The best antidote for the tendency to caricature one’s opponent
- Endlessly clever
- When should you replace running shoes?
- Human agency in a world of AI
- 5 ways in which AI is discussed
- 14 years of Tory (mis)rule
- Weeknote 12/2024
- Weeknote 12/2024
- Identifying things that don't work
- The art of distraction
- The problem with private property societies
- TB872: Advantages and disadvantages of CSLS
- More equal societies perform better
- Toward the ad-free city?
- The impact of the pandemic
- Microcast #104 — Questioning uncritical acceptance
- Bluesky's approach to decentralised moderation
- Barnacle ball
- Anti-AI hyperbole
- TB872: Core reading for my EMA
- Microcast #103 — Microphones and Moving to Micro.blog
- Taking seriously the noise and free-floating anxiety
- Austerity is not efficiency
- Reframing as small i's
- Weeknote 11/2024
- Scaling AI requires 'muddling through'
- Born to run
- Consciousness porn
- Vendor lock-in writ large
- Be careful what you wish for
- Scintillating scotomas
- TB872: Preparing for 1:1 meeting with my tutor
- Career vs Job
- Absence is not a defect(ion)
- Claude's Prompt Library
- 'Manifesting' work
- Weeknote 10/2024
- Sports betting and neoliberal atomisation
- Subject, Consumer, Citizen
- A truly liberatory (digital) future for everyone
- Moderation is up to us now
- TB872: A systems map of organisations involved with LERs in the USA
- TB872: Bawden and transforming worldviews
- Hope vs Natality
- Post-Holocene preferable future habitats
- TB872: Key concepts in Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Reading about Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- Hope vs optimism
- Being a good listener also means being a good talker
- AI agents as customers
- Weeknote 09/2024
- Elysium, elites, and elision
- Ultravioleta
- Language is probably less than you think it is
- Humans and AI-generated news
- TB872: Choosing between CSLS and CoPs
- Elegant media consumption
- Philosophy and folklore
- 3 issues with global mapping of micro-credentials
- TB872: Overview of different traditions in social learning systems
- TB872: Ubuntu and Pratītyasamutpāda
- Perhaps stop caring about what other people think (of you)
- Educators should demand better than 'semi-proctored writing environments'
- The perils of over-customising your setup
- TB872: Wenger-Trayner and communities of practice
- TB872: Bawden and living as a constant process of learning
- Weeknote 08/2024
- Systems thinking and the FRAMED mnemonic
- The war on the URL
- Educators in an AI generated world
- TB872: MCB and 'being what we are willing to learn'
- TB872: Vickers and appreciative systems
- TB872: Vickers and appreciative systems
- Random advice from Ryan
- The line between “just enough” and “too much” can fluctuate
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live
- What kind of online world are we manifesting with AI search?
- Vomit on my sweater already / mom’s spaghetti
- At the (current) boundary of 'AI ethics'
- Bet you didn't know this about Botox
- Economic incentives and parental leave
- Human writing in the age of generative AI
- The cause of our anger is not other people
- TB872: Schön's swamp and 'ideas in good currency'
- TB872: Schön's swamp and 'ideas in good currency'
- Weeknote 07/2024
- Weeknote 07/2024
- Every default macOS wallpaper in 6k
- Building a Bonfire
- AI-generated video is coming for your reality
- Brexit means Brexit in football, too
- TB872: Social learning systems and communities of practice
- TB872: Social learning systems and communities of practice
- 'Beast mode' as permission-seeking behaviour
- 'Beast mode' as permission-seeking behaviour
- Writing, personal branding, and capitalism
- Generative AI means we need to use art school approaches to assessment
- Eye-opening heat map study
- Weeknote 06/2024
- Weeknote 06/2024
- First Thought Shrapnel 'newsletter' via micro.blog!
- Weeknote 05/2024
- Weeknote 05/2024
- TB872: Authenticity and accountability
- TB872: Authenticity and accountability
- TB872: Four pervasive institutional settings inimical to the flourishing of systems practice
- TB872: Four pervasive institutional settings inimical to the flourishing of systems practice
- TB872: Outstanding leadership and making the case for developing STiP
- TB872: Outstanding leadership and making the case for developing STiP
- TB872: Different types of change
- TB872: Different types of change
- Weeknote 04/2024
- Weeknote 04/2024
- TB872: Systemic inquiry and the 'design turn'
- TB872: Systemic inquiry and the 'design turn'
- TB872: My learning contract as a designed system of interest
- TB872: My learning contract as a designed system of interest
- The death of consensus reality
- Preparing for a year of electoral disinformation
- Doing something about the UK schooling class divide
- Shared persuasion tactics
- Unlearning behaviours
- An 'anti-social network' you post to via email subject lines
- TB872: Snappy Systems
- TB872: The main systemic influences now operating in my situation of concern (S2)
- TB872: Juggling the M-ball (Managing)
- Weeknote 03/2024
- TB872: Juggling the C-ball (Contextualising)
- TB872: Juggling the E-ball (Engaging)
- TB872: Juggling the B-ball (Being)
- TB872: Purposeful and purposive framing
- Weeknote 02/2024
- TB872: What I talk about when I talk about juggling
- TB872: Four advantages of systems practice
- TB872: Places to intervene in a system
- One does not simply move off Substack
- TB872: Adding the juggler isophor to the PFMS heuristic
- TB872: The juggler isophor for systems practice
- Welcome To The
- Weeknote 01/2024
- What is degrowth communism?
- Spy windows?
- We become what we behold
- TB872: Revisiting my learning contract
- TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S1)
- TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S2)
- Your future is statistically more likely to be better than your past
- Logical fallacies, cognitive biases, and more
- Would you survive in medieval Europe?
- The rich are scared we're going to eat them
- TB872: STiP terminology
- Remember distinct music scenes and culinary traditions? Yeah, they're coming back.
- Giving up is an attempt to make a different future
- We already have solutions for a lot of problems, we just don’t use them
- TB872: Different understandings of the word 'system'
- TB872: Systems: epistemologies or ontologies?
- TB872: Systems practice and social relations
2023
- Weeknote 52/2023
- TB872: Making choices about situations and systems
- TB872: Systems, situations, and systemic praxis
- TB872: Emerging worldview commonalities and clashes
- TB872: Outlining the type of change I hope to see in my situation of concern
- Best of Thought Shrapnel 2023
- TB872: You can create a map from the territory, but you can't create the territory from my map
- TB872: Meta-narrative for my systemic inquiry
- TB872: Regression and recursion
- I am so tired of moving platforms
- Weeknote 51/2023
- TB872: A web of existence of which we are only partly aware
- TB872: System-determined problems
- (Most of) my 2023 in sport
- TB872: Understanding systemic inquiry in activity model terms
- Whisky and Wisdom
- Weeknote 50/2023
- TB872: Differences between project management and systemic inquiry
- TB872: Systemic inquiry as a social technology
- TB872: Projectification and an apartheid of the emotions
- TB872: A virtuous circle of inquiry
- Weeknote 49/2023
- TB872: The role of narrative in STiP
- Weeknote 48/2023
- TB872: DAD vs EDD
- TB872: Moving into Part 2 (a systemic inquiry into systems thinking in practice)
- Back next year!
- TB872: Learning contract and preparing for first assessment
- Weeknote 47/2023
- TB872: Situations of concern, systems of interest, and PQR statements
- TB872: Communities and networks
- TB872: Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Mapping prior experience of 'learning systems'
- TB872: Identifying elements and processes of social learning
- TB872: The people of the PFMS heuristic
- Tinkering with WordPress category archive pages
- TB872: Systems lineages
- TB872: Reflection, reflexivity, and 'practice performances'
- TB872: 'Method' vs 'Methodology'
- TB872: Relational thinking
- Avoiding the 'Dark Triads'
- The 9-5 shift is a relatively recent invention
- TB872: An inquiry into my practice for managing change with STiP
- TB872: Systemic praxis and epistemological devices
- TB872: The PFMS heuristic
- TB872: Culturally feasible change
- TB872: Systemic failure in UK governance
- TB872: Avoiding systemic failures
- TB872: Experiencing situations of change
- TB872: Types of change
- Towards an epistemology of the humanities
- More like Grammarly than Hal 9000
- Overemployment as anti-precarity strategy
- There are better approaches than just having no friends at work
- Building a system for success, without the glitches
- Is the only sustainable growth 'degrowth'?
- If you need a cheat sheet, it's not 'natural language'
- Cosplaying adulthood
- Weeknote 45/2023
- TB872: The nature of change
- You'll be hearing a lot more about nodules
- Our ancestors were using complex tools and woodworking approaches almost half a million years ago
- Pufflings can't resist the bright lights of the city
- TB872: Institutions, structures, and power
- TB872: Mapping my arrival trajectory
- TB872: creating a systems map of the module
- Co-Intelligence, GPTs, and autonomous agents
- Small sufferings
- Twitter now feels like the Brewster’s Millions of tech
- Bill Gates on why AI agents are better than Clippy
- The fragmentation of the (social) web
- AI generated images in a time of war
- TB872: first reflections, heuristics, and systems literacy
- The Societal Side-eye
- The first half of life is Tetris; the second half is Jenga
- Don't tell me that hiring isn't broken
- Accepting and trying to deal with climate as an overriding priority
- Therapy is simple
- Sitting staring at a wall for hours
- Weeknotes 43/2023 & 44/2023
- 'Restorying' your life as a hero's journey
- The real threat to manhood: remaining children
- Happiness vs GDP
- The Fediverse model can help fix the internet
- Paying to avoid ads is paying to avoid tracking
- Looking out of someone else's window
- Soul houses and false doors
- Stonehenge had nothing to do with druids
- The French Jesuit priest who surveyed Roman forts by air
- Superorganisms and solidarity
- Serious art, influencers, and AI
- Running slow and short
- Dynamic ontologies and music genres
- The social semi-permeable membrane
- Systems and interconnected disaster risks
- System innovation is driven by reshaping relationships within the system
- Tech typologisation
- Is this the end of the 'extremely online' era?
- Treating depression with hot yoga
- Why haven't you bought a Steam Deck yet?
- Zoom backgrounds with a Japanese nature retreat vibe
- The casual ableism of futurism
- Philosophy and friendship
- Laying to rest a foundational myth
- What, after all, is 'redemption'?
- The inner world as the ultimate prison
- Monetising a hobby is different to solving a difficult problem for people ready to pay
- Weeknote 42/2023
- A bit of family history
- Content-neutral sentence starters and phrases for academic writing
- AI, domination, and moral character
- Notification literacy, monk mode, and going outside for a walk
- Earning a badge in preparation for my MSc
- Microcast #102 — Rituals and Routines
- Parenting the parents
- 2024 is going to be a wild ride of AI-generated content
- The techno-feudal economy
- Modular learning and credentialing
- Handwriting, note-taking, and recall
- AI and stereotypes
- Setting up a digital executor
- In what ways does this technology increase people's agency?
- Don’t just hold back, take the time to pass it on
- Doing your job well does not entail attending more meetings
- People quit managers, not jobs
- People may let you down, but AI Tinder won't
- Weeknote 41/2023
- A steampunk Byzantium with nukes
- NFTs as skeuomorphic baby-steps?
- Where next for social media?
- Holographic depth of field
- Pre-committed defaults
- 3 bits of marriage advice
- Microcast #101 — Self-esteem, pies, and moving house
- A reward is not 'more email'
- Curiosity and infinite detail
- Well, when you put it like that...
- All aboard the U-shaped curve
- A lonely and surveilled landscape
- And so it continues...
- Billionaires shouldn't exist, even if they're philanthropists
- Nuance and depth through long(er)form reading
- AIs and alignment with human values
- Microplastics, tyres, and EVs
- Weeknote 40/2023
- Social media platforms have been reading the airlines' enshittification handbook
- On the importance of fluency in other people's love languages
- Aristotle diagnoses our current political problems
- Systems Thinking, reference management, and Open Badges
- The rolling drama of the climate crisis just got a whole lot worse
- Five kinds of friends
- Anxiety, deadness, and aggression
- Microcast #100 — Awkward Conversations
- Different levels of reading (technologies)
- Perhaps switch to another search engine?
- Climate havens
- In the long run, people can only treat you the way you let them
- More on the vagus nerve (and exercise)
- University is about more than jobs and earning power
- Intelligent failure
- Falling asleep on the couch watching films
- Yuval Noah Harari on the post-truth revolutionary right
- Weeknote 39/2023
- Microcast #99 — EVs
- Songs are not meme stocks
- Adversarial interoperability to return to a world of 'fast companies'
- Sycamore Stump
- Please consider stopping eating animals
- 'Personalisation' is something that humans do
- Migraines and 'ability'
- Seven Samurai and Open Badges
- No career progression on a dead planet
- AI generated images with subliminal messages
- On preparing, issuing, and claiming badges
- Telling stories using cartoons
- AI = surveillance
- Screens, addiction, and parenting
- Conspicuously sesquipedalian communication
- What people are really using generative AI for
- Oh great, another skills passport
- Weeknote 38/2023
- If your heart isn’t it, it’s probably because there’s no heart anywhere in the process
- A trickle, a ripple, a slow rush
- If LLMs are puppets, who's pulling the strings?
- Bad historical maps
- More treasures and secrets from ancient Egypt
- Death, wrecks, and harsh weather
- The Value of Credentials Endorsement
- Microcast #98 — Endorsement
- Virtual spaces for learning and collaboration
- The Social Media Archipelago
- This isn't working. Can we talk about that?
- Constructs, meta-constructs, and shared cognitive spaces
- Research shows people in most countries are anti-capitalist
- What's good for us is also good for the planet
- The Empty Boat
- Maybe it makes sense to talk to plants after all
- Noise and working from home
- Weeknote 37/2023
- Shrinkflation, sizes, and shaming
- Dark Tech and Project Cybersyn
- Good news on Covid treatments
- Navigating the landscape of Digital and Media Literacy
- Ducks, prompting, and LLMs
- The supermarket is a panopticon
- Microcast #097 — What do we mean by 'consensus'?
- Piracy and the art of cultural archiving
- Greatest films of all time?
- Fandom and AI generated music
- Saving the world using a 2x2 matrix
- The complexities of distraction
- Developing your niche
- Monday morning feeling
- The burnout curve
- Status detection systems
- Weeknote 36/2023
- The punishment for being authentic is becoming someone else’s content
- Job crafting, identity, and fulfilment
- AI writing detectors don’t work
- Microcast #096 — Getting back in the saddle
- The role of endorsement in Open Badges and Open Recognition
- Non-places
- TikTok's algorithm and its effect on migration
- Walking 1,000 miles across Europe
- Cooling down is hotting up
- Indigenous knowledge, sustainable design, and long-term thinking
- Some advice for readers
- Generative AI, misinformation, and content authenticity
- On the need to measure productivity
- The declining relevance of Google search
- An end to rabbit hole radicalization?
- Crypto is the biggest ponzi scheme of all time
- B Lane
- Money does not solve disasters like this
- The Atlantis of the North Sea
- Reconstructing Tenochtitlan
- Weeknote 35/2023
- Taking screenagers to the forest
- What we can learn about the climate emergency from the world's response to ozone depletion in the 1980s
- Disaster capitalism, climate change, and agriculture
- Eating the rich is optional, taxing them is mandatory
- How does doing what I need make time for everything else?
- Note taking tools and processes
- Poverty is expensive. Cash helps homeless people.
- Can you use CC licenses to restrict how people use copyrighted works in AI training?
- It's all about the DMs
- A philosophy of travel
- Using semesters for goal-setting
- The uninhabitable earth
- Don't skip the best tracks
- Weeknote 34/2023
- The world's largest climate-positive artwork provides food and nesting spots via algorithm
- AI and bullshit jobs
- We need to talk about AI porn
- Handing over ownership of exercise.cafe
- Raising the average level of creativity using AI
- CAPTCHA is an arms race we're losing against AI bots
- When it's getting too hot for plants to photosynthesize, you know we've got a problem
- Structural insecurity
- Emoji, we salute you 🫡
- Hacking the vagus nerve
- Reality and the templated life
- Temporarily Abled
- The only way to outlaw encryption is to outlaw encryption
- On 'Executive Function Theft'
- Why anxious people find it difficult to control their emotions
- Jobs, AI, and human worth
- Weeknote 33/2023
- Did people in the past look older for their age?
- Ask culture vs guess culture
- Life in 2050
- Context is everything, especially with books
- Using AI to aid with banning books is another level of dystopia
- House purchases, climate change, and AI
- Income Level 4
- AI sports recruitment
- Secret family recipes (on the side of containers)
- Quake II remaster brings online LAN gaming
- Introducing Homo naledi
- Landmark ruling in climate trial
- The tyranny of efficiency
- Calendars as data layers
- Your personal time management strategy sucks
- Giving advice online without mansplaining
- Saying "I don't know" is a privilege
- Actions speak louder than words
- Weeknote 32/2023
- Weeknote 31/2023
- Weeknote 30/2023
- Weeknote 29/2023
- The Unseen Threads of Open Recognition
- The Threads dilemma: a lesson in cooperative decision-making
- Weeknote 28/2023
- Marginally Employed
- Weeknote 27/2023
- More on AI literacy
- Weeknote 26/2023
- Weeknote 25/2023
- On the paucity of 'raising awareness'
- Weeknote 24/2023
- Weeknote 23/2023
- Weeknote 22/2023
- Weeknote 21/2023
- The everyday essence of creativity
- Almhouses as a way forward for social housing
- Meredith Whittaker on AI doomerism
- Playing the right game
- Using AI to help solve Bloom's Two Sigma Problem
- Weeknote 20/2023
- Time's Solitary Dance
- Bad work
- Digital wallets for verifiable credentials
- AI generated art aesthetic
- Bad coffee
- Ungrading the university experience
- Reducing website carbon emissions by blocking ads
- Doug Uses This
- Weeknote 19/2023
- Switching to Arc
- The sleight of hand of crypto
- AI writing, thinking, and human laziness
- Taxing land rather than labour
- AI and work socialisation
- Attempting to quantify the unquantifiable
- You can‘t ruminate and listen at the same time
- Arc browser is pretty nifty
- Kanban > Scrum
- Weeknote 18/2023
- Just this cold beach that nourishes you
- On co-operative dynamics
- Comportamento Geral
- #NotMyKing
- Reimagining assessment practices using AI tools
- The internet should be a place for connection, surprise, and delight
- It's time to strictly regulate vaping
- NYC 🫶 renewable energy
- Weeknote 17/2023
- Paying for participation
- Using Snapchat's 'My AI' feature for revision
- The future of collaboration is federated
- Weeknotes 15/2023 & 16/2023
- The Pennine Way, Pt.1 (Kirk Yetholm to Middleton-in-Teesdale)
- The 'value' of a degree
- How to hold a 'preferendum'
- The problem with feminism is not that it has gone too far. It is that it has not gone far enough.
- The future of AI will always be more than six months away
- An urgency to somehow bend the algorithms
- The web is fragmentary
- The patchwork progress of maturity
- Fitting LLMs to the phenomena
- Žižek on ChatGPT
- Relationships and therapy-speak
- More on why billionaires should not exist
- Negative UK growth
- The laziness of helicopter parenting
- Spaced repetition, newsletters, and book-writing
- Curiosity, projectories, and AI
- Introducing 'Empowered Networked Learning' (ENL)
- Imaginary friends for adults
- The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason
- Battles over human rights are not 'culture wars'
- The progress of AI art
- Purpose, positioning, proposition
- Lifehouses, not churches
- Weeknote 14/2023
- Weeknote 13/2023
- Reimagining hiring with Open Recognition
- Open Recognition + Critical Pedagogy = empowerment, dialogue, and inclusion
- Embracing the Full Spectrum: towards a new era of inclusive, open recognition
- Reinventing the Fortress: using Open Recognition to enhance 'standards' and 'rigour'
- The old 'chicken and egg' problem about microcredentials kind of misses the point
- Weeknote 12/2023
- Realigning Microcredentials with Open Badges
- 5 reasons why microcredentials are not Open Badges in name, spirit, or ethos
- Hiatus
- Sharepidation
- Weeknote 11/2023
- Applying my digital literacies model to 'AI literacy'
- Verifiable Credentials and Open Badges 3.0: What’s changed?
- Identifying and overcoming barriers to user research within organisations
- Climbing the Mountain of Assessment: Comparing Ungrading, Open Recognition, and RPL
- Setting Sail with Digital Literacies: Preparing Students for the Evolving Digital Landscape
- Weeknote 10/2023
- "I can't see the forest for the trees!" Microcredentials and Open Recognition
- Why Open Recognition Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential
- RetroEmoji Challenge: a simple game created using ChatGPT
- FONT and Nonviolent Communication
- Weeknote 09/2023
- Coworking spaces should be run by cooperatives
- Wake me up when you've stopped talking about microcredentials for workforce development
- There are just bodies, just us
- Smoking as an analogy for unthinking phone use
- Living your best life
- Weeknote 08/2023
- Weeknote 07/2023
- Voodoo categorisation and dynamic ontologies in the world of OER
- Weeknote 06/2023
- Britain is screwed
- Synesthetic xkcd
- Bad Bard
- Buying when the market is selling
- The party's over for office-based work
- Sad Ben Affleck
- One place to rule them all?
- I'm pretty sure 'status update' meetings aren't work
- Weeknote 05/2023
- Covid and heart attacks
- Hiring people without degrees
- Reasons for not writing
- Weeknote 04/2023
- Should we "resist trying to make things better" when it comes to online misinformation?
- Woke, broke, and complicated
- The art of Battle Royale-style video games
- Cambrian governance models
- Tax and/or eat the rich
- Logging off from AI?
- Retro audio player
- Paying less attention to the attention economy
- Async work isn't just cancelling meetings
- Weeknote 03/2023
- Sixteen hours on, eight hours off.
- Getting serious
- On the economic pressures of Covid
- Weeknote 02/2023
- Facial recognition and the morality police
- U.S. Army Corps releases cat calendar
- Getting your book published in 2023
- Good writing is good writing
- Update your profile photo at least every three years
- Let's make private schools help pay for state schools
- Chameleon e-ink car
- Level 3 busy-ness
- Nick Cave's plans for 2023
- Weeknote 01/2023
- Building an iPod for 2023
- Walking around like Lionel Messi
- Spreading joy in 2023
- Preparation is everything
- This is 2023
- Hear me now!
- Hear me now!
2022
- 2022 in review
- #BelshawBlackOps22
- That was 2022
- Weeknote 49/2022
- Weeknote 48/2022
- 'Nightfall' meteorite contains new and unusual minerals
- No benefits to post-Brexit deregulation
- Study shows no link between age at getting first smartphone and mental health issues
- Four forces that constrain our actions
- French views of Brexit
- Who wants to live forever?
- Japanese miniature dioramas
- (Partially) visualising the Fediverse
- Collectively-owned Fediverse instances
- Prestige and associational value
- Weeknote 47/2022
- Defederation and governance processes
- No management but self-management
- Richard Hammond's near-death experience
- How to CW on the Fediverse
- Some tips for adding winter cheer
- Convivial social networking
- Weeknote 46/2022
- What does this button do? The perils of being the other side of a screen to an algorithm
- Weeknote 45/2022
- On the importance of Fediverse server rules
- Mourning what we've lost
- Second-order effects of widespread AI
- Hyperbolic discounting applied to habit-formation
- The (surprising) oldest full sentence in the Canaanite language in Israel
- Rituals for moving jobs when working from home
- Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself
- Organisations are not just joining the Fediverse, they're setting up their own instances
- Weeknote 44/2022
- The Fediverse is made up of cities, towns, and villages
- A cluttered desk is a sign of genius
- Sticks and stones (and disinformation)
- Weeknote 43/2022
- Decentralising online learning
- Presenteeism, overwork, and being your own boss
- Hyperfinancialisation has taken over UK politics
- An anarchist take on the Twitter acquisition
- Twitter the disaster clown car company
- AI is coming for middle management
- Being 'quietly fired' at work
- Jacobin reviews the creator of Ethereum's new book
- What does work look like? (redux)
- It's time to move on from Twitter
- Weeknote 42/2022
- Moving hosts for exercise.cafe
- Weeknote 41/2022
- Weeknotes 39/2022 & 40/2022
- Bridging the divide
- AI everywhere in education
- Apple Watch Ultra vs The Scottish Highlands
- Our range of legible emotions is being constricted
- Censorship and the porn tech stack
- Google Stadia as pandemic fever dream
- Brexit Britain = hungry kids
- Your brain rewires itself after age 40
- Gaming on the go (or anywhere)
- You don't have to be the best to be valuable
- Teaching kids about anonymity
- Sharing can be hard (online)
- Hierarchy is bad for business
- Weeknote 38/2022
- 'Even over' statements
- The unintended consequences of photography
- The 2022 Drone Photo Awards
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
- Weeknote 37/2022
- Forbes on federation
- Forbes on federation
- A philosophical approach to performative language
- A philosophical approach to performative language
- Technological Liturgies
- Technological Liturgies
- Organisational design: the floor is lava
- Organisational design: the floor is lava
- Three components of the public sphere
- Three components of the public sphere
- What is ransom capitalism?
- What is ransom capitalism?
- Professional try-hards
- Professional try-hards
- Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible — and wrong
- Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible — and wrong
- WFH from anywhere
- Registrations are now open at exercise.cafe!
- Weeknote 36/2022
- Paying it forward
- CDNs are not phone books
- Ad-free urban spaces
- Ad-free urban spaces
- Code of Conduct for exercise.cafe
- Migraines and TIAs
- Weeknote 35/2022
- You should only ever be busy on purpose
- The art of a cup of tea
- Against 'talkocracy'
- Cultivating (your) serendipity (surface)
- Life product tiers
- AI art is, well, still art
- Thinking about a Fediverse instance focused on fitness / exercise
- Learning through pathways
- Personal, portable heating solutions
- Potentially the cheapest way of generating clean energy?
- Weeknote 34/2022
- Population ethics
- Conversational affordances
- Lessin's five steps and the coming AI apocalypse
- Dealing with mental pain
- The UK is in crisis
- The UK is in crisis
- Development without critique
- Returning to social.coop
- Context collection, not context collapse
- Chronological social interaction
- Full Internet People
- Weeknote 33/2022
- Weeknote 32/2022
- Working from home
- Eddie Jones on how privately educated rugby players 'lack resolve'
- Mathematical models of evolution
- Ethical (open) source (licenses)
- Ethical (open) source (licenses)
- Being busy isn't a badge of honour
- Being busy isn't a badge of honour
- Weeknote 31/2022
- Meta may really be exiting Europe as soon as this year
- The importance of being yourself
- Generating a logo using an AI drawing model
- Bonfire's latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early
- Weeknote 30/2022
- Algorithmic Anxiety
- Naming heatwaves
- Doomed to live in a Sisyphean purgatory between insatiable desires and limited means
- Finish what you start
- You don't need a personal trainer
- Foregrounding externalities
- Weeknote 29/2022
- Slack emboldens the meek
- Discourses of Climate Delay
- On GitHub Achievements
- Teaching about dead white guys in an age of social media
- Some thoughts on programmatic Open Badge image creation using AI models
- Enjoy things while they last (or hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
- Social-first searching
- Chromebooks banned in Danish schools
- Productivity is the enemy of creativity
- Weeknote 28/2022
- Spring '83
- No more low-speed fart sounds for Teslas
- Unintended consequences of smart thermostats
- (Machine) Creativity
- Personal Publishing Principles
- The future is the least renewable resource
- Amazon as a dumb pipe
- Wanted: a simple 3-step Open Badges platform to generate claim codes and issue badges
- Some thoughts on 'home' pages for individuals within communities (and social networks)
- Weeknote 27/2022
- Ian Bogost on hybrid work
- Steaming open the institutional creases
- Steaming open the institutional creases
- Life cannot be organised
- Life cannot be organised
- This bus ain't growing wings
- The Digital Dark Ages
- Criticism vs praise
- Is our society structured in a way which encourages people to make less than the greatest contribution they could?
- Weeknote 26/2022
- 5 domains I'm letting expire over the next year
- The future has been foreclosed and the present is intolerable
- Recalling generative and liberating uses of technology
- The corrosive nature of captalism
- Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
- Crypto clowns
- Counting the cost of Brexit
- Making adulthood more desirable
- Weeknote 25/2022
- Bonfire beta
- Losing followers, making friends
- The omnishambles of Brexit
- Moonshine-enabling cow shoes
- GNOME <3
- Worker-owned co-op federation
- Psycho-Geography
- Abandoned places
- One sentence per line
- Travelling light
- Weeknote 24/2022
- The internet is broken because the internet is a business
- The ultimate act of self-denial
- Muting the American internet
- Muting the American internet
- Morality, responsibility, and (online) information
- Living forever
- Who knew tapping a checkbox could be so satisfying?
- Subscriber count as power level against algorithmic demons
- Artificial metrics are flying by instrument
- Audrey Watters says goodbye to EdTech
- Getting out of a rut
- Yes, parenting matters
- EaaS : Employee as a Service
- Weeknote 23/2022
- 'Slack' and work
- Art gallery mode
- The new digital divide
- Optimising for feelings, ceding control to the individual
- Good ideas become colonised and domesticated
- Testing a 4-day work week
- Coffee and its impact on fitness
- Billable hours and the psychology of work
- Signalling that you're AFK in a world where you can never really be AFK
- The mesmerising murmurations of Europe’s starlings
- WIRED magazine predicts the 21st century... in 1997
- Updating our worldviews
- Developing your own style (and archive)
- Should governments track supermarket purchases?
- Should governments track supermarket purchases?
- Weeknote 22/2022
- Distro-hopping like a cynic
- Distro-hopping like a cynic
- #AbolishTheMonarchy
- Epic UK walking trails
- Epic UK walking trails
- Successfully combining home VDSL and 4G+ connections
- 5 reasons I won't be celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Weeknote 21/2022
- The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist
- Videoconferencing may be a technology, but so is Sociocracy
- Weeknote 20/2022
- 10 steps to running an event I'd want to attend
- Weeknote 19/2022
- Documenting my attempts to replace VDSL home broadband with a 5GEE router
- Weeknote 18/2022
- A welcome corrective to narratives around the 'future of work'
- Space of possibilities
- Popular culture has become an endless parade of sequels
- Weeknote 17/2022
- The Climate Game
- 14 Common Features of Fascism
- Are we really calling it #Elongate?
- Dedicated portable digital media players and central listening devices
- Words and meaning are two different things
- Highlights from 'The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is'
- Weeknote 16/2022
- The economics of blockchain-based gaming don't add up
- Literally shitposting
- Assume that your devices are compromised
- What technology means in late capitalism
- Using DICE instead of RA(S)CI
- Unauditible algorithms are the enemy of social media users
- Weeknote 15/2022
- The value of a liberal education
- 'Live Forever' mode
- The rise of first-party online tracking
- It's time to accept that centralised social media won't change
- The triple-peak work day is a worrying trend
- My highlights from 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'
- Mainstream social media is a behaviour-modification system
- Certain surroundings seem to dispel enchantment, and others encourage it
- Are we in a post-album era for music?
- Warren Ellis' work day routine
- Get off Twitter if you want to see your friends' posts
- Virtual Photographer Of The Year awards
- Weeknote 14/2022
- Hadrian's Wall Path in 72 hours
- Weeknote 13/2022
- Weeknote 12/2022
- The future of the web, according to Mozilla
- Historic aerial photos of England
- How to be a darknet drug lord
- British monarchs helped fund, and profited from, the slave trade
- Live map of electricity production highlights carbon criminals
- Do NFTs tend towards dystopia?
- Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians
- Cancel Technology
- Declining trust in society isn't just a 'vibe shift'
- Twitter autoblock is what you get when you have software with shareholders
- Antartica used to be covered in rainforest
- San Francisco is built on the carcasses of old ships
- Weeknote 11/2022
- Open Badges is now on the plateau of productivity
- Solarpunk and five climate futures
- If you believe it's over, maybe it will be
- Challenging capitalism through co-ops and community
- Some fairy tales may be 6,000 years old
- A weird tip for weight loss
- The week as an human construct
- Weeknote 10/2022
- Exploring the sweet spot for Zappa project approaches to misinformation
- The Un-Grammable Hang Zone
- A hardwired obedience to the capitalist system that we exist within
- What if I never change?
- Switching from Telegram to Signal
- AI-synthesized faces are here to fool you
- Lizard brain vs infinite scroll
- Weeknote 09/2022
- First version of report published sharing findings from Zappa project user research
- Xero starts using consent-based decision making
- What makes writing more readable?
- Audrey Watters on the technology of wellness and mis/disinformation
- Weeknote 08/2022
- Offline for 3 days
- Facebook is dying
- The hard part of the work is doing the work
- AI cannot hold copyright (yet)
- Technology and productivity
- Hacking the application process
- You cannot 'solve' online misinformation
- The life run by spreadsheet is not worth living
- The benefits of taking Wednesdays off
- Dark patterns and gambling
- Weeknote 07/2022
- Some interesting findings from user research for the Zappa project (so far!)
- Speeding up a Chromebook by allocating zram
- Stone Age culture in the Orkney islands
- Upgrading an iPod Video for use in 2022
- Digital to analogue and back again
- Chrome OS Flex
- OKRs as institutional memory
- Nesta's predictions for 2022
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator
- Weeknote 06/2022
- Countering misinformation in federated social networks: an introduction to the Zappa project
- Blockchain and trusted third parties
- On hobbies
- Reducing offensive social media messages by intervening during content-creation
- Weeknote 05/2022
- The burnout epidemic
- Check your perspective
- Productivity dysmorphia
- Decentralising the description of skills with OSMT
- Twitter's decline into right-leaning hellsite
- Explaining ideas
- BBC Archives and the changing of history
- Private schools having charitable status is an absolute scam
- Your attention was stolen
- Weeknote 04/2022
- Boring crypto definitions
- Control and responsibility
- If web3 is the financialisation of the web, then ed3 is merely the (further) financialisation of education
- Spatial Finance
- Health surveillance
- NFTs, financialisation, and crypto grifters
- Tether and crypto price manipulation
- Co-ops and DAOs
- Hype levels
- Individualism and collectivism in decentralised networks
- Weeknote 03/2022
- Web3 and Ed3 are both problematic
- Is QWERTY a really bad keyboard layout?
- A low-tech solution for personal warmth
- Directions of travel
- Kids need life on the highest volume
- Paying for everything twice
- Ancient cynicism
- E2EE is for everyone
- The life-changing difference of an internet connection
- Abusing AI girlfriends
- So this is Covid
- Pix and digital payments in Brazil
- Nine planetary boundaries
- Optimism about the future
- Reflecting on #100DaysToOffload
- Reading is useless
- The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it
- Matching work activities to mind modes
- Does Not Translate
- How to be useless
- Your accusations are your confessions
- Weeknote 02/2022
- Web3, the metaverse, and the DRM-isation of everything
- America, fascism, and the first, second, and third 'solutions'
- Persistent Practices and Pragmatism
- Meetings and work theatre
- Vaccine Hesitancy as part of a Plague Anthology
- Let's Settle This
- Signal's CEO on 'web3'
- Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
- Laptops aren't what they used to be
- Weeknote 01/2022
- Experimenting with new tools to augment my information environment
- Somebody please tell the travel industry there's a climate emergency
- Covid immunity and medical breakthroughs
- Jam tomorrow
- Productive ambiguity and learning resource discovery
2021
- Looking back, looking forward
- Gamify or be gamified
- 2021 in weeknote review
- Weeknote 50/2021
- Sorry! The lifestyle you ordered is out of stock
- Weeknote 49/2021
- Sage career advice from Baltasar Gracián
- Weeknote 48/2021
- Weeknote 47/2021
- That silent disappointment face, the one that I can't bear
- Everyone has something to teach
- Ignore the sociotechnics at your peril
- Wealth is a product of luck
- Weeknote 46/2021
- Unsolicited advice might not be so bad after all?
- Peeking around corners with holographic cameras
- The impact of a plant-based diet on migraines
- Information is not knowledge (and knowledge is not wisdom)
- Start Often Finish rArely
- Pain, suffering, and scuba diving
- An ending, a beginning
- Weeknote 45/2021
- Introspections on timewasting
- Should teenagers be using social media? We probably already know the answer
- Freedom for the few vs. freedom for the many
- Games as a cultural, educational, and predictive force
- Big Tech companies may change their names but they will not voluntarily change their economics
- Momentum over details
- Aimless wandering in search of the unknown catalyst
- Surveillance vs working openly
- A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature
- Platform power and infrastructure
- Proving endemic racism and sexism in the world of football
- Just Don't Do It
- Carbon emissions per km
- Weeknote 44/2021
- Whitelabelling Stadia tech
- Build your 'castle' on land you own and control
- Retro football gaming FTW
- How to communicate remotely
- Exploration pays long-term dividends for your career
- Is this a Signal backdoor?
- Taking the long view on weekly working hours
- Climate optimism
- Middle class pursuit of pain through endurance sports is a thing
- Weeknote 43/2021
- My Gamer Motivation Profile: Skirmisher/Bard
- Why large tree-planting initiatives often fail
- Securing your digital life
- EBSN podcast series on EPALE: Re-thinking Adult Basic Skills in the 21st century
- The permanent mask
- Why go back to normal when you weren't enjoying it in the first place?
- Weeknote 42/2021
- Brand-safe influencers and the blurring of reality
- Psychological hibernation
- Twitter acknowledges right-wing bias in its algorithmic feed
- Otters vs. Possums
- What are microcredentials?
- Walking the Covid tightrope
- Kith and kin
- Bring Your Own Stack
- Fall Regression
- Weeknote 41/2021
- Blogging from localhost to IPFS
- Reducing long-distance travel
- Time millionaires
- On the digital literacies of regular web users
- Leisure is what we do for its own sake. It serves no higher end.
- UK government adviser warns against plans to force the NHS to share data with police forces
- Sports data and GDPR
- Precrastinators, procrastinators, and originals
- Why commute to an office to work remotely?
- On 'sportswashing'
- On the dangers of CBDCs
- Subsidising trains via a tax on internal flights?
- Subsidising trains via a tax on internal flights?
- Weeknote 40/2021
- Opting out of capitalism
- Blissed, Blessed, Pissed, and Dissed
- The Stability Fantasy
- Singapore is turning into a dystopian surveillance state
- Good decision-making
- Carbon offsets are pure greenwashing
- Six Causes of Burnout at Work
- Facebook isn't just anti-competitive, it's anti-consumer
- Traffic to news sites went up during the Facebook outage.
- Who wants a metaverse created by Facebook?
- Weeknote 39/2021
- The September Series: weekend microadventuring
- Weeknote 38/2021
- I'm not flying any more
- Weeknote 37/2021
- The difference between individual and organisational decision-making
- Weeknote 36/2021
- Microcast #095 — Rewilding your serendipity surface
- Microcast #094 — Solarpunk vs technocratic pharaohs
- Microcast #093 — Boring hot dogs
- Microcast #092 — Drinking in the sunlight
- Bright green, blight green, and lean green futures
- Weeknote 35/2021
- Microcast #091 — Arguing in circles
- Microcast #090 — Doing what you love in an angry world
- Microcast #089 — Circumvention
- Microcast #088 — Spontaneous fluctuations
- Microcast #087 — Back in the game!
- The End of Vigilance
- Weeknote 34/2021
- How long before everyone's using decentralised messengers?
- Weeknote 33/2021
- Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht
- Moral outrage and social media
- Motivating people who don't need a job
- 100% inheritance tax?
- Hang on to what you've got?
- It is a folly to expect men to do all they may reasonably be expected to do
- Culture is in a state of constant flux
- The Great Reckoning
- Brains melted like butter in a microwave
- Weeknote 32/2021
- What is 'solarpunk'?
- Global temperatures: 1980-2021
- Five-hour workdays
- The Cult of the Upper Classes
- The Cult of the Upper Classes
- Weeknote 31/2021
- Gaming, technology, and solving problems
- Two years of spending more time in 'dark forests'
- Act NOW to prevent the hijacking of the Open Badges standard by an IMS faction!
- Weeknote 30/2021
- Weeknote 29/2021
- Weeknote 28/2021
- Weeknote 27/2021
- Internal Google comics
- 5 main concerns of top scientists about the relaxing of UK Covid restrictions
- Skills-based hiring vs universities
- Mr Bingo's Zoom backgrounds
- On Twitter addiction
- Propeller-based car that can go faster than the wind
- Main-Character Energy
- Parasocial relationships through digital media
- The album is no longer the unit of musical currency
- Leslie Caron on Cary Grant's attitude to money
- Weeknote 26/2021
- Hemp captures more carbon than trees
- Giving work oxygen
- Moving air through a building more efficiently using a fan
- Moving air through a building more efficiently using a fan
- Algorithmic work overlords
- What exactly is 'hybrid work'?
- The most sustainable foods?
- Weeknote 25/2021
- Walkways lined by abandoned gestures
- Decentralised organising
- AI for auto-generated landscapes
- 95% of fish are 'dark fish'
- UK government survey into climate change and net zero
- Is the self-censorship the most dangerous form of censorship?
- New network of sleeper trains
- Why going slowly speeds teams up
- How to stop being a perfectionist
- There's a word for everything
- Specialization is for insects
- Lobsters and octopuses are sentient and feel pain
- Leadership is contextual
- How becoming a father changes men
- Online personas and liquid modernity
- The ideology of e-s-c-a-p-e
- Cultural complexes contributing to the climate crisis
- Weeknote 24/2021
- Improv as a tool for building better products
- "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
- Information means nothing by itself
- Value and liquidity of skills
- Organic Maps
- The Puritan Class
- Monetizing stupidity?
- Open Badges Verifiable Credentials
- Criminals' right to be forgotten
- The end of cookie banners?
- Positive deviance in the workplace
- Slow travel and camping in other people's gardens
- Generative art
- Social media is done
- Conceptual integrity
- Dunbar's friendship circles
- Remote workers clock up more hours, says one study
- Remote workers clock up more hours, says one study
- Fractional dosing of COVID vaccines may help more people get immunity faster
- People pay selective attention to what they deem important
- No more simplified URLs in Chrome
- A point-based system for email address pronounceability
- Weeknote 23/2021
- The end of petrol stations
- A glimpse into the future of autonomous electric vehicles
- Health and sanity before profit
- Rationalising work for the 40+ brigade
- Anti-social media
- AI-generated misinformation is getting more believable, even by experts
- The end of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
- Briar now does pictures
- Who's the pet? Tarantula or tiny frog?
- More US electoral chaos to come in 2024?
- Epistemological chaos and denialism
- Information cannot be transmitted faster than the [vacuum] speed of light
- You don't have to monetize your joy
- Peer review sucks
- How to recover from burnout
- Portals to another world (or town)
- How to organise your fridge
- A cure for depression and boredom
- Killer robots are already here
- Nostalgia, friction, and read/write literacy
- Interoperability for browser plugins
- Weeknote 22/2021
- A robot that sticks to ceilings by... vibrating
- Novelty, brains, and new experiences
- Taking breaks to be more human
- The farmer uses his plough as his form of work
- Invisible sculptures are the logical conclusion of NFTs
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
- Virtual brands and ghost kitchens
- Male bias in scientific trials
- Degrees of Uncertainty
- The lie of 'sovereign individuality'
- 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever
- Screenshot culture
- The world's most popular websites, mapped
- Sky pool awesomeness
- "Alexa, disable arbitration"
- Meetings as exercises in power
- Quitting instead of returning to the office
- The End of Literary Criticism
- Opportunity costs
- Anxiety and performance
- Twitter reactions
- Deepfake maps
- There's no such thing as a website or web app that doesn't need to be accessible
- Net Zero Democracy
- Human and computer memory
- Professor goes to 'TikTok University'
- Social studying
- Weeknote 21/2021
- Improving VO2max through blood protein analysis
- 3 ways to live a happier life
- On the temptation to nuke everything and start over
- Maplessness
- Digital fashion is another example of a nascent industry beset with inequalities
- Sky explosion
- The impact of decision fatigue
- Wherefore art thou, privacy?
- Badges everywhere!
- GCHQ violates our privacy
- Rat Race 2.0
- Volcano-powered electricity
- A web-based commonplace book
- Mastering a 5,400-character typewriter
- Working from near home
- Life should contain novelty
- Approaching the many-headed hydra
- Weeknote 19/2021
- Stick or twist? (dougbelshaw.com)
- 3 ways to gain control of your Twitter feed
- Weeknote 18/2021
- Weeknote 17/2021
- Smartwatch ramblings
- Weeknote 16/2021
- Checking out of therapy
- Weeknote 15/2021
- 100 days of #100DaysToOffload
- Unsettling
- Weeknote 14/2021
- Iterating privacy.garden
- Another new side project: privacy.garden
- How to subscribe to extinction.fyi
- Inputs and outputs
- Weeknote 13/2021
- Weeknote 12/2021
- Refactoring extinction.fyi
- New side project: extinction.fyi
- Weeknote 11/2021
- Proof-of-What?
- Weeknote 10/2021
- The role of the man who foresees is a sad one
- Everyone has an eschatology
- Weeknote 09/2021
- 'The individual' is an idea like other ideas
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue
- HOWTO: Install Firefox on Chrome OS
- Refactoring eink.link
- Introducing eink.link, my new side project
- Weeknote 08/2021
- One should always be a little improbable
- Weeknote 07/2021
- Life is a great bundle of little things
- Criticism, like lightning, strikes the highest peaks
- Trust no-one: why 'proof of work' is killing the planet as well as us
- Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible
- Weeknote 06/2021
- It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish
- Taste ripens at the expense of happiness
- Investing in decentralised crypto file storage
- Weeknote 05/2021
- Continuous eloquence is tedious
- When we ask for advice we are usually looking for an accomplice
- Weeknote 04/2021
- Mediocrity is a hand-rail
- The certainties of one age are the problems of the next
- Solving for complexity
- Weeknote 03/2021
- You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism
- Most don't talk or act according to who they are, but as they are obliged to
- Weeknote 02/2021
- The problem is that the person who should be the most restrained is the least
- The (monetary) value of a university education during a pandemic
- There are many things we despise in order that we may not have to despise ourselves
- Weeknote 01/2021
- Nothing is repeated, and everything is unparalleled
- There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us
- Power and paths
- One can acquire anything in solitude except character
- The end of competition
- Seeing through is rarely seeing into
- Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self
- Everything flows
- My two biggest insights from last year
- You can never get rid of what is part of you, even when you throw it away
- You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century
2020
- Christmas slobbing about
- What day is it? What date?
- 40 things I’ve learned in 40 years.
- Free Software and two forms of liberty
- My favourite posts of 2020
- 5 things I've learned this (work) year
- Current optimization is long-term anachronism
- No more performative professionalism
- The cash value of truth
- Weeknote 49/2020
- Who are you without the doing?
- Skin in the game?
- Are you OK?
- See you in 2021!
- Weeknote 48/2020
- The self-cannibalisation of ideas and experience
- Give and you shall receive
- A world without apps?
- He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them
- Define your audience or your product will (probably) fail
- Convenience, UX, and ethics
- (A)synchronous project updates within organisations
- What's your favourite month?
- What kind of world do we want? (or, why regulation matters)
- Weeknote 47/2020
- Spatial video conferencing with self-organised breakout rooms
- A candour affected is a dagger concealed
- Slowly-boiling frogs in Facebook's surveillance panopticon
- Weeknote 46/2020
- What I do when I don't know what to do
- To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so
- 'Prepper' philosophy
- The Ice Cream Fork of Productisation
- Much will have more
- Philosophical anxiety as a superpower
- How to build ideological products that delight users
- Weeknote 45/2020
- You can’t tech your way out of problems the tech didn’t create
- Our better natures
- Even those of a harsh and unyielding nature will endure gentle treatment: no creature is fierce and frightening if it is stroked
- Introspection, truth, and error
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other
- Ethical living
- Weeknote 44/2020
- Reafferent loops
- Hiring is broken, but not in the ways you assume
- If you have been put in your place long enough, you begin to act like the place
- 10 ways to Build Back Better
- Why we can't have nice things
- Baltasar Gracián on patience
- Collaboration is our default operating system
- Everything intercepts us from ourselves
- Marcus Aurelius on character
- Weeknote 43/2020
- How to plan a workshop in 10 steps
- Fighting health disinformation on Wikipedia
- Seeing through is rarely seeing into
- Perceptions of the past
- Lying in bed with Marcus Aurelius and Mahatma Gandhi, thinking about work
- Gatekeepers of opportunity and the lottery of privilege
- The state of professional social networking: a personal history
- Tedious sports
- Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed
- Biometric surveillance in a post-pandemic future
- Weeknote 42/2020
- Ethics is the result of the human will
- Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be
- Forward momentum above all things
- We all think we are exceptional, and are surprised to find ourselves criticised just like anyone else
- Scenario planning, climate change, and the pandemic
- Weeknote 41/2020
- The problems with Twitter's attempts at anti-disinformation in the run-up to the US Presidential election
- At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them
- Reducing exam stress by removing pointless exams
- The clever man often worries; the loyal person is often overworked
- Learning through frustration
- Weeknote 40/2020
- Like the flight of a sparrow through a lighted hall, from darkness into darkness
- Face-to-face university classes during a pandemic? Why?
- 'Rulesy' people
- The importance of co-operation
- One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light
- How to give advice
- The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route
- Weeknote 39/2020
- Running with the wolves
- The crisis in professional sport is one of its own making
- If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can be very creative about it
- The discourse of disruption
- Let's talk
- An ounce of good sense is worth a pound of subtlety
- Entirely predictable
- Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome
- Privilege and pandemic
- The future of closed, proprietary technology is within your body
- Weeknote 38/2020
- NVC and FONT
- Pandemic microaggressions
- The most radical thing you can do is stay home
- Consensus, legitimate controversy, and deviance
- Working out loud is noisy
- One nation under Zuck
- Things Come Apart
- New habits die easily
- More advice on perfectionism
- To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
- 'Recycling' plastic is an oil industry scam
- Weeknote 37/2020
- Rejecting the ideas hamster
- Lifequakes
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of demand
- Inside your pain are the things you care about most deeply
- The world needs less philanthropy and more equality
- To be in process of change is not an evil, any more than to be the product of change is a good
- We're not even citizens, just independent contractors
- Marcus Aurelius on troubles
- Enforced idleness
- What is above knows what is below, what is below does not know what is above
- An incredible example of societal collapse
- Weeknote 36/2020
- The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them
- Perfectionism is more toxic than you imagine
- Rethinking human responses to adversity
- 85 megapixel photo of the moon
- Pandemic-induced awkwardness
- What do we mean by 'the economy'?
- What man of energy does not find inactivity a punishment?
- Some changes to Thought Shrapnel
- What's the purpose of Philosophy?
- Weeknote 35/2020
- Deleting my Patreon account
- Changing desktop environment in Pop!_OS
- 3 advantages of consent-based decision making
- Letting go of my pre-pandemic self
- Weeknote 34/2020
- Temporarily embarrassed influencers
- Kettled by Big Tech?
- Remaining unmanaged
- The auto-suggested life is not worth living
- Strengths and schooling
- Weeknote 33/2020
- Climate ch-ch-ch-changes
- Moving Mastodon instance
- Giving consent
- Experimenting with the MAF method
- Keeping it simple
- Weeknote 32/2020
- Herd immunity for privacy
- We're the real losers of realtime behavioural advertising auctions
- Three internets?
- Identity, obedience, and social media
- Lies and misinformation
- Things could be worse
- One year.
- Opinions and preferences
- Musonius Rufus on meat
- Living a good life is not a theoretical exercise
- HOWTO: Create radically smaller images for your minimalist blog
- Weeknote 30/2020
- Moving on
- Saturday spinnings
- Perfectionism
- Liquid society?
- Rules to live by
- Just write.
- The perfect non-technical book on decentralisation?
- Sort-of breaking up with Cloudflare
- Weeknote 29/2020
- Saturday sailings
- Time for a more sustainable blog theme
- Friday fadings
- Saturday shakings
- Using WhatsApp is a (poor) choice that you make
- Sounds from a #realworldhomeoffice
- A tour of my #realworldhomeoffice
- How I use analogue notebooks
- Saturday shoutings
- Slow down or I'll do it for you
- Not everything has to be digital: my analogue daily and weekly planners
- The highest ambition of the integrated spectacle is to turn secret agents into revolutionaries and revolutionaries into secret agents
- Weeknote 25/2020
- Saturday scrapings
- Managing projects is about understanding context
- Everyone has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions
- Practice what you preach
- #100DaysToOffload: Day 1 - Introduction
- Weeknote 24/2020
- Saturday soundings
- Weeknote 23/2020
- Weeknote 22/2020
- Saturday shruggings
- Weeknote 21/2020
- Saturday signalings
- The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases
- Weeknote 20/2020
- Saturday shiftings
- Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say
- Weeknote 19/2020
- Saturday seductions
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
- Weeknote 18/2020
- Saturday scramblings
- The old is dying and the new cannot be born
- Weeknote 17/2020
- Saturday sandcastles
- Thus each man ever flees himself
- Weeknote 16/2020
- Saturday scrubbings
- Creating and seeding your own torrents using archive.org and Transmission
- 3 apps to help avoid post-pandemic surveillance culture [VIDEO]
- Weeknote 15/2020
- Friday fashionings
- There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it
- Weeknote 14/2020
- Friday forebodings
- Domains, decentralisation, and DNS
- Wiki backup: information environment
- Wiki backup: collaboration style
- Wiki backup: daily reading
- We have it in our power to begin the world over again
- Weeknote 13/2020
- Friday flickerings
- People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character
- Weeknote 12/2020
- Weeknote 11/2020
- Email is the original robust, decentralised technology
- Friday fumings
- How to easily share educational resources via bittorrent
- We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet
- Weeknote 10/2020
- Friday filchings
- What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order
- Walking in memory of Dai
- Weeknote 09/2020
- Friday fluidity
- Weeknote 08/2020
- Friday facings
- Thought Shrapnel Vol.1: Personal Productivity
- New to Thought Shrapnel? Try this!
- Weeknote 07/2020
- Friday feelings
- Microcast #086 — Strategies for dealing with surveillance capitalism
- There are many non-essential activities, moths of precious time, and it's worse to take an interest in irrelevant things than do nothing at all
- Weeknote 06/2020
- Friday flaggings
- Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software
- Weeknote 05/2020
- Friday featherings
- Microcast #085 — Extensions for Mozilla Firefox
- To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing
- Weeknote 04/2020
- Friday festoonings
- Featured on the Digital2Learn podcast
- Microcast #084 - Chris Dixon on RSS, crypto, and community ownership of the internet
- How you do anything is how you do everything
- Weeknote 03/2020
- Friday foggings
- Microcast #083 - Ambiguous in Kuwait City
- Given things as they are, how shall one individual live?
- Weeknote 02/2019
- Friday flurries
- Microcast #082 - Nodenoggin
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted
- Weeknote 01/2020
- Friday fertilisations
- Microcast #081 - Anarchy, Federation, and the IndieWeb
2019
- 2019: arriving at myself
- Weeknote 50/2019
- Weeknote 49/2019
- Weeknote 48/2019
- Rebalancing my focus for 2020
- Weeknote 47/2019
- Weeknote 46/2019
- Quick update!
- Weeknote 45/2019
- Weeknote 44/2019
- Friday fablings
- Microcast #080 - Redecentralize and MozFest
- Weeknote 43/2019
- Friday facilitations
- We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us on or spare us
- Microcast #079 - information environments
- Weeknote 42/2019
- Friday flowerings
- Microcast #078 — Values-based organisations
- I am not fond of expecting catastrophes, but there are cracks in the universe
- Weeknote 41/2019
- Friday fawnings
- People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think
- Weeknote 40/2019
- Friday flexitarianism
- Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet
- Eulogy for Dai Barnes
- Weeknote 39/2019
- Friday fluctuations
- It’s not a revolution if nobody loses
- Saturday strikings
- Weeknote 38/2019
- All is petty, inconstant, and perishable
- Weeknote 37/2019
- Friday fermentations
- If you change nothing, nothing will change
- Weeknote 36/2019
- Friday feudalism
- To refrain from imitation is the best revenge
- Weeknote 35/2019
- Friday floutings
- The best way out is always through
- Friday flinchings
- Weeknote 34/2019
- It is the child within us that trembles before death
- Weeknotes 32 & 33/2019
- #RIPDai: in memory of a good friend
- Weeknote 31/2019
- Friday fizzles
- The best place to be is somewhere else?
- Weeknote 30/2019
- A quick dive into ALT's journal with my MoodleNet hat on
- Friday fidgetings
- Neoliberalism in any guise is not the solution but the problem
- Weeknote 29/2019
- Friday federations
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge
- Weeknote 28/2019
- Friday ferretings
- Do not impose one's own standard on the work of others. Mutual moderation and cooperation will proffer better results.
- Weeknote 27/2019
- Quality Mountain Days 19 & 20: Sharp Edge and Hayeswater Gill
- Friday frustrations
- Aren’t you ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnants of your life and to dedicate to wisdom only that time can’t be directed to business?
- Weeknote 26/2019
- Friday feeds
- Ensuring the sustainability of Thought Shrapnel
- Ensuring the sustainability of Thought Shrapnel
- Our nature is such that the common duties of human relationships occupy a great part of the course of our life
- Weeknote 25/2019
- Friday fancies
- The world is all variation and dissimilarity
- The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break
- To be perfectly symmetrical is to be perfectly dead
- Quality Mountain Days 17 & 18: Skiddaw, Great Calva, High Pike, and Carrock Fell
- Life doesn’t depend on any one opinion, any one custom, or any one century
- Weeknote 24/2019
- Friday feastings
- Even in their sleep men are at work
- The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it
- Situations can be described but not given names
- There’s no perfection where there’s no selection
- Weeknote 23/2019
- Friday fathomings
- There’s no viagra for enlightenment
- Wretched is a mind anxious about the future
- Only thoughts conceived while walking have any value
- What is no good for the hive is no good for the bee
- Weeknote 22/2019
- Friday fabrications
- Men fear wanderers for they have no rules
- We give nothing so generously as our advice
- Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them
- We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves
- Weeknote 21/2019
- Friday fumblings
- One can see only what one has already seen
- Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again
- Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present
- Idleness always produces fickle changes of mind
- Weeknote 20/2019
- Friday finds
- The school system is a modern phenomenon, as is the childhood it produces
- Form is the possibility of structure
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving
- That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate
- Change your launcher, change your life
- Weeknote 19/2019
- Fascinating Friday Facts
- There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless
- Sometimes even to live is an act of courage
- Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things
- Quality Mountain Day 16: Fairfield, Dollywaggon Pike & Helvellyn
- The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention
- Weeknote 18/2019
- A little Friday randomness
- Educational institutions are at a crossroads of relevance
- Remote work is a different beast
- Culture eats strategy for breakfast
- Things that people think are wrong (but aren't)
- Where are the weeknotes, Doug?
- Cutting the Gordian knot of 'screen time'
- The benefits of Artificial Intelligence
- The drawbacks of Artificial Intelligence
- Opting in and out of algorithms
- Let's not force children to define their future selves through the lens of 'work'
- How to subscribe to Thought Shrapnel Daily
- Fediverse field trip
- My ChromeOS apps and extensions
- What we need is an Open Badges community renaissance, free of IMS involvement
- Giving up Thought Shrapnel for Lent
- Giving up Thought Shrapnel for Lent
- Weeknote 09/2019
- Human societies, hierarchy, and networks
- The introvert's dilemma
- Success and enthusiasm (quote)
- Foldable displays are going to make the future pretty amazing
- A 3-step guide to completing your thesis when you're feeling utterly overwhelmed
- Weeknote 08/2019
- So you think you're organised?
- So you think you're organised?
- Blockchains: not so 'unhackable' after all?
- Blockchains: not so 'unhackable' after all?
- Open Badges and ADCs
- Open Badges and ADCs
- On anger (quote)
- On anger (quote)
- Weeknote 07/2019
- What UK children are watching (and why)
- Individual steps to tackle climate change
- Games (and learning) mechanics
- Games (and learning) mechanics
- Is edtech even a thing any more?
- Optimise for energy and motivation
- So long Digitalme, and thanks for all the fish
- Process and product of change (quote)
- Tenacious will (quote)
- Weeknote 06/2019
- Experimenting with a Slack-based book club
- Why the internet is less weird these days
- Dis-trust and blockchain technologies
- Why it's so hard to quit Big Tech
- Why it's so hard to quit Big Tech
- Let's (not) let children get bored again
- The robot economy and social-emotional skills
- Weeknote 05/2019
- Dr. Doug's Wednesday surgeries
- At the end of the day, everything in life is a 'group project'
- Make art, tell a story
- Make art, tell a story
- Fun smartphone-based party games
- Fun smartphone-based party games
- Cal Newport on the dangers of 'techno-maximalism'
- Staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing (quote)
- Weeknote 04/2019
- Through the looking-glass
- Surfacing popular Google Sheets to create simple web apps
- Federico Leggio's type animations
- Using Twitter as a lens for some thoughts on launching products
- A modest proposal for nudging young people into finding a direction in life
- Volume of work
- What did the web used to be like?
- Hong Kong shutter art
- True test of intelligence (quote)
- Hierarchies and large organisations
- Exit option democracy
- Weeknote 03/2019
- Drink Talk Learn
- Implicit leverage
- Blockchain is about trust minimisation
- Forging better habits
- A reminder of how little we understand the world
- The quixotic fools of imperialism
- Noise cancelling for cars is a no-brainer
- Going your own way (quote)
- Location data in old tweets
- Some (more) thoughts on private education
- Weeknote 02/2019
- Remembering the past through photos
- Acoustic mirrors
- Unpopular opinions on personal productivity
- Confusing tech questions
- Feeling good (quote)
- Creativity as an ongoing experiment
- Murmurations
- Fanatics (quote)
- The problem with Business schools
- Weeknote 01/2019
- Working and leading remotely
- Rules for Online Sanity
- Baseline levels of conscientiousness
- The endless Black Friday of the soul
- Blockchain bullshit
- Social mobility
- Looking back and forward in tech
2018
- Weeknote 48/2018
- See you in 2019!
- A conversation with Adam Procter about Project 'NodeNoggin'
- Weeknote 47/2018
- Routine and ambition (quote)
- Is the unbundling and rebundling of Higher Education actually a bad thing?
- Credentials and standardisation
- Are we nearing the end of the Facebook era?
- Weeknote 46/2018
- Asking Google philosophical questions
- Gamifying Wikipedia for new editors
- Daily routine (quote)
- The many uses of autonomous vehicles
- Weeknote 45/2018
- Open source is as much about culture as it is about code
- What are 'internet-era ways of working'?
- What are 'internet-era ways of working'?
- Is UBI 'hush money'?
- Is UBI 'hush money'?
- Issue [#323]: 46 hours in transit
- Weeknote 44/2018
- Nature of things (quote)
- Identity is a pattern in time
- Identity is a pattern in time
- An app to close down your workday effectively
- An app to close down your workday effectively
- Immortality and Sunday afternoons (quote)
- Immortality and Sunday afternoons (quote)
- CUNY Commons in a Box OpenLab
- CUNY Commons in a Box OpenLab
- Time's brevity (quote)
- Weeknote 43/2018
- Issue [#322]: Back-to-back
- Openness, sharing, and choosing a CC license
- Tennessee Williams on the problems that come with success
- What would you do if you were the richest man in the world? Now you can find out!
- Configuring your iPhone for productivity (and privacy, security?)
- Time flies (quote)
- Designing calm products
- Quality Mountain Day 15: Dale Head, Hindscarth, and High Spy
- Wishing and planning (quote)
- Is planning just guessing?
- Is planning just guessing?
- Issue [#321]: Small talk and tiny conferences
- Weeknote 42/2018
- Absorb what is useful (quote)
- Decentralisation and networked agency
- Are tiny conferences and meetups better than big ones?
- Small talk and sociability
- Issue [#320]: The power of appreciation
- Weeknote 41/2018
- The majority (quote)
- Co-operation and anti-social punishment in different societies
- How do people learn?
- Reappropriating the artifacts of late-stage capitalism
- Venture beyond the expected (quote)
- Myths about children and digital technologies
- Myths about children and digital technologies
- World Mental Health Day: my story
- GAFA: time to 'ignore and withdraw'?
- Graceful conduct (quote)
- Issue [#319]: Operation Twilight
- Issue [#319]: Operation Twilight
- Weeknote 40/2018
- Example and opinion (quote)
- Insidious Instagram influencers?
- The end of 'meritocracy' at Mozilla
- The end of 'meritocracy' at Mozilla
- Is Google becoming more like Facebook?
- Bullshit receptivity scale
- Listen well (quote)
- Seven coaching questions
- Issue [#318]: Blisters a-go-go
- Weeknote 39/2018
- Some values-based career advice
- Quality Mountain Day 14: Whiteside Pike, Ancrow Brow, and White Howe (Lake District)
- Why desk jobs are exhausting
- Microshifts are more effective than epiphanies
- Quality Mountain Day 13: Park Fell, High Street, and Ill Bell (Lake District)
- An incorrect approach to teaching History
- Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, monopolies, and decentralisation
- Airbnb wants to give out shares to its superhosts
- Experimenting with turning on comments for a week
- Issue [#317]: The Path to better social networks
- Weeknote 38/2018
- Why badge endorsement is a game-changer
- Internalising the logic of social media
- The Digital Knowledge Loop
- Kindness and courage (quote)
- The rise and rise of e-sports
- Online conformity (quote)
- A portal into a decentralised universe
- (Educational) consulting for the uninitiated
- The fate of private social networks
- Blogging and content marketing (quote)
- Issue [#316]: Is that better? 🙄 🙄 🙄
- Weeknote 37/2018
- Charity is no substitute for justice
- Creativity (quote)
- Audiobooks vs reading
- What the EU's copyright directive means in practice
- The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
- Working (quote)
- 6 things that the best jobs have in common
- Invisible turmoil (quote)
- Simple sustainable stories
- Issue [#315]: Minimalism FTW
- Weeknote 36/2018
- What do happy teenagers do?
- Burnout-prevention rules
- Feedback from the community
- Expertise and knowledge (quote)
- Fluency without conceptual understanding
- Dealing with the downsides of remote working
- Natural light as an 'office perk'
- Choice (quote)
- The importance of marginalia
- We're back (with lots of new links!)
- Weeknote 35/2018
- Weeknotes 32, 33, and 34/2018
- Weeknote 31/2018
- A Stoic (quote)
- Tracking vs advertising
- Keeping track of articles you want to read
- Issue #314: Final Holiday Countdown 🏁 ⏲️ 🏖️
- Weeknote 30/2018
- Introverts, collaboration, and creativity
- Busyness and value creation
- Original work (quote)
- Assassination markets now available on the blockchain
- Not my circus (quote)
- When we eat matters
- LinkedIn: the game?
- Data transfer as a 'hedge'?
- Issue #313: Mootivation
- Weeknote 29/2018
- Childhood amnesia
- Childhood amnesia
- You cant escape your problems through travel
- You cant escape your problems through travel
- Don Norman on human-centred technologies
- Be good for something (quote)
- How emoji triplets could help with trust and identity on decentralised social networks
- Work and play (quote)
- Work and play (quote)
- Issue #312: If it's not one thing, it's another
- Weeknote 28/2018
- Break the rules like an artist (quote)
- On 'radical incompetence'
- Populism today (quote)
- Blogging in the Fediverse with Write.as
- On living in public
- On living in public
- Artistic value (quote)
- Artistic value (quote)
- Problems with the present and future of work are of our own making
- Problems with the present and future of work are of our own making
- Issue #311: Under canvas
- Weeknote 27/2018
- Wisdom and experience (quote)
- Shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies (quote)
- The dangers of distracted parenting
- The dangers of distracted parenting
- Cory Doctorow on the corruption at the heart of Facebook
- Cory Doctorow on the corruption at the heart of Facebook
- On 'unique' organisational cultures
- Issue #310: Moodling about in Barcelona
- Weeknote 26/2018
- Fear (quote)
- Reduce your costs, retain your focus
- The link between sleep and creativity
- Attention scarcity as an existential threat
- Our irresistible screens of splendour
- Rethinking hierarchy
- Freedom (quote)
- Issue #309: Different
- Weeknote 25/2018
- Crawling before you walk
- Issue 308: World Cup(cake)
- Weeknote 24/2018
- Higher Education and blockchain
- On 'instagrammability'
- F*** off Google
- Open source community calls in the wake of GDPR
- Seed of good (quote)
- Where memes come from
- The seductive logic of technology (quote)
- Inequality, anarchy, and the course of human history
- Issue #307: Home on the range
- Mediocrity (quote)
- Git yourself off that platform!
- Weeknote 23/2018
- All the questions (quote)
- Blockchain was just a stepping stone
- Living with anxiety
- "You’re either a leader everywhere or nowhere"
- Sociocratic design sprints
- Systems change
- Finding friends and family without smartphones, maps, or GPS
- Where migraines end and I begin
- Issue #306: Bachelor lifestyle
- Weeknote 22/2018
- Why NASA is better than Facebook at writing software
- The best teams are cognitively diverse and psychologically safe
- No opinion (quote)
- On 'academic innovation'
- Criticism (quote)
- Protocols for the free web
- Encumbered by civilization (quote)
- Paywalls and Patreon
- Good, hard work (quote)
- Issue #305: Sprinting into the distance
- Weeknote 21/2018
- Wielding your pension fund for good
- First tea, then revolution
- Sensible people
- Useful mental models
- Nobody is ready for GDPR
- Measuring ability and greatness
- Estonia goes for free public transport
- The toughest smartphones on the market
- The increase in worker-owned co-ops
- The increase in worker-owned co-ops
- Issue #304: Grateful Dead Public Radio
- Weeknote 20/2018
- The New Octopus: going beyond managerial interventions for internet giants
- The New Octopus: going beyond managerial interventions for internet giants
- Schedule your priorities
- Owners need to invest in employees to have them feel invested in their work
- Owners need to invest in employees to have them feel invested in their work
- On blogging
- On blogging
- Peace of mind
- The disappearing computer and the future of AI
- Trust and the cult of your PLN
- Trust and the cult of your PLN
- The role of Lady Luck
- The role of Lady Luck
- Issue #303: Rest your weary head
- Weeknote 19/2018
- Altruism
- Work-life balance is actually a circle, according to Jeff Bezos
- Nothing better to do
- The virtue of rest
- Tolerating uncertainty
- Quality Mountain Day 12: Black Craig, Knockower, and Coran of Portmark (Galloway Hills, Scotland)
- Quality Mountain Day 11: Merrick (Galloway Hills, Scotland)
- Alexa for Kids as babysitter?
- Weeknote 18/2018
- Getting on the edtech bus
- Bootstraps
- Space as a service
- Blockchain as a 'futuristic integrity wand'
- Profit vs benefit
- Some utopian thoughts
- Issue #302: Read aloud for maximum effect
- Weeknote 17/2018
- What can dreams of a communist robot utopia teach us about human nature?
- Escaping from the crush of circumstances
- The benefits of reading aloud to children
- You need more daylight to sleep better
- On the cultural value of memes
- The résumé is a poor proxy for a human being
- OEP (Open Educational Pragmatism?)
- Everything is potentially a meme
- How to be super-productive
- Thinking outdoors
- Issue #301: Endless horse
- Weeknote 16/2018
- Clickbait and switch?
- Read for freedom
- Soviet-era industrial design
- Conversational implicature
- Ryan Holiday's 13 daily life-changing habits
- Valuing and signalling your skills
- Intimate data analytics in education
- All killer, no filler
- All killer, no filler
- Do what you can
- Systems thinking and AI
- Issue #300: Tricentennial
- Weeknote 15/2018
- The four things you need to become an intellectual
- Craig Mod's subtle redesign of the hardware Kindle
- Profiting from your enemies
- The root of all happiness
- Random Street View does exactly what you think it does
- Long-term investments
- Deciding what to do next
- Designing for privacy
- Multiple income streams
- Multiple income streams
- Winnowing the MoodleNet project down to MVP size
- In praise of ordinary lives
- In praise of ordinary lives
- Issue #299: Jersey shore
- Issue #299: Jersey shore
- Alienated life
- Weeknote 14/2018
- All that is gold does not glitter
- The death of the newsfeed (is much exaggerated)
- Absentee leadership
- Social internet vs social media
- Social internet vs social media
- The '1, 2, 3' approach to organising your working day
- The '1, 2, 3' approach to organising your working day
- Truth
- Truth
- No easy answers
- Blockcerts mobile
- Blockcerts mobile
- Automated Chinese jaywalking fines are a foretaste of so-called 'smart cities'
- Automated Chinese jaywalking fines are a foretaste of so-called 'smart cities'
- My takeaways from Stephen Downes' talk on personal learning
- What's the link between employment and creativity?
- Mozilla's Web Literacy Curriculum
- Mozilla's Web Literacy Curriculum
- Issue #298: Easter treats
- Albert Camus quotation
- xkcd on conversational dynamics
- Weeknote 13/2018
- Not everyone is going to like you
- No-one wants a single identity, online or offline
- Contentment
- The spectrum of work autonomy
- Ignorance and dogmatism
- Every part of your digital life is being tracked, packaged up, and sold
- Survival in the age of surveillance
- How to get hired
- Alternatives to all of Facebook's main features
- Issue #297: Springing forward
- Weeknote 12/2018
- The only privacy policy that matters is your own
- Co-operation
- Support Thought Shrapnel on Patreon
- OERu has a social network
- Anxiety
- Moral needs and user needs
- On struggle
- Going deep
- Derek Sivers has quit Facebook (hint: you should, too)
- Superficial and imperfect knowledge
- Bridging technologies
- How to choose an open license for your project
- Mystery of life
- Decision fatigue and parenting
- Tech will eat itself
- Issue #296: Goodbye winter blues
- Weeknote 11/2018
- On playing video games with your kids
- Browser extensions FTW
- The tenets of 'Slow Thought'
- Wisdom and riches
- Different ways of knowing
- Beginning and middle
- Slack's bait-and-switch?
- The security guide as literary genre
- Do the thing
- Memento mori
- Microcast #005
- Issue #295: A wee problem...
- Weeknote 10/2018
- Living an antifragile life
- The end/beginning
- Archives of Radical Philosophy
- Moodling around with a Jetpack metaphor
- Do the tools you use matter?
- Is your smartphone a very real part of who you are?
- Microcast #004
- Masterpieces
- Microcast #003
- 30,000 hours of sleep
- Teaching kids about computers and coding
- Microcast #002
- Building a bridge
- The three things you need to make friends over the age of 30
- Microcast #001
- Issue #294: Snowmaggedon ❄️
- Happiness
- Microcast #000
- Tact
- Geek social fallacies
- Weeknote 09/2018
- Google's new Slack competitor
- 10 breakthrough technologies for 2018
- The moon is getting 4G
- Possible - impossible
- Your best decisions don't come when you demand them
- Some great links for Product Managers
- Final steps in my GDPR journey
- Firefox OS lives on in The Matrix
- The 'loudness' of our thoughts affects how we judge external sounds
- Issue #293: Making cheese grate again
- Arbitrary deadlines are the enemy of creativity
- Arbitrary deadlines are the enemy of creativity
- Small 'b' blogging
- Small 'b' blogging
- Weeknote 08/2018
- What we can learn from Seneca about dying well
- Light and deep
- Anonymity vs accountability
- On your deathbed, you're not going to wish that you'd spent more time on Facebook
- The Goldilocks Rule
- Showing off
- On the death of Google/Apache Wave (and the lessons we can learn from it)
- To lose old styles of reading is to lose a part of ourselves
- Issue #292: Is there a cure for Tasmania? 🇦🇺
- Weeknote 07/2018
- Does the world need interactive emails?
- Does the world need interactive emails?
- The Kano model
- Is the gig economy the mass exploitation of millennials?
- Humans are not machines
- Legislating against manipulated 'facts' is a slippery slope
- Obvious
- Why we forget most of what we read
- Should you lower your expectations?
- Trust
- Why do some things go viral?
- Humans responsible for the Black Death
- The world's most nutritious foods
- Audio Adversarial speech-to-text
- Sounds and smells can help reinforce learning while you sleep
- Every easy thing is hard again
- Issue #291: Necessary koalafications 🐨
- Weeknote 06/2018
- Why good parents have naughty children
- Lost
- Telegram cryptocurrency
- Rock piles and cathedrals
- Platform censorship and the threat to democracy
- Decentralisation is the only way to wean people off capitalist social media
- Europe is being taken over by crayfish that can clone themselves
- Alzheimer's is a kind of 'type 3' diabetes
- Puertopia
- Experimenting with a channel-based approach for online resource sharing
- Worth the risks?
- Creating media, not just consuming it
- GDPR, blockchain, and privacy
- Continuing my GDPR journey
- Living in a dictatorship
- Culture is the behaviour you reward and punish
- Culture is the behaviour you reward and punish
- Are cows less valuable than wolves?
- How we get influence backwards
- How we get influence backwards
- Issue #290: Unscathed
- The punk rock internet
- The punk rock internet
- Weeknote 05/2018
- The origin of the term 'open source'
- Optimism
- The Project Design Tetrahedron
- The Project Design Tetrahedron
- Promising everything
- Designing social systems
- Irony doesn't scale
- Web Trends Map 2018 (or 'why we can't have nice things')
- So, what do you do?
- Creating the world's smallest social network (for testing purposes)
- The military implications of fitness tech
- Audrey Watters on technology addiction
- No cash, no freedom?
- Depression as an evolutionary advantage?
- Product managers as knowledge centralisers
- Using VR with kids
- More on the mechanics of GDPR
- Augmented and Virtual Reality on the web
- The horror of the Bett Show
- Issue #289: Loooooong week
- More haste, less speed
- Weeknote 04/2018
- Ethical design in social networks
- Reading the web on your own terms
- The NSA (and GCHQ) can find you by your 'voiceprint' even if you're speaking a foreign language on a burner phone
- Favourable winds
- Listening to video game soundtracks can improve your productivity
- Technology to connect and communicate
- Are conferences a vestige of a bygone era?
- A useful IndieWeb primer
- Three most harmful addictions
- More on Facebook's 'trusted news' system
- Living in capitalism
- Anxiety is the price of convenience
- Social networking and GDPR
- Different sorts of time
- Some podcast recommendations
- DuckDuckGo moves beyond search
- Facebook is under attack
- Where would your country be if the world was like Pangea?
- Amazon Go, talent and labour
- WTF is GDPR?
- Decentralisation 2.0
- First step
- First step
- The rise and rise of niche newsletters
- The backstory of Apple's emoji
- The backstory of Apple's emoji
- Tribal politics in social networks
- Some advice for a happy family life
- Issue #288: Socially and emotionally unavailable
- A world without work
- Weeknote 03/2018
- Few wants
- Film posters of the Russian avant-garde
- Atlas of Hillforts
- Gendered AI?
- Imprisoned in prejudices
- Barely anyone uses 2FA
- Courage
- Using your phone wisely
- The wilderness of intuition
- Can you measure social and emotional skills?
- Bullet Journal like a Pro
- Choose your connected silo
- Game-changing modular wheels
- Game-changing modular wheels
- The full complexity of life
- From Homer to texting and Twitter
- Would you be nuked?
- Where did 'Å' come from?
- Getting better at using tools
- Cool decentralisation resources from MozFest
- This isn't the golden age of free speech
- Open source apps for agile project teams
- On the difference between people-centric and resource-centric social networks
- Robo-advisors are coming for your job (and that's OK)
- Opposite of manliness
- Thought Shrapnel #287: My bad
- Weeknote 02/2018
- Reasons to be cheerful
- Attention is an arms race
- Barcelona to go open source by 2019
- In a dark place
- How to build a consensual social network
- Bigger the dream...
- Money in, blood out
- Venture Communism?
- Fake amusement park
- Questions to ask before taking your next job
- Dreamers who do
- Deliberate rest, cognitive momentum, and differentiated work hours
- You get paid what other people think you're worth
- Meltdown and Spectre explained by xkcd
- Meaningless work causes depression
- It doesn't matter if you don't use AI assistants if everyone else does
- Thought Shrapnel #286: New beginnings
- Social media short-circuits democracy
- Spain is on the wrong timezone
- Foucault understood the power of ambiguity
- Weeknote 01/2018
- Fridays are a social construct
- Privacy-based browser extensions
- Twitter isn't going to ban Trump, no matter what
- Redesigning Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel
- Charisma instead of hierarchy?
- Education is about the journey, not the destination
- Mozilla is creating an Open Leadership Map
- Life in likes
- Dark kitchens, dark factories... is this the future of automation?
- Thinking about social logins and identity on the web
- Capitalism can make you obese
- It's not advertising, it's statistical behaviour-modification
- How to prevent being 'cryptojacked'
- Why I didn't go on 'Belshaw Black Ops' at the end of 2017
- Fred Wilson's predictions for 2018
- Albert Wenger's reading list
- Data-driven society: utopia or dystopia?
- Are social networks a public health issue?
- Commit to improving your security in 2018
- To 'quit' isn't necessarily the opposite of having 'grit'
- Now are the Olympics
- How to run an Open Source project
2017
- The internet needs distributed DNS
- Succeeding with innovation projects
- Facebook is an instrument of the state
- The importance of downtime
- Culture eats strategy for breakfast
- Caulfield's predictions for 2018
- The best album covers of 2017
- Moving down Maslow's hierarchy of needs using OER?
- Potentially huge wind farm proposed in the North Sea
- Few posessions
- Few posessions
- Few possessions
- Is that you, Mother?
- How do you show off your privilege when everyone's got an iPhone?
- Lunatics
- How to defuse remote work issues
- The benefits of decentralised decision-making
- It's called Echo for a reason
- Your New Year's resolution for 2018? Ditch Facebook.
- The Horizon stops here
- Put a number next to someone's name and there will be pressure for it to increase
- Does it take Trump to make badges go mainstream?
- How to get people to pay you what you're worth
- Building a home online
- Purely technological answers to human problems don't work
- Nobody likes a goody two-shoes
- Life in the outrage economy
- Howard Rheingold on cooperation as a solution to our present woes
- We're still figuring out what it means for everyone to be connected
- GDPR could break the big five's monopoly stranglehold on our data
- What would a version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for society look like?
- Decentralised projects to explore in 2018
- Brexit Britain means food prescriptions on the NHS
- What to tell your kids about Santa Claus
- 2018: the year of Linux on the desktop?
- What you read determines who you are
- The immorality of retaining wealth
- Sticks and stones
- Blockchains are boring
- The upside of kids watching Netflix instead of TV
- Human Extinction
- How to be a consultant
- Ethical business means fair pay (and co-ownership?)
- Weeknote 51/2017
- Reputation on the dark net
- Is it pointless to ban autonomous killing machines?
- Your brain is not a computer
- Edward Snowden wants to help you use your Android smartphone to protect yourself
- High-performing schools in England less accessible since 2010
- Silicon Valley looking to skills from the Humanities
- Problems with reputation in the gig economy
- Digital literacies and 'proximal depravity'
- How 'flu kills people
- Weeknote 50/2017
- Come and get involved with the MoodleNet community!
- Weeknote 49/2017
- Weeknote 48/2017
- Destroying capitalism, one stately home at a time
- Reframing the ‘Progressive’ vs. ‘Traditionalist’ Debate in Education [DML Central]
- Weeknote 47/2017
- Pearson, WTF? Badges, patents, and the world's 'least popular' education company
- Weeknote 46/2017
- Weeknote 45/2017
- Weeknotes 43 & 44/2017
- Tools and spaces to create a positive architecture of participation
- Weeknote 42/2017
- New blog: Doug, uncensored
- Weeknote 41/2017
- Weeknote 40/2017
- Decentralised technologies mean censorship-resistant websites
- Weeknote 39/2017
- Weeknote 38/2017
- Digital myths, digital pedagogy, and complexity
- Weeknote 37/2017
- Weeknote 36/2017
- Tools to help you with your blog post
- Why I just deleted all 77.5k tweets I've sent out over the last 10 years
- Weeknote 35/2017
- Deciding what to write about in your blog post
- Putting your blog post into the world
- Sitting down to write a blog post
- How to write a blog post
- Weeknote 34/2017
- Weeknote 33/2017
- Weeknote 32/2017
- Weeknote 31/2017
- Weeknote 30/2017
- My blog was without an ‘LMS isn't dead’ post, so I thought I’d write one.
- Join us tomorrow for the first Badge Wiki barn raising session!
- Weeknote 29/2017
- Weeknote 28/2017
- Weeknote 27/2017
- Why I've just ditched my cloud-based password manager
- My information environment (July 2017)
- Weeknote 26/2017
- Elevator pitch on Open Badges for SQA Expert Assessment Group
- 10 top email productivity tips
- Weeknote 25/2017
- Badge Wiki: start of 30-day feedback period on Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
- Redesigning dougbelshaw.com
- Weeknote 24/2017
- Chapter 5 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- Providing some clarity on Open Badges 2.0
- Weeknote 23/2017
- Digital Employability for the New Economy [Stir to Action]
- Some thoughts on the future of the Open Badges backpack
- Weeknote 22/2017
- Friends don't let friends use Facebook
- 3 reasons I'll not be returning to Twitter
- Weeknote 21/2017
- Weeknote 20/2017
- Quality Mountain Days 9 & 10: Red Screes, Great Rigg, and Kentmere Pike
- Weeknote 19/2017
- Some thoughts on Keybase, online security, and verification of identity
- Weeknote 18/2017
- So it turns out that you can pretty much do whatever you like on your own website
- Listen to me witter on about co-ops via @VConnecting at #ccsummit
- Weeknote 17/2017
- Goodbye, Grandma
- Why I'm not using Twitter next month
- Weeknote 16/2017
- Weeknote 15/2017
- Quality Mountain Days 7 & 8: Ben Nevis, Stob Bàn, and Mullach nan Coirean
- Weeknote 14/2017
- You can chain a knowledge worker to a desk, but you can't make them think
- Weeknote 13/2017
- Badging 'co-operative character'
- Quality Mountain Days 5 & 6: Ben Ledi and Ben Vorlich
- Weeknote 12/2017
- Chapter 4 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- Weeknote 11/2017
- Books
- My Daily Routine
- Badges, Proof and Pathways [DML Central]
- Weeknote 10/2017
- My sites are now hosted in the European Union
- How to build an architecture of participation
- Blogging for a third of my life
- Preparing for 'Story Hack'
- Weeknote 09/2017
- Is it the end of the traditional resume? [opensource.com]
- Coming up with a manifesto to underpin my work
- Weeknote 08/2017
- Weeknote 07/2017
- Weeknote 06/2017
- Safer Internet Day 2017 resources
- Weeknote 05/2017
- Against mass consumption of 'already certified' credentials
- Chapter 3 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- Weeknote 04/2017
- Experimenting with push notifications
- The Flatter Organisational Structure Of The Future
- Weeknote 03/2017
- Join us in London on February 15th for BADGE BOOTCAMP!
- Weeknote 02/2017
- Weeknote 01/2017
2016
- #BelshawBlacksOps16 (Pt.2) has begun. See you in 2017!
- Weeknote 47/2016
- Weeknote 46/2016
- We're running a webinar next week on badges, and you're invited
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps16 (Part 2)
- Weeknote 45/2016
- Utopia, pedagogy, and G-Suite for Education
- 7 approaches to educational technology integration
- Open Badges, BlockCerts, and high-stakes credentialing
- Weeknote 44/2016
- Chapter 2 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- How I'm Getting Shift Done
- The importance of working 'open' in education and business
- Weeknote 43/2016
- A new dawn for Open Badges
- Where I'll be at MozFest 2016
- Blockcerts are friends of Open Badges
- Weeknote 42/2016
- 3 quick updates
- Weeknote 41/2016
- On CC0
- I've just released Chapter 1 of my new audiobook on productivity
- Why It’s Time to Let Go of ‘Meritocracy’ [DML Central]
- 3 things we need for the next big frontier in Open Badges and digital credentials
- Weeknote 40/2016
- My CC Superheroes
- #uppingyourgame: a practical guide to personal productivity (v2)
- Weeknote 39/2016
- Quality Mountain Days 3 and 4: Lake District
- Discipline in the field of edtech
- Weeknote 38/2016
- Weeknote 37/2016
- Digital Literacy, Identity and a Domain of One’s Own [DML Central]
- How to be an effective knowledge worker and 'manage yourself'
- Weeknote 36/2016
- Igniting my Mondays
- Weeknote 35/2016
- We're back!
- #BelshawBlackOps16 Pt.1 has started!
- Weeknote 30/2016
- Weeknote 29/2016
- Weeknote 28/2016
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps16 Pt.1
- New blog theme
- Weeknote 27/2016
- Weeknote 26/2016
- How to use metaphors to generate badge-based pathways
- My ebook, 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' is now pay-what-you-want (including nothing!)
- Weeknote 25/2016
- A few words on #Remain, #BadgeSummit, and #ISTE2016
- Weeknote 24/2016
- 3 Ways Open Badges Work Like the Web [DML Central]
- Weeknote 23/2016
- Improving the style and content of dynamicskillset.com
- Weeknote 22/2016
- Some thoughts and recommendations on the future of the Open Badges backpack and community
- Weeknote 21/2016
- Do only yogurt-knitting vegans start co-operatives?
- The problem with 'grit'
- Beyond 'low-hanging fruit': why I'm no longer an Open Badges evangelist
- Weeknote 20/2016
- The Future of Work: Trends and Toolsets
- Developing my offer: what I'm planning for the next few months
- ???? Weeknote 19/2016
- A walkthrough of 9Sharp, a new platform for personal branding [SPONSOR]
- Weak signals
- Weeknote 18/2016
- Notes and comments on 'Digital Badges in Education': Part I: Trends and Issues
- 3 reasons you need a critical friend
- Weeknote 17/2016
- 3 Types of EdTech Baggage: Toolsets, Mindsets, Skillsets [DML Central]
- Weeknote 16/2016
- Quality Mountain Days 1 and 2: Lake District
- A quick redesign
- Refocusing my energies
- Weeknote 15/2016
- Weeknote 14/2016
- 3 things I learned during my time at Mozilla
- What is a 'credential' anyway?
- Notes on ACE's 'Quality Dimensions for Connected Credentials'
- Weeknote 13/2016
- Weeknote 12/2016
- Are alternative approaches such as gamification and badging effective in increasing engagement, retention, and achievement?
- Weeknote 11/2016
- Taking back control of the web: an easy way to host and run secure open source apps
- Weeknote 10/2016
- Some thoughts on the evidence behind Open Badges
- Open Badges in Higher Education: Disruptive, Desirable, and Democratic
- Weeknote 09/2016
- Weeknote 08/2016 (warning: may contain gifs and emojis)
- Why do we hire based on 'experience'? HR, Automattic, and Open Badges
- Weeknote 07/2016
- Now
- Weeknote 06/2016
- Calling out Pearson on Open Badges
- The Possibilities of Badges and Blockchain [DML Central]
- Weeknote 05/2016
- Weeknote 04/2016
- Caring doesn't scale, and scaling doesn't care
- Weeknote 03/2016
- 3 things I've learned from 200 weeks of sending out an email newsletter
- Where I'll be at BETT 2016
- What a post-Persona landscape means for Open Badges
- Weeknote 02/2016
- New avatars for 2016
- Weeknote 01/2016
- 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' is now £1.99!
- Monthnote: December 2015
- Happy New Year!
2015
- #BelshawBlacksOps15 Pt.2 has begun. See you in 2016!
- Weeknote 48/2015
- 3 reasons open source needs Open Badges [opensource.com]
- Weeknote 47/2015
- INCOMING: #BelshawBlackOps15 (Part 2)
- Weeknote 46/2015
- The New Nepotism
- Why the future remains bright for Open Badges
- Weeknotes 44 and 45/2015
- Deliberate Practice and Digital Literacies [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 43/2015
- 5 ways to use NFC-enabled business cards
- Open Badges location extension
- Weeknote 42/2015
- Weeknote 41/2015
- Weeknote 40/2015
- The TIDE is high...
- Weeknote 39/2015
- A Decentralized System for Education and Assessment
- Weeknote 38/2015
- Taking Another Look at the Digital Credentials Landscape [DMLcentral]
- How to sponsor Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel newsletter
- Weeknote 37/2015
- Radio EDUtalk session: talking podcasting, badges, and tools for productivity with John Johnston
- Apple product launches as attention conservation devices
- Your liberty will not survive combat drones
- Weeknote 36/2015
- An experiment in using LinkedIn Pulse for blogging
- Hey, I'm back! (with some thoughts on Twitter and an update on my newsletter)
- #BelshawBlackOps15 (part 1) has begun!
- Weeknote 31/2015
- Towards a visual hierarchy of Open Badges
- How to help us build #OB101
- Reader survey: 2015 edition
- Weeknote 30/2015
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps15 (part 1)
- Weeknote 29/2015
- Identifying, scaffolding, and credentialing skills in an ever-changing digital environment [#celt15]
- Setting an Agile School Rhythm [DMLcentral]
- Claim your Advanced Kanban badge!
- Weeknote 28/2015
- Introducing the Open Badges 101 course! [pre-alpha]
- The Increasing Significance of Social Media in the Learner Journey [FE Week]
- The Increasing Significance of Technology in Further Education [FE Week]
- Weeknote 27/2015
- Claim your Kanban 101 badge!
- HOWTO: Trello Kanban
- Weeknote 26/2015
- Weeknote 25/2015
- Three of the best people I've ever worked with...
- Important news for subscribers to my weekly newsletter
- Weeknote 24/2015
- Weeknote 23/2015
- The potential of Chirp.io to send Open Badges between people and devices
- 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' is now £3.99!
- Weeknote 22/2015
- Extending Badges [DMLcentral]
- Wednesday Wisdom #38: Foundations
- Web Literacy: what happens beyond peak centralisation and software with shareholders?
- Flying a drone through Mitford Castle window
- Weeknote 21/2015
- Towards a taxonomy of Open Badges for City & Guilds
- Wednesday Wisdom #37: Confluence
- My #TwitteratiChallenge blog post
- Weeknote 20/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #36: Cats
- How to subscribe to (and sponsor!) my weekly newsletter
- Weeknote 19/2015
- Community Alignment model v0.5
- My Twitter ads verdict: a waste of time and money
- Weeknote 18/2015
- Experimenting with Twitter ads for my ebook
- Wednesday Wisdom #35: Copyright
- Open Networked Learning webinar
- Weeknote 17/2015
- An exciting week for Open Badges
- Wednesday Wisdom #34: Promises
- Why you should create canonical URLs
- A Community Alignment model
- Weeknote 16/2015
- The three biggest (perceived) problems with Open Badges
- Wednesday Wisdom #33: Uncertainty
- HOWTO: Create a podcast
- Why I left teaching five years ago
- Weeknote 15/2015
- Tetris, badges, and learning pathways
- Wednesday Wisdom #32: Quality
- Weeknote 14/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #31: Context
- Peering Deep into Future of Educational Credentialing [DMLcentral]
- The Next Chapter
- Weeknote 13/2015
- Today is my last day at Mozilla
- Wednesday Wisdom #30: Robots
- Weeknote 12/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #29: Completion
- Weeknote 11/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #28: Influence
- Today In Digital Education (TIDE): a new podcast from Dai Barnes and Doug Belshaw
- Soft-launching Dynamic Skillset, my new consultancy
- Weeknote 10/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #27: Trying
- Weeknotes 08/2015 and 09/2015
- An important day for the Internet
- Wednesday Wisdom #26: Friends & Enemies
- 3 reasons I've decided to resurrect my LinkedIn account
- Weeknote 07/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #25: Distraction
- A visual history of the first two years of Mozilla's Web Literacy Map
- Weeknote 06/2015
- My current Mozilla workflow: Trello, Google Mail, and GitHub
- Wednesday Wisdom #24: Courage
- Technological innovation and mental models
- #ScreenFreeSunday
- eBooks
- Cashing in on your privilege
- Weeknote 05/2015
- On working remotely
- Learning Pathways: Descriptive or Prescriptive? [DMLcentral]
- Wednesday Wisdom #23: Clash of Mythologies
- Bryan Mathers: who are you and what do you do?
- Do big ideas need big spaces?
- An Unreasonable Man writes his Damn Book
- Weeknote 04/2015
- How do you explain the web to your kids?
- Volcanoes and ambiguity
- Wednesday Wisdom #22: Have Double of Life's Necessities
- Seven places I find interesting, relevant and useful stuff in 2015
- Announcing TWO new e-books: #uppingyourgame v2.0 and an Essential Elements of Digital Literacies workbook
- Your questions answered about Dynamic Skillset, my upcoming consultancy
- Weeknote 03/2015
- The ABC of creating a system for personal productivity
- Wednesday Wisdom #21: Born in the right century
- On the difference between 'ought' and 'is' (and getting from one to the other)
- Join me this Thursday for a Connected Learning webinar: An Introduction to 'Teaching the Web' and 'Web Literacy'
- My next e-book: three options for you to vote on
- Scripting the first hour of each (week)day
- Weeknote 02/2015
- Answering questions from #durbbu
- What (some) people think about 'radical participation'
- Radical participation: a smörgåsbord
- HOWTO: use GitHub Pages to host a bootstrap-themed website
- Towards zero: the pricing strategy for my ebook 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- Yearnote 2014
- What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps14 (and what 2015 has in store)
2014
- #BelshawBlackOps14 has started - see you in January!
- Curate or Be Curated: Why Our Information Environment is Crucial to a Flourishing Democracy, Civil Society [DMLcentral]
- What I'm doing at #MozFest 2014
- A 10-point #MozFest survival guide
- Weeknote 42/2014
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps14
- Weeknote 41/2014
- Towards an architecture of participation for episodic volunteering
- Weeknote 40/2014
- Weeknote 39/2014
- Weeknote 38/2014
- Weeknote 37/2014
- Web Literacy: More than just coding; an enabling education for our times [EdTech Digest]
- Weeknote 36/2014
- POSTPONED: Mozilla Maker Party Newcastle 2014
- Weeknote 35/2014
- Scaffolding Web Literacy Through Learning Pathways [DMLcentral]
- Twitter, algorithms, and digital dystopias
- Indie Tech Summit: On raising the next generation [VIDEO]
- Battening down the hatches (again)
- Weeknote 34/2014
- Open Badges: 3D printing for credentials?
- Hill Skills training in Northumberland
- Weeknotes 31, 32 & 33
- Announcing Maker Party Newcastle 2014
- Walking to calm the monkey chatter mind
- What I learned while dragging my family around Europe with a car and a tent
- Gone campin'
- Weeknote 30/2014
- FirefoxOS v2.0 is possibly the easiest-to-use smartphone operating system I've experienced
- A quick update on 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- Weeknote 29/2014
- I needed to write a blog post this morning...
- Weeknote 28/2014
- Weeknote 27/2014
- Weeknote 26/2014
- Announcing the launch of 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- Weeknote 25/2014
- My morning routine
- Why I've just closed my LinkedIn account
- HOWTO: Ditch Gmail for self-hosted webmail
- Weeknote 24/2014
- Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation [DMLcentral]
- Launch preparations for 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- Weeknote 23/2014
- Faking Cultural Literacy
- Weeknote 22/2014
- So here's the problem...
- v0.99 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Weeknote 21/2014
- First world problems (or, On buying a house in 2014)
- An update on 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- On 'Kit Builder'
- Weeknote 20/2014
- An emerging workflow
- Weeknotes 18 & 19/2014
- Mozilla Webmaker training starts Monday 12th May!
- Be More Doug
- Weeknote 17/2014
- Software with shareholders (or, the menace of private public spaces)
- What's the project?
- Weeknote 16/2014
- Rethinking Literacy for the Web [Educating Modern Learners]
- Choose your silo (or, Why are we partying like it's 1999?)
- Weeknote 15/2014
- Weeknote 14/2014
- Bad Parenting (or, On The Meditative Nature of Screens)
- Why I still believe in badges [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 13/2014
- Writing and publishing openly online
- Weeknote 12/2014
- Weeknote 11/2014
- Does Open Education and the Open Web need 'defending'?
- What does working openly on the web mean in practice? [UK Web Focus]
- On the link between Open Education and the Open Web
- Open Education and the Open Web (#openeducationwk)
- Weeknote 10/2014
- What's new with Open Badges?
- Weeknote 09/2014
- New to digital literacies? Read this.
- More on the web as the platform
- Weeknote 08/2014
- Weeknote 07/2014
- Gozo no go
- Weeknote 06/2014
- Re-imagining the Where, When, and How of Educational Practice [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 05/2014
- 3 things I'm looking forward to at the Webmaker workweek
- 3 things I do to work more productively throughout the day
- Weeknote 04/2014
- Where I'll be at BETT (#bett2014)
- Weeknote 03/2014
- A Hacker News for education?
- The Web Literacy Standard is dead (long live the Web Literacy Map!)
- The web is the platform (or, the perils of esoteric setups)
- A letter from the future
- Weeknote 02/2014
- Find what you can influence, and focus your attention
- v0.9 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Why I'm ditching Evernote for Simplenote (and Notational Velocity)
- 7 ways to make this your happiest year yet
- What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps13 (and what 2014 has in store)
2013
- #BelshawBlackOps13 has started
- Announcing the Web Literacy Standard (specification)
- Minimum Viable Badge
- Where I'll be at MozFest
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Why have managers?
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Goals, scheduling, shipping
- Weeknote 42/2013
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Problem Solving and Decision Making
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps13
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Practicalities
- My iPad Mini apps (October 2013)
- Weeknote 41/2013
- 3 things I saw at the Mozilla Summit that blew my mind
- Weeknote 40/2013
- What I learned from turning my 'Out of Office' auto-replies on for a month
- Weeknote 39/2013
- Moving on from SpiderOak Hive to BTSync
- Battening down the hatches
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Scale, Chaordic Systems & Trust
- Weeknote 38/2013
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Introduction
- The Ontology of the Web (Or, Why I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Learning Standards) [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 37/2013
- Weeknote 36/2013
- Weeknote 35/2013
- Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive
- No, no, no, no, no
- On the NSA revelations
- Weeknote 34/2013
- The Silent Writing Collective
- My next 100 days at Mozilla
- I am not Richard Stallman
- Weeknote 33/2013
- A new blog: discours.es
- Transitioning into a new role at Mozilla
- Weeknote 32/2013
- Weeknote 31/2013
- Web Literacy Standard RFC
- Weeknote 30/2013
- Badge Camp 2013
- Weeknote 29/2013
- Weeknote 28/2013
- Who I am and how I work: Eugenie Teasley
- It's time to register for MozFest 2013!
- Mozilla Maker Party Newcastle (17 August 2013)
- Weeknote 27/2013
- v0.7 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- A quick look back at my first year at Mozilla
- Why would I send my child to secondary school?
- Weeknote 26/2013
- 5 reasons to use Open Source Software
- I've got a Firefox OS phone
- Weeknote 25/2013
- New Open Badges napkin sketch
- Privacy, the NSA and Web Literacies [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 24/2013
- Zen and the Art of Digital Literacies [video + article]
- Weeknote 23/2013
- Reality check: in light of the NSA revelations, just who do we need to fear?
- Mozilla needs your help with a final push for the Web Literacy Standard (beta)!
- Weeknote 22/2013
- No more #LettingGrow
- TILTW reaches 100!
- Weeknote 21/2013
- I may not be subtle, but I am now @Svbtle
- Explaining Open Badges through analogy
- Weeknote 20/2013
- Reading, feeding and seeding
- Weeknote 19/2013
- Answering your questions about Open Badges
- How transferable are coding skills to other domains? Why is learning a little code important? (#teachtheweb)
- Weeknote 18/2013
- Profit: the purpose of education? [GETideas.org]
- Maslow and the minimalist movement
- What does a non-Web world look like? Investigating Bittorrent Sync.
- An Anarcho-Syndicalist critique of Web browsers
- Weeknote 17/2013
- First draft of Mozilla's Web Literacy standard now available!
- Roundup of some stuff I've been involved with recently
- Mozilla Webmaker MOOC kicking off May 2nd for 9 weeks!
- Habits are things you get for free
- You are not Mr Gove's audience
- Weeknote 16/2013
- Mozilla Web Literacy standard: draft release candidate
- My iPhone apps (April 2013)
- Structured procrastination
- Latest version of Web Literacy standard grid (15th April 2013)
- Why educational reform is like Jenga.
- Weeknote 15/2013
- Latest version of Web Literacy standard grid (8 April 2013)
- Weeknote 14/2013
- What does it mean to 'align' with the Web Literacy standard?
- Web Literacy Standard: a modest proposal (#weblitstd)
- Weeknote 13/2013
- Ambiguity, OER & Open Badges (#OER13 keynote)
- Weeknote 12/2013
- Why I
- v0.6 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Weeknote 11/2013
- Open Badges reaches v1.0!
- Thinking through the Web Literacy standard arc.
- Weeknote 10/2013
- A tribute to Chris Allan (@infernaldepart)
- Supporting a Generation of Digital Makers
- Weeknote 09/2013
- Belshaw beard blooms. (#LettingGrow update)
- First Mozilla Web Literacy standard community call recording now available
- Web Literacy standard weekly community calls starting this Thursday
- Weeknote 08/2013
- Two online gatherings you should be part of (today/tomorrow)
- Planning permission approved for my #shoffice!
- Recording of my #etmooc session on Digital Literacies now available.
- Why we need a learning standard for Web Literacy [DMLcentral]
- T3S1: Digital Literacies with Dr. Doug Belshaw (#etmooc)
- How to ensure your blog posts last forever.
- Weeknote 07/2013
- On 'rigour' in definitions of digital and web literacy.
- Reading books in front of kids is not enough.
- Thinking through helping my kids learn Web concepts.
- Weeknote 06/2013
- Towards a new, open learning standard for Web Literacy
- Towards a Web Literacy standard: (4) How?
- Towards a Web Literacy standard: (3) Who?
- Towards a learning standard for Web Literacy: (2) What? Why?
- Weeknote 05/2013
- Towards a learning standard for Web Literacy: (1) Introduction.
- Some Thoughts on Interest-based Pathways to Learning. [DMLcentral]
- Some (brief) thoughts about online peer assessment.
- Weeknote 04/2013
- MOOCs, online education and the rights of learners.
- How I plan my working days. [RESOURCES]
- Weeknote 03/2013
- On living in the future
- Mozilla Thimble + Popcorn Maker: a productive Webmaking partnership
- A conversation with Audrey Watters about Web Literacies.
- Weeknote 02/2013
- Videos for #openbadges workshops [RESOURCES]
- v0.5 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps12 (and what 2013 has in store)
- Letting Grow.
2012
- #BelshawBlackOps12 has started - see you in 2013!
- Why governments, schools and other public institutions should use Github.
- How to make #openbadges work for you and your organisation.
- Want a tablet? Choose your vendor lock-in.
- Why 'government as platform' is a really bad idea.
- Reading list for #BelshawBlackOps12
- What is 'technology' anyway?
- Why we need more e-learning staff tutors
- Some thoughts on learning technologies in the classroom
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps12
- Using Raspberry Pi and XBMC to build an ultra-cheap HTPC.
- Webmaker badges are GO!
- Preparing for #MozFest
- Mozilla Web Literacies v0.9 (#mozweblit)
- Time for a NICE-r kind of education?
- More thoughts on iPads and one-to-one initiatives.
- Some thoughts on iPads and one-to-one initiatives [DMLcentral]
- On the 'openness' of Open Badges.
- How I use a MacBook Pro (October 2012)
- Open Badges, Clay Shirky, and the tipping point.
- Because obviously I'm a male chauvinist pig.
- A #shoffice update (October 2012)
- Mozilla Web Literacies white paper v0.8
- My response to the ICT Programme of Study consultation
- MozFest!
- Productivity for what?
- Blog redesign: October 2012 edition
- TeachMeet Mozilla Webmaker Edition: 6 October 2012
- What Constitutes 'Rigour' in Our 21st-Century Educational Systems? [DMLcentral]
- Time, innovation and funding.
- My high school report.
- BYOD and cross-platform tools for learning.
- On the mental cost of inventing new categories.
- On private schools becoming academies.
- What I'm up to for Mozilla at the moment.
- Mozilla Web Literacies v0.7
- Thinking About Web Literacy, Making, & Sharing with Mozilla [AUDIO]
- Mozilla, Webmaking, and the Architecture of Participation
- Project Reclaim: a pragmatic update
- v0.4 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Game design, gamification, game mechanics and games-based learning.
- Digital literacies and why they're important... for everyone!
- Why a 'mixed economy' of digital devices is best for your educational institution.
- A few brief thoughts on the Google Nexus 7. [REVIEW]
- Some thoughts on time, performativity, and the State.
- On the relationship between Digital Literacies and Web Literacies. [VIDEO]
- Announcing TeachMeet Mozilla Webmaker Edition 2012 [EVENT]
- Digital Literacies and Web Literacies: What's the Difference? [DMLcentral]
- Announcement: there may be some turbulence. [SITE UPDATES]
- Famous for 42 seconds. [AUDIO]
- Evaluation: the absolute basics
- What we're up to with Mozilla Webmaker (Open) badges.
- Productivity 101: calendars (nouns) and reminders (verbs)
- Stuff I continually reference.
- Doug's new #shoffice
- Another day, another Connected Learning webinar [VIDEO]
- Google Apps for Education UK summit [HELP REQUIRED]
- How to implement technology successfully in your organisation.
- Connected Learning webinar on Hacker Literacies featuring yours truly. [VIDEO]
- An elevator pitch for #openbadges (v0.2) [VIDEO]
- Sullen.
- On (not) working in academia.
- Mac OSX Mountain Lion 10.8: vendor lock-in for the masses?
- v0.3 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Have you subscribed to TILTW yet?
- Is Michael Gove systematically dismantling English state education?
- [UPDATED] Google+ Hangout about #openbadges TODAY 11:00 (BST)
- Mozilla Web Literacies v0.5
- HOWTO: Issue #openbadges in 5 steps using WordPress + WPBadger
- Web Literacies: What is the 'Web' Anyway? [DMLcentral]
- What a weekend! (#MozParty Newcastle & #GreatNorth10k)
- Education: sometimes it's not complex (a reply to Nick Dennis).
- Informal learning, gaming, and #openbadges design
- Lesson plans, social bookmarking and the purpose of education: a response to the latest Hack Education podcast
- Coming to an event near you...
- My elevator pitch for #openbadges (v0.1 alpha) [VIDEO]
- Aim for the high ground, not the high horse.
- On the important differences between literacies, skills and competencies.
- S2R reporters interview me about #openbadges at #MozLDN
- On digital ownership. This is HUGE.
- Working for an Academy vs. working for JISC infoNet [visualisation]
- Web Literacies: building on the work of Michelle Levesque
- Getting up to speed on the technical side of #openbadges
- Some clarification of my position on private schools.
- The 10 most popular posts of the first half of 2012 are...
- #OpenBadges through the rear-view mirror?
- Some thoughts on the Department for Education's consultation on 'Parental Internet Controls'.
- Doctor Doug.
- Why the knowledge vs. skills debate in education is wrong-headed.
- Join me at #MozParty Newcastle on 21st July 2012! [EVENT]
- On the Importance of Webmaking [DMLcentral]
- Commodification, consumerism and the new 'Retina' MacBook Pro.
- Web literacies? (v0.2 beta)
- How to focus in the age of distraction. [GRAPHIC]
- Two presentations (#TELIC1 & #iDragon) [VIDEO]
- Why I'm becoming a MoFo(er).
- Digital literacy, digital natives, and the continuum of ambiguity (#openpeerreview)
- Displaying #OpenBadges with BadgeWidgetHack.
- Purpos/ed: #500words Take 2
- Zen and the Art of Digital Literacies (#EdTech12)
- Examining conceptions of innovation in educational technology [INTERVIEW]
- Reconfiguring Mozilla's Web Literacies (v0.1 alpha)
- Changing thinking vs. Changing systems.
- This is why teachers leave teaching.
- On routines and rituals.
- Project Reclaim: experimenting with openphoto.me
- Purpos/ed #500words Take 2
- [RECORDING] Connected Learning webinar on Open Badges
- Arson at Ellington Nature Reserve.
- v0.2 of 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' now available!
- On writing every day.
- A few things that may interest you...
- Wordle-like Twitter screens for conference keynote presenters?
- 3 rules for our five year-old (that work!)
- More on P2PU's School of Webcraft
- 9 ideas in search of a blog post.
- Project Reclaim: consolidating my blogs.
- 3 principles for a more Open approach.
- Platforms as standards? 10 days with the Nokia N9.
- Swimming Against the Tide: Tracking the Genesis of 'Rebellious' Approaches to Educational Technology.
- 100 people have now bought in to my e-book on digital literacies!
- Badges: talking at cross purposes?
- Gaining Some Perspective on Badges for Lifelong Learning [DMLcentral]
- Beyond Elegant Consumption.
- Interview: Josh Johnson
- My TEDx talk on 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' [video]
- Beyond the Textbook?
- On the new politics of technology.
- Surfacing stuff you may not have seen.
- Getting back on the productivity wagon.
- School of Webcraft: Webmaking 101
- Obliquity, PISA, and 'shareholder value' in education.
- #TEDxWarwick: The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
- Impact: the most important reason for working in the open? (#openeducationweek)
- DML Conference 2012 (#DML2012) - my highlights
- Education: it's what you can't see that counts.
- Connected Learning: a new model of learning.
- The story behind 3 presentations: #cetis12, #dml2012 and #TEDxWarwick
- Tools and processes
- Teaching the fourth “r:” webmaking as a vital 21st century skill?
- Why the REMIX is at the heart of digital literacies
- What's the point of education? [Guardian Teacher Network]
- Twitter, TweetBot and Custom API endpoints
- Announcing my new e-book: 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' (#digilit)
- Conferences as Catalysts for Educational Innovation and Change [DMLcentral]
- The Essentials? (#divest12)
- Web literacy? (v0.1)
- Stripping back: #divest12
- In defence of digital literacies.
- Beyond academic journals?
- Journals, academia and the ivory tower.
- You need us more than we need you.
- Radio EDUtalk and #LWF12
- Ed.D. thesis: an update
- 2012 blog reader survey: full breakdown
- 2012 reader survey: interim results and book winners!
- How to create searchable notes from books using Evernote and your smartphone.
- Take my inagural reader survey. It'll take 5 minutes, tops. Promise.
- Best of Belshaw 2011 now available!
- What I got up do during #BelshawBlackOps11 (and what 2012 has in store)
- Thanks for waiting! Dr. Belshaw will see you now.
2011
- Start here
- #BelshawBlackOps11 has started. See you in 2012!
- We need education for resilience, not flexibility.
- Investing in infrastructure: does it work?
- The Pre-Digital and the Post-Digital.
- Video of my Hybrid Days presentation about digital literacies now available!
- Come and ask me questions LIVE at my Hybrid Days presentation on digital literacies.
- #ukedchat #fail: TES attempts takeover cover-up whilst Pearson muscles-in on grassroots Twitter teacher CPD.
- JISC Online Conference session on digital literacy (#jiscel11)
- An example of innovation being built upon standardization.
- Exploring digital literacies and illiteracies
- How to Develop Digital Literacies in Yourself and Others [PRESENTATION]
- Robots: the elephant(s) in the room?
- Innovation in education: what I'll be talking about at the Guardian event today. (#IIE2011)
- Stop SOPA.
- [REMINDER] #BelshawBlackOps11
- Building a better future (despite the 1%)
- Why we need open, distributed social networks.
- Why peer-review is flawed.
- Bauman on inequality and the logic of capital.
- Zygmunt Bauman on Liquidity vs. Solidity
- If not now, when? Why we need #openbadges and #dmlbadges for lifelong learning RIGHT NOW.
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps11
- My mobile learning article for the Guardian Teacher Network
- Of Bitcoin and Badges.
- What I Learned at #MobilityShifts last week in NYC.
- On the importance of human agency.
- Getting started with Digital Literacies [Presentation]
- Introducing neverendingthesis.com! (a.k.a. today's the day I submit my Ed.D. thesis...)
- What did we learn during a 'semester of learning' on #openbadges over at P2PU.org?
- My Belbin results - Part 2
- Responding to some criticisms about 'badges' for lifelong learning
- 7 upcoming events about which I'm super-excited.
- 'Badges' for Lifelong Learning: Reframing the Debate (#openbadges, #dmlbadges)
- My Belbin results - Part 1
- Change MOOC - #change11
- Commoditising learning through the #flippedclassroom (or, the difference between education and training)
- Launch of the Mobile Learning infoKit
- #openbadges - Learner Stories
- What do Google, Open Source Software and Digital Literacies have in Common?
- Doug's Daily Planner (v1)
- Anarchy in the UK? The reasons behind the breakdown of social order.
- A quick rundown of what I'm up to until Christmas.
- We need to open our eyes to systemic injustice.
- Has England lost its rhythm?
- JOIN US! A semester of learning about Open Badges and assessment.
- The real story behind the #londonriots?
- Help me kick the tyres at semestersoflearning.org!
- Semester of Learning: Open Badges and assessment
- A brand-new campaign for Purpos/ed: #purposedassess
- On the important difference between 'elite' and 'elitist'.
- The Setup.
- What would a post-test era look like for our schools?
- Jesus as a Social Marker? (or, How to Build a Community)
- Social Objects and the importance of sharing.
- Competition and the problem with 'reality'.
- What do new Social Networks tell us about Digital Literacies?
- Why Google+ is like an extended unboxing video.
- What I talk about when I talk about user outcomes - #6 - Open Educational Resources
- Purpos/ed, the #neverendingthesis and productivity [Ed Tech Crew podcast 165]
- How do you define attendance? [JISC Inform article]
- Read the first complete draft of my doctoral thesis on digital literacies.
- Why I'm starting to blog at DMLcentral
- My new work blog and other RSS goodies.
- Special Delivery: a letter to my children this Fathers Day.
- Project Reclaim: backing up to local network storage
- Giving my visitors some (virtual, P2P) cash.
- Project Reclaim: or, how I learned to start worrying and love my data.
- The myth underpinning '21st Century Skills' [Future of Education]
- Introducing 'User Outcomes Weekly'
- Pragmatism as a candidate methodology
- What I Talk About When I Talk About User Outcomes #5 - Productivity vs. Performativity
- Methodology section: Post-Structuralism
- "It's About Time!" Introducing Synechism Ltd.
- Blog name change
- Methodology section: Critical Theory
- Quick overview: iA's Writer app
- Schools as resources for fairness. [Future of Education]
- On the paucity of our collective imagination. [Future of Education]
- The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (#digilit)
- Umbrella terms and micro-literacies
- How I Use a MacBook Pro (May 2011)
- The Digital Native/Immigrant dichotomy.
- How to teach using mobile devices
- Shift up a gear: work with me from September 2011!
- New Literacy Studies
- #uppingyourgame: a practical guide to personal productivity is NOW FREE!
- Reflecting on yesterday's Purpos/ed Summit for Instigators (#purposedpsi)
- Epistemic games and situated learning.
- From my research: New Literacies around the world
- The USA: a New Literacies desert?
- What I talk about when I talk about ‘user outcomes’ #4
- Hog roasts, Amazon EC2 and traffic lights.
- Digital Media Literacy in Australia
- How to do battle with Status Quo. And win.
- 5 interesting productivity-related resources I've come across recently
- The future of learning organizations: What do we mean by 'attendance'?
- 5 free, web-based tools to help you be a kick-ass researcher.
- Learning taxonomies: why 'creating' is not a cognitive skill.
- New literacies (or the lack of them) in Singapore
- My favourite quotations from 'Teaching with the Tools Kids Really Use'
- 10 things educators forget to do after teacher training.
- e-Learning: Mobile learning, VLEs and Quality [video]
- I Got 99 Problems But a Workflow Ain't One.
- What I talk about when I talk about 'user outcomes' #3
- Exploring Mobile: Considerations and Opportunities
- Mobile phone ban? #govephonehome
- 'Digital literacy' in Norway?
- Purpos/ed featured in the TES
- mobiMOOC: 2 April - 14 May 2011
- My thesis is your thesis.
- Bad Trip
- Revolutionary tools do not a revolution make.
- My research is your research.
- Collaboration, perception, and context.
- Trajectories of ambiguity: my first journal article.
- Web apps and workflows
- Digital literacy, e-safety and donating to Japan
- Is digital literacy 'in crisis'?
- What I talk about when I talk about user outcomes (2)
- Using Digital Media to Improve Teaching and Learning
- Feeding back.
- What's the opposite of 'digital Taylorism'?
- New Literacies and 'worked examples'
- Keith Belshaw's contribution to the #purposed debate
- i'm in ur conference startin a revolushunz
- Feed me! Feed me NOW!
- Less shiny.
- Gestures as semiotic domains
- Why e-safety isn't part of digital literacy (and never will be).
- HOWTO: Create a clickable tag cloud using Tagul
- PRINCE2 for schools (or, why don't schools have project managers?)
- The perils of shiny shiny educational technology.
- Effective learning and the physicality of the classroom.
- Speaking in Lolcats: What Literacy Means in teh Digital Era
- Literaci.es: Reflecting on New Literacies
- Futurelab's Digital Literacy: professional development resource
- Digital literacy and the public/private boundary
- Why everyone should learn a little History and Philosophy.
- More on the (fragile) nature of reality.
- #ukedchat TONIGHT about #purposed
- Digital media literacy in the 2011 Horizon report
- Social media, backlash and the nature of reality.
- Productivity via Moleskine notebook indexing.
- Reflecting on Day 1 of Purpos/ed
- BOOM! Purpos/ed launches.
- Why I spent my twenties unlearning my teenage years.
- One week to go until we launch #purposed!
- Operationalising digital literacy #1: Wikileaks
- Educational philosophy, the zeitgeist, and #purposed
- Nobody knows what digital literacy is.
- Liminality and spare capacity
- The Productivity Prompting Box
- Best of Belshaw
- 30 things I've learned in 30 years.
- How I'm organising my digital outputs in 2011
- Why I've re-designated Synechism as CC0
- 10 things I did during Belshaw Black Ops.
2010
- Belshaw Black Ops.
- My most 'engaging' posts of 2010
- Creative Ambiguity and Digital Literacy
- Things I Learned This Week #50
- Weeknote #30
- [INCOMING] Personal digital hiatus.
- Meeting with Ed.D. supervisor: conceptual ecologies, productive concepts, and hypozeugma
- Models of Learning: #tmoxon presentation
- Things I Learned This Week - #49
- Weeknote #30
- Online Educa Berlin 2010
- JISC Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review
- Dell Latitude 2110: a review.
- Things I Learned This Week - #48
- JISC Innovating e-Learning 2010 Online Conference - #jiscel10
- Weeknote #29
- Blogging: 5 things I've learned in 5 years.
- What I Talk About When I Talk About 'User Outcomes': #1 - Douglas Adams, Feng Shui & controlling behaviours.
- Things I Learned This Week - #47
- Weeknote #28
- HOWTO: Roll your own #twebay
- 5 ways Twitter could revolutionize education.
- You don't 'build' better teachers.
- Interesting North 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #46
- Weeknote #27
- The one thing I never want my son to say again.
- Media Literacy: the biggest enemy of UK 'digital literacy' initiatives?
- User outcomes: bona fides.
- Comments policy
- #amazonfail: a perspective
- Do you remember the first time?
- The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams [Review]
- Types of relationship and communities of 'ought'.
- Things I Learned This Week - #45
- Weeknote #26
- 'So... what do you do?' (v2)
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #5
- The best blog posts I've ever written, by category.
- Things I'm Thinking About
- Use is not strategy.
- Major blog redesign.
- Digging deeper: some considerations for blog design.
- Why we don't celebrate Hallowe'en in our house
- Things I Learned This Week - #44
- Weeknote #25
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #4
- A story of three requests.
- Too many bricks, not enough mortar.
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 5
- Things I Learned This Week - #43
- Weeknote #24
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #3
- Edtech companies: inspiring or conspiring?
- mLearn 2010
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: restructuring
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 4
- Notifo: a notifications inbox
- Ed.D. thesis restructure
- Things I Learned This Week - #42
- Weeknote #23
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #2
- Got 5 seconds? Help with the redesign of this blog!
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 3
- Things I Learned This Week - #41
- How not to write a thesis.
- Weeknote #22
- Glowing first review of #uppingyourgame!
- My 5 favourite non-fiction books
- Oxford E-Learning Debate 2010
- Mr. Men on the opposite of productivity
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 2
- Performativity, fetishism & the aristocracy of everyone.
- Things I Learned This Week - #40
- Weeknote #21
- 10 Things I Shared This Week - #1
- #uppingyourgame: finished and now on sale!
- Things I Learned This Month - September 2010
- MoLeNET Conference
- 3 reasons teachers should smile
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 1
- Things I Learned This Week - #39
- 3 things I've learned in my 11 years as a student in Higher Education.
- Weeknote #20
- Why parents don't engage with schools
- 5 things it's currently fashionable to say (without much evidence)
- 3 things common to most successful people
- Why I've turned off GMail Priority Inbox
- Scottish Learning Festival 2010
- What goes into my conference bag?
- Is now a good time to get an iPad?
- Creativity: confusing inputs with outputs.
- Things I Learned This Week - #38
- Weeknote #19
- HOWTO: Use Evernote to take notes on books.
- Pragmatism, dead metaphors & the myth of the echo chamber.
- How is as important as why.
- Things I Learned This Week - #37
- Weeknote #18
- A response to Donald Clark's #altc2010 keynote
- #uppingyourpresentation
- The 3 most important things I learned at ALT-C 2010
- 5 things I can do with my Kindle that you can't with your dead-tree books.
- Free schools: the good, the bad and the ugly.
- Your anti-ebook rhetoric is like a broken record.
- Things I Learned This Week - #36
- Weeknote #17
- 10 reasons I like reading ebooks more than paper books.
- Greplin: potential solver of a huge problem?
- Go to conferences? Use Lanyrd.
- Methodology for Pragmatists
- UX: 5 valuable resources
- Things I Learned This Week - #35
- Weeknote #16
- Let me tell you what I think 'this' is.
- I sync therefore I am.
- Embedding a live Twitter search in Keynote 09
- Innovation, productivity and frames of reference
- Things I Learned This Week - #34
- Weeknote #15
- What's this?
- #runningtunes
- Education Eye: an RSS reader for those who don't feed-read...
- 10 things I learned from 'Why Don't Students Like School?'
- I am not a person who teaches.
- 5 characteristics of successful organisations
- Things I Learned This Week - #33
- Weeknote #14
- 5 reasons to avoid seeing 'The Expendables'
- New metaphors and symbols required!
- Google Apps Marketplace: apps worth installing
- Productivity: don't break the chain!
- Things I Learned This Week - #32
- Write lots? Buy this.
- Weeknote #13
- Why my wife should be happy with her adopted surname.
- Why I'm not the Wizard of Oz
- The freeze-thaw method of technology integration.
- Google Knol: the future of academic journals?
- Calling myself into the office: August 2010
- Experience, skill, and user experience.
- Things I Learned This Week - #31
- 3 ways to influence people.
- The sublime and the ridiculous.
- Weeknote #12
- Google Earth for #GTAUK
- Google Apps (Education Edition) vs. Microsoft Live@Edu
- Things I Learned This Week - #30
- Weeknote #11
- One week until #GTAUK
- 3 things I need to maintain my productivity.
- Motivation comes from within.
- Intention vs. Effect
- You are what you habitually do.
- Is it time to get rid of secondary schools?
- Productivity: value your time
- The importance of domain knowledge
- Things I Learned This Week - #29
- Weeknote #10
- #onfire: ignite your productivity [free ebook - please RT!]
- Flying without wings
- 4 solutions to office-based productivity-sappers.
- Highest common denominator.
- eBooks
- #onfire: ignite your productivity.
- Recontextualization.
- Things I Learned This Week - #28
- Weeknote #9
- On Minimalism.
- Academic reading on the Amazon Kindle
- #GTAUK: Google Earth wiki & ebook
- A life in my technological day.
- Calling myself into the office: July 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #27
- Weeknote #8
- HOWTO: Go Camping (according to my Twitter network)
- TeachMeet SHP Edition 2010
- Are we doing young people a disservice?
- Why do we use technology?
- 5 steps to making other people more productive.
- Things I Learned This Week - #26
- Weeknote #7
- How to design the ultimate presentation.
- Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware & creative ambiguity
- Open Educational Resources infoKit
- Hands-on with the Dell Streak.
- 5 ways Google Calendar is turning into my ultimate productivity system.
- Things I Learned This Week - #25
- Weeknote #6
- Designing for Creative Ambiguity
- HOWTO: Google Scholar email alerts
- Moving beyond '21st century skills'
- ...and 5 reasons why I bought a Dell Streak again.
- Productivity: choose your friction.
- Things I Learned This Week - #24
- Weeknote #5
- 10 reasons I returned my Dell Streak today.
- Freire, Conscientization & Digital Literacy
- Apply for Google Teacher Academy UK!
- (In)decisive Doug, the Dell Streak and iPhone 4.
- Calling myself into the office: June 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #23
- Weeknote #4
- The post-Becta, QCDA and GTCE future.
- Digital literacy: a function of poor design?
- 5 genuinely useful Twitter tools.
- The future of mobile is open and smart.
- The 3 biggest productivity-killers.
- Things I Learned This Week - #22
- Weeknote #3
- Shut happens.
- My bMoble TeachMeet presentation
- Twitter is not the best CPD you've ever received.
- 5 reasons I'm using less and less Open Source stuff.
- Establishing your productivity 'endgame'
- Things I Learned This Week - #21
- Weeknote #2
- Battery life: iPhone 3GS vs Google Nexus One vs HTC Desire
- bMobLe Conference 2010
- The Hyperlinked Society [Full Review]
- Wednesday Wisdom #20: Disreputable occupations.
- Why Open Source should be more like Fairtrade.
- How to find your 'productive song'.
- Things I Learned This Week - #20
- Weeknote #1
- Design and the 5 Golden Rules of Technology purchases.
- What's the most common type of ambiguity in definitions of 'digital literacy'?
- Wednesday Wisdom #19: Be a person of integrity
- How to use Netvibes as a project management hub.
- Surviving to thriving: 10 steps to ensure you remain productive after a rough night.
- Where do you get your ideas for blog posts from?
- Things I Learned This Week - #19
- Why we need Proportional Representation [infographic]
- A short note on syndication
- Why the European view of 'digital literacy' is ambiguous.
- Wednesday Wisdom #18: Be common in nothing.
- Google Wave: now with added usefulness.
- Calling myself into the office: May 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #18
- Innovation: where it's at.
- Roadbud: a new iPhone app for runners [Review]
- TeachMeet North East 2010
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: my first journal article.
- Wednesday Wisdom #17: Prize intensity.
- 3 online tools I'm using to increase my work-related productivity
- 7 things the Bible taught me about productivity.
- Things I Learned This Week - #17
- My resumé as a London Underground map.
- 10 things I've learned since starting work for JISC
- Using a Sony Reader PRS-600 to make notes on academic articles.
- Wednesday Wisdom #16: Thumbscrews
- The first new media election?
- Support Northumbria Conference 2010
- My interview on Productivity for educators
- Things I Learned This Week - #16
- Recommended Design-related blogs
- Best 3 things about my new job?
- If I were trapped on a Desert Island...
- Why I bought a Sony Reader ebook reader today.
- Wednesday Wisdom #15: Credulity
- JISC Conference 2010
- Why I'm using iPREDator now the Digital Economy Bill has been passed
- JISC Conference 2010: Introductory Debate
- HOWTO: Productively hack your workday.
- Rationale
- Things I Learned This Week - #15
- Leadership by Design.
- The ultra-paranoid guide to ensuring you've got your presentation slides.
- Why I use Google stuff
- HOWTO: Set up Google Scholar to do the heavy lifting for you.
- Wednesday Wisdom #14: Imagination
- Some reflections on the organization of #BectaX
- #uppingyourgame v0.5 now available!
- Things I Learned This Week - #14
- Education is easy - in theory! [visualization]
- Music I'm running to at the moment,
- The end of the beginning.
- Leaving the circus
- Wednesday Wisdom #13: Erudition
- Learning Score, a lesson-planning tool. [Review]
- How to be overwhelmingly positive (even when you don't feel like it)
- Things I Learned This Week - #13
- #newleaders is #movemeon for... guess who?
- Education 2.0
- What I learned about education whilst in the UAE
- A partial review of 'The Hyperlinked Society'
- Wednesday Wisdom #12: Things have their period
- How to move forward with Open Source: a teacher's perspective
- How to 'chapter' your life to make it more productive.
- Things I Learned This Week - #12
- LastHistory: a great way to generate Last.fm visualizations
- Hello? Is it me you're looking for?
- The ambiguity of new literacies [mindmap]
- Wednesday Wisdom #11: Exaggerated expectations
- Technology in History teaching: disseminating good practice in Turkey
- #uppingyourgame v0.4 now available!
- Things I Learned This Week - #11
- A brief history of infographics.
- You're doing it wrong.
- EUROCLIO: Third Authors and Experts' Workshop, Kizilcahamam
- Seven types of ambiguity and new literacies
- Wednesday Wisdom #10: Application and ability
- HOWTO: Create iTunes audiobooks from MP3s
- #uppingyourgame: an audio preview
- Advertising vs. Sponsorship
- Things I Learned This Week - #10
- How I put together 'Things I Learned This Week' [visualization]
- Escaping the circus.
- Ten big questions for education
- Wednesday Wisdom #9: Life is a warfare against malice.
- Things I'm interested in talking about at dougbelshaw.com/blog
- Get that cool Google-style 'reveal' effect on your site.
- Notes from interview about productivity for teachers
- #getthatjob: now FREE
- Why did I make #getthajob free?
- Things I learned this week - #9
- Exam performance of looked-after children in England [infographic]
- 5 tips for new bloggers
- My favourite proverbs from around the world.
- How I organize my Ed.D. thesis
- Wednesday Wisdom #8: Excellence needs some polish
- Alternatives to Google
- #getthatjob: my guide to applying for teaching-related jobs
- #getthatjob: an educator's guide to finding, applying, and interviewing for a teaching-related job
- Things I learned this week - #8
- Blog post popularity as a treemap [infographic]
- Modern procrastination and cycling trivialities.
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: digital literacy & ambiguity
- Wednesday Wisdom #7: Cultivate relationships
- iPhone apps I currently use.
- #uppingyourgame v0.3 now available!
- Things I learned this week - #7
- Google Buzz is not a Twitter-killer.
- Tenori-on, Little Boots and Melodica
- Some considerations regarding ebook readers for academics.
- Wednesday Wisdom #6: Avoid the faults of your nation.
- Some thoughts about online privacy.
- Finding your 'well' of productivity and motivation.
- Things I learned this week - #6
- Worldwide car colour popularity [infographic]
- Towards a fitter Doug.
- Initial thoughts on Digital Competence/Literacy/Flow
- Wednesday Wisdom #5: Avoid outshining your superiors
- A quick way to add a 'sparkline' to your blog.
- #uppingyourgame (v0.2) now ready!
- Things I learned this week - #5
- A subtle redesign.
- Daniel Pink on motivation.
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: The Autotelic Self
- Wednesday Wisdom #4: Ruling your impulses
- Why I no longer wear a watch.
- A tribute to Dan Meyer.
- Things I learned this week - #4
- GCSE results by location/ethnicity [visualization]
- BumpTop: 'interesting' or genuinely useful?
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: Tetrads & Connectivism.
- Wednesday Wisdom #3: Arriving at completeness
- Learning Score
- #uppingyourgame: an educator's guide to productivity (v0.1)
- Things I learned this week - #3
- My visual resumé [infographic]
- NOT Friday Fun
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: digital epistemologies & ontology.
- Wednesday Wisdom #2: The value of novelty
- The new blog order.
- #uppingyourgame
- My favourite music of the 'noughties'.
- Things I learned this week - #2
- Off-site and cloud-based backup: my solution.
- Some Friday fun!
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: dialectic.
- Wednesday Wisdom #1: Character and intellect
- Feedback: why you read this blog.
- #movemeon
- Mac OSX apps I currently use.
- Things I learned this week - #1
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: moving beyond Traditional Literacy.
- Commitments for 2010.
2009
- Read what I've read: 2009 edition.
- OpenBeta
- OpenBeta: a publishing model.
- Why do you read this blog?
- If I wrote a book, would you buy it?
- Merry Christmas!
- #blogsilike
- Twenty-nine.
- #movemeon book now available!
- Disclaimer
- Google: excellence and diversity?
- How I deal with email.
- Hyperlocality and iterating towards 2.0
- My digital reading workflow.
- A non-Luddite rebuttal of technology integration?
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the roadmap for 2010.
- The evolution of communication.
- The future of my Ed.D. thesis.
- 'Information literacy': its history and problems.
- #eduhivefive (a suggestion).
- The history of 'new literacies'.
- Best of Belshaw (2009)
- Beyond Creative Commons: uncopyright.
- The problem with free stuff.
- E-safety: the 'googleability test' (a suggestion).
- #twitter365 (2009)
- The difference between visualizations and infographics.
- Social media, open standards & curmudgeonliness.
- On the glorious weirdness of connecting with people online.
- 10 things people like me want for Christmas.
- My #TMETRU09 presentation: #movemeon & CPD via Twitter
- Research supporting collaborative, enquiry-based learning.
- Back to (theme) basics.
- A useful way to categorise educational technologies.
- Design the (e-)book cover for #movemeon!
- Affinity spaces, secondary orality & digital epistemologies.
- #movemeon - a suggestion.
- My first infographic competition.
- Infographics and my future.
- Learning and growing.
- 12 educational ways of using 12seconds.tv
- Learning objectives: the importance of trigger verbs
- Ed.D. Thesis snapshot: towards a bedrock definition of literacy.
- How I mark students' books.
- Got a blog? Do this simple thing to boost your readership.
- The difference between 'crowdsourcing' and being lazy.
- Why Ewan McIntosh *was* (partly) wrong.
- Learning objectives: the basics
- It's energy that matters, not the hours you put in.
- How to restore a very large MySQL file without errors.
- What to do when your 'get up and go' has got up and left.
- On the importance of 'real-world learning'
- Where we're headed with the Academy's E-Learning ecosystem.
- Leadership by smiling.
- 3 ways Google Wave could be used in the classroom.
- A proposal to get more high-quality explanatory videos to learners.
- Embracing the future: why I've ditched MP3s and signed up to Spotify Premium
- Has Wordpress-powered P2 left me 'more organized and productive'?
- Who are you and where do you come from?
- Activity, Passivity and Failure.
- Sign up for TeachMeet ETRU edition 09!
- On the important difference between hitchhiking and bandwagon-jumping.
- Carol Dweck on 'growth mindsets' and motivation.
- Assessment in UK schools: a convenient hypocrisy?
- How Wordpress-powered P2 is (hopefully) going to leave me more organized and productive!
- E-Learning Strategy Overview (a.k.a. my 3-year plan)
- My Google Apps Education Edition 'nano presentation' at TeachMeetSLF09
- 'So... what do you do?'
- What I learned about leadership from Seth Godin's 'Tribes'.
- elearnr posts now at dougbelshaw.com/blog
- Leadership by gesture.
- Heuristical Templates (or, how to review elearning stuff in a way that benefits others)
- A video introduction to using Google Calendar for timetables and meetings
- A Week of Divesting: Reflections
- A Week of Divesting: Blog design
- A Week of Divesting: Software
- A Week of Divesting: 'Analogue Time'
- A Week of Divesting: Domains [incl. a competition!]
- A Week of Divesting: Media
- A Week of Divesting: an introduction
- Why I'm trying to make myself redundant.
- Join us for EdTechRoundUp 2009/10!
- Director of E-Learning: Doug Belshaw
- A Tale of Two Guest Houses (or, what are you offering your students this academic year?)
- Quit whinging and 'use the difficulty'!
- Why digital literacy != the 'aftermath' of literacy
- A (temporary) farewell to a hero.
- The story behind the new design of dougbelshaw.com
- My 'Edonis' interview with David Noble
- HOWTO: Tether an iPhone to a netbook running Jolicloud
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: 'aspirational naming,' hegemonic power and finishing early?
- Jolicloud: my first impressions of the 'cool new [social] OS for your netbook'
- The 8 C's of digital literacy
- Which is the best netbook operating system?
- Watch my Ed.D. thesis grow in real-time...
- Using Joe's Goals to track and then improve your productive outputs.
- The importance of heuristics in educational technology and elearning.
- How to SPIN your way to giving more constructive negative feedback.
- The Big Move
- HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (advanced)
- Surviving the matrix: 5 common leadership pitfalls and how to avoid them.
- Leadership Day roundup
- Four ways to make your organization live long and prosper.
- Be more productive: take 'caffeine naps'.
- Pure gold nuggets from Shirky
- HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (the basics...)
- Raising achievement in History at KS4 using e-learning
- How to Lead: Being Professional
- How to Lead: Being Positive
- Daniel Goleman on Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- How to Lead: Focusing on People
- Thinking of changing this blog...
- Four ways to understand organizational change
- Are organizations like brains?
- Open Source Schools - Open Source Software: an overview
- Acceptable Use Agreements, Definitions & Digital Guidelines
- Acceptable Use Policy - feedback required!
- What I learned at TeachMeet North East 09
- Lord Bilimoria on leadership.
- Gill Rider on leadership.
- Colin Day on leadership.
- David Brandon on leadership.
- The future of education? My visit to RM's REAL Centre
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the confusion around 'digital literacy'.
- Why governmental educational reforms fail.
- How to promote organizational innovation.
- One step ahead of the storm.
- Like words in a letter sent, amplified by the distance.
- The 3 key elements of productivity.
- Stepping out of the stream.
- Digital Literacy and the 'Digital Society'
- My presentation @ TeachMeet Midlands 2009
- Why (educational) technology?
- Everything that's wrong with educational management, summed up in 3 Dilbert cartoons.
- Schools and the Procrustean Bed: are we really 'personalising' learning?
- What are the 'functional specifications' of a VLE that drive real learning?
- Looking to the future of education: learning spaces and mobile devices
- HOWTO: Make yourself more visible online by building a Google Profile
- Telling a new story.
- Ignore everybody.
- Ed.D. thesis Literature Review: a start has been made!
- Conversations about (new) literacies
- The Big E-Learning Questions
- How ‘microblogging’ sites such as Twitter can be used in education
- How E-Learning can contribute to raising achievement
- HOWTO: Present full-screen using Prezi and an Apple Remote [OSX]
- Flow and the Autotelic Classroom
- The six month slap-in-the-face for UK teachers
- Podcasting: a 3-step guide
- Alternative ways of presenting content and information to pupils
- "You can tell a lot about someone from what they're like."
- The evolution of EdTechRoundUp
- Ways to find great resources and ideas for lessons
- Quasi-motivational posters
- Under-promise and Over-deliver: the language of productivity.
- Open Source Schools curriculum meeting
- Why 'digital literacy' is central to 21st century education.
- Digital things upon which I *do* and *would* spend real cash.
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the way ahead
- The Problem with Promotion
- Dilbert on 'learner voice'
- Podcasting: Step 3 - Converting and uploading your podcast ready for the masses!
- Interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom
- My Ed.D. thesis concept map on 'Digital Literacy'
- New music section at dougbelshaw.com
- 'Following' me on Twitter? These people are!
- HOWTO: Add an RSS feed to Google Sites
- 'Flow' and the waste of free time
- Podcasting: Step 2 - Recording and editing your podcast
- My Computing History
- Hannon: 'Reflecting on Literacy in Education'
- Podcasting: Step 1 - RSS and setting up a teacher blog
- Safeguarding: the next step in the transition to Web 3.0?
- BETT 2009, TeachMeet & and iPhone misfortunes
- What if....?
- BETT 2009 and EdTechRoundup
- The Third Conversation
- Gunther Kress on Literacy
- The problem(s) of 21st century literacy/ies
- 7 Things You May Not Know About Me
2008
- Top 25: The Best of Belshaw 2008
- Merry Christmas!
- I'm 28, I'm not *old*...
- My response to the GTC's proposed 'code of conduct' for teachers in England.
- Productivity: the problem for me, summed up in two images.
- SEN Department E-Learning Session
- elearnr: what have I been up to?
- 5 interesting web applications to mess around with when you're bored over Christmas!
- Wanna buy my Macbook?
- Productivity, Organization & #tweetmeet
- 3 reasons I'm against the Edublog Awards
- The Simpsons 'do' Apple...
- Beyond boring Powerpoint presentations.
- The very best of teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
- Interesting Ways to use Netbooks in the Classroom
- Finally! a video that explains what I'm aiming for as a teacher.
- How to use Google Earth more effectively.
- Functionally and aesthetically-speaking: Asus Eee 1000 vs. Advent 4211
- Glogs - create interactive and rich media web pages quickly and easily!
- Forms of Literacy
- First photos with my new Canon 1000D digital SLR
- 'Literacy'
- Take your computer with you with PortableApps!
- The Vortex of Uncompetence
- Getting to grips with the school email system
- More on Teaching as a Subversive Activity
- Living offline
- Using del.icio.us to synchronise bookmarks & find new, exciting stuff
- What does it take to build a community?
- 3 ways to prevent being 'unfollowed' on Twitter
- Digital Permanence: Death & Data
- Why we should adopt the OA5 system in education
- Give your students a voice with VoiceThread
- My Ed.D. thesis: introduction and a ?
- How to create engaging video starters without any creative talent using Animoto
- What to do when you can't be RSSed...
- Digital Literacy, Pragmatism and the Social Construction of Reality
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
- Politics: the biggest problem in education
- Teacher as Game Show Host?
- Good teaching is good teaching.
- Never lose a document again: how Google Docs can change the way you and your department work!
- Doug's first world tour!
- Blue Skies Thinking vs. Grey Skies Thinking
- 4 reasons you should jailbreak your iPhone 3G
- Creating a homework blog in 3 simple steps using email
- I'll tell you this for free...
- Librarian blogs and social networks
- Good ideas, sheep and wolves.
- How to find and download YouTube videos for use in the classroom
- Dilbert on 'best practice'
- Some questions about teaching
- 10 ways to use your interactive whiteboard more effectively
- 10 ways to make your working day more productive
- My way or the highway.
- Class spreadsheet for teachers
- How to use your interactive whiteboard more effectively
- Why as an educator you should care about Open Source Software
- 5 ways my teaching will change because of today's GCSE results.
- Posterous
- 90% digital, or 12 ways my teaching ecosystem is evolving.
- Buddha knows best, or why 'digital literacy' is so hard to pin down.
- elearnr - new blog for a new role!
- Twitter Fantasy Football
- The feature that will make Posterous better than Edublogs is...
- 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year
- 3 reasons I returned my iPhone 3G
- My life in the next couple of weeks...
- edte.ch barnraising: get involved in forming a community!
- My new Digital Literacies codex
- Synaesthesia, migraines and creativity
- Help me fill in the gaps.
- 5 productivity tips/hacks I've come across recently.
- Knowledge vs Experience
- 'In The Night Garden' as a communist utopia
- I am Spart-arthus!
- I need YOUR help with the future of edte.ch
- The Never-ending (Gadget) Story... the Advent 4211
- Skype Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- An invitation to a conversation...
- SHP Conference 2008
- SHP 2008 Videos
- Social Fabric
- Doug lives in rural isolation thanks to the Internet
- I want educational technology to be boring.
- 2 Amazing Firefox plugins: Stylish & Feedly
- Censorship and the Personal/Professional divide
- Introducing TweetMeet
- The stream becomes a trickle...
- "Toto, I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore!" (or, How to get started in the Edublogosphere...)
- Posts imported from edte.ch
- I'm a published author!
- Gym'll Fix It!
- Help me write my job spec. for next year!
- AUP 2.0
- Are you an 'Edupunk'? I'm not.
- Porn in every school? or Why filtering will soon be irrelevant.
- I've sold my Asus Eee 4G. What now?
- Into the Wild world of Hitler and Attachment Theory.
- The most amazing thing you'll see on the Internet this year!
- Serendipity, living in an echo chamber, and Learning to Change.
- Some web-hosting advice, please...
- How I got started... and the difference it's made.
- EdTechRoundup 5 - group discussion on VLEs and GLOW
- What is a VLE?
- My Ed.D. thesis proposal: What does it mean to be 'digitally literate'?
- dougbelshaw.com redesign
- Creating an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo WiiMote
- That's my boy!
- Mobile-phone based interactive whiteboards using WiiMotes?
- History KS3 Programme of Study for QCA 2008 orders
- Are you Alice, Dilbert, or the Boss?
- Towards a forward-thinking Acceptable Use Policy for mobile devices
- EdTechRoundup 4 featuring, erm, me again...
- Holiday in North Yorkshire
- Questions about the future of education
- (Almost) everything you need to know about the 14-19 changes
- The Working Classes
- I'm going to miss this...
- We have a winner!
- What is 'digital literacy'? It's certainly not this...
- Animoto now free for educators
- Meme machine
- Is a degree enough?
- Competition: win a Macvatar Macbook skin!
- Educational Technology Integration Matrix
- 10 'Home Truths' about Schooling and Education
- On having a space to myself
- Things I've been reading online recently
- A cluttered desk is a sign of genius.
- The saddest picture in the world...
- I've started using Twitter with my pupils...
- Use Your Head.
- Seminal blog posts
- April Fools Day, Google-style...
- Wixi: a bizarre yet useful free file-sharing / web-desktop hybrid
- Is Twitter bad for you?
- The Map Is Not The Territory: the changing face of the edublogosphere
- Timelines.tv points the way to the future of learning History
- New Asus eee user? Read this!
- A DVD-ripping guide for educators: Part 2
- Eee-aye, eee-aye, eee-aye... oh.
- A DVD-ripping guide for educators: Part 1
- EdTechRoundup 3 featuring Yours Truly
- A win at last!
- AppleTV? Pah!
- Recommend me 3
- We've sold!
- Google Apps proposal
- Better off because of Budget?
- Is handwriting dead?
- Sync any type of video (DivX, Xvid, etc.) with an AppleTV
- 4 blogs that enhance my productivity
- edte.ch Monthly Roundup (February 2008)
- Edmodo: Twitter for education?
- 15 days of Google answers
- Google Sites - wikis for Google Apps users!
- (Google) Talk to me!
- Classroom organization and its relation to pedagogy
- 3 'well, duh' BBC Education articles
- Don't miss Stephen Fry's blog and podcast
- Windows Live SkyDrive
- THIS is how technology can enhance learning
- Ken Robinson on creativity v2
- More on mobile phone projectors
- Be notified of follow-up comments
- Why 'high culture' for pupils is highly wrong-headed
- 3 strikes and then out for UK 'illegal' downloaders?
- Benjamin Belshaw's 1st Year
- Hacking an AppleTV v1.1
- How to turn your Nokia phone into a wireless hotspot
- Using Google mobile apps in schools
- EdTechRoundup: Episode 2
- Animoto rocks! Here's proof...
- Wordpress customization
- Asus unveil new Eee PC's
- 3 reasons the majority of students are NOT 'digitally literate'
- Context is everything
- Schools SHOULD be small!
- House up for sale
- Pimp your 5g iPod Video to look like an iPod Touch
- 5 things School of Rock can teach us about real education
- Page Peel Script
- Google Apps in China? A response for EdTechRoundup
- 7 ways to improve your productivity as a teacher
- 5 ways to make 'textbook lessons' more interesting
- EdTechRoundup needs your help with Google Apps UK!
- Ben can almost walk!
- RM Asus Minibook
- EdTechRoundup podcasts are go!
- Skribit: Suggest topics for me to blog about
- Mac OSX: changing spots back to stripes
- Emotional truancy
- New header image
- Why schools should exclusively use free software
- Reflections on BETT 2008
- edte.ch @ BETT 2008
- I don't like paper
- BETT 2008
- My Seminar at BETT
- Hi, my name's Doug Belshaw...
- Mobile phone projectors? Now we're talking...
- Paul Stamatiou: the most productive person I (virtually) know
- References
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal (almost there!)
- How to upgrade your Nokia N95 to v12.x firmware and make it a whole lot better
2007
- Read what I've read: my books of 2007
- 'I Am Legend' has it all
- No place for 'gadgets' in the classroom?
- Lost my contacts
- Ed.D. blog moves home
- Paradigms within research methodology
- Why's everyone using Pownce?
- Facebook in the future?
- More on Research Methodologies
- Research Methodologies
- Hakia: web search with meaning
- Guide: using Google Apps for Education
- Zoho writer now available in offline mode
- Birmingham Leading Edge INSET
- Google Presentations now with custom backgrounds
- edte.ch workshop now open!
- More on RFID tags in education
- Busy, busy, busy...
- Sub-$200 PC... and not the OLPC project!
- The obligatory iPhone in education post
- RFID in school uniforms
- Ning now ad-free for educators!
- Numeracy improvements thanks to the good doctor
- How educational technology should change
- Becta warns UK schools off Microsoft
- New layout and theme at edte.ch
- Phew! So it's not ADHD...
- Linux on all computers in Russian schools by 2009
- PVR comparison and roundup
- The Online Office space hots up
- In these we trust: 5 basic edtech tools every teacher should have in their toolbox
- Ben crawling!
- Now THIS irritates me...
- A day in the library at the University of Durham
- Wikispaces now has widgets
- Google Docs made simple
- Amazon MP3 launches, not for UK
- Google Presentations now live!
- OLPC laptops about pedagogy, not price
- Freebase, oSkope visual search and our relationship to knowledge
- Hannah's new car
- Moodle the most popular VLE?
- Argument for thesis proposal
- Howto: host multiple websites using one web hosting account
- Google wikis soon?
- New edte.ch logo
- Google Warehouse Model Viewer
- Zoho Creator - web forms made easy!
- Did You Know? 2.0 UK version - it exists!
- Google Phone
- SMART Notebook interactive viewer
- IT managers should not dictate pedagogy
- Information Literacy
- Freebase: a useful companion to Wikipedia
- Did You Know? 2.0 - UK version?
- To-do v2
- Yahoo! Teachers social network
- Two new Google Earth features
- Twitter even closer to the perfect professional development tool
- Zoho Writer becomes more useful for students
- The cinema? Pah!
- Change of supervisor
- Ilana Snyder
- Never again...
- Back on the thesis proposal trail...
- Unexpected problems
- Business as usual - well, not quite…
- Expect some downtime
- Perfect Promos
- 8 Random Facts Meme
- Laura & Sean's wedding
- Zonbu now available
- CommentPress
- e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know
- Great Ideas
- Demotivational posters
- Using Google tools for student projects
- Deki: Wiki 3.0?
- HOWTO: Nintendo DS & Orange Livebox
- Comments now working again...
- 3D searching with SpaceTime
- EdTechTalk
- Digital students
- Live Ink: an example of the benefits of digital text
- Definitions of digital literacy' from the book of the same name by Paul Gilster
- Meeting with Ed.D. supervisor - 24 July 2007
- $100 laptop nears production
- National Christian Football Festival 2007
- My favourite lolcats
- Google Docs keeps getting better…
- Edit and merge PDFs for free
- Soundsnap: podcast-safe and free!
- How to get a GPS fix quicker on the Nokia N95
- NESTA 'Hidden Innovation' report
- The problems with Human Rights legislation
- Gelato: Wordpress for tumblelogs?
- Virtual Desktops: an update
- Twitter Screensaver
- Picasa Mobile
- Feedburner Pro now free
- TwitterGram
- Great annotated Web 2.0 links
- Sausage Roll
- Heavens open, schools shut
- Free and Open Source educational Mac software
- Google Docs update
- Apple iPhone vs Nokia N95
- OpenSUSE to compete with Edubuntu
- Facebook vs. MySpace
- Death by Powerpoint
- Web 2.0 Backpack
- HOWTO: fix your Xbox after messing about with the EEPROM
- Ed.D. thesis proposal failure
- YouTube Remixer
- Getting GPS working for Nokia Sports Tracker on the N95
- Visit to London village
- Google Powerpoint support
- RSS Toolbox
- Minor update to blog design
- How NOT to upgrade your Xbox
- GMail for universities
- Google Custom Search updated
- The end of power cables?
- Pageflakes Student Edition
- Philosophy
- Podcast directory
- Nokia N95 tips, reviews and software all in one place
- Microsoft Surface: imagine the edtech possibilities!
- Google Street View
- My first GPS-tracked run
- The 3 quotations I live by
- Zonbu: the linux-based school computer of the future?
- coRank: make your own edtech Digg clone
- Google Calendar now mobile
- Coursework 2.0
- Nokia N95: the solution to problems I didn't even know I had...
- MindMeister
- Virtual Desktops: really useful when teaching!
- Book review: Wittgenstein's Poker
- Mojiti
- Ben in his bouncer (video)
- Wordpress Theme Generator
- More photos of Ben
- iQuiz: learning games on an iPod
- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Offline Wikipedia
- Ed.D. thesis proposal bibliography
- Ed.D. thesis proposal finished!
- Lenovo 3000 N100 and Windows Vista
- Google Spreadsheets now with chart capabilities
- 21Classes
- HOWTO: Collaborate Online
- Pay Attention: your students are Digital
- RoboBraille
- Geekifying my run
- Thesis proposal mindmap
- References to follow up - 2/3 April 2007
- Office 2.0 Database
- CommentPress
- TeacherTube
- Tumblr - a great way to get your students (and colleagues?) blogging!
- Schoolr: useful search engine
- Happy Mother's Day Hannah!
- Wordpress Plugin Repository v2
- Jersey job and the return of the Mac
- Picasa Web Albums vs. Flickr
- The Curse of Our Society
- Scribd: YouTube for documents
- Technology in exams?
- Return of the Mac
- Ralph Wiggum: boy genius
- Introductory quotation
- Another definition of literacy
- References to follow up - 3/3/07
- 21st Century Literacy
- Firefox Extension: Tab Groups
- Voice chat for Second Life
- xFruits - the Swiss Army knife for RSS feeds
- Steve Jobs outlines his vision of a textbook-free future
- More people reading my teaching blog than I thought...
- Writing tips from George Orwell
- 1 million OLPC laptops already on order!
- Intelligence vs. Wisdom
- Macbook vs. my new laptop? No contest...
- The BBC are Twittering
- Sidekiq: all your search belong to us
- Macbook woes
- My (finely crafted) information environment
- GMail now available to everyone!
- Picnick: photo editing on the web
- Photoshopped animals
- PSPs as learning tools
- DVD Flick - burn any video file to DVD!
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal, v2
- Open Word documents through Google Docs in GMail
- Google Book Search now includes Google Maps
- The Half-Life of Knowledge and Structural Reform of the Education Sector for the Global Knowledge-Based Economy
- Run Doug run
- OpenDNS
- bubbl.us
- Easy conditional formatting in Excel
- Contact
- Hannah and Ben back home
- BBC plans online children’s world
- Flickr slideshow of Benjamin Daniel Jonathan Belshaw
- Wordpress 2.1 “Ella” released
- RSS feeds = homework?
- Human-computer interfaces of the future
- Kinaesthetic Data
- Pre-release review of the LG Shine (KE970)
- The threat of mobile technology
- References from 'Breaking Down the Digital Walls'
- Edublogosphere survey results
- Learnscaping
- Is Podcasting the new Powerpoint?
- How computer games help children learn
- EDUCAUSE articles
- Stacks of Books vs. a Search-Engine Culture
- Too much technology in the classroom?
- Top Firefox 2 extensions for educators?
- Wikiseek
- Articles on technology and the future of education
- References from ‘Schools and the Changing World’
- References from 'Reclaiming Knowledge'
- Systematicity
- References to follow up from today's reading
- References from 'Knowing Knowledge'
- Open Thinking & Alec Couros' PhD dissertation
- Expanded thesis proposal outline
- Knowledge Jolt with Jack
- Resources r.e. Dan Pink & 'A Whole New Mind'
- Knowledge Management & Networks
- Links to training sites/blogs from Jim Belshaw
2006
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal Outline (expanded)
- Some ideas about the structure of my thesis proposal essay
- What does literacy look like in the 21st century?
- 21st Century Skills: not just about ICT
- The Pressure for Knowledge to Change
- Property, 21st Century Knowledge, and Creative Commons
- Connectivism
- Groups vs. Networks
- Knowledge Management in Education
- Email to Gareth Mills (QCA)
- The purpose of education? It isn’t this…
- Where do educational ideas originate? A digital paper trail…
- Findings from the Teaching, Learning, and Computing Survey: Is Larry Cuban Right?
- Barriers to teachers’ use of ICT
- The Community as the Text
- Managing Organizational Change - diagram
- Chris Sessums - ICT and the ‘locus of control’
- Papert on Why School Reform is Impossible
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal Outline
- The difference between groups and networks
- Some great quotations about education in the 21st century (and in general)
- Learning Teacher Network - 10 recommendations for the future of teaching
- Research Methods & Interactive Whiteboards
- Tentative area for thesis