Archive
All posts by year.
2026
- Intermission
- As per my last email
- The Art of Money Getting
- The mistake of believing you are the bigger thing
- The house that eats its foundations
- We are mature in one realm, childish in another
- Always more mountains
- Use it or lose it
- AI's energy problem is a systems problem
- Drug testing on brains hovering between life and death
- Reprogramming the athlete's visual system to function at peak efficiency
- New genres are emerging that exploit cognitive and moral resources in ways
- New genres are emerging that exploit cognitive and moral resources in ways th...
- Archiving my writing
- What my archetypes taught me about how I work
- Weeknote 20/2026
- Field Notes on Productive Friction
- Why do people procrastinate?
- I Have Led A Toothless Life He Thought
- Arbitrary structures and accidental hierarchies
- A brief guide to self-hosting websites and apps using Cloudflare Tunnel
- Digital legacy
- Don't write in the passive voice
- The impact of volcanoes on the Black Death
- 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
- We live in an economy that has systematically destroyed the conditions for tr...
- My goal is to encourage people to take action and look at the alternatives th...
- Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching
- Oof
- The patient as transcription layer
- Beyond Elegant Consumption (Again)
- How power structures and relationships really work
- On originality
- On the gendered nature of (types of) hobbies
- Time as an instrument?
- Digital literacies involve layers of abstraction
- 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 qu...
- Grand ambitions vs reality
- Renewable energy: 98% of days in Britain are either windy, sunny, or both
- How a little “productive friction” protects human agency
- Having a system built on context puts the power in the people's hands
- THE FUTURE IS OFFLINE
- Choosing partnership over "certainty theatre"
- Turning polygonal badges into contours of practice
- Life advice
- Why I adore the night
- The Journey Home
- The "U-shaped curve" of cognitive offloading to AI tools
- "We have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working"
- The AI Adoption Spiral
- 'Folk software' - not 'vibe coding'
- Our communication currently often takes place via platforms over which we hav...
- Note to self
- Scamming tourists in Nepal
- The system can generate options. It cannot supply ownership.
- Games from Hacker News "Show HN" threads
- Ideas are not products, as much as corporations would like them to be
- 'Google Docs' for Markdown?
- Lemme finish this sentence...
- Commonplace
- Violently boiling water in some monstrous kettle
- Earthrise, Take 2
- You made this?
- 🐣 Happy Easter!
- A Victorian-era LLM
- Each came down with spectacular clarity, each a wingless fuselage, quietly de...
- I must trouble the reader to correct the errata... For I am quite tired.
- The hard work of building a thing now isn’t writing the code
- Clippy sez: Just Do It
- Your future needs you. Your past doesn't.
- Thought Shrapnel's 50 most-referenced sources (2018-2026)
- If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then LLMs are like e-bikes
- 2026 is about 'Aspirational Humanity' – amongst other things
- A useful reminder
- Claude Cowork vs Claude Code
- Institute of Pragmatic Solutions
- Brexit is a problem whose name we now dare speak
- Disgust is a complicated emotion
- Maybe the loose end isn't a failure of facilitation
- Recursive logical fallacies
- LLMs are "in the game, even if they’re not strictly playing it."
- Why it's all kicking off (again)
- Creating the conditions to make things possible
- How long before run-on sentences are preferred to em-dashes?
- The Fifth Horseman
- How to stop thinking
- ROOTS: Return Old Online Things to your own Site
- How to Create a Freelancer Dashboard
- Tree Hug
- Ending an archaic and undemocratic principle
- US Big Tech infrastructure as "legitimate targets"
- News Canary next steps
- They’re not rejecting technology. They’re choreographing it.
- Groundwork
- Et Merda
- Living off the moral and intellectual capital of a pre-AI world
- How to avoid your white collar turning blue: brilliance, influence, and relat...
- Finger-based checkout
- The spectacle produces hypernormalisation
- The world you were raised to survive in no longer exists
- Customised pixel graphics from classic games
- Building a news canary
- Enough is enough
- Super Mario World Map
- Units of attention
- Agentic commerce is a catastrophe for every business whose moat is made of fr...
- WAO is closing
- Who am I, and what does someone like me do with their time?
- Reimagining everyday urban details on a micro scale
- A Reminder That Ive Been
- Weeknote 07/2026
- A range of authentic selves?
- TechFreedom
- Like a stone
- Thinking is hard
- Each culture is made of shared framings—ontologies of things that are taken t...
- Like it or not, it is a basic fact of human cognition that we think and act p...
- To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one
- Your data might be in Europe but your risks are not
- Digital sovereignty, French-style
- Hands, spoon, shovel
- How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis
- 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
- Building a 'thinking system' to help you be less wrong
- Octopus people
- Choo choo!
- 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 thing...
- Ambiguity, legibility, and working in the open (ambiguiti.es)
- Ambiguity, legibility, and working in the open
- Weeknote 05/2026
- We are, effectively, being fracked to death.
- Sometimes the work is rest
- Because I learned a second thing at the end of my two days of vertigo: That m...
- A bit more than a to-do list
- January 2026: systems, software, and self
- Claude's Constitution and the trap of corporate AI ethics
- Makes you think
- Words/phrases used more in AI-generated text
- Extending Proton Calendar beyond its limits
- The purpose of your website is what it does
- I'm so glad I can still talk to my AI chatbot friends
- Weeknote 04/2026
- About
- Living with your incapacity
- What do we mean when we talk about pollution and toxicity in online spaces?
- National security assessment on global ecosystems
- Weapon of the enemy
- Psychological Defence and Information Influence
- Why your organisation needs someone “unemployable”
- It makes a lot more sense
- Are they ever tricked by a voice that is false when they expected it to be a ...
- My Are.na channels are now more organised
- Privacy by design means what it says on the tin
- SOLVEM PROBLER
- The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards
- 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
- Postal Arbitrage
- What’s strange is how little of that generosity we extend to each other
- The Cost of American Exceptionalism
- Time appears in this 3D sort of calendar pattern
- Somewhere I'd like to spend some time
- Writing always interrupts being
- We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips
- If execution is no longer the differentiator, what is?
- We will no longer have the conspiracy nonsense about state control
- 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
- Why books are now luxury goods
- Celebrating the lesser-known at the Internet Archive
- What content are you really trying to provide and how do you get to it?
- A deliberate willingness to be helped
- Digital colonialism is where jurisdiction matters more than geography
- Avoiding 'hacklore'
- Open Infrastructure map
- The Questions
- AGI isn't “coming” – it's already reshaping how young people think
- Humans exhibit analogues of LLM pathologies
- Post-digital authenticity
- Cash Value: Katherine Ryan, William James, and... getting on with it
- The uncomfortable truth about getting people off US tech
- For Me How About You
- Understanding yourself isn't enough
- Helping strangers access the internet
- A university degree is now more like a 'visa' than a guaranteed route to prof...
- 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
- 2026: Can't complain
- For every snarky comment, there are 10x as many people admiring your work
- And Were Back A Quick
- The world is rarely as neat as any scenario
- The same tools that are keeping some people connected to reality are blurring...
- Choose your own inspirational adventure
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
- Answering the 40 questions (2025)
- Best of Thought Shrapnel 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
- Archive
- Moving on from Feedly and rebooting my RSS feed list
- Developing agency among agents via 'hypertextual friction'
- The app paradigm inversion
- Finds
- Programme interrupted: #BelshawBlackOps25
- Thought Shrapnel Will Return In
- Weeknote 48/2025
- On AI leisuretime 'dependence'
- Developing a personal brand may leave you emotionally hollow
- Adolescence lasts longer than we thought
- You'll not catch me using an 'AI browser' any time soon
- 173751
- AI has a 3,000-year history
- Early blogger energy
- The caffeination roller coaster
- Weeknote 47/2025
- "It is strange to view your childhood favourite film and realise you’ve becom...
- When scaling up your business is as simple as clicking 'reprint tray' on the ...
- Organising some thoughts around ambiguity
- Web literacy for the mid-2020s
- 182600
- Dark Forests rule everything around us
- 175000
- TOOLBOX TOOLBOX
- 180200
- The Arc of Democracy
- LibrePods
- Weeknote 46/2025
- Hitler, apparently, really did only have one ball (but the other isn't in the...
- It's OK just to do things for fun
- Well, the genie is out of the bottle on AI friends (and romantic partners)
- In short, capital, and capitalism, always has a tendency towards crisis by un...
- 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.
- The so-called 'post-naive' internet era
- More reasons to get off US Big Tech
- Weeknote 45/2025
- Life is not a series of well-designed problems
- Random finds
- Low-carbon website showcase
- Rewilding the Open Web
- It's worth considering the glass to be half-full
- Ambiverts, travel, and 'hermit mode'
- Words that don't translate
- Things change (or, Montaigne and the Open Web)
- Weeknote 44/2025
- Monocultures are perilous not just in agriculture, but in software distributi...
- Slop Evader
- The geopolitics of the post-oil age is going to be interestingly different.
- Seizing the means of ontological production
- Microcast #109 — Wild camping
- Thinking of AI as an instrument recenters the focus on practice
- Individual benefits, societal harms?
- Immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity
- We can't control what life throws at us, but we can choose how we deal with t...
- Everything you'd need to start exploring fungi and computing could be as smal...
- Weeknote 43/2025
- A vehicle for self-understanding
- What is still human in our lives lingers on in the interstices of a vast inhu...
- Without being Luddites, some of my dearest friends reject certain elements of...
- I love it; I hate it; I resent that I need it. I wouldn’t miss it if it vanis...
- This is coming from someone who’s allegedly running a company that’s building...
- Everyone planting the same crops of “impact frameworks,” all aiming for growt...
- The only exit to be found is in beating a path through the wildfires of postm...
- Weeknote 42/2025
- Think of this as the early stages of a wartime economy
- A single point of failure for large swaths of critical services
- The quiet normalisation of insecurity as the price of ‘flexibility’
- 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
- Some thoughts on the Digital Badging Commission's report
- I will continue living the writing life, even if it doesn’t lead to fame or f...
- You'd have to be naive to be surprised
- Referencing an imaginary 'social contract' that is violated by AI
- Most decisions are like hats
- 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 ...
- Weeknote 41/2025
- Government IDs, are becoming hacker targets with bad actors aware of the high...
- Ratcheting up the risks of a possible AI bubble by inflating the market and b...
- Microcast #108 — Skills Taxonomies
- The valorization of “agency” is also an adaptation to a crumbling social syst...
- A Snickers and a power shower would blow Henry VIII’s mind
- The alternative to depression is not happiness, but feeling whatever is there...
- The primary energy fallacy gets perpetuated because it suits those who are cr...
- Weeknote 40/2025
- 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...
- We’ve gotten really good at creating elites. We’re not that good at creating ...
- It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for...
- Until recently, videos were reasonably reliable as evidence of actual events
- Motivated not by warm fuzzies, but by cold pricklies
- Cultural questions cannot be settled by war metaphors unless what you want is...
- OK, but what if...
- Being able to intensely live this experience for a day makes you want to revo...
- Anything that looks easy is hard
- Weeknote 39/2025
- Many other countries also use digital ID of one kind or another
- To be honest it sounds like NFTs all over again
- Really real time?
- The words we use define boundaries for things, but those boundaries are not u...
- 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 a...
- People living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the sam...
- You must not talk about the future. The future is a con.
- Now is the time to be even more aggressive, not to cower in the face of press...
- A brick is always a brick, whatever the reasons of the clown chucking it
- 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
- Asking, Doing, or Expressing?
- A 10y old phone can barely load google, and this is about 100x slower
- These images are made from open access sources, and they are themselves open ...
- Weeknote 37/2025
- Your actions follow your self-beliefs
- Be intentional with how you spend your time, and realise you actually have a ...
- There's nothing they can do with the information
- Each of us is part of an interpretive community that gives us a particular wa...
- Secure backups let you save an archive of your Signal conversations in a priv...
- Grid-forming batteries will ultimately corner the stability market thanks to ...
- 99.9% of opinions on the internet don’t matter
- The FBI announced the alleged shooter’s apprehension with a quote from Mad Max
- An open, decentralised protocol making clear to AI crawlers and agents the te...
- I’m pretty confident you only need two things. Feedback and humility, and the...
- Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable
- Weeknote 36/2025
- AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions
- "You know what this needs? Less safety testing and more venture capital!"
- The hysteresis effect means that practices are always liable to be objectivel...
- Principles for Open Impact
- "Zurich doesn’t want to pool with Jakarta"
- Are we decentralised yet?
- A list of intentions; a poem; the “I want” song; not a bucket list——
- A remarkable 45% increase in solar capacity
- From misdiagnosis and error to unequal access to care
- Weeknote 35/2025
- Montaigne on the futility of ambition
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 31st August 2025
- Why I re-read Montaigne on a regular basis
- Weeknote 34/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 24th August 2025
- Weeknote 33/2025
- Weeknote 32/2025
- Weeknote 31/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 3rd August 2025
- Weeknote 30/2025
- 💥 Thought Shrapnel: 27th July 2025
- Weeknote 29/2025
- Weeknote 28/2025
- Ethical Licensing for Impact Organisations
- Weeknote 27/2025
- Weeknote 26/2025
- Unfortunately, a further escalation of the already dismal curtailing of acade...
- People contribute in their free time. Gratitude is the least we can offer.
- Is CC Signals the new robots.txt?
- A decentralised, self-hosted trails database
- Keeping bedroom sound levels beneath the low-60s dB is a pivotal target for p...
- People who can tolerate uncomfortable silences are typically better listeners
- "The music is one thing, but the message is a big part of why we’re getting a...
- Free, customisable exemplar badges to support consistent, credible recognitio...
- We love these people because of what they left us. Not because of what they had.
- To retain any institutions of higher education in this onslaught from techno-...
- Combining the Stacey Matrix and Continuum of Ambiguity for Better Decision Ma...
- Weeknote 25/2025
- Signal groups make it possible to have semi-public, but still incredibly priv...
- When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
- About that MIT paper on LLMs for essay writing...
- Our society is in the thrall of dumb management, and functions as such
- Misinformation and disinformation don’t actually need to convince anyone of a...
- GPQA is difficult enough to be useful for scalable oversight research on futu...
- 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, zer...
- 6 AI use case primitives
- Drowning in culture, we skim, we rush, we skip over.
- The workload fairy tale
- The question remains, though, what will be left to browse.
- A goal set at time T is a bet on the future from a position of ignorance
- Maximum fines have never before been applied simultaneously, but some might s...
- Expert-in-the-loop vs. layperson-in-the-loop
- Delightful Fediverse apps
- My postgraduate qualification in Systems Thinking in Practice
- Weeknote 23/2025
- The future of public interest social networking
- 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 thin...
- In this as-yet fictional world, “cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a ...
- If a lion could talk, we probably could understand him. He just would not be ...
- AI and the Future of Education
- Marching Backwards into the Future: AI’s Role in the Future of Education
- Weeknote 22/2025
- Building a shared idea of "we"
- Real life isn't a story. History doesn't have a moral arc.
- There may be six individuals out there who are waiting for exactly the thing ...
- Is there still an 'Open Web' crowd?
- British culture is swearing and being sarcastic to your mates whilst simultan...
- The Warrior Emotion
- The phrase 'opportunistic blackmail' is not one you want to read in the syste...
- Thinking in systems means to think in boundaries, not binaries
- Heuristics for multiplayer AI conversations
- Swatchy!
- Agreement vs Certainty
- Weeknote 21/2025
- All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things wh...
- A systemic scramble through digital shadows
- Colophon
- Weeknote 20/2025
- The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his e...
- China starts to reduce CO2 emissions from energy generation
- This is a major upgrade to how we think about personality.
- The web is not merely an implementation of a particular legal privacy regime
- Striving to build a “personal brand” may actually hinder your ability to make...
- Unless there are many layers of contortions, most people love what loves them...
- The new tool should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exists
- I think AI is a normal technology
- The Classroom AI Doom Loop
- Chance favours the prepared mind
- Weeknote 19/2025
- You can now use Bluesky without using Bluesky infrastructure
- You stop performing. You stop pretending. And that’s freedom.
- It is perhaps likely then that at a time of crisis, these armed drones could ...
- Authoritarian versions of AI used to consolidate power
- If you think that humans are somehow inherently more trustworthy than AI, the...
- In my opinion that’s just being nosy
- Criti-hype, a term I find both absurd and ugly-cute, like a pug
- An effective way to implement GenAI into assessment
- Literacy practices: a matter of community
- 🌟 Support Thought Shrapnel
- ChatGPT Prime, "an immortal spiritual being in synthetic form"
- Weeknote 18/2025
- Maybe most of the critical things that can be created by one guy typing furio...
- Social Verifiable Credentials
- The money extracted from fans who snap up their mediocre commodities out of p...
- Oh I’m using more energy. I should really try to reduce it for the sake of th...
- The progressive Left leans professional, managerial, technocratic, and the Ri...
- It just so happens that all four of the major web browsers will lose all of t...
- You can't lick a badger twice
- Cheat on everything?
- These other, really important things intrude on my thinking and distract me
- Weeknote 17/2025
- A lot of strange things start to make more sense — sometimes distressingly so
- In some ways, FOMO is a philosophical insight
- It's much easier to go carless if your city has good public transit
- I've done this a couple of times before but this time feels slightly different
- A sense that one has completed, with digital certainty, a task whose form may...
- Workers of the future must be emboldened to eschew wages in favour of droppin...
- How times change
- The problem is not just that the Gmail team wrote a bad system prompt. The pr...
- I have to acknowledge and accept the fact that I use tools built by awful peo...
- Participants remembered fake headlines more than real ones regardless of the ...
- Weeknote 16/2025
- You don't fit in. And that is amazing.
- These parts would end up in a landfill otherwise
- Obvious things are obvious if you think about them
- I just think that people who write about technology should have a disclaimer ...
- This extension is the solution to becoming more European oriented
- You don’t have to agree with this idea to see that it represents a very diffe...
- Sprint goals suck too
- End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism
- I’m 100% positive people are going to talk to their cars
- Nobody should have to pay to be safe while using a computer
- Weeknote 15/2025
- 800 m² of communal space are hidden behind the facades of reclaimed wood
- It’s incredibly hard to politely reply whilst still walking briskly
- The world is a built environment
- AI Literacy without power analysis is just compliance training
- It will be increasingly difficult to preserve the illusion that any governmen...
- Thought Shrapnel podcast: Episode #000
- That's a rather laughable fine, frankly
- The rapture is not something we wait for. It's something we do.
- We are absolutely cooked
- 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 pe...
- To cope, the brain improvises
- The future of the many diasporas which already characterize our present
- A (proposed) browser-based interoperability layer for digital credentials
- The vaunted first amendment guaranteeing free speech has become a bitter and ...
- We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing
- The Ghibli crisis is just the beginning
- Blogging vs newsletters
- Weeknote 13/2025
- Once you become aware of Hyperlegibility, you see it everywhere
- Organisations will need to change their analogies
- Less anonymity online is not going to make things better
- A bit of composting
- Discussing misinformation for the purpose of pointing out that it is misinfor...
- You do not have to participate in the lottery
- Our current level of discourse, where random jokes are treated like they’re c...
- Things have changed
- 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
- The first fully-open LLM to outperform GPT3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o mini
- Just seek to understand, and remember we understand a lot by doing
- 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 these times of chaos there seems to be a proliferation of new ways of thin...
- Dozens of small internet forums have blocked British users or shut down as ne...
- In many ways, Silicon Valley looks less like capitalism and more like a nonpr...
- Their knowledge of life owed nothing to their sporadic presence in the inner ...
- Explorers launching into the Fediverse
- Love the casual vibe here
- Don't just put up with how websites are presented to you by default!
- Affordable building materials out of agricultural waste bonded with oyster-mu...
- Weeknote 11/2025
- The magic of browsing the web isn't quite gone, but it's waiting to be reinve...
- Work is part of our lives, a big part to be sure, but what if it wasn’t our w...
- An incomplete collection of charts
- When in doubt, go see a doc!
- It errored out half an hour in, which is when I decided to throw in the towel
- Well, what have we here?
- The more we embed today’s norms into these systems, the harder it will be to ...
- Heaven is high, and the emperor is far away
- 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 ...
- Why are we sucking history through a straw?
- So dull, so dehumanizing
- 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
- It’s not just making packed lunches
- What do you *like* to do?
- Three character traits will cause particular problems: caring too much, havin...
- Weeknote 09/2025
- Exploring the many ways in which people interact with place
- It always seemed ripe for mapping and distilling the patterns together more i...
- Not an aesthetic of seduction, but of brutal carelessness and blatant ignorance
- Cracking cheese, Gromit
- Once upon a time, personal or honest takes were regarded as awkward and profe...
- But I blogged about that in detail a while back, shall I send you a link later?
- Everything happens in a place
- I call it the feediverse. It's not a joke.
- The idea stood up to more than casual scrutiny
- If a waiter has to explain the “concept” behind a menu there is something wro...
- Weeknote 08/2025
- Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long
- Exploring New Horizons (aka "Hire Me!")
- All things good should flow into the boulevard
- The revolution, it turns out, is boringly iterative
- Nostalgia tells you that your personal history wasn’t just scary or tragic; i...
- It's better than strapping clay crocodiles to people’s heads and praying for ...
- That’s how we got in this mess to begin with
- The consumption of generative AI as entertainment seems like another order of...
- Putting the news in its damn place
- Loose, liminal time with others used to be baked into life
- People think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
- Weeknote 07/2025
- Shaped into SNARF to spread
- All intelligence is collective intelligence
- We’re hard-wired for addiction
- From cheapfakes to deepfakes
- What burns people out is not being allowed to exercise their integrity instincts
- The occupational classification of a conversation does not necessarily mean t...
- Capitalism would simply die if it met all of our needs, and our needs are not...
- Redefining terms like “hate speech” is obviously part of the fascist project
- Surplus value must be distributed by and among the workers
- The art of not being governed like that and at that cost
- Flash fictions and creative constraints
- ⭐ Become a Thought Shrapnel supporter!
- Weeknote 06/2025
- Philosophically discontinuous times?
- We're all below the AI line except for a very very very small group of wealth...
- Technology is a means of spreading misinformation, not the cause of misinform...
- There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with ove...
- That mask is kind of coming off in all sorts of ways now
- Clinical studies have indicated that creatine might have an antidepressant ef...
- Once you have a 360 view, you can redirect resources to insiders and cut off ...
- The inevitable cracks in a rigid software logic that enables the surprising, ...
- The idea that this might in any way appeal to 'newcomers' is bananas to me
- A little February experimentation
- Weeknote 05/2025
- Description of Things and Atmosphere
- A large public domain image-text dataset to train frontier LLM models
- Cozy comfort for gamers
- Ways of categorising ethical concerns relating to generative AI
- How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence
- Strava for Stoics?
- Building a quantum computer that can run reliable calculations is extremely d...
- 3-column blog themes
- Playing stenographer in your little folding chair
- Those who find the texture of your mind boring or offensive can close the tab
- 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
- Prices and wages are a political matter, not an 'economic' one
- Not being bored is why you always feel busy
- You’re Just a Row in an Excel Table
- Someplace where they promise to wear slippers to kick you to death with so it...
- It’s possible that OpenAI may some day been seen as the WeWork of AI
- No breathless whispering of Mark Andreessen across some gilded dinner table
- The jobs of the future will involve cleaning up environmental and political a...
- The rise of mass social platforms has been at the cost of a truly independent...
- Weeknote 04/2025
- Attribute substitution and human decision-making
- Making and remaking the instruments of our own domination
- Every billionaire really is a policy failure
- Monetising our own attention
- When everything is automated in an information vacuum, conspiracies abound
- 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,...
- 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, c...
- 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 ...
- The feedback has to be orders of magnitude faster than the situation being co...
- 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?
- Must-reads for sports fans
- AI slop as engagement bait
- LinkedIn has become a hellish waiting room giving off Beetlejuice vibe
- Bridging Dictionary
- A feedback loop of nonsense and violence
- Promising Trouble's advice on UK Online Safety Act compliance
- The internet may function not so much as a brainwashing engine but as a justi...
- Luck = (Passionate) Doing x (Effective) Telling
- You will always be boring if you can't make your own choices
- Weeknote 01/2025
- We need to do a lot better than outsourcing AI education to grifters with bom...
- 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
- Backstage blogging
- Universities in the age of AI
- Weeknote 48/2024
- 'Social' social networks?
- The lifehacked, minimalist life (and its discontents)
- Hierarchies should be fluid and temporary
- Sunrise, solar noon and sunset times for 2025 (in Dublin)
- Anxiety as an expensive habit
- Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024
- AI Literacies are plural and context-dependent
- Yeah, but how?
- Anti-anti-AI sentiment
- Weeknote 47/2024
- Captive user bases are ripe for enshittified services
- The trials and tribulations of working openly
- The case for local economic protectionism
- AI Literacies are plural
- Pleias: a family of fully open small AI language models
- I hope someday soon I can visit your website
- Should health tech be used to inform health professionals?
- Calling short courses 'microcredentials' is cringe
- The UK needs a wealth tax
- On 'billionarism'
- Visual music discovery
- Self-hosting isn't a thing for regular people
- Weeknote 46/2024
- The Australian ban on social media is probably unworkable
- AI identifies more Nazca Lines
- From the 'everything fun is also bad' department
- EV batteries live way longer than assumed
- (Digital) bodges and badges
- We don’t write things down to remember them. We write them down to forget.
- Tuvalu's Digital Twin
- 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
- Calling myself into the office: November 2024
- Weeknote 42/2024
- 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
- Ocean acidification approaches the boundary
- The work to do the work
- About time to head south for winter
- Llama 3 is only free to use until monthly active users exceed 700m
- Forms of perceptual learning
- 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
- Better Images of AI
- Isolated places in the Lake District for wild camping
- More is always more where 'kitchen lipstick' is concerned
- TB871: Combining five systems approaches
- AI and community communication
- Weeknote 35/2024
- Some men just want to watch the world burn (and now there's research to prove...
- Migration → Adaptation → Carbon removal → Geoengineering
- A State of Systems Shifting
- How Bluey-Green Was My Valley?
- The future is off-grid solar
- So far, so dystopian
- Because capitalism
- 100 tips to sort your life out
- There is an opportunity to...
- Calling myself into the office: September 2024
- Weeknote 34/2024
- Your name in LandSat
- Quote posting done right?
- The importance of context
- Digital Credentials: why context matters
- Life-ready signals
- A typology of meme-sharing
- Fediverse governance models
- Weeknote 33/2024
- The thorny problem of authorship in a world of AI
- Begetting strangers
- Government and algorithmic bias
- TB871: Systemic boundary critique in CSH
- TB871: Miscellaneous CSH stuff
- TB871: The 'eternal triangle' of systemic triangulation in CSH
- 'Meta-work' is how we get past all the one-size-fits-none approaches
- Where in the world is that shadow?
- Reimagining misinformation
- TB871: Systems vs Reality in CSH
- TB871: Comparing CSH boundaries with SSM boundaries
- There is no such thing as a life that makes sense
- Dark data is a climate concern
- Google Calendar illustration trigger words
- You don't need permission, you need advice
- Tugging at metaphors
- You get water from food as well, you know
- Weeknote 32/2024
- 14kB
- Give readers a break
- Doing things that don’t scale in pursuit of things that can’t scale
- TB871: Critical System Heuristics
- TB871: "Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without a...
- TB871: "The Systems Approach is Not a Bad Idea": the ethical and philosophica...
- TB871: "Anything said is said by an observer": Humberto Maturana’s impact on ...
- Weeknote 31/2024
- TB871: An overview of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Perplexity and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Reflections on TMA02 and looking forward to Block 5 (SSM)
- TB871: Exploring Soft Systems Methodology (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,...
- TB871: Power dynamics in systems thinking
- TB871: Four Stages of Competence (and the Johari Window)
- TB871: Conflict management and systems thinking
- TB871: A deeper dive into OCEAN
- TB871: Please let me be the last thing I have to write on learning styles
- TB871: Supporting the development of others
- TB871: Personality and causal responsibility
- Where to look for information around Open Badges and digital credentials (Jul...
- TB871: Responding to change (and junking a lot of perfectly good habits in fa...
- TB871: Working with individual differences (MBTI & OCEAN)
- TB871: Managing personality differences in teams (Belbin & Six Thinking Hats)
- 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: Chris Argyris and his influence on systems thinking and organisational...
- TB871: The role of phenomenology in systems thinking
- TB871: Russell Ackoff as a systems thinking pioneer
- TB871: Introduction to Strategic Options and Development Analysis (SODA)
- TB871: Lateral Thinking, Transitional Objects, and Metaphors
- TB871: Block 3 People stream references
- TB871: Old and new mode thinking errors
- TB871: Intuitive and rational thinking
- TB871: Human gizmos and time-binding
- TB871: Going beyond WEIRD biases
- TB871: Block 3 Tools stream references
- TB871: Ambiguity and cognitive biases
- You don't have to like what other people like, or do what other people do
- Stand up for yourself. Challenge authority. Tell your rude co-worker to shut up.
- Summer digital detox
- Weeknote 27/2024
- TB871: Using the Viable System Model (VSM) in design mode for my system of in...
- TB871: A complete VSM model of my system of interest
- TB871: Governance and identity in the Viable System Model (System 5)
- TB871: Managing the 'inside and now' of the Viable System Model (System 3)
- TB871: Managing Development and Strategic Balance in the Viable System Model ...
- TB871: Managing my system of interest (System 2)
- If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolon...
- Look out for surplus fingers
- Informatics of domination
- Weeknote 26/2024
- Notes from a discussion with Steve Brewis on the Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: Rethinking organisational structure through VSM
- TB871: Assigning a purpose & defining primary operations in my system of inte...
- TB871: Enhancing Organisational Coordination with System 2 of the VSM
- New materials for a super-heated world
- Eye-contact has a significant impact on interpersonal evaluation, and online ...
- Weeknote 25/2024
- TB871: Managing variety using amplifiers and attenuators
- TB871: Systems in my situation of interest
- A smaller human population will immensely facilitate other transformations we...
- The Promise and Pitfalls of Decentralised Social Networks
- Here is a book as a toolbox to build actual, hard-tacks answers to the crisis...
- Painting over problems with AI in the third sector
- TB871: Only variety can absorb variety
- TB871: Modelling myself as a viable system
- TB871: Context and perspective in systems thinking
- F L A M I N G O N E
- An inferior, or at least grossly limited version of intelligence
- If we don’t change course, most people in the U.S. will have some flavor of L...
- TB871: Systems as waves on the edge of catastrophic breakdown
- Weeknote 24/2024
- TB871: System, variety, recursion in the VSM model
- The writer’s equivalent of what in computer architecture is called speculativ...
- It's all just one big ocean
- It's impossible to 'hang out' on the internet, because it is not a place
- TB871: The Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: The five systems of the Viable System Model (VSM)
- 'Wet streets cause rain' stories
- Dividers tell the story of how they’ve renovated their houses, becoming archi...
- The iPhone effect, if it was ever real in the first place, is certainly not r...
- Source Drone Photo
- In the English language, a human alone has distinction while all other living...
- The logical conclusion of rich, isolated computer programmers having ketamine...
- The latest Hardcore History just dropped
- Weeknote 23/2024
- Oblivion doesn’t just mean eradication: it is erasure
- Podcasts worth listening to
- 65% of UK adults aged 18-35 support “a strong leader who doesn’t have to both...
- TB871: Metaphorical linguistic expressions
- TB871: Framing and reframing
- TB871: Sending people off on the wrong plane
- TB871: Dead metaphors
- TB871: Happiness is a warm gun
- TB871: Systemic and unsystemic metaphors
- TB871: Block 2 People stream references
- The theory of 'a rising tide lifts all boats' does not work when you allow th...
- TikTok as spectacle
- Absurd design
- TB871: Block 2 Tools stream references
- TB871: Metaphor, ambiguity, and conceptual blending
- TB871: Primary metaphors
- TB871: Area of practice diagram
- Alone time
- The AI Egg
- What is systems thinking?
- Life has no instruction manual
- Weeknote 22/2024
- TB871: Archetype 3 — Limits to growth
- TB871: Archetype 2 — Shifting the burden
- TB871: Archetype 5 — Arms race
- TB871: Archetype 4 — Drifting goals
- TB871: Archetype 6 — Tragedy of the commons
- Migraines suck
- TB871: Archetype 1 — Fixes that fail
- TB871: Re-mapping my situation of interest
- Just because we cannot imagine a future does not mean it cannot happen
- The effort required to maintain internally consistent and intellectually hone...
- 3 strategies to counter the unseen costs of boundary work within organisations
- Levelling up?
- Weeknote 21/2024
- TB871: Block 1 People stream references
- TB871: The poverty of root cause analysis
- TB871: Vicious cycles and causal loops
- TB871: Mapping my situation of interest
- AI is infecting everything
- Man or bear IRL
- Electronic spider silk
- TB871: 5 reasons why the unknown is not just a temporary or local state
- TB871: Improvisational intelligence and cognitive niches
- TB871: Turtles all the way down
- TB871: Flamingos and hedgehog croquet
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
- A learnt practice that placates idle hands and leaves our thoughts free
- Digital Badging Commission
- A Jazz-soaked Philosophy for our Catastrophic Times: From Socrates to Coltrane’
- Shark skin aircraft FTW
- Weeknote 20/2024
- TB871: Block 1 Tools stream references
- TB871: Engaging with unknowns
- TB871: Three activities associated with using a STiP heuristic for making str...
- TB871: Bricolage, rigour, and service design
- TB871: Nominating an area of practice
- TB871: A Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) heuristic
- TB871: Toast and wicked problems
- An end to growth?
- Food bank efficiency
- The 'threat' of fictional and factual fembots
- License to Drill
- Navigating financial uncertainty isn't just about 'trying harder'
- Weeknote 19/2024
- TB871: Systems practice competencies
- TB871: Three purposeful orientations and five different systems approaches
- TB871: Avoiding traps in conventional thinking
- Another chance tonight
- Every drama requires a fool
- TB871: What is a 'strategy'?
- TB871: Four perspectives on systems thinking
- We got the internet that reflects who we are
- More on digital afterlife services
- ShareOpenly (to the Fediverse)
- Strategic Design resources
- Weeknote 18/2024
- But here we are: the diaspora of online communities
- Cullernose Point
- Systems ambiguity and chaos
- "All that any honest review actually does is just accelerate whatever was alr...
- TB871: Making strategy in difficult/messy situations
- TB871: Starting my next MSc module
- TB871: Getting the bigger picture and appreciating other perspectives
- TB871: Different uses of the words 'Strategy' and 'System'
- Warm Data
- Spectacular timelapse over the ALMA Observatory
- Recognising oneself through the recognition of others
- Weeknote 17/2024
- How to easily generate image descriptions and alt text
- It turns out the apple can fall pretty far from the tree
- You are what you read
- Limiting virtues
- Perhaps we should organise?
- Book reading and secondary orality
- Optimising for the wrong things
- It's not sick note culture, it's systemic failure in governance
- Real-time deepfake videos for fun and exploitation
- There's only so much lemonade you can make when life is firing lemons at you
- Book publishing doesn't work
- Weeknote 16/2024
- Weeknote 15/2024
- Social media without an audience
- If you're going to go, you might as well go... weirdly?
- Tearing your anger into strips
- How not to mince about like a little weasel
- Exporting blog posts to JSON for easier use with LLMs such as ChatGPT
- A pharmacology of digital tools
- Slouchers rejoice!
- Disinformation is free
- Weeknote 14/2024
- 'Neom' is the sound of contractors being laid off
- Football fan hierarchy
- Itano Circus
- A tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death
- De-bogging yourself
- TB872: Concept map to help with my EMA
- The New York Times is a gaming platform
- Borobudur
- Eudaimonic exercise
- Boundaries
- Weeknote 13/2024
- Human agency in a world of AI
- When should you replace running shoes?
- Endlessly clever
- Origami unicorn
- The best antidote for the tendency to caricature one’s opponent
- 5 ways in which AI is discussed
- 14 years of Tory (mis)rule
- Weeknote 12/2024
- The problem with private property societies
- Identifying things that don't work
- The art of distraction
- TB872: Advantages and disadvantages of CSLS
- The impact of the pandemic
- More equal societies perform better
- Microcast #104 — Questioning uncritical acceptance
- Toward the ad-free city?
- TB872: Core reading for my EMA
- Anti-AI hyperbole
- Barnacle ball
- Bluesky's approach to decentralised moderation
- Reframing as small i's
- Austerity is not efficiency
- Taking seriously the noise and free-floating anxiety
- Microcast #103 — Microphones and Moving to Micro.blog
- Weeknote 11/2024
- Scaling AI requires 'muddling through'
- Born to run
- TB872: Preparing for 1:1 meeting with my tutor
- Consciousness porn
- Scintillating scotomas
- Vendor lock-in writ large
- Be careful what you wish for
- 'Manifesting' work
- Claude's Prompt Library
- Absence is not a defect(ion)
- Career vs Job
- Weeknote 10/2024
- Sports betting and neoliberal atomisation
- TB872: Bawden and transforming worldviews
- TB872: A systems map of organisations involved with LERs in the USA
- A truly liberatory (digital) future for everyone
- Moderation is up to us now
- Subject, Consumer, Citizen
- Hope vs Natality
- Hope vs optimism
- TB872: Reading about Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Key concepts in Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- Post-Holocene preferable future habitats
- AI agents as customers
- Being a good listener also means being a good talker
- Weeknote 09/2024
- Elysium, elites, and elision
- Humans and AI-generated news
- Language is probably less than you think it is
- Ultravioleta
- TB872: Choosing between CSLS and CoPs
- TB872: Overview of different traditions in social learning systems
- TB872: Ubuntu and Pratītyasamutpāda
- 3 issues with global mapping of micro-credentials
- Philosophy and folklore
- Elegant media consumption
- The perils of over-customising your setup
- Educators should demand better than 'semi-proctored writing environments'
- Perhaps stop caring about what other people think (of you)
- Weeknote 08/2024
- TB872: Wenger-Trayner and communities of practice
- TB872: Bawden and living as a constant process of learning
- Educators in an AI generated world
- The war on the URL
- Systems thinking and the FRAMED mnemonic
- TB872: Vickers and appreciative systems
- TB872: MCB and 'being what we are willing to learn'
- 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
- Bet you didn't know this about Botox
- At the (current) boundary of 'AI ethics'
- Human writing in the age of generative AI
- Economic incentives and parental leave
- The cause of our anger is not other people
- Weeknote 07/2024
- TB872: Schön's swamp and 'ideas in good currency'
- Every default macOS wallpaper in 6k
- AI-generated video is coming for your reality
- Building a Bonfire
- TB872: Social learning systems and communities of practice
- Brexit means Brexit in football, too
- 'Beast mode' as permission-seeking behaviour
- Weeknote 06/2024
- Generative AI means we need to use art school approaches to assessment
- Writing, personal branding, and capitalism
- Eye-opening heat map study
- First Thought Shrapnel 'newsletter' via micro.blog!
- Weeknote 05/2024
- TB872: Four pervasive institutional settings inimical to the flourishing of s...
- TB872: Authenticity and accountability
- TB872: Outstanding leadership and making the case for developing STiP
- TB872: Different types of change
- Weeknote 04/2024
- TB872: My learning contract as a designed system of interest
- TB872: Systemic inquiry and the 'design turn'
- Unlearning behaviours
- Preparing for a year of electoral disinformation
- Shared persuasion tactics
- Doing something about the UK schooling class divide
- The death of consensus reality
- TB872: Snappy Systems
- TB872: The main systemic influences now operating in my situation of concern (S2)
- An 'anti-social network' you post to via email subject lines
- TB872: Juggling the M-ball (Managing)
- Weeknote 03/2024
- TB872: Juggling the C-ball (Contextualising)
- TB872: Juggling the E-ball (Engaging)
- On the strategic uses of ambiguity
- TB872: Juggling the B-ball (Being)
- TB872: Purposeful and purposive framing
- Weeknote 02/2024
- TB872: Places to intervene in a system
- TB872: What I talk about when I talk about juggling
- TB872: Four advantages of systems practice
- TB872: The juggler isophor for systems practice
- TB872: Adding the juggler isophor to the PFMS heuristic
- One does not simply move off Substack
- Weeknote 01/2024
- Welcome To The
- Spy windows?
- We become what we behold
- What is degrowth communism?
- TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S1)
- TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S2)
- TB872: Revisiting my learning contract
- TB872: STiP terminology
- Logical fallacies, cognitive biases, and more
- The rich are scared we're going to eat them
- Your future is statistically more likely to be better than your past
- Would you survive in medieval Europe?
- TB872: Systems practice and social relations
- TB872: Different understandings of the word 'system'
- TB872: Systems: epistemologies or ontologies?
- We already have solutions for a lot of problems, we just don’t use them
- Remember distinct music scenes and culinary traditions? Yeah, they're coming ...
- Giving up is an attempt to make a different future
2023
- Weeknote 52/2023
- TB872: Making choices about situations and systems
- TB872: Emerging worldview commonalities and clashes
- TB872: Outlining the type of change I hope to see in my situation of concern
- TB872: Systems, situations, and systemic praxis
- TB872: Meta-narrative for my systemic inquiry
- TB872: You can create a map from the territory, but you can't create the terr...
- TB872: Regression and recursion
- I am so tired of moving platforms
- TB872: System-determined problems
- Weeknote 51/2023
- TB872: A web of existence of which we are only partly aware
- (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: A virtuous circle of inquiry
- TB872: Projectification and an apartheid of the emotions
- 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: Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Communities and networks
- TB872: Situations of concern, systems of interest, and PQR statements
- 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: 'Method' vs 'Methodology'
- TB872: Systems lineages
- TB872: Reflection, reflexivity, and 'practice performances'
- TB872: Relational thinking
- Avoiding the 'Dark Triads'
- The 9-5 shift is a relatively recent invention
- TB872: Systemic failure in UK governance
- TB872: The PFMS heuristic
- TB872: Systemic praxis and epistemological devices
- TB872: Culturally feasible change
- TB872: An inquiry into my practice for managing change with STiP
- TB872: Types of change
- TB872: Experiencing situations of change
- TB872: Avoiding systemic failures
- Overemployment as anti-precarity strategy
- More like Grammarly than Hal 9000
- Towards an epistemology of the humanities
- Building a system for success, without the glitches
- There are better approaches than just having no friends at work
- If you need a cheat sheet, it's not 'natural language'
- Cosplaying adulthood
- Is the only sustainable growth 'degrowth'?
- Weeknote 45/2023
- TB872: The nature of change
- TB872: Institutions, structures, and power
- TB872: Mapping my arrival trajectory
- Pufflings can't resist the bright lights of the city
- You'll be hearing a lot more about nodules
- Our ancestors were using complex tools and woodworking approaches almost half...
- TB872: creating a systems map of the module
- Small sufferings
- Co-Intelligence, GPTs, and autonomous agents
- Twitter now feels like the Brewster’s Millions of tech
- Bill Gates on why AI agents are better than Clippy
- AI generated images in a time of war
- The fragmentation of the (social) web
- TB872: first reflections, heuristics, and systems literacy
- Don't tell me that hiring isn't broken
- The Societal Side-eye
- The first half of life is Tetris; the second half is Jenga
- 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
- The real threat to manhood: remaining children
- Happiness vs GDP
- 'Restorying' your life as a hero's journey
- Paying to avoid ads is paying to avoid tracking
- The Fediverse model can help fix the internet
- Looking out of someone else's window
- Stonehenge had nothing to do with druids
- Soul houses and false doors
- The French Jesuit priest who surveyed Roman forts by air
- Running slow and short
- Serious art, influencers, and AI
- Superorganisms and solidarity
- Dynamic ontologies and music genres
- The social semi-permeable membrane
- Systems and interconnected disaster risks
- Is this the end of the 'extremely online' era?
- Tech typologisation
- System innovation is driven by reshaping relationships within the system
- Treating depression with hot yoga
- Why haven't you bought a Steam Deck yet?
- Zoom backgrounds with a Japanese nature retreat vibe
- Laying to rest a foundational myth
- The casual ableism of futurism
- Philosophy and friendship
- What, after all, is 'redemption'?
- The inner world as the ultimate prison
- Monetising a hobby is different to solving a difficult problem for people rea...
- 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
- The techno-feudal economy
- Parenting the parents
- 2024 is going to be a wild ride of AI-generated content
- Modular learning and credentialing
- AI and stereotypes
- Handwriting, note-taking, and recall
- 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
- NFTs as skeuomorphic baby-steps?
- Where next for social media?
- A steampunk Byzantium with nukes
- 3 bits of marriage advice
- Holographic depth of field
- Pre-committed defaults
- Microcast #101 — Self-esteem, pies, and moving house
- Curiosity and infinite detail
- Well, when you put it like that...
- A reward is not 'more email'
- All aboard the U-shaped curve
- Billionaires shouldn't exist, even if they're philanthropists
- And so it continues...
- A lonely and surveilled landscape
- AIs and alignment with human values
- Microplastics, tyres, and EVs
- Nuance and depth through long(er)form reading
- 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
- Anxiety, deadness, and aggression
- The rolling drama of the climate crisis just got a whole lot worse
- Five kinds of friends
- Microcast #100 — Awkward Conversations
- Climate havens
- Different levels of reading (technologies)
- Perhaps switch to another search engine?
- In the long run, people can only treat you the way you let them
- University is about more than jobs and earning power
- More on the vagus nerve (and exercise)
- Yuval Noah Harari on the post-truth revolutionary right
- Intelligent failure
- Falling asleep on the couch watching films
- Weeknote 39/2023
- Microcast #99 — EVs
- Adversarial interoperability to return to a world of 'fast companies'
- Songs are not meme stocks
- Sycamore Stump
- Seven Samurai and Open Badges
- 'Personalisation' is something that humans do
- Migraines and 'ability'
- Please consider stopping eating animals
- On preparing, issuing, and claiming badges
- No career progression on a dead planet
- Telling stories using cartoons
- Screens, addiction, and parenting
- AI = surveillance
- Oh great, another skills passport
- Conspicuously sesquipedalian communication
- What people are really using generative AI for
- Weeknote 38/2023
- If LLMs are puppets, who's pulling the strings?
- A trickle, a ripple, a slow rush
- If your heart isn’t it, it’s probably because there’s no heart anywhere in th...
- Bad historical maps
- Death, wrecks, and harsh weather
- More treasures and secrets from ancient Egypt
- The Value of Credentials Endorsement
- Microcast #98 — Endorsement
- This isn't working. Can we talk about that?
- Virtual spaces for learning and collaboration
- The Social Media Archipelago
- Research shows people in most countries are anti-capitalist
- What's good for us is also good for the planet
- Constructs, meta-constructs, and shared cognitive spaces
- Noise and working from home
- Maybe it makes sense to talk to plants after all
- The Empty Boat
- Weeknote 37/2023
- Shrinkflation, sizes, and shaming
- Good news on Covid treatments
- Dark Tech and Project Cybersyn
- 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
- The complexities of distraction
- Saving the world using a 2x2 matrix
- Developing your niche
- Monday morning feeling
- Status detection systems
- The burnout curve
- Weeknote 36/2023
- Job crafting, identity, and fulfilment
- The punishment for being authentic is becoming someone else’s content
- AI writing detectors don’t work
- The role of endorsement in Open Badges and Open Recognition
- Walking 1,000 miles across Europe
- Microcast #096 — Getting back in the saddle
- TikTok's algorithm and its effect on migration
- Non-places
- Indigenous knowledge, sustainable design, and long-term thinking
- Cooling down is hotting up
- Some advice for readers
- Generative AI, misinformation, and content authenticity
- On the need to measure productivity
- The declining relevance of Google search
- Crypto is the biggest ponzi scheme of all time
- B Lane
- Money does not solve disasters like this
- Reconstructing Tenochtitlan
- The Atlantis of the North Sea
- Weeknote 35/2023
- Disaster capitalism, climate change, and agriculture
- Taking screenagers to the forest
- What we can learn about the climate emergency from the world's response to oz...
- Note taking tools and processes
- Eating the rich is optional, taxing them is mandatory
- How does doing what I need make time for everything else?
- Can you use CC licenses to restrict how people use copyrighted works in AI tr...
- Poverty is expensive. Cash helps homeless people.
- It's all about the DMs
- The uninhabitable earth
- Using semesters for goal-setting
- A philosophy of travel
- Don't skip the best tracks
- Weeknote 34/2023
- AI and bullshit jobs
- We need to talk about AI porn
- The world's largest climate-positive artwork provides food and nesting spots ...
- Handing over ownership of exercise.cafe
- When it's getting too hot for plants to photosynthesize, you know we've got a...
- CAPTCHA is an arms race we're losing against AI bots
- Raising the average level of creativity using AI
- Emoji, we salute you 🫡
- Hacking the vagus nerve
- Structural insecurity
- Reality and the templated life
- Temporarily Abled
- The only way to outlaw encryption is to outlaw encryption
- Why anxious people find it difficult to control their emotions
- Jobs, AI, and human worth
- On 'Executive Function Theft'
- Weeknote 33/2023
- Did people in the past look older for their age?
- Life in 2050
- Ask culture vs guess culture
- House purchases, climate change, and AI
- Context is everything, especially with books
- Using AI to aid with banning books is another level of dystopia
- AI sports recruitment
- Income Level 4
- Secret family recipes (on the side of containers)
- Landmark ruling in climate trial
- Quake II remaster brings online LAN gaming
- Introducing Homo naledi
- Giving advice online without mansplaining
- Actions speak louder than words
- Your personal time management strategy sucks
- The tyranny of efficiency
- Calendars as data layers
- Saying "I don't know" is a privilege
- 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
- On the paucity of 'raising awareness'
- Weeknote 25/2023
- Weeknote 24/2023
- Open Badges and the ambiguity of recognition
- Weeknote 23/2023
- Weeknote 22/2023
- Weeknote 21/2023
- The everyday essence of creativity
- Meredith Whittaker on AI doomerism
- Playing the right game
- Almhouses as a way forward for social housing
- Using AI to help solve Bloom's Two Sigma Problem
- Weeknote 20/2023
- Time's Solitary Dance
- Digital wallets for verifiable credentials
- Bad work
- AI generated art aesthetic
- Doug Uses This
- Bad coffee
- Ungrading the university experience
- Reducing website carbon emissions by blocking ads
- Weeknote 19/2023
- The sleight of hand of crypto
- AI writing, thinking, and human laziness
- Switching to Arc
- Taxing land rather than labour
- AI and work socialisation
- Attempting to quantify the unquantifiable
- Arc browser is pretty nifty
- You can‘t ruminate and listen at the same time
- Kanban > Scrum
- #NotMyKing
- Weeknote 18/2023
- Just this cold beach that nourishes you
- Comportamento Geral
- On co-operative dynamics
- Reimagining assessment practices using AI tools
- The internet should be a place for connection, surprise, and delight
- NYC 🫶 renewable energy
- It's time to strictly regulate vaping
- 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 future of AI will always be more than six months away
- The web is fragmentary
- An urgency to somehow bend the algorithms
- Fitting LLMs to the phenomena
- The patchwork progress of maturity
- Žižek on ChatGPT
- Negative UK growth
- Relationships and therapy-speak
- More on why billionaires should not exist
- Curiosity, projectories, and AI
- The laziness of helicopter parenting
- Spaced repetition, newsletters, and book-writing
- Introducing 'Empowered Networked Learning' (ENL)
- The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason
- Imaginary friends for adults
- Battles over human rights are not 'culture wars'
- Lifehouses, not churches
- The progress of AI art
- Purpose, positioning, proposition
- 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 '...
- The old 'chicken and egg' problem about microcredentials kind of misses the p...
- 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, a...
- Setting Sail with Digital Literacies: Preparing Students for the Evolving Dig...
- 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 d...
- Living your best life
- There are just bodies, just us
- Smoking as an analogy for unthinking phone use
- Weeknote 08/2023
- Weeknote 07/2023
- Voodoo categorisation and dynamic ontologies in the world of OER
- Weeknote 06/2023
- The art of the zeugma
- Buying when the market is selling
- Britain is screwed
- Synesthetic xkcd
- Bad Bard
- I'm pretty sure 'status update' meetings aren't work
- Sad Ben Affleck
- The party's over for office-based work
- One place to rule them all?
- Weeknote 05/2023
- Reasons for not writing
- Hiring people without degrees
- Covid and heart attacks
- Weeknote 04/2023
- Woke, broke, and complicated
- Should we "resist trying to make things better" when it comes to online misin...
- Cambrian governance models
- Logging off from AI?
- Tax and/or eat the rich
- 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
- U.S. Army Corps releases cat calendar
- Facial recognition and the morality police
- Getting your book published in 2023
- Let's make private schools help pay for state schools
- Good writing is good writing
- Update your profile photo at least every three years
- Chameleon e-ink car
- Level 3 busy-ness
- Nick Cave's plans for 2023
- Weeknote 01/2023
- Building an iPod for 2023
- Preparation is everything
- This is 2023
- Walking around like Lionel Messi
- Spreading joy in 2023
- 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
- Four forces that constrain our actions
- Study shows no link between age at getting first smartphone and mental health...
- (Partially) visualising the Fediverse
- Japanese miniature dioramas
- Who wants to live forever?
- French views of Brexit
- 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 a...
- Weeknote 45/2022
- On the importance of Fediverse server rules
- Second-order effects of widespread AI
- Mourning what we've lost
- Rituals for moving jobs when working from home
- Organisations are not just joining the Fediverse, they're setting up their ow...
- Hyperbolic discounting applied to habit-formation
- The (surprising) oldest full sentence in the Canaanite language in Israel
- Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself
- 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
- Hyperfinancialisation has taken over UK politics
- Presenteeism, overwork, and being your own boss
- Twitter the disaster clown car company
- An anarchist take on the Twitter acquisition
- Being 'quietly fired' at work
- What does work look like? (redux)
- Jacobin reviews the creator of Ethereum's new book
- AI is coming for middle management
- Weeknote 42/2022
- Moving hosts for exercise.cafe
- Weeknote 41/2022
- Weeknotes 39/2022 & 40/2022
- Censorship and the porn tech stack
- AI everywhere in education
- Bridging the divide
- Brexit Britain = hungry kids
- Apple Watch Ultra vs The Scottish Highlands
- Google Stadia as pandemic fever dream
- Our range of legible emotions is being constricted
- Sharing can be hard (online)
- Teaching kids about anonymity
- Your brain rewires itself after age 40
- Gaming on the go (or anywhere)
- Hierarchy is bad for business
- Weeknote 38/2022
- 'Even over' statements
- The 2022 Drone Photo Awards
- The unintended consequences of photography
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
- Weeknote 37/2022
- Forbes on federation
- A philosophical approach to performative language
- Technological Liturgies
- What is ransom capitalism?
- Three components of the public sphere
- Organisational design: the floor is lava
- Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible — and...
- Professional try-hards
- WFH from anywhere
- Registrations are now open at exercise.cafe!
- Weeknote 36/2022
- Ad-free urban spaces
- Paying it forward
- CDNs are not phone books
- Code of Conduct for exercise.cafe
- Migraines and TIAs
- Weeknote 35/2022
- Against 'talkocracy'
- You should only ever be busy on purpose
- Cultivating (your) serendipity (surface)
- AI art is, well, still art
- Life product tiers
- 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
- Conversational affordances
- Population ethics
- Lessin's five steps and the coming AI apocalypse
- Returning to social.coop
- Dealing with mental pain
- Development without critique
- The UK is in crisis
- Context collection, not context collapse
- Chronological social interaction
- Full Internet People
- Weeknote 33/2022
- Weeknote 32/2022
- Ethical (open) source (licenses)
- Mathematical models of evolution
- Being busy isn't a badge of honour
- Working from home
- Eddie Jones on how privately educated rugby players 'lack resolve'
- Weeknote 31/2022
- Meta may really be exiting Europe as soon as this year
- Generating a logo using an AI drawing model
- Weeknote 30/2022
- Bonfire's latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early
- Algorithmic Anxiety
- Naming heatwaves
- Doomed to live in a Sisyphean purgatory between insatiable desires and limite...
- Foregrounding externalities
- Finish what you start
- Weeknote 29/2022
- Slack emboldens the meek
- Teaching about dead white guys in an age of social media
- Discourses of Climate Delay
- On GitHub Achievements
- 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)
- Chromebooks banned in Danish schools
- Social-first searching
- Productivity is the enemy of creativity
- Weeknote 28/2022
- Unintended consequences of smart thermostats
- No more low-speed fart sounds for Teslas
- Spring '83
- (Machine) Creativity
- Personal Publishing Principles
- Amazon as a dumb pipe
- Wanted: a simple 3-step Open Badges platform to generate claim codes and issu...
- Some thoughts on 'home' pages for individuals within communities (and social ...
- Weeknote 27/2022
- Ian Bogost on hybrid work
- Life cannot be organised
- Steaming open the institutional creases
- This bus ain't growing wings
- Is our society structured in a way which encourages people to make less than ...
- Criticism vs praise
- The Digital Dark Ages
- Weeknote 26/2022
- 5 domains I'm letting expire over the next year
- The future has been foreclosed and the present is intolerable
- The corrosive nature of captalism
- Recalling generative and liberating uses of technology
- Crypto clowns
- Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
- Counting the cost of Brexit
- Making adulthood more desirable
- Bonfire beta
- Weeknote 25/2022
- Moonshine-enabling cow shoes
- The omnishambles of Brexit
- Losing followers, making friends
- GNOME <3
- Worker-owned co-op federation
- Psycho-Geography
- Travelling light
- One sentence per line
- Abandoned places
- Weeknote 24/2022
- The internet is broken because the internet is a business
- The ultimate act of self-denial
- Muting the American internet
- Who knew tapping a checkbox could be so satisfying?
- Living forever
- Morality, responsibility, and (online) information
- Audrey Watters says goodbye to EdTech
- Subscriber count as power level against algorithmic demons
- Artificial metrics are flying by instrument
- Getting out of a rut
- Yes, parenting matters
- EaaS : Employee as a Service
- Weeknote 23/2022
- 'Slack' and work
- Art gallery mode
- Optimising for feelings, ceding control to the individual
- The new digital divide
- Good ideas become colonised and domesticated
- Billable hours and the psychology of work
- Coffee and its impact on fitness
- Testing a 4-day work week
- WIRED magazine predicts the 21st century... in 1997
- The mesmerising murmurations of Europe’s starlings
- Signalling that you're AFK in a world where you can never really be AFK
- Weeknote 22/2022
- Updating our worldviews
- Should governments track supermarket purchases?
- Developing your own style (and archive)
- Epic UK walking trails
- #AbolishTheMonarchy
- Distro-hopping like a cynic
- 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?
- Words and meaning are two different things
- Dedicated portable digital media players and central listening devices
- Highlights from 'The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is'
- An illustrative conversation about productive ambiguity
- Weeknote 16/2022
- Literally shitposting
- The economics of blockchain-based gaming don't add up
- Assume that your devices are compromised
- What technology means in late capitalism
- Unauditible algorithms are the enemy of social media users
- Using DICE instead of RA(S)CI
- Weeknote 15/2022
- The rise of first-party online tracking
- 'Live Forever' mode
- The triple-peak work day is a worrying trend
- My highlights from 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'
- Certain surroundings seem to dispel enchantment, and others encourage it
- Mainstream social media is a behaviour-modification system
- Are we in a post-album era for music?
- Virtual Photographer Of The Year awards
- Warren Ellis' work day routine
- Get off Twitter if you want to see your friends' posts
- Weeknote 14/2022
- Hadrian's Wall Path in 72 hours
- Weeknote 13/2022
- Weeknote 12/2022
- Historic aerial photos of England
- How to be a darknet drug lord
- Do NFTs tend towards dystopia?
- Live map of electricity production highlights carbon criminals
- British monarchs helped fund, and profited from, the slave trade
- Declining trust in society isn't just a 'vibe shift'
- Cancel Technology
- Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians
- Weeknote 11/2022
- Antartica used to be covered in rainforest
- San Francisco is built on the carcasses of old ships
- Twitter autoblock is what you get when you have software with shareholders
- Open Badges is now on the plateau of productivity
- If you believe it's over, maybe it will be
- Solarpunk and five climate futures
- Challenging capitalism through co-ops and community
- Weeknote 10/2022
- A weird tip for weight loss
- Some fairy tales may be 6,000 years old
- The week as an human construct
- Exploring the sweet spot for Zappa project approaches to misinformation
- What if I never change?
- A hardwired obedience to the capitalist system that we exist within
- The Un-Grammable Hang Zone
- Lizard brain vs infinite scroll
- Switching from Telegram to Signal
- AI-synthesized faces are here to fool you
- Weeknote 09/2022
- First version of report published sharing findings from Zappa project user re...
- Xero starts using consent-based decision making
- Audrey Watters on the technology of wellness and mis/disinformation
- What makes writing more readable?
- 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
- The benefits of taking Wednesdays off
- The life run by spreadsheet is not worth living
- You cannot 'solve' online misinformation
- Weeknote 07/2022
- Dark patterns and gambling
- Some interesting findings from user research for the Zappa project (so far!)
- Speeding up a Chromebook by allocating zram
- Upgrading an iPod Video for use in 2022
- Stone Age culture in the Orkney islands
- Chrome OS Flex
- Digital to analogue and back again
- Nesta's predictions for 2022
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator
- OKRs as institutional memory
- Weeknote 06/2022
- Sitting with ambiguity for innovation projects (or life in general!)
- Countering misinformation in federated social networks: an introduction to th...
- Blockchain and trusted third parties
- Reducing offensive social media messages by intervening during content-creation
- On hobbies
- Weeknote 05/2022
- Check your perspective
- Productivity dysmorphia
- The burnout epidemic
- Decentralising the description of skills with OSMT
- Twitter's decline into right-leaning hellsite
- Explaining ideas
- BBC Archives and the changing of history
- Your attention was stolen
- Private schools having charitable status is an absolute scam
- Weeknote 04/2022
- Boring crypto definitions
- If web3 is the financialisation of the web, then ed3 is merely the (further) ...
- Control and responsibility
- Spatial Finance
- Health surveillance
- NFTs, financialisation, and crypto grifters
- Tether and crypto price manipulation
- Co-ops and DAOs
- Individualism and collectivism in decentralised networks
- Hype levels
- Weeknote 03/2022
- A low-tech solution for personal warmth
- Web3 and Ed3 are both problematic
- Is QWERTY a really bad keyboard layout?
- Directions of travel
- Kids need life on the highest volume
- Ancient cynicism
- Paying for everything twice
- 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
- The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged f...
- Reading is useless
- Matching work activities to mind modes
- Does Not Translate
- Your accusations are your confessions
- Weeknote 02/2022
- Persistent Practices and Pragmatism
- Web3, the metaverse, and the DRM-isation of everything
- America, fascism, and the first, second, and third 'solutions'
- Meetings and work theatre
- Vaccine Hesitancy as part of a Plague Anthology
- Let's Settle This
- Laptops aren't what they used to be
- Signal's CEO on 'web3'
- Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
- Weeknote 01/2022
- Experimenting with new tools to augment my information environment
- Jam tomorrow
- Somebody please tell the travel industry there's a climate emergency
- Covid immunity and medical breakthroughs
- Productive ambiguity and learning resource discovery
2021
- Gamify or be gamified
- Looking back, looking forward
- 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
- Wealth is a product of luck
- Ignore the sociotechnics at your peril
- Everyone has something to teach
- Weeknote 46/2021
- Unsolicited advice might not be so bad after all?
- Peeking around corners with holographic cameras
- Pain, suffering, and scuba diving
- Information is not knowledge (and knowledge is not wisdom)
- Start Often Finish rArely
- An ending, a beginning
- Weeknote 45/2021
- Should teenagers be using social media? We probably already know the answer
- Introspections on timewasting
- Freedom for the few vs. freedom for the many
- Momentum over details
- Big Tech companies may change their names but they will not voluntarily chang...
- Games as a cultural, educational, and predictive force
- Aimless wandering in search of the unknown catalyst
- Platform power and infrastructure
- A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature
- Surveillance vs working openly
- Just Don't Do It
- Carbon emissions per km
- Proving endemic racism and sexism in the world of football
- Weeknote 44/2021
- Build your 'castle' on land you own and control
- Whitelabelling Stadia tech
- Retro football gaming FTW
- Is this a Signal backdoor?
- Exploration pays long-term dividends for your career
- How to communicate remotely
- Climate optimism
- Middle class pursuit of pain through endurance sports is a thing
- Taking the long view on weekly working hours
- Weeknote 43/2021
- My Gamer Motivation Profile: Skirmisher/Bard
- 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?
- Securing your digital life
- Why large tree-planting initiatives often fail
- Weeknote 42/2021
- Twitter acknowledges right-wing bias in its algorithmic feed
- Psychological hibernation
- Brand-safe influencers and the blurring of reality
- Walking the Covid tightrope
- What are microcredentials?
- Otters vs. Possums
- Kith and kin
- Bring Your Own Stack
- Fall Regression
- Weeknote 41/2021
- Blogging from localhost to IPFS
- On the digital literacies of regular web users
- Reducing long-distance travel
- Time millionaires
- UK government adviser warns against plans to force the NHS to share data with...
- Sports data and GDPR
- Leisure is what we do for its own sake. It serves no higher end.
- On the dangers of CBDCs
- Subsidising trains via a tax on internal flights?
- Why commute to an office to work remotely?
- Precrastinators, procrastinators, and originals
- On 'sportswashing'
- Weeknote 40/2021
- Six Causes of Burnout at Work
- Opting out of capitalism
- Good decision-making
- Singapore is turning into a dystopian surveillance state
- Blissed, Blessed, Pissed, and Dissed
- Carbon offsets are pure greenwashing
- The Stability Fantasy
- Traffic to news sites went up during the Facebook outage.
- Who wants a metaverse created by Facebook?
- Facebook isn't just anti-competitive, it's anti-consumer
- 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
- Weeknote 35/2021
- Bright green, blight green, and lean green futures
- 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
- Motivating people who don't need a job
- Moral outrage and social media
- 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
- The Great Reckoning
- Brains melted like butter in a microwave
- Culture is in a state of constant flux
- Weeknote 32/2021
- What is 'solarpunk'?
- Five-hour workdays
- Global temperatures: 1980-2021
- The Cult of the Upper Classes
- Weeknote 31/2021
- Gaming, technology, and solving problems
- Act NOW to prevent the hijacking of the Open Badges standard by an IMS faction!
- Two years of spending more time in 'dark forests'
- 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
- Mr Bingo's Zoom backgrounds
- Skills-based hiring vs universities
- On Twitter addiction
- Main-Character Energy
- Parasocial relationships through digital media
- The album is no longer the unit of musical currency
- Propeller-based car that can go faster than the wind
- Weeknote 26/2021
- Leslie Caron on Cary Grant's attitude to money
- Moving air through a building more efficiently using a fan
- Giving work oxygen
- Hemp captures more carbon than trees
- What exactly is 'hybrid work'?
- The most sustainable foods?
- Algorithmic work overlords
- Weeknote 25/2021
- Walkways lined by abandoned gestures
- Decentralised organising
- AI for auto-generated landscapes
- UK government survey into climate change and net zero
- 95% of fish are 'dark fish'
- Is the self-censorship the most dangerous form of censorship?
- Why going slowly speeds teams up
- New network of sleeper trains
- How to stop being a perfectionist
- There's a word for everything
- Specialization is for insects
- Leadership is contextual
- Lobsters and octopuses are sentient and feel pain
- How becoming a father changes men
- Weeknote 24/2021
- Cultural complexes contributing to the climate crisis
- Online personas and liquid modernity
- The ideology of e-s-c-a-p-e
- Information means nothing by itself
- "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
- Value and liquidity of skills
- Improv as a tool for building better products
- Organic Maps
- The Puritan Class
- Monetizing stupidity?
- The end of cookie banners?
- Criminals' right to be forgotten
- Open Badges Verifiable Credentials
- Slow travel and camping in other people's gardens
- Positive deviance in the workplace
- Generative art
- Conceptual integrity
- Social media is done
- Remote workers clock up more hours, says one study
- Dunbar's friendship circles
- Fractional dosing of COVID vaccines may help more people get immunity faster
- A point-based system for email address pronounceability
- People pay selective attention to what they deem important
- No more simplified URLs in Chrome
- Weeknote 23/2021
- A glimpse into the future of autonomous electric vehicles
- Health and sanity before profit
- Rationalising work for the 40+ brigade
- Anti-social media
- Who's the pet? Tarantula or tiny frog?
- Briar now does pictures
- AI-generated misinformation is getting more believable, even by experts
- More US electoral chaos to come in 2024?
- Information cannot be transmitted faster than the [vacuum] speed of light
- Peer review sucks
- Epistemological chaos and denialism
- Portals to another world (or town)
- How to recover from burnout
- Nostalgia, friction, and read/write literacy
- Killer robots are already here
- Interoperability for browser plugins
- A cure for depression and boredom
- How to organise your fridge
- Weeknote 22/2021
- A robot that sticks to ceilings by... vibrating
- Novelty, brains, and new experiences
- The farmer uses his plough as his form of work
- Taking breaks to be more human
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
- Degrees of Uncertainty
- Virtual brands and ghost kitchens
- Male bias in scientific trials
- Invisible sculptures are the logical conclusion of NFTs
- The lie of 'sovereign individuality'
- 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever
- Meetings as exercises in power
- Screenshot culture
- The world's most popular websites, mapped
- "Alexa, disable arbitration"
- Sky pool awesomeness
- Social studying
- Twitter reactions
- Professor goes to 'TikTok University'
- Deepfake maps
- Quitting instead of returning to the office
- Human and computer memory
- There's no such thing as a website or web app that doesn't need to be accessible
- Net Zero Democracy
- Opportunity costs
- Anxiety and performance
- 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
- A web-based commonplace book
- Sky explosion
- Digital fashion is another example of a nascent industry beset with inequalities
- Wherefore art thou, privacy?
- Rat Race 2.0
- Badges everywhere!
- GCHQ violates our privacy
- Volcano-powered electricity
- Mastering a 5,400-character typewriter
- Life should contain novelty
- Working from near home
- 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
- Unsettling
- 100 days of #100DaysToOffload
- Weeknote 14/2021
- Iterating privacy.garden
- Another new side project: privacy.garden
- Inputs and outputs
- How to subscribe to extinction.fyi
- Weeknote 13/2021
- Weeknote 12/2021
- Refactoring extinction.fyi
- New side project: extinction.fyi
- Weeknote 11/2021
- The role of the man who foresees is a sad one
- Proof-of-What?
- Weeknote 10/2021
- Everyone has an eschatology
- Weeknote 09/2021
- HOWTO: Install Firefox on Chrome OS
- Refactoring eink.link
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue
- 'The individual' is an idea like other ideas
- 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
- Trust no-one: why 'proof of work' is killing the planet as well as us
- Criticism, like lightning, strikes the highest peaks
- 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
- The (monetary) value of a university education during a pandemic
- Weeknote 02/2021
- The problem is that the person who should be the most restrained is the least
- There are many things we despise in order that we may not have to despise our...
- 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
- The end of competition
- One can acquire anything in solitude except character
- Seeing through is rarely seeing into
- Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...
- My two biggest insights from last year
- Everything flows
- 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 ...
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
- Weeknote 49/2020
- The cash value of truth
- Who are you without the doing?
- Skin in the game?
- Are you OK?
- See you in 2021!
- The self-cannibalisation of ideas and experience
- Give and you shall receive
- Weeknote 48/2020
- A world without apps?
- Define your audience or your product will (probably) fail
- He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues ot...
- Convenience, UX, and ethics
- What's your favourite month?
- (A)synchronous project updates within organisations
- Weeknote 47/2020
- Spatial video conferencing with self-organised breakout rooms
- Slowly-boiling frogs in Facebook's surveillance panopticon
- A candour affected is a dagger concealed
- Weeknote 46/2020
- What I do when I don't know what to do
- 'Prepper' philosophy
- To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain...
- 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
- Our better natures
- You can’t tech your way out of problems the tech didn’t create
- Even those of a harsh and unyielding nature will endure gentle treatment: no ...
- 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
- 10 ways to Build Back Better
- If you have been put in your place long enough, you begin to act like the place
- Hiring is broken, but not in the ways you assume
- Baltasar Gracián on patience
- Why we can't have nice things
- Marcus Aurelius on character
- Everything intercepts us from ourselves
- Collaboration is our default operating system
- Weeknote 43/2020
- How to plan a workshop in 10 steps
- Fighting health disinformation on Wikipedia
- 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
- Biometric surveillance in a post-pandemic future
- Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and ...
- Weeknote 42/2020
- Ethics is the result of the human will
- We all think we are exceptional, and are surprised to find ourselves criticis...
- Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it ha...
- Forward momentum above all things
- Scenario planning, climate change, and the pandemic
- The problems with Twitter's attempts at anti-disinformation in the run-up to ...
- Weeknote 41/2020
- At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our ...
- The clever man often worries; the loyal person is often overworked
- Reducing exam stress by removing pointless exams
- Learning through frustration
- Weeknote 40/2020
- Face-to-face university classes during a pandemic? Why?
- Like the flight of a sparrow through a lighted hall, from darkness into darkness
- 'Rulesy' people
- One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light
- The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route
- How to give advice
- Weeknote 39/2020
- Running with the wolves
- If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can be very creative about it
- The crisis in professional sport is one of its own making
- 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 over...
- Privilege and pandemic
- 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
- Things Come Apart
- One nation under Zuck
- New habits die easily
- More advice on perfectionism
- 'Recycling' plastic is an oil industry scam
- To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
- Rejecting the ideas hamster
- Weeknote 37/2020
- 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
- We're not even citizens, just independent contractors
- Marcus Aurelius on troubles
- To be in process of change is not an evil, any more than to be the product of...
- The world needs less philanthropy and more equality
- What is above knows what is below, what is below does not know what is above
- Enforced idleness
- 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
- Rethinking human responses to adversity
- Perfectionism is more toxic than you imagine
- 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
- Three internets?
- We're the real losers of realtime behavioural advertising auctions
- Identity, obedience, and social media
- Things could be worse
- Lies and misinformation
- 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?
- Weeknote 29/2020
- Sort-of breaking up with Cloudflare
- 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 int...
- 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 ...
- Weeknote 20/2020
- Saturday shiftings
- Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothi...
- 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
- Weeknote 14/2020
- Friday forebodings
- Wiki backup: information environment
- Wiki backup: daily reading
- Domains, decentralisation, and DNS
- Wiki backup: collaboration style
- 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 o...
- 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
- 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...
- Weeknote 04/2020
- Friday festoonings
- Featured on the Digital2Learn podcast
- Microcast #084 - Chris Dixon on RSS, crypto, and community ownership of the i...
- Decision-making and ambiguity
- 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
- Weeknote 45/2019
- Quick update!
- 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 th...
- 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
- Weeknote 38/2019
- Saturday strikings
- On the lack of ambiguity at the heart of 'Open Core'
- 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
- Weeknote 34/2019
- Friday flinchings
- 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 kno...
- Weeknote 28/2019
- Friday ferretings
- Weeknote 27/2019
- Do not impose one's own standard on the work of others. Mutual moderation and...
- Quality Mountain Days 19 & 20: Sharp Edge and Hayeswater Gill
- Friday frustrations
- Weeknote 26/2019
- Aren’t you ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnants of your life and...
- Friday feeds
- Ensuring the sustainability of Thought Shrapnel
- Our nature is such that the common duties of human relationships occupy a gre...
- 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
- Quality Mountain Days 17 & 18: Skiddaw, Great Calva, High Pike, and Carrock Fell
- To be perfectly symmetrical is to be perfectly dead
- 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 ...
- 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 betwee...
- 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 ...
- Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future ...
- 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
- Sometimes even to live is an act of courage
- Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of th...
- 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 drawbacks of Artificial Intelligence
- Opting in and out of algorithms
- Let's not force children to define their future selves through the lens of 'w...
- 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
- Weeknote 09/2019
- Human societies, hierarchy, and networks
- Success and enthusiasm (quote)
- The introvert's dilemma
- A 3-step guide to completing your thesis when you're feeling utterly overwhelmed
- Foldable displays are going to make the future pretty amazing
- Weeknote 08/2019
- So you think you're organised?
- Open Badges and ADCs
- Blockchains: not so 'unhackable' after all?
- On anger (quote)
- Weeknote 07/2019
- What UK children are watching (and why)
- Individual steps to tackle climate change
- Games (and learning) mechanics
- Is edtech even a thing any more?
- So long Digitalme, and thanks for all the fish
- Optimise for energy and motivation
- Process and product of change (quote)
- Experimenting with a Slack-based book club
- Weeknote 06/2019
- Tenacious will (quote)
- Why the internet is less weird these days
- Dis-trust and blockchain technologies
- 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'
- Fun smartphone-based party games
- Make art, tell a story
- Cal Newport on the dangers of 'techno-maximalism'
- Staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing (quote)
- Weeknote 04/2019
- Federico Leggio's type animations
- Through the looking-glass
- Surfacing popular Google Sheets to create simple web apps
- A modest proposal for nudging young people into finding a direction in life
- Using Twitter as a lens for some thoughts on launching products
- What did the web used to be like?
- Volume of work
- Hong Kong shutter art
- True test of intelligence (quote)
- Hierarchies and large organisations
- Exit option democracy
- Weeknote 03/2019
- Forging better habits
- Drink Talk Learn
- The quixotic fools of imperialism
- Blockchain is about trust minimisation
- Implicit leverage
- A reminder of how little we understand the world
- 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
- Creativity as an ongoing experiment
- Feeling good (quote)
- Murmurations
- Weeknote 01/2019
- Fanatics (quote)
- Working and leading remotely
- Baseline levels of conscientiousness
- Rules for Online Sanity
- The endless Black Friday of the soul
- Blockchain bullshit
- Looking back and forward in tech
- Social mobility
2018
- Weeknote 48/2018
- 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'?
- Is UBI 'hush money'?
- Issue [#323]: 46 hours in transit
- Weeknote 44/2018
- Nature of things (quote)
- Identity is a pattern in time
- An app to close down your workday effectively
- Immortality and Sunday afternoons (quote)
- CUNY Commons in a Box OpenLab
- Weeknote 43/2018
- Issue [#322]: Back-to-back
- Time's brevity (quote)
- What would you do if you were the richest man in the world? Now you can find ...
- Time flies (quote)
- Configuring your iPhone for productivity (and privacy, security?)
- Tennessee Williams on the problems that come with success
- Openness, sharing, and choosing a CC license
- Quality Mountain Day 15: Dale Head, Hindscarth, and High Spy
- Designing calm products
- Wishing and planning (quote)
- Is planning just guessing?
- Issue [#321]: Small talk and tiny conferences
- Weeknote 42/2018
- Decentralisation and networked agency
- Absorb what is useful (quote)
- Are tiny conferences and meetups better than big ones?
- Small talk and sociability
- Issue [#320]: The power of appreciation
- Weeknote 41/2018
- How do people learn?
- Co-operation and anti-social punishment in different societies
- The majority (quote)
- Reappropriating the artifacts of late-stage capitalism
- Venture beyond the expected (quote)
- 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
- Weeknote 40/2018
- Example and opinion (quote)
- Insidious Instagram influencers?
- Is Google becoming more like Facebook?
- The end of 'meritocracy' at Mozilla
- Bullshit receptivity scale
- Listen well (quote)
- Seven coaching questions
- Issue [#318]: Blisters a-go-go
- Some values-based career advice
- Weeknote 39/2018
- Quality Mountain Day 14: Whiteside Pike, Ancrow Brow, and White Howe (Lake Di...
- Quality Mountain Day 13: Park Fell, High Street, and Ill Bell (Lake District)
- Why desk jobs are exhausting
- Microshifts are more effective than epiphanies
- An incorrect approach to teaching History
- Airbnb wants to give out shares to its superhosts
- Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, monopolies, and decentralisation
- 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
- The rise and rise of e-sports
- Kindness and courage (quote)
- Online conformity (quote)
- A portal into a decentralised universe
- (Educational) consulting for the uninitiated
- The fate of private social networks
- Issue [#316]: Is that better? 🙄 🙄 🙄
- Blogging and content marketing (quote)
- 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 resou...
- Working (quote)
- Invisible turmoil (quote)
- 6 things that the best jobs have in common
- Simple sustainable stories
- Issue [#315]: Minimalism FTW
- Weeknote 36/2018
- What do happy teenagers do?
- Feedback from the community
- Burnout-prevention rules
- Expertise and knowledge (quote)
- Fluency without conceptual understanding
- Natural light as an 'office perk'
- Dealing with the downsides of remote working
- Choice (quote)
- We're back (with lots of new links!)
- Weeknote 35/2018
- Weeknotes 32, 33, and 34/2018
- Weeknote 31/2018
- Keeping track of articles you want to read
- Tracking vs advertising
- A Stoic (quote)
- Issue #314: Final Holiday Countdown 🏁 ⏲️ 🏖️
- Weeknote 30/2018
- Introverts, collaboration, and creativity
- Original work (quote)
- Busyness and value creation
- 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
- You cant escape your problems through travel
- Childhood amnesia
- Don Norman on human-centred technologies
- How emoji triplets could help with trust and identity on decentralised social...
- Work and play (quote)
- Be good for something (quote)
- Issue #312: If it's not one thing, it's another
- Weeknote 28/2018
- On 'radical incompetence'
- Break the rules like an artist (quote)
- Populism today (quote)
- Blogging in the Fediverse with Write.as
- Problems with the present and future of work are of our own making
- On living in public
- Artistic value (quote)
- Issue #311: Under canvas
- Weeknote 27/2018
- Wisdom and experience (quote)
- Shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies (quote)
- The dangers of distracted parenting
- 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
- Freedom (quote)
- Rethinking hierarchy
- Our irresistible screens of splendour
- Issue #309: Different
- Weeknote 25/2018
- Crawling before you walk
- Issue 308: World Cup(cake)
- Weeknote 24/2018
- On 'instagrammability'
- Higher Education and blockchain
- 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
- Blockchain was just a stepping stone
- All the questions (quote)
- Living with anxiety
- "You’re either a leader everywhere or nowhere"
- Sociocratic design sprints
- Systems change
- Where migraines end and I begin
- Issue #306: Bachelor lifestyle
- Finding friends and family without smartphones, maps, or GPS
- Weeknote 22/2018
- The best teams are cognitively diverse and psychologically safe
- No opinion (quote)
- Why NASA is better than Facebook at writing software
- Criticism (quote)
- Paywalls and Patreon
- Encumbered by civilization (quote)
- On 'academic innovation'
- Protocols for the free web
- Issue #305: Sprinting into the distance
- Good, hard work (quote)
- Weeknote 21/2018
- Wielding your pension fund for good
- Sensible people
- First tea, then revolution
- Useful mental models
- Nobody is ready for GDPR
- Measuring ability and greatness
- The increase in worker-owned co-ops
- Estonia goes for free public transport
- The toughest smartphones on the market
- Issue #304: Grateful Dead Public Radio
- Weeknote 20/2018
- The New Octopus: going beyond managerial interventions for internet giants
- On blogging
- Peace of mind
- Owners need to invest in employees to have them feel invested in their work
- Schedule your priorities
- The disappearing computer and the future of AI
- The role of Lady Luck
- Trust and the cult of your PLN
- Issue #303: Rest your weary head
- Weeknote 19/2018
- Work-life balance is actually a circle, according to Jeff Bezos
- Altruism
- Nothing better to do
- The virtue of rest
- Tolerating uncertainty
- Quality Mountain Day 11: Merrick (Galloway Hills, Scotland)
- Quality Mountain Day 12: Black Craig, Knockower, and Coran of Portmark (Gallo...
- Alexa for Kids as babysitter?
- Weeknote 18/2018
- Getting on the edtech bus
- Bootstraps
- Space as a service
- Blockchain as a 'futuristic integrity wand'
- Some utopian thoughts
- Profit vs benefit
- Issue #302: Read aloud for maximum effect
- Weeknote 17/2018
- Escaping from the crush of circumstances
- What can dreams of a communist robot utopia teach us about human nature?
- On the cultural value of memes
- You need more daylight to sleep better
- OEP (Open Educational Pragmatism?)
- The résumé is a poor proxy for a human being
- Everything is potentially a meme
- Thinking outdoors
- Issue #301: Endless horse
- Weeknote 16/2018
- Ryan Holiday's 13 daily life-changing habits
- Soviet-era industrial design
- Clickbait and switch?
- Read for freedom
- Conversational implicature
- Valuing and signalling your skills
- All killer, no filler
- Intimate data analytics in education
- Do what you can
- Issue #300: Tricentennial
- Weeknote 15/2018
- Craig Mod's subtle redesign of the hardware Kindle
- The four things you need to become an intellectual
- Designing for privacy
- 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
- Multiple income streams
- Winnowing the MoodleNet project down to MVP size
- Issue #299: Jersey shore
- In praise of ordinary lives
- Alienated life
- Weeknote 14/2018
- Absentee leadership
- All that is gold does not glitter
- The death of the newsfeed (is much exaggerated)
- Social internet vs social media
- Truth
- The '1, 2, 3' approach to organising your working day
- No easy answers
- Blockcerts mobile
- My takeaways from Stephen Downes' talk on personal learning
- Automated Chinese jaywalking fines are a foretaste of so-called 'smart cities'
- What's the link between employment and creativity?
- 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
- Survival in the age of surveillance
- The spectrum of work autonomy
- Every part of your digital life is being tracked, packaged up, and sold
- Ignorance and dogmatism
- How to get hired
- Alternatives to all of Facebook's main features
- Issue #297: Springing forward
- Weeknote 12/2018
- Co-operation
- The only privacy policy that matters is your own
- OERu has a social network
- Anxiety
- On struggle
- Moral needs and user needs
- Superficial and imperfect knowledge
- Going deep
- Derek Sivers has quit Facebook (hint: you should, too)
- Bridging technologies
- How to choose an open license for your project
- Mystery of life
- Tech will eat itself
- Decision fatigue and parenting
- 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
- Microcast #005
- Memento mori
- Issue #295: A wee problem...
- Weeknote 10/2018
- Living an antifragile life
- Moodling around with a Jetpack metaphor
- Archives of Radical Philosophy
- The end/beginning
- Do the tools you use matter?
- Masterpieces
- Is your smartphone a very real part of who you are?
- 30,000 hours of sleep
- The three things you need to make friends over the age of 30
- Building a bridge
- Happiness
- Geek social fallacies
- Issue #294: Snowmaggedon ❄️
- Tact
- Weeknote 09/2018
- Google's new Slack competitor
- 10 breakthrough technologies for 2018
- Possible - impossible
- Your best decisions don't come when you demand them
- The moon is getting 4G
- Some great links for Product Managers
- Final steps in my GDPR journey
- The 'loudness' of our thoughts affects how we judge external sounds
- Firefox OS lives on in The Matrix
- Issue #293: Making cheese grate again
- Weeknote 08/2018
- Anonymity vs accountability
- Arbitrary deadlines are the enemy of creativity
- Light and deep
- Small 'b' blogging
- On your deathbed, you're not going to wish that you'd spent more time on Face...
- The Goldilocks Rule
- Showing off
- On the death of Google/Apache Wave (and the lessons we can learn from it)
- Issue #292: Is there a cure for Tasmania? 🇦🇺
- To lose old styles of reading is to lose a part of ourselves
- Weeknote 07/2018
- Does the world need interactive emails?
- The Kano model
- Humans are not machines
- Is the gig economy the mass exploitation of millennials?
- Why we forget most of what we read
- Obvious
- Trust
- Why do some things go viral?
- Legislating against manipulated 'facts' is a slippery slope
- Should you lower your expectations?
- Humans responsible for the Black Death
- Every easy thing is hard again
- Audio Adversarial speech-to-text
- Sounds and smells can help reinforce learning while you sleep
- Weeknote 06/2018
- Issue #291: Necessary koalafications 🐨
- Lost
- Telegram cryptocurrency
- Why good parents have naughty children
- Europe is being taken over by crayfish that can clone themselves
- Rock piles and cathedrals
- Decentralisation is the only way to wean people off capitalist social media
- Platform censorship and the threat to democracy
- Experimenting with a channel-based approach for online resource sharing
- Alzheimer's is a kind of 'type 3' diabetes
- Creating media, not just consuming it
- Puertopia
- Worth the risks?
- Continuing my GDPR journey
- GDPR, blockchain, and privacy
- Living in a dictatorship
- Culture is the behaviour you reward and punish
- Are cows less valuable than wolves?
- How we get influence backwards
- Issue #290: Unscathed
- Weeknote 05/2018
- The origin of the term 'open source'
- The punk rock internet
- Optimism
- 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')
- Creating the world's smallest social network (for testing purposes)
- So, what do you do?
- The military implications of fitness tech
- Product managers as knowledge centralisers
- Depression as an evolutionary advantage?
- No cash, no freedom?
- More on the mechanics of GDPR
- The horror of the Bett Show
- Using VR with kids
- Augmented and Virtual Reality on the web
- Issue #289: Loooooong week
- Weeknote 04/2018
- More haste, less speed
- Ethical design in social networks
- Reading the web on your own terms
- Favourable winds
- The NSA (and GCHQ) can find you by your 'voiceprint' even if you're speaking ...
- Technology to connect and communicate
- Listening to video game soundtracks can improve your productivity
- Social networking and GDPR
- Are conferences a vestige of a bygone era?
- Different sorts of time
- Living in capitalism
- Three most harmful addictions
- Anxiety is the price of convenience
- A useful IndieWeb primer
- More on Facebook's 'trusted news' system
- Facebook is under attack
- Some podcast recommendations
- DuckDuckGo moves beyond search
- WTF is GDPR?
- Amazon Go, talent and labour
- Where would your country be if the world was like Pangea?
- The backstory of Apple's emoji
- First step
- Decentralisation 2.0
- Tribal politics in social networks
- Issue #288: Socially and emotionally unavailable
- Weeknote 03/2018
- Few wants
- Film posters of the Russian avant-garde
- Imprisoned in prejudices
- Barely anyone uses 2FA
- Atlas of Hillforts
- Using your phone wisely
- Bullet Journal like a Pro
- The wilderness of intuition
- Can you measure social and emotional skills?
- Courage
- Gendered AI?
- Game-changing modular wheels
- Choose your connected silo
- From Homer to texting and Twitter
- Would you be nuked?
- The full complexity of life
- This isn't the golden age of free speech
- Getting better at using tools
- Open source apps for agile project teams
- Where did 'Å' come from?
- Cool decentralisation resources from MozFest
- 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
- Barcelona to go open source by 2019
- Reasons to be cheerful
- Attention is an arms race
- Bigger the dream...
- In a dark place
- How to build a consensual social network
- Venture Communism?
- Fake amusement park
- Money in, blood out
- Deliberate rest, cognitive momentum, and differentiated work hours
- You get paid what other people think you're worth
- Questions to ask before taking your next job
- Dreamers who do
- It doesn't matter if you don't use AI assistants if everyone else does
- Meltdown and Spectre explained by xkcd
- Meaningless work causes depression
- Spain is on the wrong timezone
- Thought Shrapnel #286: New beginnings
- Foucault understood the power of ambiguity
- Social media short-circuits democracy
- Weeknote 01/2018
- Twitter isn't going to ban Trump, no matter what
- Fridays are a social construct
- Privacy-based browser extensions
- Redesigning Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel
- Education is about the journey, not the destination
- Mozilla is creating an Open Leadership Map
- Charisma instead of hierarchy?
- Life in likes
- Thinking about social logins and identity on the web
- Dark kitchens, dark factories... is this the future of automation?
- Why I didn't go on 'Belshaw Black Ops' at the end of 2017
- It's not advertising, it's statistical behaviour-modification
- Fred Wilson's predictions for 2018
- How to prevent being 'cryptojacked'
- Capitalism can make you obese
- Albert Wenger's reading list
- Commit to improving your security in 2018
- Now are the Olympics
- How to run an Open Source project
- Data-driven society: utopia or dystopia?
- Are social networks a public health issue?
- To 'quit' isn't necessarily the opposite of having 'grit'
2017
- Succeeding with innovation projects
- The internet needs distributed DNS
- Facebook is an instrument of the state
- Few possessions
- Moving down Maslow's hierarchy of needs using OER?
- The best album covers of 2017
- Few posessions
- Potentially huge wind farm proposed in the North Sea
- Caulfield's predictions for 2018
- Is that you, Mother?
- It's called Echo for a reason
- The Horizon stops here
- Your New Year's resolution for 2018? Ditch Facebook.
- Lunatics
- Put a number next to someone's name and there will be pressure for it to incr...
- How to defuse remote work issues
- How do you show off your privilege when everyone's got an iPhone?
- Purely technological answers to human problems don't work
- Building a home online
- Does it take Trump to make badges go mainstream?
- Nobody likes a goody two-shoes
- Howard Rheingold on cooperation as a solution to our present woes
- Life in the outrage economy
- Decentralised projects to explore in 2018
- What would a version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for society look like?
- GDPR could break the big five's monopoly stranglehold on our data
- Brexit Britain means food prescriptions on the NHS
- We're still figuring out what it means for everyone to be connected
- What to tell your kids about Santa Claus
- The immorality of retaining wealth
- What you read determines who you are
- Sticks and stones
- Blockchains are boring
- 2018: the year of Linux on the desktop?
- Weeknote 51/2017
- Human Extinction
- Ethical business means fair pay (and co-ownership?)
- The upside of kids watching Netflix instead of TV
- Your brain is not a computer
- Silicon Valley looking to skills from the Humanities
- High-performing schools in England less accessible since 2010
- Reputation on the dark net
- Edward Snowden wants to help you use your Android smartphone to protect yourself
- Is it pointless to ban autonomous killing machines?
- Problems with reputation in the gig economy
- How 'flu kills people
- Digital literacies and 'proximal depravity'
- 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 Cen...
- 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
- A philosophical approach to joining organisations
- 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
- Business bullshit and ambiguity
- 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
- Sitting down to write a blog post
- How to write a blog post
- Putting your blog post into the world
- 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 web...
- 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
- Weeknote 14/2017
- Quality Mountain Days 7 & 8: Ben Nevis, Stob Bàn, and Mullach nan Coirean
- 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
- What we know about 'knowledge'
- Chapter 4 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- Weeknote 11/2017
- My Daily Routine
- Books
- Badges, Proof and Pathways [DML Central]
- Weeknote 10/2017
- How to build an architecture of participation
- My sites are now hosted in the European Union
- 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
- Vagueness, ambiguity, and pragmatism
- 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!
- On vagueness, or, when is a heap of sand not a heap of sand?
- 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
- Reambiguation
- 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 credent...
- Weeknote 40/2016
- My CC Superheroes
- #uppingyourgame: a practical guide to personal productivity (v2)
- Quality Mountain Days 3 and 4: Lake District
- Weeknote 39/2016
- Discipline in the field of edtech
- Weeknote 38/2016
- Robert Greene on the importance of ambiguity in creative endeavours
- Weeknote 37/2016
- How to be an effective knowledge worker and 'manage yourself'
- Digital Literacy, Identity and a Domain of One’s Own [DML Central]
- What do we mean by 'open education'?
- Weeknote 36/2016
- Igniting my Mondays
- Weeknote 35/2016
- We're back!
- #BelshawBlackOps16 Pt.1 has started!
- Weeknote 30/2016
- Why brand will always trump process
- Weeknote 29/2016
- Weeknote 28/2016
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps16 Pt.1
- New blog theme
- Weeknote 27/2016
- Why ontologies are best left implicit (especially for credentials)
- 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-...
- 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 a...
- 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 professional use of metaphor
- The Future of Work: Trends and Toolsets
- Developing my offer: what I'm planning for the next few months
- A walkthrough of 9Sharp, a new platform for personal branding [SPONSOR]
- ???? Weeknote 19/2016
- The name of the thing probably doesn't matter
- 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 incr...
- Weeknote 11/2016
- Taking back control of the web: an easy way to host and run secure open sourc...
- 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
- Now
- Weeknote 07/2016
- Weeknote 06/2016
- The Possibilities of Badges and Blockchain [DML Central]
- Calling out Pearson on Open Badges
- 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!
- Introduction
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...
- 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 digita...
- 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 share...
- Flying a drone through Mitford Castle window
- Weeknote 21/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #37: Confluence
- Towards a taxonomy of Open Badges for City & Guilds
- 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
- Experimenting with Twitter ads for my ebook
- Weeknote 18/2015
- 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 Bel...
- 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
- Cashing in on your privilege
- eBooks
- 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...
- 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 'T...
- My next e-book: three options for you to vote on
- Scripting the first hour of each (week)day
- Answering questions from #durbbu
- Weeknote 02/2015
- 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 Di...
- 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 Flouris...
- 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 [EdT...
- 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
- Announcing Maker Party Newcastle 2014
- Weeknotes 31, 32 & 33
- 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'v...
- 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...
- 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
- The Silent Writing Collective
- Weeknote 34/2013
- 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
- Weeknote 29/2013
- Badge Camp 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
- Weeknote 26/2013
- Why would I send my child to secondary school?
- 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...
- 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 institu...
- 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 ...
- 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 Int...
- 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 (#openpeerr...
- 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...
- 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' (#di...
- 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 lite...
- #ukedchat #fail: TES attempts takeover cover-up whilst Pearson muscles-in on ...
- 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 tod...
- Stop SOPA.
- [REMINDER] #BelshawBlackOps11
- Why we need open, distributed social networks.
- Building a better future (despite the 1%)
- 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 learnin...
- [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. ...
- What did we learn during a 'semester of learning' on #openbadges over at P2PU...
- 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 betw...
- 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 Res...
- 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. Perfo...
- Methodology section: Post-Structuralism
- "It's About Time!" Introducing Synechism Ltd.
- Methodology section: Critical Theory
- Blog name change
- 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
- New Literacy Studies
- Shift up a gear: work with me from September 2011!
- #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.
- The USA: a New Literacies desert?
- From my research: New Literacies around the world
- 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'?
- Using Digital Media to Improve Teaching and Learning
- What I talk about when I talk about user outcomes (2)
- 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
- Futurelab's Digital Literacy: professional development resource
- Literaci.es: Reflecting on New Literacies
- Digital literacy and the public/private boundary
- Why everyone should learn a little History and Philosophy.
- More on the (fragile) nature of reality.
- Digital media literacy in the 2011 Horizon report
- #ukedchat TONIGHT about #purposed
- 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
- 10 things I did during Belshaw Black Ops.
- Why I've re-designated Synechism as CC0
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...
- 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
- Weeknote #29
- JISC Innovating e-Learning 2010 Online Conference - #jiscel10
- Blogging: 5 things I've learned in 5 years.
- What I Talk About When I Talk About 'User Outcomes': #1 - Douglas Adams, Feng...
- 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
- Weeknote #27
- Things I Learned This Week - #46
- The one thing I never want my son to say again.
- Media Literacy: the biggest enemy of UK 'digital literacy' initiatives?
- Comments policy
- User outcomes: bona fides.
- #amazonfail: a perspective
- Do you remember the first time?
- The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams [R...
- Things I Learned This Week - #45
- Types of relationship and communities of 'ought'.
- 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
- Things I Learned This Week - #40
- Performativity, fetishism & the aristocracy of everyone.
- Weeknote #21
- #uppingyourgame: finished and now on sale!
- 10 Things I Shared This Week - #1
- 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)
- Why I've turned off GMail Priority Inbox
- Scottish Learning Festival 2010
- What goes into my conference bag?
- 3 things common to most successful people
- 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.
- Things I Learned This Week - #36
- Your anti-ebook rhetoric is like a broken record.
- 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
- I sync therefore I am.
- Let me tell you what I think 'this' is.
- 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
- 10 things I learned from 'Why Don't Students Like School?'
- Education Eye: an RSS reader for those who don't feed-read...
- 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.
- The freeze-thaw method of technology integration.
- Why I'm not the Wizard of Oz
- 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
- Weeknote #12
- 3 ways to influence people.
- The sublime and the ridiculous.
- 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.
- Intention vs. Effect
- Motivation comes from within.
- 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
- Highest common denominator.
- 4 solutions to office-based productivity-sappers.
- eBooks
- Recontextualization.
- #onfire: ignite your productivity.
- 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...
- Things I Learned This Week - #19
- Where do you get your ideas for blog posts from?
- 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
- Support Northumbria Conference 2010
- The first new media election?
- My interview on Productivity for educators
- Things I Learned This Week - #16
- Recommended Design-related blogs
- If I were trapped on a Desert Island...
- Best 3 things about my new job?
- Why I bought a Sony Reader ebook reader today.
- Wednesday Wisdom #15: Credulity
- Why I'm using iPREDator now the Digital Economy Bill has been passed
- JISC Conference 2010
- 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,
- Leaving the circus
- The end of the beginning.
- 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.
- Seven types of ambiguity and new literacies
- EUROCLIO: Third Authors and Experts' Workshop, Kizilcahamam
- 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.
- Get that cool Google-style 'reveal' effect on your site.
- Things I'm interested in talking about at dougbelshaw.com/blog
- #getthatjob: now FREE
- Notes from interview about productivity for teachers
- Why did I make #getthajob free?
- Things I learned this week - #9
- Exam performance of looked-after children in England [infographic]
- My favourite proverbs from around the world.
- 5 tips for new bloggers
- 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
- Things I learned this week - #8
- #getthatjob: an educator's guide to finding, applying, and interviewing for a...
- 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.
- Mac OSX apps I currently use.
- #movemeon
- 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.
- Disclaimer
- #movemeon book now available!
- 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
- Back to (theme) basics.
- Research supporting collaborative, enquiry-based learning.
- A useful way to categorise educational technologies.
- Design the (e-)book cover for #movemeon!
- Affinity spaces, secondary orality & digital epistemologies.
- My first infographic competition.
- #movemeon - a suggestion.
- Infographics and my future.
- Learning and growing.
- 12 educational ways of using 12seconds.tv
- Learning objectives: the importance of trigger verbs
- How I mark students' books.
- Ed.D. Thesis snapshot: towards a bedrock definition of literacy.
- 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 ...
- 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 benefi...
- 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 acad...
- 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 ...
- Jolicloud: my first impressions of the 'cool new [social] OS for your netbook'
- The 8 C's of digital literacy
- Watch my Ed.D. thesis grow in real-time...
- Which is the best netbook operating system?
- 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 Positive
- How to Lead: Being Professional
- 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
- What I learned at TeachMeet North East 09
- Acceptable Use Policy - feedback required!
- Colin Day on leadership.
- David Brandon on leadership.
- Lord Bilimoria on leadership.
- Gill Rider 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 c...
- 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
- Podcasting: Step 3 - Converting and uploading your podcast ready for the masses!
- Dilbert on 'learner voice'
- Interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom
- New music section at dougbelshaw.com
- My Ed.D. thesis concept map on 'Digital Literacy'
- '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
- Podcasting: Step 1 - RSS and setting up a teacher blog
- Hannon: 'Reflecting on Literacy in Education'
- 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 Chr...
- Wanna buy my Macbook?
- Productivity, Organization & #tweetmeet
- 3 reasons I'm against the Edublog Awards
- Beyond boring Powerpoint presentations.
- The Simpsons 'do' Apple...
- 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
- Take your computer with you with PortableApps!
- 'Literacy'
- 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.
- Doug's first world tour!
- Never lose a document again: how Google Docs can change the way you and your ...
- 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
- I am Spart-arthus!
- 'In The Night Garden' as a communist utopia
- 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 starte...
- 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?
- The most amazing thing you'll see on the Internet this year!
- Into the Wild world of Hitler and Attachment Theory.
- 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
- The Working Classes
- (Almost) everything you need to know about the 14-19 changes
- I'm going to miss this...
- We have a winner!
- What is 'digital literacy'? It's certainly not this...
- Meme machine
- Animoto now free for educators
- 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
- The saddest picture in the world...
- A cluttered desk is a sign of genius.
- 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
- The Map Is Not The Territory: the changing face of the edublogosphere
- Is Twitter bad for you?
- 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!
- Better off because of Budget?
- Google Apps proposal
- Is handwriting dead?
- Sync any type of video (DivX, Xvid, etc.) with an AppleTV
- 4 blogs that enhance my productivity
- Edmodo: Twitter for education?
- edte.ch Monthly Roundup (February 2008)
- 15 days of Google answers
- Google Sites - wikis for Google Apps users!
- Classroom organization and its relation to pedagogy
- (Google) Talk to me!
- 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...
- Asus unveil new Eee PC's
- Wordpress customization
- 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
- Why schools should exclusively use free software
- New header image
- Reflections on BETT 2008
- I don't like paper
- BETT 2008
- edte.ch @ BETT 2008
- My Seminar at BETT
- Mobile phone projectors? Now we're talking...
- Hi, my name's Doug Belshaw...
- 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
- Guide: using Google Apps for Education
- Hakia: web search with meaning
- 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
- Phew! So it's not ADHD...
- New layout and theme at edte.ch
- 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 to...
- Now THIS irritates me...
- Ben crawling!
- 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!
- SMART Notebook interactive viewer
- Google Phone
- IT managers should not dictate pedagogy
- Information Literacy
- Freebase: a useful companion to Wikipedia
- To-do v2
- Did You Know? 2.0 - UK version?
- 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
- Change of supervisor
- The cinema? Pah!
- Ilana Snyder
- Never again...
- Back on the thesis proposal trail...
- Unexpected problems
- Perfect Promos
- Expect some downtime
- Business as usual - well, not quite…
- 8 Random Facts Meme
- Laura & Sean's wedding
- CommentPress
- Zonbu now available
- Using Google tools for student projects
- Great Ideas
- e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know
- Demotivational posters
- Deki: Wiki 3.0?
- HOWTO: Nintendo DS & Orange Livebox
- Comments now working again...
- EdTechTalk
- 3D searching with SpaceTime
- 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
- Edit and merge PDFs for free
- Google Docs keeps getting better…
- My favourite lolcats
- How to get a GPS fix quicker on the Nokia N95
- NESTA 'Hidden Innovation' report
- Soundsnap: podcast-safe and free!
- The problems with Human Rights legislation
- Gelato: Wordpress for tumblelogs?
- Twitter Screensaver
- Virtual Desktops: an update
- Picasa Mobile
- Feedburner Pro now free
- TwitterGram
- Great annotated Web 2.0 links
- Sausage Roll
- Heavens open, schools shut
- Google Docs update
- Free and Open Source educational Mac software
- OpenSUSE to compete with Edubuntu
- Apple iPhone vs Nokia N95
- Death by Powerpoint
- Facebook vs. MySpace
- Web 2.0 Backpack
- HOWTO: fix your Xbox after messing about with the EEPROM
- Ed.D. thesis proposal failure
- Getting GPS working for Nokia Sports Tracker on the N95
- Visit to London village
- YouTube Remixer
- Google Powerpoint support
- RSS Toolbox
- Minor update to blog design
- How NOT to upgrade your Xbox
- GMail for universities
- Google Custom Search updated
- Pageflakes Student Edition
- The end of power cables?
- Philosophy
- Podcast directory
- Google Street View
- Microsoft Surface: imagine the edtech possibilities!
- Nokia N95 tips, reviews and software all in one place
- My first GPS-tracked run
- Google Calendar now mobile
- coRank: make your own edtech Digg clone
- Zonbu: the linux-based school computer of the future?
- The 3 quotations I live by
- 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)
- More photos of Ben
- iQuiz: learning games on an iPod
- Wordpress Theme Generator
- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Ed.D. thesis proposal bibliography
- Offline Wikipedia
- Ed.D. thesis proposal finished!
- Google Spreadsheets now with chart capabilities
- Lenovo 3000 N100 and Windows Vista
- 21Classes
- HOWTO: Collaborate Online
- RoboBraille
- Geekifying my run
- Pay Attention: your students are Digital
- Thesis proposal mindmap
- References to follow up - 2/3 April 2007
- Office 2.0 Database
- TeacherTube
- CommentPress
- Tumblr - a great way to get your students (and colleagues?) blogging!
- Schoolr: useful search engine
- Wordpress Plugin Repository v2
- Happy Mother's Day Hannah!
- 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
- References to follow up - 3/3/07
- Another definition of literacy
- Introductory quotation
- 21st Century Literacy
- Firefox Extension: Tab Groups
- xFruits - the Swiss Army knife for RSS feeds
- Voice chat for Second Life
- More people reading my teaching blog than I thought...
- Steve Jobs outlines his vision of a textbook-free future
- 1 million OLPC laptops already on order!
- Writing tips from George Orwell
- Intelligence vs. Wisdom
- The BBC are Twittering
- Macbook vs. my new laptop? No contest...
- Sidekiq: all your search belong to us
- Macbook woes
- My (finely crafted) information environment
- GMail now available to everyone!
- Photoshopped animals
- Picnick: photo editing on the web
- PSPs as learning tools
- DVD Flick - burn any video file to DVD!
- Open Word documents through Google Docs in GMail
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal, v2
- Google Book Search now includes Google Maps
- The Half-Life of Knowledge and Structural Reform of the Education Sector for ...
- Run Doug run
- bubbl.us
- Contact
- OpenDNS
- Easy conditional formatting in Excel
- 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
- Pre-release review of the LG Shine (KE970)
- Kinaesthetic Data
- The threat of mobile technology
- References from 'Breaking Down the Digital Walls'
- Learnscaping
- Is Podcasting the new Powerpoint?
- EDUCAUSE articles
- Stacks of Books vs. a Search-Engine Culture
- Too much technology in the classroom?
- Top Firefox 2 extensions for educators?
- Edublogosphere survey results
- How computer games help children learn
- 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
- Expanded thesis proposal outline
- Open Thinking & Alec Couros' PhD dissertation
- References from 'Knowing Knowledge'
- Links to training sites/blogs from Jim Belshaw
- Resources r.e. Dan Pink & 'A Whole New Mind'
- Knowledge Jolt with Jack
- Knowledge Management & Networks
2006
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal Outline (expanded)
- 21st Century Skills: not just about ICT
- The Pressure for Knowledge to Change
- Some ideas about the structure of my thesis proposal essay
- What does literacy look like in the 21st century?
- Groups vs. Networks
- Connectivism
- Property, 21st Century Knowledge, and Creative Commons
- 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 Ri...
- 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
- Some great quotations about education in the 21st century (and in general)
- The difference between groups and networks
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal Outline
- Learning Teacher Network - 10 recommendations for the future of teaching
- Research Methods & Interactive Whiteboards
- Tentative area for thesis