I’ve been a bit of a Matt Jones fanboy since about 2001 when he was at the BBC and running networking events for people interested in IA. His was one of the first blogs I saw, and didn’t even know it was a blog, just thought it was really cool. At the top it said…
Thanks to Friend Block I can see all of my 238 friends profile pics in one place. Some observations (NB, I can’t count very well) I leave it to you to suggest interpretations: 8 have not provided a picture at all and so are represented by a ‘?’ 3 are represented by hand-drawn caricatures of…
Still musing on the fear of “dark forces”, “bad people”, shifts in power, and similar trivia. In sorting out the Podcast Archive I listened again to Johnnie at “Blogging, A Real Conversation” from 2 years ago. He started with something like this video (though we didn’t have Youtube in them days). [youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZHZHNByCs] Johnnie used it…
I was writing a comment on the previous post and feeling constrained and then remembered “It’s my blog, I don’t have to use the comments if I don’t want to”. Which is kind of part of what I was trying to get at before. I also wanted to separate this out from the comments because…
Charles Frith (one of my fave twitter buddies btw) writes about two types of people Cold War survivors who see the world as black and white, good and evil and behave guardedly online with spy-like pseudonyms and ‘Post-Coldies” who are more comfortable with a zillion shades of grey and who let it all hang out….
Thank you to Helen, who has tagged me with the latest X Y’s about Z meme. This time it’s 8 random things about me, a subject dear to my heart. I’m not sure about tagging 8 people, so I may leave that to the end, or not do it at all. I propose to write…