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ooh.directory
An organised collection of hundreds of blogs, to help people find good blogs that interest them.
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
A ten-year project to post the 17th century diaries online. It continues with readers’ annotations, an encyclopedia, maps, and more.
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@SamuelPepys
Quotes from Samuel Pepys’ diaries in real time, as if he’s posting now. Over 70,000 followers on Twitter (RIP), and 5,000 on Mastodon.
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Today’s Guardian
An easy-to-read edition of the Guardian or Observer newspapers. Read more about the idea from 2010.
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Crazy Walls
A blog cataloguing the walls in movies, TV shows, games and comics that feature red string, photos, maps, cuttings, etc.
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Our Incredible Journey
A blog recording the moments when start-ups are bought by larger companies, close down their service, and thank their users.
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Hiragana and Katakana quiz
A simple quiz for practising knowledge of Japanese characters. Originally from 2003, updated since.
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Django Ditto
Apps for the Django web framework, for copying your data from Flickr, Twitter, Last.fm and Pinboard. Read more.
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Django Spectator
Apps for the Django web framework for tracking book reading and event going. Read more.
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Whit Stillman
The unofficial website for the film director. Started in 2001, now edited by Chris Angerman.
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Foursquare Feeds
Python script to generate a .ics calendar feed from your Foursquare/Swarm checkins. Read more.
Dead or archived projects
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Septivium
A short-lived blog, from 2010-2013, that was “an attempt to create a reading list of the very best books about everything”.
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Twelescreen
From 2013, a single-page, one-tweet-at-a-time Twitter display, shown here with a 1984-esque theme. Read more.
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Pretend Office
A company-wide email list that got out of hand. Read more.
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Overmorgen
A weblog about future studies and futures-related trends, running from 1999 to 2009.
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Byliner
Running from 2000 for over eight years, a site where users could track writers and be alerted when they published new articles. Read more.
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Haddock Directory
A directory of links posted to a mailing list from 1997 to 2007. Read more.
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City of London councillors data
Scraping data about City of London councillors and making it explorable using Datasette. Read more.