Writing: 2010
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Falling out of love
The final volume of Samuel Pepys’ diary has been a disappointment. Not due to the content, but due to the shoddy printing.
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Why the iPad newspaper might not be doomed
Rupert Murdoch’s forthcoming iPad newspaper might not be a failure.
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The launch of bipolar disorder
How bipolar disorder was launched as an identifiable condition.
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‘Where Good Ideas Come From’ by Steven Johnson
My notes on the book.
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Week notes
Bored of writing week notes, so I’m going to stop.
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The American Civil War, one day at a time
The ‘New York Times’ is starting a blog telling the story of the war, day by day.
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Week 384
Continuing with the large American client, and doing some things for Hypergame.
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Muji PP Storage comparison spreadsheet
I made a Google Docs spreadsheet comparing the different Muji boxes and drawers.
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Nearly future
Thoughts on James Bridle’s post about Network Realism.
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Week 382
Starting with a new US-based client.
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It no longer makes sense
Nick Denton is planning to change the structure of his sites’ front pages in a similar way to that I did 18 months ago.
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Week 381
Frustrations and other things with Django.
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Week 380
Comparing freelancing to proper jobs, in terms of money and holiday.
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COMMENTS_APP error when extending Django comments
I was getting an error when customising the Django comments app. Here’s my solution.
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Setting up a Django environment and project structure
My notes on what I do to set up an environment for a Django project.
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Willy nilly
My brief talk about Foursquare etiquette at Playful 2010.
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Coding in public
I’ve put the code for the Django version of the site I’m building up on Github.
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Should you build your own home?
Should you build your own (online) home? Or live in one of the existing communities with their cute little houses?
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Week 378
Starting to re-write my own site in Django, in order to learn how to use it, and very much enjoying it.
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Week 377
Spent most of the week preparing my OpenTech talk about Today’s Guardian.
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Week 376
A short but good week.
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A map for every day
I’ve made maps of my activity for every day, using tweets, Foursquare check-ins and Flickr photos.
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Week 375
Fiddling with twittery things. And a day off. Nice.
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It’s not me, it’s you
My frustrations with ‘Today’ have reached a peak, and I won’t be listening any more.
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‘On Photography’ by Susan Sontag
My notes on the book.
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Week 374
Spending way too long improving the maps on Pepys’ Diary.
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Wired Index
The Wired Index is very similar to Wired UK’s advertising campaign from 1996.
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Week 372
Design-as-development for the new client, and lots of Pepys.
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A better afterlife
Two bits from reports about UK social attitudes, aspiration and inequality.
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Ignore the naming of objects
Is it better to know everything about a city, or the countryside, or is it better to rely only on your imagination?
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Pay-per-point
Pay-per-view seems a bit rude when you want to show people things. Maybe pay-per-point would be nicer.
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Week 369
Catching up on overdue tasks, arguing, Django.
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‘Cognitive Surplus’ by Clay Shirky
My notes from reading the book.
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SuperMe
The site I’ve been working on at Somethin’ Else has launched.
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Week 368
Getting on top of things.
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Publishing with old dates in Movable Type
What I did to make the Pepys’ Diary website work with 343-year-old dates in Movable Type.
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Pirate economics
The pay differentials of 18th century pirates.
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30 tons of baggage
A description of a Victorian journey into Africa and the huge amount of resources required.
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A pint bottle full of HeLa
The story of Henrietta Lacks and her cells that went on to be used in medicine without her family knowing.
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Making a web page fit an iPhone screen
I had problems making a web page fit and fill the iPhone screen width-wise in both Safari and when opened from the Home Screen.
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Cool down, little girl
Some examples of little details that bring to live much larger issues.
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More than a million
Some bits from a review of a book about Henry Wellcome’s huge collection of objects.
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Week 367
A busy week, work and socially.
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Sieve filters
My Sieve email filters, an example.
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Week 366
Still struggling with animation and swiping on Today’s Guardian.
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Week 365
Fiddling with Today’s Guardian on iPhone/iPad, moving photos, and Pepys.
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Today’s Guardian feature requests
The three most common feature requests for the Today’s Guardian website.
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Week 364
Today’s Guardian, work with BERG, and more Pepys.
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Today’s Guardian
The thinking behind my new Today’s Guardian website.
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Week 363
A bit of work and too many other things to make much progress on the news project.
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DIY Design
My notes from the St Bride Library conference 2010.
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Week 362
Work on a personal news-related project and the St Bride Library conference.
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Nothing else to do
Sunday’s aren’t what they used to be, but Tony Hancock’s ‘A Sunday Afternoon At Home’ reminds us what they were.
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What have we today?
Some clippings from the New Statesman’s ‘This England’ column from the early 1990s.
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Week 361
Catching up on weeknotes after a holiday and procrastination.
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Twenty-four small drawers
Re-organised and labelled for the first time in more than twenty years.
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Foods I craved
Food I wanted when on holiday in Morocco with stomach trouble
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Week 356
Getting towards the end of the project, not feeling good about pressure.
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Week 355
Project going fine, Facebook Connect aside.
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This is an outrage
Frustration at both the Digital Economy Bill, but also at the Twitter echo chamber spouting nonsense about proceedings.
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New York Holiday
I had a few days in New York after SXSW and loved it.
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Week 353
Back on Project Humphrey after a break, and all is good.
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SXSW 2010
I had a good time at SXSW, despite the conference itself being a bit uninspiring.
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Week 351
Busy finishing work off, then to SXSW.
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SXSW & NY
I’m off to SXSW and then New York.
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Week 350
A busy week on Project Humphry, El Morro and Samuel Pepys.
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Week 349
Wireframing and some quick coding for BERG’s El Morro project.
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Week 348
Suddenly, the next two weeks are chock full of exciting things.
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Week 347
Looking at the failed news project, and moving on to Project Humphrey.
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Replace comments with letters pages
Maybe we should replace commenting on popular websites with letters’ pages.
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News week, day 2
I think I’m tackling the wrong problem with this project.
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News week, day 1
Frustrated after only one day of this news project.
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Next week’s news
What I plan to do next week: write a weekly news website.
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Small publishers of news
Wondering whether there’s a future for small publishers of news.
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Looking for news
Why I don’t read, watch or listen to any news, which isn’t a good thing.
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Week 345
Reserving a few weeks to work on my own projects.
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Week 344
Getting stuck into Django by starting a new personal project.
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Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone
I tested the speed of inputting text with pen and paper, full-size keyboard, iPhone, Palm Treo keyboard, Palm Graffiti and Apple Newton MessagePad.
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Learning to quit
I’ve been thinking about how to spend one’s time, particularly with regards to learning new things.
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Pretend Office RSS feed improvements
The feed now includes the full text of emails sent to the mailing list.
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Practical Django Projects source code
I uploaded to Bitbucket the code I ended up with after following James Bennett’s book.
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Week 342
Moving into a new office for the first time.