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Writing

  1. Week 340

    Summing up 2009, which, again, has felt too aimless.

  2. Finishability

    BERG’s video about digital magazines mentions the importance of a magazine being finishable, which is also true for news.

  3. Week 338

    Finishing Misfits, learning Django, turning down work.

  4. Making news easier to read online

    The New York Times Skimmer is an improvement over most newspaper websites, but it’s not there yet.

  5. Is modern web design too like print design?

    I’ve been wondering whether we’ve lost the “webness” of web design, whether it’s all too dull and influenced by print design.

  6. Week 337

    Work tailing off, and needing to be firm with myself to Get Things Done.

  7. A dispiriting blank side

    How writers and an artist cope with the blank page.

  8. Week 336

    Moving into the “learning and making things” phase that fills the spaces between work.

  9. Week 335

    Misfits is slowing down and the end is in sight.

  10. How’s the acting going?

    More than a year on, people still keep asking me this. Short answer: “It’s not.” But that’s fine.

  11. Not too many buttons

    The problem with the OpenOfficeMouse isn’t too many buttons. It’s more fundamental.

  12. Misfits

    The “Misfits Online Experience” has just launched, with all code by me for Six To Start.

  13. New London Review of Books website

    I did much of the HTML/CSS for the newly-relaunched LRB website.

  14. Flickr machine tags for film photos

    Creating Flickr machine tags to store information about photos taken on film.

  15. Haddock Blogs down for a bit

    Haddock.org is down for a bit, but the RSS feeds are now back up and running.

  16. Games have rules

    Frustrated by the lack of rules in Foursquare making me feel like a loser.

  17. The £10,000 playlist

    Why do we need a collection of MP3s when we can stream everything? What does that collection mean to us?

  18. A still more glorious dawn awaits

    Getting excited about outer space futures for the first time in years.

  19. I want to care

    The mainstream political parties don’t need social media strategies. They need policies that we can care about.

  20. Stilt-walking ants

    Some fun things about ants.

  21. Stand on the right

    What advice would you give to people visiting London for the first time?

  22. Time to follow Samuel Pepys

    If you’re ever going to follow Samuel Pepys on Twitter you should start now.

  23. Ununited Eurasia

    I worked on a project with Six to Start to promote Muse’s new single.

  24. All that guff

    Clarifying a couple of issues in my previous piece about newspapers’ problems.

  25. Why do you like running?

    Having complained about the quality of newspapers, now I’ complaining about TV and radio news.