An online notebook
Bluesky is definitely feeling like the nicest Twitter/X replacement going. But it’s a long way from perfect. The community feels compact, small but friendly. There’s a sense that people want to be there, and that it isn’t a chore (Mastodon sometimes just feels like hard work). It’s chatty, and whimsical, which is just how early … Keep reading
The latest ridiculous behaviour from Twitter seems to genuinely be sending the site into a death spiral, which saddens me in a lot of ways. I’ve been on there since the early days, and I’ve built a reasonably sized following on there as a result. I don’t really have anywhere else where I can easily … Keep reading
A few people have asked how I go about recording my podcast. So I don’t need to keep repeating myself, I thought it worthwhile to write it up here. Skype So, the format of my podcast is usual an interview, or really just a chat, between myself and one other person. It’s done using Skype, … Keep reading
No, really. try it. Try Doorbell is a fantastic podcast by my friends Robert Brook and Lloyd Davis. It’s a great listen – some tech, some culture, some wittering. Here’s the feed URL so you can subscribe in your favourite app for this kind of thing (I like Pocket Casts): http://fadingcity.com/?format=rss
ThinkUp is a great little service for anyone who likes to track how they are doing on the social sites Twitter and Facebook. Rather than relying on some arbitrary grading system like Klout, ThinkUp instead provides simple, clear feedback on what you are doing online and how people are responding to it. There’s a web … Keep reading