Emails from luggage companies are getting ever more desperate.
Lockdown isn’t easy. I’m having a rough day.
It’s OK if you are, too.
Podcasting is 20 years old today. Here’s the story of the first podcast feed.
Trump, QAnon and the limits of the “viral” metaphor to describe online communities — some thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead.
I’m not sure this is going to work.
Hard to argue with this message.
Bit wet out today.
Dusk on the boardwalk.
Brighton by night.
Shot on Shoreham Beach, at dusk
Some ocean-based learning resources for parents struggling with homeschooling.
Oh, this is just perfect:
It deeply bothers me that on-going access to a whole load of important and significant writing from the last few years is entirely based on the continued existence of only two companies: Medium and Substack.
Socially-distanced beach walk.
Well, it took less than a week of lockdown before I saw someone in a local Facebook group calling for martial law to stop people drinking takeaway coffees on their daily exercise walk.
People can be very scary.
Shout out to fellow working parents who are trying to navigate both earning a living and home-schooling our children.
The extra time with the little ones is a real treat, but that doesn’t make it easy or stress-free.
A cold and frosty morning on the Beach, and it’s not lifting.
This is an interesting call for focus on libraries and archives in the digital age, in the face of assaults on facts.
I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, at least right now, they are.
Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week.
Anyone who thinks Bill Gates can create a vaccine-delivered microchip that controls people has clearly never seen a class full of parents try to use Microsoft Teams to do remote learning for their children.
I sometimes think that winter beach is the best beach.
Saturday night internet culture nostalgia: In 2006 they were taking the hobbits to Isengard (gard,gard,gard)
My daughters’ rendition of “We wish you a Merry Lockdown and a Happy New Tier” is simultaneously very cute and mildly creepy.
Workin’.
Less than 12 hours to finish a book and meet my reading challenge goal…
