How to Write a Wikipedia Article
Great piece on, well, how to write a Wikipedia article. Some of the comments are fair, namely that if you’re unlucky your article will be considered unnotable, or badly referenced. From my experience,...
View ArticleMore Web Typography
(More) Web TYPOGRAPHY Visual hierarchies, font hinting and a huge list relating to typography. Typography in product design. Jason Santa Maria on web typography Typeplate is a newly released starter...
View ArticleTypography Beyond the Web
Modern fonts for technical documentation? There’s a good strand on Quora about this. The renowned typographer Erik Speakermann himself weighs in with comments (suggesting his own Meta—a fair call, be...
View ArticleThe Cluetrain Manifesto
I suspect I’m like many people in that I’d heard the phrase “cluetrain manifesto” thrown around without ever really knowing what it meant. While doing some research, I finally investigated what that...
View ArticleTechnical and Non-Technical Tech Peeps
How do you end up in tech? Two recent blogposts show the diverging ways that you can get there. The first is the guy who’s passionate about coding. The kid who bugged his unimpressed working-class...
View ArticleDesigner as Writer
A while ago I blogged about how whether we should write like a designer or a coder. However, how about actually being a designer who writes? I was reminded about this in a recent interview with Jeremy...
View ArticleBits2Blogs 2013
Today I’m blogging at Bits2Blogs, a conference showcasing how the cultural sector can use new technologies to engage audiences. I’ll be updating this as the day goes on, but also keeping information...
View Article“I Edit Wikipedia”
It’s one of the refrains in Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy”, but it’s a serious thing to talk about. I’ve been editing Wikipedia articles on and off since October last year, usually bulking up the...
View ArticleWrite Like Ebert
I had a rather nasty post in my blogging drafts for ages complaining about the mistakes with about pages (one-person websites hide behind vague ‘wes’ in undisclosed locations). Then Roger Ebert died....
View ArticlePhD Writing Hacks
As I near towards writeup on my own PhD work, I inevitably have to turn my head towards writeup. Luckily, there are a number of ‘hacks’ (as in shortcuts, not breaches of privacy) available online....
View ArticleExperience-led open source?
Aral Balkan has just announced a new project (code-named Prometheus, but here’s hoping it’s better than the diasppointing Ridley Scott film) that aims to bring the everyday tech user to open source....
View ArticlePreviewing the Fringe
I went to the Fringe. Actually, I’m still there, on day two after an epic first day. Not many people I know go. That’s a shame, as it’s wonderfully eclectic mix of comedy, music, and theatre. I have to...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Lightness of Twitterbots
I was very sad when at a Bill Bailey comedy gig he made fun of the @big_ben_clock<?a> twitter account and the type of people that follow it. I’m one of those people! And I follow a number of...
View ArticleMy Inbox is Not Broken
I sometimes wonder if I’m a dying breed. You see, I’m one of those people who will always sign up for your email if I like your post. Why? Because email is a push medium. If I sign up to your twitter,...
View ArticleHow Delia Ephron Inspired Me To Write
When I was studying filmmaking at high school (I’d got into a film competition and was frantically studying up for it) I remember one book saying that the key was to study ‘just OK films’. The...
View ArticleAn Evening With Maureen Johnson: Newcastle upon Tyne
England did put on its best face (i.e a rainy one) for the inaugural book talk on Maureen Johnson’s book tour. In Newcastle, yay! The lovely Brunwsick Methodist Church gave it something of a ‘secret...
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90 Percent of Life is Showing Up
I was asked today what my motto of life is. There are a couple. One is that if you step out into the universe, it will reach out to meet you. However, that’s a bit new wave woo-woo at times (and I...
View ArticleA Designer’s Eye on Blue Jasmine
Blue Jasmine has been getting a lot of plaudits as of late, and deservedly so, with comparisons to “A Streetcar Named Desire”. I’d also compare her performance to Judy Davis’s wonderfully confused...
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‘Sherlock’ and the triumph of the mind over the computer
Warning: this post contains spoilers about Sherlock season 3. Read on at your peril. It’s been an interesting time as of late, seeing Stephen Moffatt (and to a lesser extent Mark Gatiss) juggling...
View ArticleMore than a singing contest: politics and gender in Eurovision
Earlier this month I went on an escapade down to London for Eurovision. No, not the actual event. That will take place in Vienna next year. (It’s been a fair while since the UK has got even close to...
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