Month: November 2020
All Thoughts Fly
Moaning about spending/wasting too much time on my phone is the perennial topic for this blog.
The Weather On Social Media | 2047
On the internet, Everything happens so much. But you don’t need to stand out in the rain to know it’s raining.
And Lately, The Sun: OUT NOW!
Excited to share that my Solarpunk clifi story with Andrew Dana Hudson ‘In the Storm, A Fire’ is out now in the anthology And Lately, The Sun
Sarena Ulibarri Searches ‘Jellyfish’ | Come Internet With Me
Sarena Ulibarri, fiction writer and Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press joins me for hour of Interneting. We search ‘Jellyfish’.
Roblox Corporation – IPO Filing (Notes)
I didn’t have anything to do on Friday. So I read the whole Roblox IPO filing and took some notes.
Substacklash
I don’t really have any thoughts on the Substack backlash beyond urging people to ignore their impulse to disparage tall poppies and instead remember the long tail of people on the platform that are surviving because of others generosity.
Conduits To A King | 2046
A brief overview of the use of puppets in the 18th century Royal Court of Myanmar
PERMISSIVE IPs
Exploring the potential for community owned/governed story worlds by splitting the difference between ‘Internet Protocol vs Intellectual Property’.
This is All Happening Right Now | Interdependence.fm
I was a guest on Holly Hendon and Mat Dryhurst’s excellent podcast Interdependence.fm this week.
META-NOMAD Searches ‘Ventriloquist Dummy’ | Come Internet With Me
Author, Blogger and Podcast host Meta-Nomad joins me to for an hour of Internet. We search ‘Ventriloquist Dummy’.
A Different Type Of Doom
In honour of Salem’s first album release for a decade. I wrote about Witch House. Where it was back then and where it’s gone.
Rooms As UX Metaphor | 2045
The Interactive Fiction metaphor of ‘rooms’ as applied to chat room UX.
GOTHLIME Searches ‘Nonograms’ | Come Internet With Me
Artist, Illustrator and Civil+Environmental Engineer Halima S. AKA Gothlime joins me for an hour of Internet. We search ‘Nonograms’
Millions of Amygdalas
There must be millions of amygdalas burnt out around the world. What a week for people addicted to infotainment and social media this must have been?
NanoWriMo | 2044
How NanoWriMo helped me come to terms with my dyslexia and to put one word after another.
Sources of Value vs Organising Value
How we organise value is of fundamental concern to the Dweb and coming Metaverse.
