If you care about the indie web growing, by all means write, by all means create, by all means curate. But most of all, just read. Or listen, or experience. Spend an afternoon clicking around, like everybody used to. The more people who do that, the more everything else will slot … | Continue reading
For more on this BBC100 series of posts, read this introduction. One of my favourite television programmes has a bit of a problem, you know. It doesn’t actually exist any more. What’s more, it never really did, unless you happened to be watching it at the time. That kind of thing … | Continue reading
This week on Dirty Feed, I’m going to try something a little different to usual. As part of the BBC centenary celebrations in 2022, I was commissioned by my employer at a certain broadcast facility to write something about my favourite BBC TV shows over the years. What was suppos … | Continue reading
Assumptions are the enemy of research everywhere. Beware of anything which is “obviously” true. You can find yourself in a whole world of trouble. For instance, take the two Fawlty Towers scriptbooks below. For years, I owned the one on the left, The Complete Fawlty Towers (Guild … | Continue reading
Deleting your old thoughts may be giving your older self a kick they really don’t deserve. And the beauty of having an archive is that you don’t need to decide whether you were right or not. Your views, with a date attached, can stand as a reflection of a specific moment in time. … | Continue reading