What happened when I joined the International Design in Government meetup | Continue reading
Things I learned by sitting next to someone who did it very well indeed | Continue reading
Why "working in the open" is a great way of overcoming your own built-in editor brain | Continue reading
How my training course helps you write like you speak | Continue reading
Knowledge transfer is hard and time-consuming; so there are many circumstances where it makes more sense to hire an editor than to hire a copywriter | Continue reading
Back once again in your RSS reader | Continue reading
I'm looking for professional help to make this website better. Can you help? Do you know someone who can? | Continue reading
It's that time of year, folks. Here's an overview of the mischief I've been making in 2022. | Continue reading
Here are five of my favourite RSS feeds, you should give them a look, yes you should. Cold out isn't it? | Continue reading
A sad post about a sad end for a silly cat. | Continue reading
A quick tip for teams writing words: think about what the finished thing looks like, and how you expect readers to get their eyes on it. | Continue reading
An early adopter writes and whinges | Continue reading
An indie kid in the late 80s finds his heart captured by glorious soulful pop music | Continue reading
I've spent some time playing with iA Presenter and I like it a *lot* - particularly the way it exports HTML. The result: slides that can live on the internet, and work like web pages. Slides you can use in a browser, with the entire internet waiting for you in the adjacent tab. I … | Continue reading
What am I saying? I mean *one of* the rich morons. Also: iA Presenter invites, for them what wants 'em. (Do you even need one? Not sure.) | Continue reading
Cathedrals as screens; places of worship as Instagram fodder. Maybe that's a bit too cynical. Anyway, an evening out with pretty lights. | Continue reading
Yet another explainer for the flummoxed | Continue reading
I set out to listen to 1001 albums; in the end it was 1031. | Continue reading
Just some stuff from this week, nothing special | Continue reading
It's my book's birthday. There's a good picture with this one. | Continue reading
I'm doing a thing for digital government types in Switzerland in November. | Continue reading
The week in ambulances and sheds | Continue reading
Put a glass roof over most of Whitehall, natch. | Continue reading
A weeknote that thinks it's a blog post; various things | Continue reading
It's not the power dynamic that your school days might have taught you to expect. | Continue reading
What it's like when you see some of your oldest friends and you wish that it hadn't been so long | Continue reading
If you like triangles, you might playing with Polygon Camera too. Maybe even if you don't like triangles. But who doesn't like triangles? What sort of person is that? | Continue reading
Includes paddling gif and non-emoji thumbs up | Continue reading
There's a website called Tinkersynth, where you fiddle with unfathomable controls to make colours and patterns on a little screen-within-a-screen. | Continue reading