Articles are my medium form output. They are researched, but don't go to the same level of depth nor are as closely argued as my essays. But they are more considered than my jottings.
Category Articles
Ghost Writers — Rise of the Machines
An Opportunity Afforded
Autodeleting the Public Record
Review — Doom, The Politics of Catastrophe
Twas Gunpowder Treason Day
Questions for a Future Employer
Response — We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives
Reading More Efficiently And Effectively
CR III Royal Cypher
Response – Why PI Planning is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Responsibility, Ownership, Accountability
Twenty Years of Firefox
On Fairy-Stories and the Art of Fantasy
With a Quiet Heart
The Subjective Nature of ‘Nothing to Hide’
5 reasons I will be celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
At A Journey’s End
They Are Teachable
Hugo: Or, There and Back Again
Response — Sitting with Ambiguity
How I Write — Long Form Research
Teflon Leadership
Moxie and the Server
The Linux Paradigm
Power and Control: Tech Billionaires in Politics
Polywork, A New Professional Network
Fourth Way – Living in Harmony with our Online Presence
My Copy of The Times
Life is Long, Access is Short
A Peer’s Tube
The New Cathedral Door
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
I think it was the George III who is reputed to have said to the great historian Edward Gibbon: “Another…
Hail, Lobster!
100 Days of Muse & Reason
Well, I have reached the end of the 100daystooffload.com challenge and the numbers are as follows: 100 posts in 100…
Contribution Manifesto
Copying Old Masters
For the better part of 400 years, the production of art in France was largely controlled by artistic academies. With…
Virus From Below
The history of the world, for a long time, was the history of great people. Mostly great men. It focused…
I Saw The World End
Serialisation
The Ability To Ignore
Late Abroad Again
Art as Background
Wedding Feast
Finding Confidence
Finding Time
The Case for Listenership
Beware Generalisation
Supporting Evidence
My weekends are usually spent cloistered away in my study, working on one project or another. My fiancée laments I…
Tranquility Reflected
Day 83 of the 100 day challenge and I have drawn a total blank. I have faced writers block before,…
Nibbled By System
I am a simple man who fears being nibbled by system. I like things I can see and touch. In…
Easy To Use
I learn today that Jules-Albert de Dion took the chequed flag in the world’s first motor race, the Paris–Rouen in…
Emotional Contagion
Emotional Contagion is the phenomenon of feeling what it appears someone else is experiencing. Art abounds with examples of this,…
The Giant’s Causeway
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, lived in an age in which titles were grand and letters and diaries were…
To CDN Or Not To CDN
As the great bard made a Prince of Denmark once say: To be, or not to be, that is the…
And I’m Feeling Good
Today was a day of relaxing. Well, it started in mild dismay looking at the stock markets, descended into a…
Site With Less Byte
The Shape Of Things That Are
Shape of Things to Come
Fête Nationale
I could not let July 14 pass without a nod to that most French of occasions: Bastille Day. A celebration…
Five Stages of Autonomy
Gothic Reprieve
Spot the Gorilla
Skepticism and Wonder
Doomsday Clock
To Federate, But How?
Losing Readers?
Cartographic Escapism
A Change Management Primer
A Land of Chilly Riverways
Ode to a Yoghurt Pot
Lacklustre
Today… what can I say about today… it was nothing out of the ordinary, very lacklustre indeed. Neither terrifying nor…
How I Publish — Version 3.0
Finding Flow – Basics
Time Capsule I
Down the Rabbit Hole
Leading From The Front
Red Tape Is Fun
A Novel Approach to Music
The Base Camp of Everest
Circular Conversations
Labours of Love
Point Of No Return
Confessions of a Platform Junkie
The Problem of Over Correction
The Struggle is Topic
The Over Consumption of Doubt
Peasants’ Revolt
Letterheady
The Power of the Snub
Competing Thoughts
Today was a day in which, if you’ll forgive this writer a reification, my thoughts have been battling in my…
Damnatio Memoriae
Media Archipelago
The Better Part of Valour
Obama made sure to bring together the past with the present. Memory stalking the impatiently advancing future. Into the party…
Cold Calling Students
Modern Pocket Boroughs
Into the Jaws of Death
Updating My Plank
As a man who loves his technology, one thing I enjoy reading about is how others use theirs. There is…
The Case of the Dangling Toad
Take Notes, No One Is Watching
Letters of Note
Mental Indigestion
Parliamentary Privilege
Proportionality in Pursuit of Justice
Distributism
The New Commons
Grey Eminence
Contemplating Content
So I Could See Further
A Day of Rest
Airbrushing Memory
Please keep scrolling
A Marvellous Idea for a Blog
Dead Certainties
Code is Speech?
Language Defect: Privacy
Centralising the Decentralised
Marshal Your Argument
How I Write – Technology
How I Publish — Version 2.0
The Cloud of Unknowing
‘Good night, and good luck.’
So this is how privacy dies…
Gakyō Rōjin
Endurance Through Renewal
The Pied Piper of Zoom
The Perfect Moment
‘Oh, the humanity!’
May the Third be with you
One Hundred Days…
The City of Love
One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist. Stephen Hawking There…
‘God is Dead’
I know I know… you don’t need to shout it I am not so superannuated that I am deaf to…
Age, Evil And A Better World
Age hit me the other day. To be precise it hit my right hamstring. It was cold and I got…
Is this what Warhol meant?
In 1968 the doyen of pop art, Andy Warhol, said: ‘In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.’…
The Minnow, The Whale And The Deep Blue Sea
Truth and Beauty
Never before in the history of the world has so much information been so easily accessible. Name virtually any topic…