Cartoon time again
Maybe I should add a comic strip category to this blog. They’re never ‘art’ but they’re fun to draw. Clickness for bigness. Thanks to @Ilicco for…
Cartoon time
I’ve been drawing some cartoons in an effort to stop looking at my screens for too many hours. Naturally none of my fine art qualifications show…
Following news of the Boston explosions online
I watched the explosions in Boston unfold tonight as many people online do when there’s news afoot. A habit of many years now when something like…
Distractions and दही गोश्त – A Jemimah Knight burned dinner recipe
Like most people, I occasionally crave meals that I used to have when I lived with my parents or visited with my Grandmother. Sometimes I can…
Making Easter Eggs with Internet supervision – A Jemimah Knight adapted recipe
This is a relatively simple recipe that is likely to harden your arteries – but it also contains less in the way of preservatives and such,…
Robotics and science fiction reading
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of comic books and science fiction. It’s been a means of escape and thinking for years that has often…
The Watchmaker
So, here it is. A story for the new year. Thank you to everyone who sent me key words to get things going. I’ve not written…
Code: Can’t learn my way out of being female
I read AsherWolf’s post this morning about her treatment and the hacker community and it made my heart sink. I don’t even have the skills to…
Tall tales of the Tube: 1 Dust Bunny
This is a project I’ve had in mind for the best part of a year I guess. I make notes, lose them someplace in a notebook,…
Bridge reporting and trauma
Hi, For some work with Global Voices I am furthering some ongoing research looking at the possible emergence of PTSD and similar outcomes when bridge reporting…
Girls, girls, girls…
Hi, I think I saw a tumbleweed roll across my pages and as I am currently stuck at home under the weather – it’s a good…
Crystallization of news online – Gil Scott-Heron
Around one thirty in the morning and a tweet turns up in my stream that says Gil Scott Heron has died. I start playing his records…
Citizen journalism infrastructure?
It’s been a while, but a couple of things entwined to play around my mind in the last few weeks. I have some questions as usual.…
Indie news nightly
3am London BST and I should be in bed, asleep. But I’m not. I’m watching a news channel on the internet. It’s not a mainstream channel…
I listened – a collaborative story via sound
So – a little recap and a tape for you. A few weeks (probably more) I asked if anyone would contribute sound. The original post is…
Flapjack – whole
The nice thing about starting a new project is that it usually means you finished the last one. Right? Yeah right… Anyways, I’m thinking on writing…
Mobile Web
I asked this, as you can see, on Twitter a few weeks back. Friends online were kind enough to give me their thoughts and I wove…
Text Experiment
Every word in the text below is a hyperlink. “…try to visualise all the streams of human interaction, of communication. All those linking streams flowing in…
Oh how we love to be fooled – but not by the foolish
Hello. Scoping about the web this morning and there’s the usual April 1 activity. Nothing so shocking so far – but maybe someone will push the…
