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…
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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…
Read articleDistractions 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…
Read articleOh 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…
Read articleMaking 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,…
Read articleRobotics 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…
Read articleSunday Project: By any other name…
So, I was thinking about re-assigning meaning to names.
Read articleThe 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…
Read articleCode: 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…
Read articlePatience, people and virtual spaces
So tonight I’m watching App.net and Facebook, with half an eye on Twitter and fielding some emails. I’m exhausted. Not by the programs running on my machine. Just tired physically.
Read article“All things to all men”
The title is a quote and I’m not spending time on gender semantics today, we can save that for another time. The phrase occurred to me…
Read articleTall 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,…
Read articleBridge 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…
Read articleYour questions – answered here!
Hi. So. There was no update here when I left the BBC Newsroom, I have to admit I was run off my feet, but it was…
Read articleFrilling and Pinteresting
Brace yourself for a little ranty-pants session. Pinterest has been howling around my networks like pertinent lolcat lately. I like it, I see it is for…
Read articleWhat are you?
Happy New Year Y’all. It’s blowing a gale of rain and dark outside my window and I’ve worked through the night. No better time to formulate…
Read articleTo face unafraid, the plans that he made
I made a note of this story about a month ago. I was considering stories for Christmas. Goodness knows how many iterations there are these days,…
Read articleOn the motion of animals
I’ve had this horrible little story rattling around in my head for a few days. Someone reminded me today to make time to not leave these…
Read articleUpload:1
I decided to ignore Den’s demands for filing within the hour. I was not ready.The usual work in the stream was not about me but about…
Read articleCheers to my co-conspiritors. Without whom…
It’s probably come to your attention that I have been working voluntarily with the excellent Global Voices news site in order to present and produce the…
Read articleThoughts from the Arab Bloggers Meeting in Tunis #AB11
It’s taken me forever to get a coherent thought together about being at the Arab Bloggers’ Meeting in Tunisia. I eventually put my finger on it…
Read articleAda Lovelace Day: Rain
Anyone who has met Rain is unlikely to forget her. Part of this Ada Lovelace Day post is about women and STEM (Science, Technology, Maths, Engineering)…
Read articleGirls, 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…
Read articleDark Knight begins?
So. The Knight Patisserie is the way I get to relax. It’s a virtual social bakery where people can follow the success or failure of any…
Read articleUpload: 0
At the risk of telling too many tales I’ve started another one. I wanted to get it going and well – if you hadn’t noticed this…
Read articleGlobal Frequency
So something new happened. Some work that I am proud of. I’ve been working for the past few weeks to build something from scratch. It’s been…
Read articleScience fraction – part4
I arrive in the middle of a right old bun fight. It’s practically scripted violence at the city protests these days. Not matter how early you…
Read articleScience fraction – part3
Working for The Info always means getting up at bleaurgh o’clock. Some hideous time before you would normally go to bed. But that’s when their parcels…
Read article“Double dog dare!” – Textiles and QR tech
So. I’m browsin’ online as usual swapping links, jokes and smart-arse comments when a good friend and female tech inspiration sends me a link on Twitter.…
Read articleScience Fraction – part2
I was gliding home on my heavenly wheels. Wingnut had done a fabulous job. He always does. We argued as usual on how loose to make…
Read articleScience fraction – part1
Lo. With a little free time, I get to loosen up to scrawl down some fiction ideas. This is only part one and I’m not entirely…
Read articleCrystallization 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…
Read articleCitizen 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.…
Read articleThe rooftops and the passers by
My first night in Patan and I fell asleep easily to the sounds of dogs having a city-wide conference through the night. I find the sounds…
Read articleFlying to Kathmandu
Chasing sleep around the skies is not really something I am accustomed to. More usually the fidgeting and preparation on a day of travel and the…
Read articleWhat have you been?
TODAY from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo. I picked up this video via a link from Brain Pickings an excellent aggregator of things that…
Read articleIndie 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…
Read articleA Dewey Decimal digital destination
I read ebooks. I have a Kindle reader on my Android tablet and I read books on an iPod. I listen to volumes of audiobooks at…
Read articleTales of the internet
I know there must be hundreds and thousands of tales like this to tell or to read. Our world seems to get so much smaller with…
Read articleSouth by Global Headlines
This year finally I went to the Geek shindig called South by South West in Austin, Texas. I initially stayed in Allen with friends as close…
Read articleGetting my house in order – for now
This is more than me than for you. I write sometimes to get my house in order. To brighten the corners and sweep out the cobwebs,…
Read articleAll the same if you are online?
I had a change to sit down and chat with a colleague who is a great digital thinker today. I’d name him but he might get…
Read articleTraining wheels for javascript
For better or worse I have been learning javascript. Mostly cutting and pasting other bits of code or debugging stuff to learn how stuff works. Today…
Read articleNot so idle chatter
Your conversational skills…. I am making pages of notes on the comments that were left about the thought exercises earlier on this blog. Thank you to…
Read articleThought exercise – part two
Hello again, Thanks to everyone who added a comment and jumped into discussion with me about the thought experiment. This is the other half of it.…
Read articleThought exercise – part one
Hi there, I’ve got something cooking again and I would love a bit of input. Whenever is good if you are willing. The idea starts with…
Read articleI 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…
Read articleI’m listening – you’re in the blender
Well, lookit! What’s that now? It’s your audio being mixed. Tricky to fit all 26 into one tape – but I think I’ve managed it. It…
Read articleWhere’d my audio go!? Don’t worry, I’m listening…
Okay – back on track. As with most intermittant bloggers, I was overwhelmed elswhere, but in the back of my mind I’ve been mulling over this…
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Following news of the Boston explosions online
By jemimahknight,
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…
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