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This is almost everything. There are other things, messier things, in the shoebox.
You might prefer to browse everything by date.
- Work
- Life
- Projects
- Photography
- UK travel
- Global travel
- Notes
- Fiction & satire
This page is a work in progress: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 & earlier.
Work
- 13 Dec 2023: Projects 95-120
- 28 Sep 2023: Weeknotes rules, and the superpowers they enable
- 21 Sep 2023: The agile comms handbook - revised edition
- 05 Jul 2023: How teams remember
- 23 Jun 2023: Three reasons why government should hire more writers
- 26 Mar 2023: Slide inertia
- 25 Mar 2023: First drafts are good for clichés
- 23 Mar 2023: Three good presentations
- 02 Mar 2023: Detached from reality
- 28 Feb 2023: Opinionhavers are the new stakeholders
- 17 Feb 2023: Your new stuff is better than your old stuff
- 13 Feb 2023: Sometimes you need an editor more than you need a writer
- 14 Dec 2022: Projects 66–94
- 24 Nov 2022: How will your words exist in the world?
- 12 Nov 2022: iA Presenter connects your slides to the web
- 06 Oct 2022: Happy birthday, book!
- 04 Oct 2022: A Swiss masterclass
- 05 Sep 2022: What it's like working with an editor
- 08 Aug 2022: A new Working in the open training course
- 14 Jul 2022: Hello from Studio Galen
- 01 Jul 2022: UX London 2022
- 17 May 2022: Sponsoring the Low Carbon Design Institute
- 05 May 2022: Speaking at UX London
- 10 Mar 2022: Why these Welsh weeknotes are so good
- 09 Mar 2022: On the Leanpub podcast
- 17 Feb 2022: Talking about agile comms at DigiShift
- 15 Feb 2022: The agile comms ebook
- 12 Feb 2022: Write slides that help you say “This is…”
- 28 Dec 2021: The 'How to make a video' video
- 23 Dec 2021: When 'website' means different things to different people
- 16 Dec 2021: Projects 45-65
- 01 Dec 2021: How we made the book
- 26 Nov 2021: Talks links for the talks I did this week
- 23 Oct 2021: The agile comms handbook alphabetically
- 19 Oct 2021: The agile comms handbook punctuation
- 06 Oct 2021: The agile comms handbook
- 15 Jul 2021: Asking for paper that people no longer possess
- 14 Jul 2021: Many browsers make light work
- 27 Mar 2021: Let teams talk to other teams
- 26 Mar 2021: Some videos about content design
- 24 Mar 2021: A bank with a human voice
- 05 Feb 2021: Sometimes, conversation is the best kind of editing
- 04 Feb 2021: Writing for the web by drafting with the web
- 27 Jan 2021: All first drafts are bad drafts
- 27 Jan 2021: How to be clear
- 26 Jan 2021: How to write like you speak
- 18 Dec 2020: Projects 25-44
- 07 Dec 2020: Publish well, don't send
- 13 Nov 2020: Week 1 in my new office
- 14 Oct 2020: 10 years of revolution
- 02 Sep 2020: Tips for writing good weeknotes
- 18 Aug 2020: Rules for swearing in client meetings
- 07 May 2020: Many things are ok
- 20 Feb 2020: Stickers for the RSS massive
- 20 Dec 2019: Projects 19-24
- 11 Sep 2019: Turn question slides into statements
- 27 Feb 2019: Improving doingpresentations.com
- 05 Jan 2019: Projects 13-18
- 22 Oct 2018: Storyboarding on stickies
- 19 Oct 2018: Plan comms, not too much, mostly blogging
- 30 May 2018: Agile communication tips
- 23 Apr 2018: Making better corporate video
- 13 Mar 2018: Collecting things
- 07 Mar 2018: Strategic thinking with blogging and stickers
- 20 Feb 2018: My favourite government posters
- 30 Dec 2017: Projects 6-12
- 24 Sep 2017: Thoughts about permission
- 03 Jul 2017: Projects 1-5
- 15 Jun 2017: Stickers tell tiny stories,
- 11 May 2017: Digital is something you are
- 07 Apr 2017: Don't say you're a “thought leader”, just show you can think
- 03 Mar 2017: Pick a domain that’s easy to say
- 03 Mar 2017: About doingpresentations.com
- 19 Jan 2017: Project 0
- 18 Jan 2017: Thinking out loud about internal communication
- 11 Nov 2016: GDS blog posts this year
- 14 Mar 2016: Presenting is performance, so rehearse like you’re doing a show
- 15 Jan 2016: Start in the middle when you get stuck writing
- 27 Nov 2015: Say no to notifications
- 20 Nov 2015: Slack doesn't kill email, it just moves text somewhere else
- 09 Nov 2015: A blog is your brain, over time, on the internet
- 16 Oct 2015: Use the human voice, not the corporate voice
- 10 Aug 2015: Use the words normal people would use
- 20 Jan 2015: Thinking out loud about linklogging
- 06 Jan 2015: The internet column archive
- 26 Apr 2014: Strategies for agile creatives
- 27 Feb 2014: Strategies for people like me
- 06 Nov 2012: Things I learned while making video case studies for the Government Digital Strategy
- 20 May 2012: A cookie law template letter for web developers
- 21 Jul 2009: Recording London
- 22 Jul 2008: A story of replication and journalism
- 03 Jan 2007: A local councillor tries out weblogging
- 24 Feb 2006: Waiting for Tony Blair
- 11 Jan 2001: What big business can learn from weblogs
- 15 Mar 1999: Online Journalism Awards 1999
- 03 Feb 1999: The first online election
Life
Projects
Photography
UK travel
Global travel
Notes
- 14 Dec 2023: Stuff of the year
- 22 Dec 2023: Pro EU in Roma
- 12 Dec 2022: Some great feeds
- 18 Nov 2022: The beginning and the end of Twitter
- 11 Nov 2022: The rich moron
- 06 Nov 2022: How Mastodon is different
- 28 Oct 2022: People are great, generally
- 07 Oct 2022: Some ups and some downs
- 30 Sep 2022: There was a medical emergency
- 24 Sep 2022: My plan for Parliament
- 06 Jul 2022: Welcome to Humdon
- 19 May 2022: Daydreaming is better than doomscrolling
- 30 Apr 2022: If you love the web, you should help Noah Grey
- 21 Apr 2022: Improv our time
- 13 Feb 2022: What using RSS feeds feels like
- 13 Jul 2021: Living with covid means living with inconvenience
- 29 Jun 2021: The contexts, they switch
- 13 May 2020: An idea for self-service checkouts
- 07 Nov 2019: Remembering the TRS-80
- 09 Oct 2019: An Instagram experiment
- 20 Jan 2019: Things 0004
- 09 Nov 2018: Things 0003
- 21 Oct 2018: Things 0002
- 05 Oct 2018: Things 0001
- 19 Apr 2018: Scapple and OutlineEdit
- 15 Apr 2018: Repetitive endings
- 12 Jan 2018: A shower’s worth of radio
- 15 Nov 2014: How far will you fly around the galaxy?
- 05 Nov 2014: Mostly browsers
- 12 Sep 2014: Bring back the voices
- 14 Mar 2014: Weak note, 14th March
- 21 Feb 2014: The Story 2014
- 31 Jan 2014: Weak note, 31st January
- 24 Jan 2014: Weak note, 24th January
- 17 Jan 2014: Weak note, 17th January
- 13 Dec 2013: Weak note for Friday, 13th December
- 29 Nov 2013: Weak note, 29th November
- 22 Nov 2013: Weak note, 22nd November
- 08 Nov 2013: Weak note, 8th November
- 25 Oct 2013: Weak note, October 25th
- 18 Oct 2013: Weak note, October 18th
- 18 Jun 2013: A conversation about privacy
- 01 Nov 2012: A visual history of gilest.org
- 01 Oct 2012: On iPads, computing, and powerlessness
- 20 Jul 2009: Dear Royal Mail
- 28 Apr 2009: Planning for the next GeoCities
- 14 Sep 2007: Permanent and long term web content
- 27 Mar 2007: Blog's what you make it
- 27 Aug 2006: A Freecycle webapp
- 23 Jan 2006: Exploring London's place names
- 13 Feb 1999: Review of The French Mathematician by Tom Petsinis
Fiction & satire