Good tools do not guarantee a good product.
This was brought home to me this morning as I glanced at something I wrote on this day 16 years ago. I was moaning then about poor audio quality in many podcasts, likening it to the abysmal visual design that accompanied the democratisation of publishi...
On this day in 2009 I wrote this:
Life.com has put a huge number of images online. The trick is to use the date slider to refine your search.There are two ways to share the images. One, to embed, as above. The other, to link directly, as below, but that seems not to work so well. I'm testing it...
How strange to discover two milestones written about on the same day, several years apart. First there was the post in which I “discovered” podcasts. Eleven years later I was mourning the passing of ADN and extending one of the IndieWeb metaphors — eat what you cook1 — with a little biological...
Over on Eat This Podcast I’ve been splitting hairs over whether inequality or straightforward poverty is to blame for people not being able to afford food. Then along comes a day that serves up a perfect illustration.
Those two headlines are from the online edition of this morning’s Guardian....
Jeremy Keith (aka Adactio) had a fun quiz on his website a couple of days ago. offered up 25 chances to decide whether a word was the name of a font or a food. Challenge accepted, I scored 20/25. Two foods turned out to be fonts and three fonts turned out to be foods. A fine oppor...
