My Favorite Albums on Bandcamp
Bandcamp is doing a nice fundraiser today where they’re waiving their transaction fee to get more cash in the pockets of artists. Tom is encouraging bloggers to share…
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Beyond Blogging: Sketches for Social Longform Writing
I love blogging. I enjoy forum discussions. All too often, I relish Twitter banter. But these short-form formats are far from the only ways to write online. For…
Proposal for Near-Future Blogging Megastructures
This post is part of Blogging Futures, a collaborative blogchain-based learning adventure exploring how we can reimagine blogging. Feel free to join the conversation! Blogging is great, but…
Sidewalk Spaces and Positive Gatekeeping
Continuing my “Networked Communities” blogchain with Tom Critchlow, talking about how we write, how we connect, how we build communities online & more. This is the third post;…
The Four Branches of Bad Art
This is the first post of a blogchain with Jinjin Sun on the theme: “Why Bad Art”. We’ll be exploring the mysteries and pleasure of so-called “bad” art:…
Weaving a public web, or, why don’t I blog more?
Part 1 of a blogchain with Tom Critchlow on the theme of networked communities — exploring possibilities for conversation space, community networks, open writing ecosystems, working in public,…
Independent Bookstores and Patronage Possibilities
I came across a Twitter thread recently about the brutal economics of independent bookstores, and it prompted me to consider some possibilities for making the bookstore business more…
Repos Beyond Code: A Collection of Creative Uses of GitHub
One of my secret hobbies is following all manner of cool GitHub repositories. My chops as a developer are limited, but it’s always fun to learn about new…
Learning Patterns, or Lenses
Some initial ideas for “learning patterns” — building blocks that might be components of great learning experiences. After, of course, A Pattern Language. As in APL, these patterns…
Do I Have a Book Buying Habit?
Do I have a book buying habit? I like to think not; I like to think that I have discerning taste, that I buy books carefully, I like…
An after-drizzle; an echo rain.
An after-drizzle; an echo rain. The droplets return for another pass, rebound off the front that preceded, slingshot back through space and time. We were fooled, by the…
Species of Spaces for Work, Learning, and Collaboration
There are so many different organizational models for how people form communities of work, learning, and creative collaboration. What are the most interesting and innovative? I’d like to…