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🔗 Novelty answerphone greetings
A fun piece of forgotten cultural ephemera. A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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🔗 Novelty answerphone greetings
A fun piece of forgotten cultural ephemera. A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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Listlogs express joy
Reflecting on why I’m even writing this series of blogs. A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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🔗 Images of Australian criminals in the 1920s
A link originally posted on bensinterests. A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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🔗 How Japanese children learn multiplication
Something originally posted on bensinterests that’s so simple that it might blow your mind. A …
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🔗: First time ski jump
The sort of simple, wholesome content originally posted on bensinterests. A post for #WeblogPoMo2024 …
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The Instapaper years
The risk of automation A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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Nobody needs a 404
The joy and sadness of looking at the old web A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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Blogging as nostalgia
Why do my online posts often look to the past? A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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🔗: The sun, in ultraviolet
A photograph of the sun taken through ultraviolet filters. A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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Engagement metrics do not make you a good person
Why I rarely publicised bensinterests when I was publishing it. A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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You're doing Tumblr wrong
…or was I? Some thoughts about looking at the bensinterests Tumblr in 2024. A post for …
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🔗 'High order bit'
A ten minute video about internet identities (A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.)
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What was bensinterests?
Looking back on my favourite blogging experience. A post for #WeblogPoMo2024.
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Remembering bensinterests over #WeblogPoMo2024
What I’ll be writing about over WeblogPostingMonth. Essentially: nostalgia for Tumblr.
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Just write something
Blogging is scary, until it isn’t. A post about why I’m trying one more time.
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Notes on books read in 2023
I don’t normally read much. That’s changed. Some stats and some books I really enjoyed …
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Notes on going viral
What it’s like to have a social media post get some mild level of attention in 2023.
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Two and a half years with wearables
What it’s like to have a tiny health-focused computer on your wrist in the early 2010s.
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2014 album of the year
A lament that 2014 has probably had some good music but damned if I’ve been able to find it.
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2013 album(s) of the year - 4 to 2
Continuing the countdown of my favourites from the year. These ones are good. Real good.
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2013 album(s) of the year - 10 to 8
Starting the countdown of my favourite albums from 2013 with a varied selection of sort-of oldies.
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2013 album(s) of the year - an introduction
Let’s be ambitious and post about LOADS of great albums from this year.
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Could HMV still survive?
Some thoughts about why the once-ubiquitous music retailer is struggling yet again and some thoughts …