Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?
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I’m doing a few solo poetry shows this year, starting this month with Chester, Lincoln & Scarborough. I’ll be in Falmouth, Totnes & Launceston in April. And Belfast & Dublin in October. If you fancy coming along to a show, you can get tickets here: https://brianbilston.com/events/
“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big stuff. Trust in media is already at an all-time low. Don’t alienate liberal arts majors and obsessive compulsives. We may […]
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Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about have either given up on the very premise of a shared digital commons, continued to post to Twitter while holding […]
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Well done, everybody, for making it to January 569th. I’ve been grateful for those extra days this month, as it’s given me time to get my head together for my 2024 shows, which begin in just over two weeks’ time with a run of dates with the fabulous poet (and human) Henry Normal. We start…
Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. Unless a leap year is its fate, February hath twenty-eight. All the rest hath three days more, excepting January, which hath six thousand, one hundred and eighty-four.
Examining last week’s Verge-vs-Sullivan “Google ruined the web” debate, author Elizabeth Tai writes: I don’t know any class of user more abused by SEO and Google search than the writer. Whether they’re working for their bread [and] butter or are just writing for fun, writers have to write the way Google wants them to just […]
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Thanks very much to everyone who braved the elements to come and see me in Banbury, Stamford, Pocklington, Liverpool and Otley last week. Your dedication is to be much admired. This week I’m mainly in Wales – in Caerphilly on Thursday and Crickhowell in the Brecon Beacons on Friday. There are a few tickets left…
Is it too early to be thinking about Christmas? Almost certainly, yes. Is this year going to be THE year in which you get all your shopping sorted way ahead of time? Probably not, no. Is there a book publishing today which could solve many of your Christmas shopping headaches? No idea, tbh. Regardless, I…