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Likes The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot – Doc Searls Weblog by Doc Searls. I know, the ones without ads are mostly out on the long tail, but what matters is that anybody can podcast on the Net, just like anybody can publish there. RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said , a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational. The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot 🐻 Bears Repeating
Walked the Jaw – Greenside loop this morning. Small tortoiseshell & a few orange tips. Lots of birds singing. Cuckoos calling. Cuckoo flowers out & hawthorn quite green now. On the hill: stonechat, larks, a wheatear moving along the path in front. Meadow pipet, a reed bunting. A couple of ravens over the Greenside path. I had left my camera’s SD card in the reader so missed a couple of opportunities.
Read: The Violet Hour by James Cahill ★★★ 📚 Shenanigans in the Art World. Dealers, painters and some bad behaviour.
I’ve not posted a set of links for a while, keep saving them, but retired life is busier than I thought it would be. I am prompted by this newletter post: Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators So every time you share a link on your blog, every time you write a few sentences about why someone else’s work matters to you, every time you add a new entry to a blogroll or a links page – you are a curator. You are doing what no algorithm can do. You’re saying: I am a person. I read this. I think you…
Ardinning this afternoon. Very sunny & bright. A few butterflies, mostly peacocks & some orange tips. A couple of peacocks spiralled up high. Cuckoos calling. At the bench beside the loch we heard a big splash. Looking round through the bushes we saw an osprey come out of the water & fly off.
Short walk on the Kilpatrick Braes this afternoon. Warmest day of the year so far. Quite a few butterflies, peacocks and Orange Tips around. Lots of wee flowers. The usual suspects singing in the trees, a grouse & stonechat on the moor. Larks singing. #bloomscrolling #bloomstrolling
Read: The Names by Florence Knapp ★★★★ 📚 She wonders again if she is doing this right. Any of it, all of it. If it's even the right thing for Gordon himself to be carrying on this tradition. Maybe consenting to live in the shadow of his father and his father's father is only perpetuating the likeness, increasing the weight of it for him. Perhaps calling their child something different would be a liberation. Not at first, but later. Names change character & experience. Three versions of the same…
Took the short walk to Greenside reservoir this morning. Lots of spring happening, bird song, especially chiffchaff & willow warbler. Heard blackcaps (confirmed with merlin) and finally saw some. A cuckoo calling, the first this year. A few butterflies around including one small tortoiseshell.
Add any public account from Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, X, TikTok or YouTube to quickly get a feed that you can add to your favorite reader. from: ByeDoom — Give a Link → Get a Feed This works, I got it from Alan’s dogged following & sharing of RSS information, tips & tricks. Great […]
Walk in the rain round the short Kilpatrick loop this morning. Lots of birds singing mostly out of sight. Tree pipets in good voice, & displaying in the trees at the edge of the moor. Blackthorn fully out, trees starting to bud. Flowers hanging their heads in the drizzle.
A haze of blackthorn in the Drizzle.
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Read: Sheila Armstrong by Falling Animals ★★★★ 📚 Celia turned five last month while he was on a container ship from Liverpool to Halifax. They were passing an island off the coast of Newfoundland and Manoy clung to the port railings, scrabbling for a few bars of reception to make a call from the satellite […]
Kilpatrick Braes a warm, breezy day with blooming primroses and mouse-ear cress. Bumble bees and butterflies. Birds including a green woodpecker and chiffchaffs calling & singing.
Read: Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki ★★★★ 📚 Why? Well, look at it this way. Your head is alive, but if you seal it up inside dead classes, you're lost. Take it outside and get the wind into it. Riding the streetcar is not the only way to get satisfaction, of course, but it's the first […]
Walked round to the coop, sun is shining, bees out. An hour later, sleet, hailstones & snow!
REVEIL 2026. I’ve just set up my page for this year’s Reveil broadcast. The Reveil broadcast will again make a full loop of the earth over the Dawn Chorus Day weekend in May 2026.We welcome new and established streamers to join in assembling a sequence of live sounds starting near the 0 meridian at daybreak […]
Zoë Hitzig the whistleblower tells all Observer 29-03-2026 seems to be hind a pay wall? I read in the paper. A poets view of AI risks.
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying -Kevin T Baker – Guardian 28 March 2026. Lots more worry about in this article, but this jumped out.
Read: Lean Stand Fall by Jon McGregor ★★★★★ 📚 ‘ You want, Robert said, 'you want, wok?' He was leaning towards Wiktor and Rachel, his voice loud and clear. Wok, wok, you want to work again?" Wiktor and the dancers all looked at him and shrugged once more, and Robert shrugged in return. He looked […]
A raven flew through the trees and circled above. on each loop diving, folding & twisting in a relaxed, effortless way, despite the speed.
Spring this morning was followed by sleet and the some hail in the afternoon.
Read: The Oerfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers ★★★★ 📚 The Battle was the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985, at which Redbone was a more than willing partici-pant, and a subject that Calvert has frequently indulged his friend in over the intervening years but which he has little desire to hear repeated now, or […]
I’ve been trying out my.wordpress.net and can see some interesting parallels with my all time favourite software HyperCard.
Rather a blurry photo, but the first peacock butterfly of the year for me. Saw quite a few on the Greenside Reservoir track this afternoon. A warm day, bumble bees flying.
An afternoon walk round the Kilpatrick braes yesterday. Warm and sunny, occasionally clouding over.Egrets, Opposite-leaved golden-saxifrage, lesser celandine, the first primroses of 2026. 5 ravens flew low and fast overhead two pairs twisting together wings loud. A few stonechats on the Muir.
