Checked in at Baker Street Coffee. with Jessica
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Saturday, November 28th, 2020
Friday, November 13th, 2020
An Ocean of Books
What you see is the big map of a sea of literature, one where each island represents a single author, and each city represents a book. The map represents a selection of 113 008 authors and 145 162 books.
This is a poetic experiment where we hope you will get lost for a while.
Sunday, October 18th, 2020

Checked in at Baker Street Coffee. Flat whites outdoors — with Jessica
Monday, September 21st, 2020
Kinopio
Cennydd asked for recommendations on Twitter a little while back:
Can anyone recommend an outlining app for macOS? I’m falling out with OmniOutliner. Not Notion, please.
The only outlining tool that makes sense for my brain is https://kinopio.club/
It’s more like a virtual crazy wall than a virtual Dewey decimal system.
I’ve written before about how I prepare a conference talk. The first step involves a sheet of A3 paper:
I used to do this mind-mapping step by opening a text file and dumping my thoughts into it. I told myself that they were in no particular order, but because a text file reads left to right and top to bottom, they are in an order, whether I intended it or not. By using a big sheet of paper, I can genuinely get things down in a disconnected way (and later, I can literally start drawing connections).
Kinopio is like a digital version of that A3 sheet of paper. It doesn’t force any kind of hierarchy on your raw ingredients. You can clump things together, join them up, break them apart, or just dump everything down in one go. That very much suits my approach to preparing something like a talk (or a book). The act of organising all the parts into a single narrative timeline is an important challenge, but it’s one that I like to defer to later. The first task is braindumping.
When I was preparing my talk for An Event Apart Online, I used Kinopio.club to get stuff out of my head. Here’s the initial brain dump. Here are the final slides. You can kind of see the general gist of the slidedeck in the initial brain dump, but I really like that I didn’t have to put anything into a sequential outline.
In some ways, Kinopio is like an anti-outlining tool. It’s scrappy and messy—which is exactly why it works so well for the early part of the process. If I use a tool that feels too high-fidelity too early on, I get a kind of impedence mismatch between the state of the project and the polish of the artifact.
I like that Kinopio feels quite personal. Unlike Google Docs or other more polished tools, the documents you make with this aren’t really for sharing. Still, I thought I’d share my scribblings anyway.
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020

Checked in at St George’s Inn. Beer in the sun 🍺 ☀️
Saturday, September 12th, 2020

Checked in at Blakers Park. Tunes 🎶 — with Jessica
Monday, September 7th, 2020

Checked in at Duke of York’s Picturehouse. A cinema to ourselves for T E N E T — with Jessica

Checked in at The Eagle. Outdoor Thai food for lunch — with Jessica
Sunday, September 6th, 2020
Mapping a World of Cities
A timeline of city maps, from 1524 to 1930.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Checked in at Shelter Hall Raw. Beer on the beach — with Jessica

Checked in at The Eagle. Outdoor refreshment
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020

Checked in at Shelter Hall Raw. Having a beer on the beach — with Jessica
Sunday, August 2nd, 2020

Checked in at The Hartington. Sunday roast — with Jessica
Friday, July 31st, 2020

Checked in at Pelicano. Iced latte — with Jessica
Friday, July 17th, 2020

Checked in at Pelicano. Iced latte — with Jessica
Sunday, July 12th, 2020

Checked in at Fox On the Downs. Sunday roast and a pint in the sun — with Jessica
Monday, July 6th, 2020
Spatial Awareness
Robin Hawkes has made a lovely website to go with his newsletter all about maps and spatial goodies.
Monday, April 20th, 2020
geoTrad - Google My Maps
Well, this is a rather wonderful mashup made with data from thesession.org:
The distribution of Irish traditional tunes which reference place names in Ireland
Sunday, April 19th, 2020

Checked in at Sheepcote Valley. Lying in the grass on a hillside — with Jessica
Saturday, April 11th, 2020

Checked in at Sheepcote Valley. with Jessica