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I’ve known Neill Cameron for quite a while now. He’s a cartoonist whose self published comics I used to read (and probably sell) in the 90s and I’ve kept tabs on him since thanks to his blog and, now, his Twitter because I like his work and he entertains me.
Cartoonists and illustrators blogging and [...]

I found this image today and thought it might make a nice opening slide for a talk, so I blew it up and am posting it here.

No other reason.
For more extremely vintage animated gifs, check this resource from circa 1996. For a more contemporary take on this artform, see lovegifs.

I’m going to be on holiday from Monday 28th and will be back at work on Tuesday October 6th. Unlike most of my holidays I’m actually going to switch everything off. No Internet, no phone, no Twitter, no email – nothing digital at all. I might read a book but that’ll be it for media. [...]

It’s funny how quickly this stuff moves on. When the first of these took place 15 months ago it made perfect sense to call it a meeting of Birmingham Bloggers. Now it seems a little out of date, at least to me anyway. It’s more Birmingham Bloggers And Related Persons Of That Ilk, I guess. [...]

As I head off for a weekend in London away from all this stuff I’d like to leave you with a question, if that’s okay.
What is Social Media?
You may have picked up hints that I don’t really like the term. It’s vague, no-one really knows what it means and because of that anyone can claim [...]