Friday Reading is now a publication on Medium
As you may be aware, I’ve been experimenting with publishing Friday Reading on Medium rather than on martinbelam.com – cue massive debate about hosting your own content vs better distribution etc etc. Anyway, I’ve been pleased with how that has…
Friday Reading has moved
Sorry if you were expecting to find it on my blog or delivered straight to your email box. I’m trying an experiment with publishing Friday Reading on Medium – so you can get the latest episode over there. It features…
Friday Reading S02E16
It’s Friday reading! Which definitely hasn’t been banned from speaking from anywhere for being an unredeemable [REDACTED BY LAWYER] Shameless self-promotion corner I’m on the New Statesman website explaining why “I’m a Europhile, but I’m thinking about voting for the…
Friday Reading S02E15
It’s Friday and so as usual I have rounded up some articles I read (or re-read) on the internet this week, and I present them to you in a list so that you too may partake of their goodness if…
6 lightning talks at the #dareconfparty
Last night I was at the Dare Conference Party, a sort of taster menu of Lightning Talks sandwiched in between the two main days of the Dare Conference. And here are my notes from the talks… “3 things that unexpectedly…
Friday Reading S02E14
It’s Friday. Throw off the shackles of your working week, and get down and dirty with this long list of stuff what I read on the interwebs and what I reckoned you might like reading too. Kids and technology This…
Doctor Who companions data story in the Telegraph
Over the weekend I made my debut for the Telegraph, with “Doctor Who companions – a data story” It’s a look at how the relative ages of the lead actor and the people playing the Doctor’s companion have shifted over…
Brian Sewell (1931-2015)
Way back in the mists of time I used to blog a lot about what annoyed me in the Evening Standard. And one of the things that used to annoy me most in the paper in the 90s and early…
Friday Reading S02E13
Unlucky episode thirteen. Every article in this blog post is secretly cursed in some way. Read them to discover what the curse is… I put aside my ridiculous franchise toys to read the internet for a bit and found these…
Friday Reading S02E12
It’s that time again. Friday afternoon. Or Saturday morning. Or Monday morning and you don’t want to open your email yet. Whatever, here’s some stuff I enjoyed reading (and writing) this week/last week, which you might enjoy too… “Forget about…