Phil says "John Lanchester's started posting daily about the general election (if you click his name, that page also has an RSS feed just for him)." He's not wrong, but it's a bit of a shame that the feed's not full text. Better than nowt, though.

"why end it? Why why why? Because the LiveJournal platform I'm using is being wound down. Because there's a kind of tumbleweed feel to my Friends List these days, as people migrate to Twitter or Facebook." LJ definitely has the feel of a death spiral at the moment. Shame. It got a lot right, early.

Treating the Guardian's Weekend magazine with the reverence it deserves. (I like Gentleman Cat.)

The most amazing thing to me about this post isn't the problem it describes, since I've never been a fan of the blosxom model. It's the fact people are still using file-based blogging systems at all. Mind you, they probably are all Unix geeks.

A pean to "dumb boxes", the rectilinear blocks that made up the majority of the modernist cityscape. He's going to love London soon, then, with the few examples there were swept away by cheesegraters and walkie-talkies.

An interesting post and discussion about whether accumulating (hm, a better term than collecting/aggregating?) your stuff makes you more or less likely to write long-form posts, and how to choose what to display.

This isn't actually that much about the environmental aspects, not as I read it, but it's a fascinating look at Asustek's factories in Suzhou, amongst other things. (Don't read the comments.)

Thirty seven months after we moved out of 2lmc, the spool gets declared dead. Read my stuff instead! Sure, there's less of it and there's less bile, but... er... oh well.

Damnit, looks like minimalism is on the way out again. I suppose this is a good time to hire someone who can actually use Photoshop then.

Picnik integration into Flickr. Short review: more capable than Preloadr (which I'd been using) but some things I'd use a lot are well hidden. Lots of annoying dialogs about leaving the page when I'm not though.

"It was fanastic. In literally less than 3 minutes, I'd gone from frantic about making my flight to all the way to the metal detector" "anybody who's a privacy zealot is not gonna be able to get behind the whole Clear thing."

Interesting. I can see their reasons and I'd love to see the code but this is going to go down badly with the Rails and Perl crowds, I reckon.

Simon Wheatly on privacy, alienated youth and photography.

Martin Parr's photos and commentary on a Dubai art fair, and on the dying art of film photography.

Having found the Magnum photo archive, and then its blog, I'm probably going to do a link dump, here as well as on ffffound. This is from Lise Sarfati's series, New York Virgins. Interesting commentary.

Nice counterpoint/addition to Sleevage. Seems a bit more interested in the niche electronica side of things- see the Autechre and Venetian Snares covers, for example.

AboveLondon gets mentioned on Astronomy Blog, which is nice. Yes, it would be better if it was more personalised. Unfortunately that means messing with d messages or, worse, a real SMS gateway.

A lovely blog full of pictures of lovely (and accidental) design and typography.

Offers a choice of "CSV" and "XML"- I haven't looked at either in detail.

Seems to have special cases for every different blogging tool, but will also use RSS (and Atom?) as an import format.

Google's blog import format uses Atom/XML, like the Alastair Rankine proposal.

Key/value pairs seperated by colons, with each entry seperated by strings of dashes. Not very XMLy.

Using Atom as a format for blog exports. Lots of comments. Draft last updated late last year.

Simon Wistow writes a tool to back up your public Vox posts as an mbox, then wraps a nice web front end around it

Interesting roundup from the Guardian blog, which makes me wish I was there. I'm also considering if Jabber can be considered Push Done Right.