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2024

30th September - Three quarters of the way there
6th August - An isosceles triangle of wind and racism
3rd August - Character is a thing you do every day
22nd July - Exponentially more bad ideas in the world
15th July - On the bench
2nd June - Life has no instruction manual
30th May - Migraines suck
25th April - Perhaps we should organise?
12th February - ‘Beast mode’ as permission-seeking behaviour
25th January - Unlearning behaviours

2023

27th December - I am so tired of moving platforms
21st December - (Most of) my 2023 in sport
17th December - Whisky and Wisdom
24th November - Tinkering with WordPress category archive pages
21st October - A bit of family history
10th October - All aboard the U-shaped curve
27th August - Don’t skip the best tracks
17th August - House purchases, climate change, and AI
25th June - On the paucity of ‘raising awareness’
20th May - Time’s Solitary Dance
6th May - #NotMyKing
27th April - Paying for participation
22nd April - The Pennine Way, Pt.1 (Kirk Yetholm to Middleton-in-Teesdale)
20th March - Sharepidation
16th March - Identifying and overcoming barriers to user research within organisations
8th March - FONT and Nonviolent Communication
2nd March - Coworking spaces should be run by cooperatives
2nd January - Hear me now!

2022

16th December - #BelshawBlackOps22
24th November - No management but self-management
21st September - All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
7th September - Code of Conduct for exercise.cafe
6th September - Migraines and TIAs
19th July - Enjoy things while they last (or hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
30th May - 5 reasons I won’t be celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
25th May - The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist
20th May - 10 steps to running an event I’d want to attend
7th April - Hadrian’s Wall Path in 72 hours
21st January - Directions of travel

2021

31st December - Looking back, looking forward
6th December - Sage career advice from Baltasar Gracián
23rd November - That silent disappointment face, the one that I can’t bear
15th November - An ending, a beginning
29th October - My Gamer Motivation Profile: Skirmisher/Bard
25th September - The September Series: weekend microadventuring
22nd September - I’m not flying any more
29th August - The End of Vigilance
19th August - Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht
18th August - Hang on to what you’ve got?
17th August - It is a folly to expect men to do all they may reasonably be expected to do
26th June - Walkways lined by abandoned gestures
21st June - Specialization is for insects
3rd June - How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
2nd June - The lie of ‘sovereign individuality’
27th May - On the temptation to nuke everything and start over
22nd May - Approaching the many-headed hydra
22nd April - Checking out of therapy

2020

1st March - Walking in memory of Dai
22nd January - Featured on the Digital2Learn podcast

2019

29th September - Eulogy for Dai Barnes
25th February - A 3-step guide to completing your thesis when you’re feeling utterly overwhelmed
9th February - Experimenting with a Slack-based book club

2018

30th November - Weeknote 48/2018
10th October - World Mental Health Day: my story
3rd June - Where migraines end and I begin
29th April - Some utopian thoughts
5th January - Redesigning Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel

2017

3rd November - Tools and spaces to create a positive architecture of participation
1st September - Deciding what to write about in your blog post
30th August - Putting your blog post into the world
30th August - Sitting down to write a blog post
30th August - How to write a blog post
5th July - My information environment (July 2017)
30th April - Listen to me witter on about co-ops via @VConnecting at #ccsummit
26th April - Goodbye, Grandma
9th March - How to build an architecture of participation
8th March - Blogging for a third of my life

2016

30th November - #BelshawBlacksOps16 (Pt.2) has begun. See you in 2017!
13th November - [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps16 (Part 2)
20th October - 3 quick updates
15th October - On CC0
1st October - Quality Mountain Days 3 and 4: Lake District
8th September - Igniting my Mondays
1st September - We’re back!
1st August - #BelshawBlackOps16 Pt.1 has started!
14th July - [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps16 Pt.1
12th July - New blog theme
23rd June - A few words on #Remain, #BadgeSummit, and #ISTE2016
19th April - A quick redesign
18th April - Refocusing my energies
22nd January - 3 things I’ve learned from 200 weeks of sending out an email newsletter
18th January - Where I’ll be at BETT 2016
1st January - Happy New Year!

2015

1st December - #BelshawBlacksOps15 Pt.2 has begun. See you in 2016!
29th September - The TIDE is high…
15th September - How to sponsor Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel newsletter
11th September - Radio EDUtalk session: talking podcasting, badges, and tools for productivity with John Johnston
1st September - Hey, I’m back! (with some thoughts on Twitter and an update on my newsletter)
1st August - #BelshawBlackOps15 (part 1) has begun!
27th July - Reader survey: 2015 edition
24th July - [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps15 (part 1)
18th June - Three of the best people I’ve ever worked with…
15th June - Important news for subscribers to my weekly newsletter
27th May - Wednesday Wisdom #38: Foundations
20th May - Wednesday Wisdom #37: Confluence
18th May - My #TwitteratiChallenge blog post
15th May - Weeknote 20/2015
13th May - Wednesday Wisdom #36: Cats
9th May - How to subscribe to (and sponsor!) my weekly newsletter
6th May - Community Alignment model v0.5
29th April - Wednesday Wisdom #35: Copyright
22nd April - Wednesday Wisdom #34: Promises
15th April - Wednesday Wisdom #33: Uncertainty
8th April - Wednesday Wisdom #32: Quality
1st April - Wednesday Wisdom #31: Context
25th March - Wednesday Wisdom #30: Robots
18th March - Wednesday Wisdom #29: Completion
11th March - Wednesday Wisdom #28: Influence
4th March - Wednesday Wisdom #27: Trying
25th February - Wednesday Wisdom #26: Friends & Enemies
24th February - 3 reasons I’ve decided to resurrect my LinkedIn account
11th February - Wednesday Wisdom #25: Distraction
4th February - Wednesday Wisdom #24: Courage
31st January - Cashing in on your privilege
28th January - Wednesday Wisdom #23: Clash of Mythologies
27th January - Bryan Mathers: who are you and what do you do?
26th January - Do big ideas need big spaces?
22nd January - Volcanoes and ambiguity
21st January - Wednesday Wisdom #22: Have Double of Life’s Necessities
14th January - Wednesday Wisdom #21: Born in the right century
13th January - On the difference between ‘ought’ and ‘is’ (and getting from one to the other)
11th January - My next e-book: three options for you to vote on
1st January - What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps14 (and what 2015 has in store)

2014

31st October - #BelshawBlackOps14 has started – see you in January!
21st October - A 10-point #MozFest survival guide
15th October - [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps14
2nd September - POSTPONED: Mozilla Maker Party Newcastle 2014
17th August - Hill Skills training in Northumberland
13th August - What I learned while dragging my family around Europe with a car and a tent
29th July - Gone campin’
16th July - I needed to write a blog post this morning…
16th June - Why I’ve just closed my LinkedIn account
21st May - First world problems (or, On buying a house in 2014)
21st April - What’s the project?
11th February - Gozo no go
12th January - A letter from the future
1st January - What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps13 (and what 2014 has in store)

2013

15th October - [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps13
17th September - The Ontology of the Web (Or, Why I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Learning Standards) [DMLcentral]
25th August - The Silent Writing Collective
13th August - A new blog: discours.es
28th May - No more #LettingGrow
1st May - Maslow and the minimalist movement
24th April - Roundup of some stuff I’ve been involved with recently
6th March - A tribute to Chris Allan (@infernaldepart)
1st March - Belshaw beard blooms. (#LettingGrow update)
3rd January - What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps12 (and what 2013 has in store)
1st January - Letting Grow.

2012

23rd November - Why ‘government as platform’ is a really bad idea.
22nd November - Reading list for #BelshawBlackOps12
16th November - [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps12
11th October - Because obviously I’m a male chauvinist pig.
21st September - On the mental cost of inventing new categories.
18th August - Announcement: there may be some turbulence. [SITE UPDATES]
13th August - Stuff I continually reference.
5th August - Sullen.
29th July - Have you subscribed to TILTW yet?
17th July - Coming to an event near you…
15th July - Aim for the high ground, not the high horse.
5th July - On digital ownership. This is HUGE.
4th July - Working for an Academy vs. working for JISC infoNet [visualisation]
30th June - The 10 most popular posts of the first half of 2012 are…
9th June - Two presentations (#TELIC1 & #iDragon) [VIDEO]
6th June - Why I’m becoming a MoFo(er).
7th May - Project Reclaim: experimenting with openphoto.me
30th April - Arson at Ellington Nature Reserve.
27th April - On writing every day.
24th April - A few things that may interest you…
18th April - 3 rules for our five year-old (that work!)
13th April - 9 ideas in search of a blog post.
22nd February - The story behind 3 presentations: #cetis12, #dml2012 and #TEDxWarwick
5th February - Announcing my new e-book: ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ (#digilit)
15th January - 2012 blog reader survey: full breakdown
14th January - 2012 reader survey: interim results and book winners!
7th January - Take my inagural reader survey. It’ll take 5 minutes, tops. Promise.
5th January - Best of Belshaw 2011 now available!
3rd January - What I got up do during #BelshawBlackOps11 (and what 2012 has in store)
1st January - Thanks for waiting! Dr. Belshaw will see you now.

2011

1st December - #BelshawBlackOps11 has started. See you in 2012!
14th November - [REMINDER] #BelshawBlackOps11
11th November - Building a better future (despite the 1%)
8th November - Bauman on inequality and the logic of capital.
1st October - My Belbin results – Part 2
22nd September - My Belbin results – Part 1
30th August - What do Google, Open Source Software and Digital Literacies have in Common?
22nd August - Anarchy in the UK? The reasons behind the breakdown of social order.
19th August - A quick rundown of what I’m up to until Christmas.
17th August - We need to open our eyes to systemic injustice.
15th August - Has England lost its rhythm?
11th August - The real story behind the #londonriots?
17th July - Jesus as a Social Marker? (or, How to Build a Community)
15th July - Social Objects and the importance of sharing.
13th July - Competition and the problem with ‘reality’.
28th June - Why I’m starting to blog at DMLcentral
24th June - My new work blog and other RSS goodies.
19th June - Special Delivery: a letter to my children this Fathers Day.
10th June - Project Reclaim: or, how I learned to start worrying and love my data.
6th June - Introducing ‘User Outcomes Weekly’
1st June - “It’s About Time!” Introducing Synechism Ltd.
8th May - Shift up a gear: work with me from September 2011!
24th April - What I talk about when I talk about ‘user outcomes’ #4
23rd April - Hog roasts, Amazon EC2 and traffic lights.
21st March - My research is your research.
10th March - What’s the opposite of ‘digital Taylorism’?
6th March - i’m in ur conference startin a revolushunz
16th January - Best of Belshaw
14th January - 30 things I’ve learned in 30 years.
10th January - Why I’ve re-designated Synechism as CC0
10th January - 10 things I did during Belshaw Black Ops.

2010

17th December - Belshaw Black Ops.
16th December - My most ‘engaging’ posts of 2010
10th December - [INCOMING] Personal digital hiatus.
23rd November - Blogging: 5 things I’ve learned in 5 years.
17th November - 5 ways Twitter could revolutionize education.
12th November - The one thing I never want my son to say again.
11th November - User outcomes: bona fides.
11th November - #amazonfail: a perspective
7th November - Types of relationship and communities of ‘ought’.
5th November - ‘So… what do you do?’ (v2)
4th November - The best blog posts I’ve ever written, by category.
3rd November - Things I’m Thinking About
31st October - Why we don’t celebrate Hallowe’en in our house
27th October - A story of three requests.
26th October - Too many bricks, not enough mortar.
7th October - My 5 favourite non-fiction books
14th September - How is as important as why.
10th September - #uppingyourpresentation
20th August - What’s this?
13th August - 5 reasons to avoid seeing ‘The Expendables’
5th August - Why my wife should be happy with her adopted surname.
1st August - Experience, skill, and user experience.
18th July - The importance of domain knowledge
2nd July - HOWTO: Go Camping (according to my Twitter network)
28th May - Shut happens.
19th May - Wednesday Wisdom #20: Disreputable occupations.
12th May - Wednesday Wisdom #19: Be a person of integrity
7th May - A short note on syndication
5th May - Wednesday Wisdom #18: Be common in nothing.
30th April - Roadbud: a new iPhone app for runners [Review]
28th April - Wednesday Wisdom #17: Prize intensity.
21st April - Wednesday Wisdom #16: Thumbscrews
16th April - If I were trapped on a Desert Island…
14th April - Wednesday Wisdom #15: Credulity
7th April - Wednesday Wisdom #14: Imagination
2nd April - Music I’m running to at the moment,
1st April - The end of the beginning.
31st March - Wednesday Wisdom #13: Erudition
24th March - Wednesday Wisdom #12: Things have their period
19th March - Hello? Is it me you’re looking for?
17th March - Wednesday Wisdom #11: Exaggerated expectations
10th March - Wednesday Wisdom #10: Application and ability
3rd March - Wednesday Wisdom #9: Life is a warfare against malice.
26th February - My favourite proverbs from around the world.
24th February - Wednesday Wisdom #8: Excellence needs some polish
17th February - Wednesday Wisdom #7: Cultivate relationships
10th February - Wednesday Wisdom #6: Avoid the faults of your nation.
5th February - Towards a fitter Doug.
3rd February - Wednesday Wisdom #5: Avoid outshining your superiors
30th January - A subtle redesign.
27th January - Wednesday Wisdom #4: Ruling your impulses
20th January - Wednesday Wisdom #3: Arriving at completeness
15th January - NOT Friday Fun
13th January - Wednesday Wisdom #2: The value of novelty
12th January - The new blog order.
11th January - My favourite music of the ‘noughties’.
8th January - Some Friday fun!
6th January - Wednesday Wisdom #1: Character and intellect
5th January - Feedback: why you read this blog.
1st January - Commitments for 2010.

2009

31st December - Read what I’ve read: 2009 edition.
30th December - OpenBeta: a publishing model.
29th December - Why do you read this blog?
28th December - If I wrote a book, would you buy it?
24th December - Merry Christmas!
23rd December - #blogsilike
22nd December - Twenty-nine.
10th December - Best of Belshaw (2009)
9th December - Beyond Creative Commons: uncopyright.
6th December - #twitter365 (2009)
2nd December - 10 things people like me want for Christmas.
28th November - Back to (theme) basics.
14th November - Infographics and my future.
24th October - The difference between ‘crowdsourcing’ and being lazy.
10th October - Embracing the future: why I’ve ditched MP3s and signed up to Spotify Premium
8th October - Who are you and where do you come from?
6th October - Activity, Passivity and Failure.
21st September - ‘So… what do you do?’
18th September - elearnr posts now at dougbelshaw.com/blog
6th September - A Week of Divesting: Reflections
5th September - A Week of Divesting: Blog design
4th September - A Week of Divesting: Software
3rd September - A Week of Divesting: ‘Analogue Time’
2nd September - A Week of Divesting: Domains [incl. a competition!]
1st September - A Week of Divesting: Media
31st August - A Week of Divesting: an introduction
16th August - A (temporary) farewell to a hero.
13th August - The story behind the new design of dougbelshaw.com
17th July - The Big Move
26th June - Thinking of changing this blog…
12th April - Ignore everybody.
28th February - “You can tell a lot about someone from what they’re like.”
21st February - Quasi-motivational posters
1st February - New music section at dougbelshaw.com
1st February - ‘Following’ me on Twitter? These people are!
4th January - 7 Things You May Not Know About Me

2008

31st December - Top 25: The Best of Belshaw 2008
24th December - Merry Christmas!
22nd December - I’m 28, I’m not *old*…
29th October - Living offline
1st October - Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
26th September - Doug’s first world tour!
25th September - Blue Skies Thinking vs. Grey Skies Thinking
24th September - 4 reasons you should jailbreak your iPhone 3G
16th September - I’ll tell you this for free…
15th September - Good ideas, sheep and wolves.
9th September - Dilbert on ‘best practice’
17th August - Twitter Fantasy Football
3rd August - 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year
29th July - My life in the next couple of weeks…
17th July - Synaesthesia, migraines and creativity
13th July - Knowledge vs Experience
12th July - ‘In The Night Garden’ as a communist utopia
11th July - I need YOUR help with the future of edte.ch
9th July - The Never-ending (Gadget) Story… the Advent 4211
5th July - An invitation to a conversation…
28th June - Doug lives in rural isolation thanks to the Internet
14th June - The stream becomes a trickle…
9th June - Posts imported from edte.ch
7th June - Gym’ll Fix It!
30th May - Are you an ‘Edupunk’? I’m not.
27th May - The most amazing thing you’ll see on the Internet this year!
24th May - Some web-hosting advice, please…
15th May - dougbelshaw.com redesign
12th May - That’s my boy!
9th May - Are you Alice, Dilbert, or the Boss?
5th May - Holiday in North Yorkshire
29th April - The Working Classes
28th April - I’m going to miss this…
23rd April - Meme machine
21st April - Competition: win a Macvatar Macbook skin!
12th April - On having a space to myself
12th April - Things I’ve been reading online recently
10th April - A cluttered desk is a sign of genius.
10th April - The saddest picture in the world…
1st April - April Fools Day, Google-style…
22nd March - A win at last!
17th March - We’ve sold!
13th March - Better off because of Budget?
11th March - Is handwriting dead?
1st March - 15 days of Google answers
13th February - Be notified of follow-up comments
12th February - Benjamin Belshaw’s 1st Year
2nd February - WordPress customization
31st January - Context is everything
30th January - House up for sale
18th January - Ben can almost walk!
17th January - Skribit: Suggest topics for me to blog about
13th January - New header image
9th January - Hi, my name’s Doug Belshaw…

2007

31st December - Read what I’ve read: my books of 2007
28th December - ‘I Am Legend’ has it all
16th December - Ed.D. blog moves home
12th December - Facebook in the future?
8th December - Research Methodologies
15th November - Busy, busy, busy…
30th September - Ben crawling!
30th September - Now THIS irritates me…
29th September - A day in the library at the University of Durham
9th September - Hannah’s new car
8th September - Argument for thesis proposal
26th August - Information Literacy
20th August - The cinema? Pah!
16th August - Ilana Snyder
14th August - Never again…
11th August - Unexpected problems
10th August - Expect some downtime
10th August - Perfect Promos
6th August - 8 Random Facts Meme
5th August - Laura & Sean’s wedding
31st July - Great Ideas
31st July - Demotivational posters
28th July - Comments now working again…
25th July - Live Ink: an example of the benefits of digital text
25th July - Definitions of digital literacy’ from the book of the same name by Paul Gilster
22nd July - National Christian Football Festival 2007
20th July - My favourite lolcats
15th July - The problems with Human Rights legislation
30th June - Sausage Roll
28th June - Heavens open, schools shut
25th June - Death by Powerpoint
17th June - Visit to London village
15th June - Minor update to blog design
4th June - Philosophy
26th May - The 3 quotations I live by
1st May - Book review: Wittgenstein’s Poker
29th April - Ben in his bouncer (video)
26th April - WordPress Theme Generator
26th April - More photos of Ben
22nd April - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
2nd April - References to follow up – 2/3 April 2007
18th March - Happy Mother’s Day Hannah!
17th March - Jersey job and the return of the Mac
3rd March - Ralph Wiggum: boy genius
2nd March - Another definition of literacy
2nd March - References to follow up – 3/3/07
1st March - 21st Century Literacy
17th February - More people reading my teaching blog than I thought…
5th February - Photoshopped animals
26th January - The Half-Life of Knowledge and Structural Reform of the Education Sector for the Global Knowledge-Based Economy
26th January - Run Doug run
24th January - Hannah and Ben back home
23rd January - Flickr slideshow of Benjamin Daniel Jonathan Belshaw
20th January - References from ‘Breaking Down the Digital Walls’
13th January - References from ‘Schools and the Changing World’
13th January - References from ‘Reclaiming Knowledge’
12th January - Systematicity
6th January - References to follow up from today’s reading
3rd January - Resources r.e. Dan Pink & ‘A Whole New Mind’
3rd January - Links to training sites/blogs from Jim Belshaw

2006

27th December - What does literacy look like in the 21st century?
27th December - 21st Century Skills: not just about ICT
27th December - The Pressure for Knowledge to Change
26th December - Property, 21st Century Knowledge, and Creative Commons
26th December - Connectivism
26th December - Knowledge Management in Education
9th December - Email to Gareth Mills (QCA)
8th December - The purpose of education? It isn’t this…
5th December - Where do educational ideas originate? A digital paper trail…
2nd December - Findings from the Teaching, Learning, and Computing Survey: Is Larry Cuban Right?
21st November - Barriers to teachers’ use of ICT
20th October - The Community as the Text
20th October - Managing Organizational Change – diagram
4th October - Chris Sessums – ICT and the ‘locus of control’
4th October - Papert on Why School Reform is Impossible
23rd September - The difference between groups and networks
17th September - Learning Teacher Network – 10 recommendations for the future of teaching
14th July - Tentative area for thesis