• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• the social expectations of the super-rich

• the self-congratulation of digital elites 

• markets are a machine for destroying the ego

• pride and pleasure in acceleration 

• data fetishism and the elites of digital capitalism 

• the culture of the ‘working rich’

• digital capitalism, the great levelling and the moral agency of elites

• we are all equal before Google

• the moral discourse of the ‘reasonable technocrat’

• viral media and unionisation

• what to do when a political party you instinctively support shows nothing but contempt for the things you believe?

• The fiction future of faculty: an afternoon of sociological design fiction

• attribution in live tweeting

• the circular tendency in digital capitalism

• blogging as an outboard brain

• on digital distraction

• negative solidarity is here to stay: the ‘greedy’ tube workers

• reflections on preparing to finish a book

• who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?

• things I’ve been reading recently #11

• social media and academic freedom

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#19)

• the best of bezos: the vitriolic putdowns of the amazon ceo

• the question no one seems willing to answer about university branding

• using big data to transform the classroom from the 19th century to the 21st

• the ethos of openness

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#18)

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#17)

• the pleasures of knowing where you stand 

• when people falsely impute research to you

• blogging your fieldwork

• social media and solidarity in higher education

• the coming copyright wars on twitter

• using snapchat in higher education

• how to evaluate your web page for accessibility

• what would a curricula for Networked Scholarship look like?

• Closing an open letter

• #TwitterGate: the ethics of live tweeting

• oppression and self-promotion on social media

• the creepy treehouse problem

• imagining post-capitalism and techno-fascism

• the politics of noise in historical perspective

• the antinomies of blairism

• but on the day I die, I’ll say at least I fucking tried, that’s the only eulogy I need

• things I’ve been reading recently #10

• I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often.

• the cognitive costs of escaping the filter bubble

• The @_ISRF @DigitalSocSci and @BigDataSoc Essay Competition

• the synchronised society

• the war on radicalisation and where it might lead

• and the evilest of nine’s guaranteed to shoot crooked

• freedom from self-imposed metrified tyranny: some thoughts on the moral psychology of self-tracking