Tag Archives: ds106

Listening To Nature

Posted on 23rd October 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Dunnock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Just one little dunnock Singing alone No sparrow companions All other birds gone Sitting high in the tree tops Hidden from sight Singing your heart out … Continue reading →

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13 years of the Daily Create

Posted on 8th January 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Daily Create I’ve been participating in this since around 2016, often uploading my responses to a Flickr album. Here they are as a slideshow. Here’s to the next 13 years!  You can participate … Continue reading →

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Blog or die?

Posted on 18th August 2024 by NomadWarMachine

“Thesis word cloud” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I used to write here regularly, and at some point I stopped. Maybe it was the pandemic, maybe it was the pressure of writing up my … Continue reading →

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Bricolage

Posted on 31st December 2023 by NomadWarMachine

My One Little Word for 2024 is bricolage. Bricolage is a French word which roughly translates as ‘do it yourself’. It is a practice of taking what is available (what is ready to hand, as Heidegger says) and reusing it … Continue reading →

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Ode to Starlight, the Eternal Dancer

Posted on 16th October 2023 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to write a poem or piece of prose about this image and also what she is dancing to if we like. This statue reminded me of a statue of Shiva that lives in a local … Continue reading →

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So long, and thanks for all the TAGS

Posted on 29th April 2023 by NomadWarMachine

For almost ten years now, whenever I’ve been involved in an activity that involves Twitter conversations I’ve headed over to TAGS and set up a copy to collate tweets and produce visualisations like the one above. So earlier this month, … Continue reading →

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Daily Create 2023

Posted on 1st January 2023 by NomadWarMachine

I first did a Daily Create on 19th March 2016, and I’ve been doing it daily for years now. As of this morning I have completed 2465 challenges. Sometimes, when I have a bit of spare time, I look back … Continue reading →

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Time to Relax

Posted on 9th January 2022 by NomadWarMachine

This Christmas I’ve had a holiday. For (most of) the last three weeks I’ve not worried about work, or agonised about what I should be reading and writing. And as I relaxed, I realised that this is the first Xmas … Continue reading →

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ASCILITE 2021

Posted on 9th December 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Last month Wendy and I gave a presentation about the collaborative poem that happened as a result of a DS106 Daily Create. It was 9am Sydney time, making it early am for Wendy and late evening (10pm) for me, but … Continue reading →

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St Andrew’s Day

Posted on 30th November 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Today is St Andrew’s Day, Scottish feast day of Andrew the Apostle. no day off for me, as although it’s a Bank Holiday, institutions are not obliged to honour it (boo!). The Daily Create today asks us to use an … Continue reading →

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