My top ten gleanings from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation campaigning conference.
Big Issue columnist Brendan O'Neill presents climate scepticism as a censorship issue rather than a science issue - I respecfully disagree.
What happens when you can't - or won't - keep artists' self-serving cant or the indirect promotion of hate speech out of your pages.
My photo-blog of life in the office and community space in Digbeth where I work.
The first time I think we've really gone to a festival and shown the audience the true depth of Friends of the Earth, and what it might mean for the future.
'Twitter in full-on outrage diva mode is like being in one of those pub-discussions-gone-wrong where people tell you earnestly that something is awful, that the world is doomed, the Government can't do anything right, or that Knightmare wasn't anywhere near as good after they introduced the Eye Shield'
Prep material for a game with friends this Spring - a bit of an outrider as the sole intrusion of full-on geekery into the list.
When the Beatles and the Velvet Underground are as experimental as your Top 10 gets, then you know you've got serious ancestor-worship problems.
Open thread in the wake of the May local elections - I did actually get some responses!
The top rated guest post this year was a frontal assault on 'that useless piece of plastic that functions neither as a spoon or a fork.'
When I audited my blog around this time last year (see part one and part two), the top change i decided to make was to write more about my work with Friends of the Earth, about organizing and politics more generally. As I noted at the time, many people write about the Hobbit movies, less people are writing about the interstices between politics, organising and geek culture.
As the majority of these posts have had more views than all of last year's top ten, albeit still not huge numbers, we can say this is probably paying off. I'm carving out a small but perfectly formed niche for myself. A lot of these views are probably bots, but hey, I have no other way of keeping score. :-)
The other main change I've made is increasing the number of posts - from 72 posts in 2012 to 169 this year, inclusive of this round-up. That's with some help from guest posts (thank you - you know who you are).
What I haven't yet gotten as good at as I might like is regarding the blog as a dialogue rather than a monologue. There have been more comments left this year but with honourable exceptions like the UKIP thread I haven't consistenty sought people's views out.
I also haven't linked across to other people's blogs or @'tted people on Twitter as much as I might have done, although the top two posts both benefited from RT's via the Big Issue and the #peoplepower hashtag.
So, 2014 should probably be the year when this space becomes a conversation.
More than anything, I've enjoyed the task of regularly writing, of using this space like an auxillary brain, sharing my views and working out what I actually think.
If you've been reading - thanks for visiting and I hope you come back next year.
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