Worknotes Monthnotes: December 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. On Standby is out! My 10-hour-long experiment with sonification and radio documentary and sound art has been released, and you can
Worknotes Monthnotes: November 2024 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. You might be pleased to hear that there's no politics in this one. It's a bad
Worknotes Monthnotes: October 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. In my last monthnotes I was talking about The Carrington Event - the data-driven post-rock composition that I've just
Completed Work The Carrington Event We've just released a new Loud Numbers data sonification project. It's an immersive audiovisual experience, representing data collected in 1859 during the Carrington Event - the strongest solar geomagnetic storm in recorded history. Telegraph stations caught fire and auroras were sighted as far south as the
Worknotes Monthnotes: September 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of my recent creative inputs and outputs. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It's been a little while since I wrote, I know. I didn't send a newsletter in August because I thought
Worknotes Monthnotes: July 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I'm on holiday! I promised myself this year that I'd take a full month off work in
Worknotes Monthnotes: June 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Things are pretty busy right now. I've somehow got myself into a situation where I'm delivering six
Worknotes Monthnotes: May 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. On Friday, it's the opening of Nature's Harmony - an immersive exhibition in Helsingborg that my sonification
Worknotes Monthnotes: April 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Biggest news of the last month from me is the release of a new episode of my Loud Numbers data sonification
Worknotes Monthnotes: March 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've been talking about putting together a live sonification show for a while, and finally I'm putting
Worknotes Monthnotes: February 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Over the last month I've been working with Jordan Wirfs-Brock and Jamie Perera on a manifesto for a thing
Worknotes Monthnotes: January 2024 Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Some housekeeping to start the new year. For the last few years I've been publishing these articles every ten
Worknotes Tenday Notes 21 November - 30 November 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Big policy win in the UK last week, as the Advertising Standards Authority banned an SUV advert from Toyota on
Worknotes Tenday Notes 1 November - 20 November 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Things have been busy lately, which is great but a little draining. The most notable bit of work I'
Behind the Scenes Impactful Community Leader Today, I won the Impactful Community Leader prize at the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards! I am so happy about this because I really believe in the importance of community. It's why I put so much energy into things like Elevate, Decibels, and this very blog. I was
Worknotes Tenday Notes 11 October - 20 October 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Earlier this year I did a bunch of data analysis and visualization work for Possible on a project looking at
Worknotes Tenday Notes 1 October - 10 October 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It's been a while since I had an article published, but datajournalism.com asked me a few months
Worknotes Tenday Notes 21 August - 30 September 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The reason why it's been about six weeks since you last heard from me is threefold. First, because
Worknotes Tenday Notes 11 August - 20 August 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I spent last weekend in Stockholm. My first visit to the capital in probably five years or so. It hasn’
Worknotes Tenday Notes 1 August - 10 August 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Thanks to the many of you who sent me kind messages last week about (a) my new website, and (b)
Worknotes Tenday Notes 21 July - 31 July 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've just relaunched my personal website at duncangeere.com. My goal was essentially to create an index that
Worknotes Tenday Notes 11 July - 20 July 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Are you familiar with the concept of pace layers? It's an invention of Stewart Brand, describing how society
Inspiration Reading Layers Are you familiar with the concept of pace layers? It's an invention of Stewart Brand, describing how society changes at different paces. The slowest pace of change is nature, then culture, then governance, then infrastructure, then commerce, and finally fashion - which changes fastest. It's a
Worknotes Tenday Notes 1 June - 10 July 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It has been a little while since you heard from me, because I've been (a) on holiday and
Writing The City of the Future Looks Like a Former Military Bunker in Taipei Back in 2016, I wrote an article for How We Get To Next on an informal settlement called Treasure Hill, in Taiwan, that could be a prototype for the future of sustainable urban living. How We Get To Next is still online in archived format, but with bitrot being what