Joe's Blog

Start with Part 1.

Start with Part 1.

I should be clear that I already have a harmonium.

Long story short I put Cloudflare and a CAPTCHA on Folk Tune Finder.

I have been asked to pass on the following message to Three Bean Salad Podcast: Esteemed Beans, Your recent episode, “Elevators”, was so flagrant in its profligate use of jingles that I must break my silence and share my top secret research project.

None of the below is particularly original.

My son is nearing his second birthday, which makes him nearly two years old.

This was a micro-slot talk at Oxford Geek Nights #51.

This is the ninth of the eight boat stories, and quite possibly the last.

This is the eighth, and penultimate, of the eight boat stories.

This is the seventh of the eight boat stories.

This is the sixth of the eight boat stories.

2019 Programme Committee, PIDapalooza 2019 Programme Committee, Wiki Workshop at The Web Conference Committee, 5:AM Altmetrics Conference Keynote talk, Metrics in Transition Workshop 2019.

This is the fifth of the eight boat stories.

This is the fourth of the eight boat stories.

This is the third of the eight boat stories.

This is the second of the eight boat stories.

This is the first of the eight boat stories.

November, fast unfolding as I speak, marks eight years since I stepped onto a boat and called it home.

Barbara Helen Newman was my grandmother.

Zohreh Zahedi and Rodrigo Costas recently published a comparison of altmetrics data providers.

I presented these ideas at the altmetrics18 workshop.

This blog post goes with my talk at Oxford Geek Nights.

Which came first?

Today marks the release of the Digital Folk report, a study into the way that folk music is being played and shared in the digital age.

A couple of years ago I fished a large chunk of wood out of the river.

One of my new year’s resolutions is to try and be more intentional about the way I lead my life.

My wife sent me an email.

Working with colleagues spread across Massachusetts, New York, California, Oxfordshire, London, Britanny, Victoria, Lower Saxony (and that’s when they’re not travelling) means that face-to-face conversations aren’t universally available.

On November 30th 2016, the login feature of FolkTuneFinder.com will be removed, and you will no longer be able to use favourites and group tunelists.

The Royal Mint are launching a new pound coin.

Skint is a weekend of music and dancing, with workshops, bals and sessions all run by volunteers.

Summary I want to remove the ‘favourites’ / ‘bookmarks’ feature (and then the ability to log in altogether).

We found an oak in the corner of a field in Oxfordshire.

I sometimes to go to conferences.

I’m not in it for the honey.

I think that summer is a far better host to ‘new year’ than winter.

I’m sitting on the bus writing this on my BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu edition tablet.

None of the regulars I speak to at The Old Pump in Aldershot have a bad word to say about ‘hapless’ Sandra.

I got my bees in early 2015.

Happy new year!

Standards are high at the annual Christmas lights event.

Cooking an evening meal, I reach for the oregano and then for the thyme.

There are lots of kinds of beehives, but many of them have the same construction: a brood box, which is a large space for the colony to live, and supers, which are smaller boxes, added on top, in which bees make honey and which beekeepers sometimes have to

I’ve had my beehive for over two weeks.

My nucleus is building up strength.

I stopped off to wish my bees a good afternoon and to ask after their mother.

Inspecting a beehive is the central mystical ritual of beekeeping.

Some background to timelapsebeehive.com I’ve wanted to keep bees for 20 years, and I’m finally getting round to doing it.

To start with something worth saying: **Do not feed bees honey.