I’ve just now been catching up with the latest edition of the html review. In my own work I’ve found less and less space for pure experiment in recent years and it feels like a loss. the html review is a balm for that.
My favourites were from mine to yours, milkfish and Consumables.
A delight.
Tonight is census night in Australia and we’ve just finished filling it out — which has got us thinking about what has gone uncounted.
Laura is an active, successful, and highly acclaimed author. She has published three books, has won multiple prestigious awards for her writing and works relentlessly to further her career. She’s notable enough to have a Wikipedia entry. But it’s not her primary money earner, so the census had no interest in any of that. There are hundreds of authors in this boat and undoubtedly thousands of other artists.
How many artists who are weaving the cultural fabric of our country will go uncounted in this census just because it’s hard to earn a living that way? What gets counted matters.
#census #writing #auslit
Good Sunday morning read.
We have a story out today about the (sadly persistent) impossibility of living — let alone conducting a job hunt or re-training — on Australia’s unemployment benefits.
For a single person with no savings, it amounts to $68 per day. I spent half that on a single pizza yesterday.
There’s some really great accessibility research being done at work right now looking into how people experience visually rich stories of the kind I work on. (Hopefully I can share it publicly when the time is right.)
It continues to surprise me that so few people who could benefit from them know about operating system level accessibility controls like reduce motion and colour modifications.
Supporting them should be standard practice (we work hard at this and there’s always more to do!), but it’s increasingly clear we can’t rely on the audience to use them and so also have an educational role to play.
Sometimes I like to go on side quests. These are some of them.
An adventure through the vagaries of search engine suggestions.
A Mastodon bot posting anonymous edits to the English language Wikipedia originating from Australian government networks. Just for fun I also built an experiment to watch Wikipedia edits in real time.
I help organise the Brisbane chapter of Hacks/Hackers, an event series where people get together to discuss the intersection of storytelling and technology.
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