What a splendid piece, and thanks for writing it! I fear it’s rather making me realise just how old some of my practices are, but a decent RSS reader is still very much the backbone of my online activity.

I note with interest that images, and their place online, haven’t played a huge part in this post, and in a way I think they possibly represent a microcosm of some of the wider issues you address. Think of Flickr, for instance — a offering timed to coincide with many of the blogging platforms, and which embraced a lot of the ideas mentioned above: friend lists, liking, tags, RSS feeds, CC licenses, blog integration with lots of different platforms… Flickr’s by no means dead now, but its popularity has certainly dwindled with competition from the likes of mobile apps like Instagram or Snapchat. I sometimes feel as though a degree of creative potential has been partly lost, due to a more-easily approachable but ultimately less rewarding alternative, but I fully accept I’m probably in the minority…

Oh, and was there any particular reason you used those images of the tiles by the architects from Assemble? Certainly a lovely project.