Big Bad Blog List

I’ve been interested in web design for some time, but until recently I wasn’t exactly sure why. I was informed about the usefulness of the blog as a research medium at university and have used them to log thoughts, ideas and links ever since; to me, they are like online sketchbooks with words.

I began to realise that, for my part as a so-called ‘designer’, it’s more about the communication of information rather than the actual design itself. In this respect, the blog is the almost perfect online working medium.

• Illogiblog (June 2007-) I co-founded a project known as the Illogicopedia in early 2007. A few months later, I hit upon the idea of producing a concurrent weblog that I, and fellow members of the Illogicopedia project, would post news and comment on happenings at the main site. These days, it’s more multi-purpose and has expanded to include topics such as Wikipedia and general humour. Posts also often spoof ‘genuine’ blog entries.
• Retro Yakking (October 2008-) Semi-active blog dedicated to retro video gaming, accompanied by short YouTube reviews.
• The ‘Other’ Retro Yakking blog (December 2008-) Er, yeah, I have two different blogs with the same name. Confusing, eh? This one isn’t to be confused, though, as it’s not really video game biased, more a traditional blog providing an outlet for my ramblings.
• AutoGlitcher (April 2009-) What if a glitch was meant to happen? What if input was manipulated by a human or some other force in some way to create, at least to some extent, a deliberate glitch? Some sort of system to create semi-automatic errors, or autoglitches?
• Jesus Was A Wiganer (August 2009-) Blog following the exploits of the Premier League football team Wigan Athletic from the eyes of a season ticket holder (ie. me). Includes a whole load of photos and talentless hack-style reportage!
• Harry Yack’s Yak News Network (December 2009-) The eventual spiritual successor to Retro Yakking? Certainly it continued where the latter left off with regards to parody news stories. Miles better than BBC News, and you don’t have to pay a subscription or anything!

Inactive work blogs

• Illarterate (September 2007-May 2008) Including the hardest ever version of Pong, political advice hotlines, stupid questionnaire queries, toxic dogs and lobscouse.
• Pong Blogger (2007-2008) Pong experimentation blog. Play Ultimate Pong, Insanely Difficult Pong and numerous glitched-up versions of the game. You might want to turn your volume down first, though.
• Pixel is Power (April 2007-May 2008) Teletext isn’t quite dead yet. Including stuff based on Andy Warhol’s very own video game, ASCII Super Mario Brothers, horrendously innaccurate subtitles and a pixellated version of Google.
• Artlessness (January-August 2007) Including why public transport sucks, Jamie Oliver lifts, stone age bus stops, Gordon Brown’s holiday fund, Fish TV and incredibly watery coffee.
• Embrace Failure (January-April 2007) Sound based projects including bumbling politicians, bizarre experiments and interviews with cats.
• Playthings (2007) Research blog looking at playful design.
• Liverpool Biennial 2006 (March-April 2006) Including Panamanian bus art, amphibious vehicles, suspicious-looking security guards and a minor copyright wrangle…