Without stating your age, post a movie that released when you turned 18...

Contours is a small experiment that lets one badge image show progression over time, linked to the underlying metadata.

Try it: contours.dynamicskillset.com

More context: blog.dougbelshaw.com/contours-of-...

#OpenBadges #DigitalBadges

In a nutshell. 😊

Sifa ID Professional identity on the AT Protocol

Get on sifa.id for a European ATproto LinkedIn alternative that is currently, at least, refreshingly free of lunatics, bland corporate waffle and adverts you will continue to see on the basis that you worked with someone twenty years ago

Contours is a small experiment that lets one badge image show progression over time, linked to the underlying metadata.

Try it: contours.dynamicskillset.com

More context: blog.dougbelshaw.com/contours-of-...

#OpenBadges #DigitalBadges

Weeknote 16/2026 What I've been up to this week.

Like every week, I did some things and then wrote about them blog.dougbelshaw.com/weeknote-16-...

Why I adore the night: thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/04/19/why-i-adore-t...

Toast with YOU'LL SOON BE COMPOST spelled out in alphabetti spaghetti

Life advice: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/04/19/life-advice.html

Screenshot of Dynamic Skillset website

There was a *lot* of text on my single-page consultancy website. So now it's multi-page and (hopefully!) a lot easier to understand dynamicskillset.com

Auto-generated description: A spiral diagram labeled The AI Adoption Spiral humorously illustrates the stages of understanding AI, from initial confusion to eventual capability and innovation.

The AI Adoption Spiral: thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/04/18/the-ai-adopti...

Auto-generated description: A visual framework illustrates the Cognitive Offloading Paradox, showing how the depth of learning changes with varying degrees of AI offloading, from doing it all oneself to committing to AI delegation.

The "U-shaped curve" of cognitive offloading to AI tools: thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/04/18/the-ushaped-c...

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The Journey Home: thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/04/18/the-journey-h...

Choose Microsoft, choose a false sense of security, choose horrendous documentation, choose siloed working, choose incompatibility with anything else, choose co pilot, choose a culture set by technology.

Introducing Commonplace Organise links and uploads by topic, invite collaborators, and share collections with people on Mastodon, Bluesky, and RSS – without asking them to sign up anywhere new.

#Commonplace is for communities who want to build shared collections of resources around what matters to them. The intro post walks through the idea and first implementation.

blog.dougbelshaw.com/introducing-...

#Commonplace #Communities #Curation #OER

Hayao Miyazaki tired and exasperated

Current status

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Our communication currently often takes place via platforms over which we have no control: thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/04/17/our-communica...

Claude options showing toggle with Opus 4.7 for 'Adaptive thinking: Thinks only when needed'

I wish I had this switch

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Behold! The first #TechFreedom newsletter! 🤘

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Introducing Commonplace YouTube video by Doug Belshaw

Walkthrough video of #Commonplace

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfq...

Introducing Commonplace Organise links and uploads by topic, invite collaborators, and share collections with people on Mastodon, Bluesky, and RSS – without asking them to sign up anywhere new.

#Commonplace is for communities who want to build shared collections of resources around what matters to them. The intro post walks through the idea and first implementation.

blog.dougbelshaw.com/introducing-...

#Commonplace #Communities #Curation #OER

TechFreedom Dispatch sign up

We've now got a lovely new landing page for the #TechFreedom newsletter. Sign up! The first issue is going out soon...

newsletter.techfreedom.eu

a man with blue paint on his face is holding a sword and the word freedom is on the screen . Alt: Braveheart, shouting freedom

Last (ish) call to join techfreedom.eu

First cohort starting next week

Literate communities have always looked different to their critics When you've closed 800 libraries and gutted the infrastructure through which people build reading communities, blaming screens is a conclusion in search of a cause.

"People should read more books" isn't analysis, it's victim-blaming when we've closed 800 libraries in a decade.
Literacy takes many forms. The real question is who gets to define which ones count.

Just published: why "because screens" isn't an explanation: blog.dougbelshaw.com/literate-com...

Lol

Likewise, good chat :)

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Literate communities have always looked different to their critics When you've closed 800 libraries and gutted the infrastructure through which people build reading communities, blaming screens is a conclusion in search of a cause.

"People should read more books" isn't analysis, it's victim-blaming when we've closed 800 libraries in a decade.
Literacy takes many forms. The real question is who gets to define which ones count.

Just published: why "because screens" isn't an explanation: blog.dougbelshaw.com/literate-com...

Auto-generated description: A contemplative message encourages letting go by highlighting the absence of an audience, approval, or roles to play.

Note to self: thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/04/14/note-to-self....

Report front cover

The report I co-authored for the BBC's Responsible Innovation Centre for Public Media Futures is now live!

Read here 👉 blog.weareopen.coop/supporting-a...

#AILiteracies #AILiteracy #DigitalLiteracy

Report front cover

The report I co-authored for the BBC's Responsible Innovation Centre for Public Media Futures is now live!

Read here 👉 blog.weareopen.coop/supporting-a...

#AILiteracies #AILiteracy #DigitalLiteracy