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Doug Belshaw
@dougbelshaw.com
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"If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again." (Groucho Marx)

Founding member of We Are Open Co-op. General man about town.

🟡 Some capacity for new projects
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Doug Belshaw @dougbelshaw.com · Nov 18
👋 Hi, I'm Doug. I deleted my Twitter account in 2019 as I could see the way the wind was blowing.

I'm part of a #coop focusing on #learning, #technology, and #community.

Probably best known for my work on #OpenBadges and #DigitalLiteracies

Currently studying towards an MSc in #SystemsThinking
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The so-called 'post-naive' internet era: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/10/the-socalled-postnaive-internet-era.html
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November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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More reasons to get off US Big Tech: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/10/more-reasons-to-get-off.html
Partly-closed MacBook with black background
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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#Weeknote 45/2025 dougbelshaw.com/blog/2025/11...
Weeknote 45/2025
What I’ve been up to this week.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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#Weeknote 45/2025 dougbelshaw.com/blog/2025/11...
Weeknote 45/2025
What I’ve been up to this week.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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#MozFest
Doug hugging the MozFest mascot 'Foxy' while wearing an "ECO OVER EGO" t-shirt
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Random finds: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/08/random-finds.html
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November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Low-carbon website showcase: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/08/lowcarbon-website-showcase.html
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November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Life is not a series of well-designed problems: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/08/life-is-not-a-series.html
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November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Rewilding the Open Web: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/08/rewilding-the-open-web.html
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November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Words that don't translate: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/08/words-that-dont-translate.html
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November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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While I was away for a bit, I rediscovered Are.na which I first came across in 2018 while doing my research for #MoodleNet

Anyway, I'm regularly posting my 'finds' there - the kinds of things that might not make their way to Thought Shrapnel.

www.are.na/doug-belshaw...
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Words that don't translate: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/06/words-that-dont-translate.html
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November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Ambiverts, travel, and 'hermit mode': https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/06/ambiverts-travel-and-hermit-mode.html
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November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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It's worth considering the glass to be half-full: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/06/its-worth-considering-the-glass.html
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November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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My existing, extremely minimalist, home page is at dougbelshaw.com

I'm thinking of replacing it with this. What do you reckon?
Screenshot of longer, more descriptive page
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I wrote a thing for #ReclaimOpen dougbelshaw.com/blog/2025/11...
Things change (or, Montaigne and the Open Web)
A post for the Reclaim Open conference
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November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I wrote a thing for #ReclaimOpen dougbelshaw.com/blog/2025/11...
Things change (or, Montaigne and the Open Web)
A post for the Reclaim Open conference
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November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Good food, a wild camp, and back to running. This has been a *great* week: dougbelshaw.com/blog/2025/11...
Weeknote 44/2025
What I’ve been up to this week.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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The geopolitics of the post-oil age is going to be interestingly different.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/the-geopolitics-of-the-postoil.html
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November 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Monocultures are perilous not just in agriculture, but in software distribution as well.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/monocultures-are-perilous-not-just.html
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November 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Seizing the means of ontological production: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/seizing-the-means-of-ontological.html
An archival image of a medieval dinner scene. On one side, there is a Penelope (from Greek mythology) weaving, but instead of thread, it is a board of binary code. On the other side, there is a a drink spilling and other figures looking distressed/chaotic.
November 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Slop Evader: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/slop-evader.html
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November 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Microcast #109 — Wild camping: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/30/microcast-wild-camping.html
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October 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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We can't control what life throws at us, but we can choose how we deal with the hand we're dealt: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/28/we-cant-control-what-life.html
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October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Iimmediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/28/iimmediacy-emotion-spectacle-brevity.html
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October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM