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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 05/09/2026

Today's entertainment - different crowd from Thursday!

A photo of the stage for the Football Clichés live show at the Southbank Centre

Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 22/08/2026

The End of Oak Street with one of the most unique shot types (split diopter, apparently) I've seen in cinema in a long time.

A still from The End of Oak Street featuring a split diopter shot of Anne Hathaway in the foreground on the left, and Maisy Stella in the mid distance on the right

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 22/08/2026

This is quite a neat timeline of events to show a story developing. Make the player, date and clubs clickable, and I'd be in love.

Another screenshot of the Athletic's transfer window tracker, showing three event stories connected together.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 22/08/2026

Fascinated by The Athletic's transfer window taxonomy

A screenshot of the Athletic's transfer window tracker, with clear labels for the type of transfer activity happening

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 21/08/2026

Coffee nerds, assemble! I have a Sage/Breville Barista Express Impress. Lately, it's been slow to start building pressure, which should happen about 6-7 seconds into the brew. I've changed beans and tried finer grinds. What's going on?

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 27/07/2026

Finally finished reading this, after starting it last year in Lisbon. Wonderful, bittersweet, touching, fill of heart, and all the feels - loved it. Reminiscent of Halt & Catch Fire too.

A photo of the front cover of the book Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 21/07/2026

Doing birthday number 43 right. Happy birthday to me!

A photo of a piña colada. In the background is the Mediterranean Sea.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 19/07/2026

In Barcelona for one night. Depending on the outcome of tonight's match, I'm not sure how much sleep I'll be getting..

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 27/06/2026

This doesn't actually explain why England have already qualified, though.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 25/06/2026

This week, I’ve been re-upping this former piece of UX canon- something very easily forgotten, it seems. The right side of the diagram is just as important as the left side. www.jjg.net/elements/pdf...

Jesse James Garrett’s “The Elements of User Experience” diagram, detailing ‘web as a software interface’ on the left, and ‘web as a hypertext system’ on the right.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 18/06/2026

Bonus @paulclarke.com in the latest issue of Which?

A photo of a page from the latest issue of Which?, with an image of @paulclarke.com

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 14/06/2026

This, for journalism and for creative works. Use the Web as a medium, not just as a delivery mechanism. (See also paulrissen.com/2025/06/16/t...)

An image that shows a video media player on the left, an arrow pointing right, and a box on the right which contains a network of dots and lines.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 29/05/2026

Now, children, let's remember, we left our belongings in the Eidur Gudjohnsen locker.

A photo of a locker with the name Eidur Gudjohnsen written on it.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 09/04/2026

New book haul 😍 How to Watch Football by Tifo A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders The KLF: Chaos Magic, Music, Money by John Higgs Narration in the Fiction Film by David Bordwell

A photo of four books:
How to Watch Football by Tifo
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
The KLF: Chaos Magic, Music, Money by John Higgs
Narration in the Fiction Film by David Bordwell

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 07/04/2026

Taking my annual leave seriously

A photo of the front cover of James E Cutting's 'Movies on our Minds'.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 06/04/2026

open.spotify.com/track/3jjMyq... Seems appropriate for tonight

A screenshot of The Other Side, by Public Service Broadcasting, on Spotify

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 06/03/2026

Genuinely thought this was Peter Capaldi for a moment.

The cover image for a video on YouTube titled ‘F1 Chief Mechanic Answers F1 Car Questions’, with a man wearing a Mercedes F1 team shirt, explaining something.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 02/03/2026

Agreed - Arsenal are the best team in the league at the moment, but some of the holding of attackers & goalkeepers at corners (especially the third photo in this article: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... ) is getting utterly ridiculous.

Screenshot of Arsenal v Chelsea (from BBC Sport)

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 28/02/2026

Thanks ☺️ The other day, you mentioned that I should be able to go from Push 2 >> MIDI over USB >> SQ1. Presumably I'd need a USB cable with the 'square' connectors at both ends? Otherwise I don't see how they connect together? (unless via the computer?)

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 23/02/2026

Eight years ago today, for World IA Day - This is the Bad Place - 13 rules for designing better information environments speakerdeck.com/r4isstatic/t...

Paul in front of a projection screen that displays a slide with the words "13 rules for designing better information environments"

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 12/02/2026

Product Strategy is a lot like the Civilisation II tech tree sometimes

An image of the tech tree from Civilisation II

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 31/01/2026

Saturday (in no particular order): the mysterious padlocked tree, a 3-2 unexpected victory, a pizza and a good doggo.

Clockwise from top left - a dog, a football stadium, a padlocked tree, a pizza.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 31/12/2025

My 2025 BlueSky summary, via Anisota: anisota.net/harvest/

Bubble chart visualization showing accounts I interacted with, sized by total interactions across all engagement types in 2025.

Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing my 50 most-used words, sized by frequency.

A graphical heatmap showing my activity on BlueSky across the year.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 14/10/2025

Today, I discovered... THE DATA ENCLAVE

A wall sign that says 'Data Enclave' in all caps.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 02/10/2025

Earlier today I was reminded of this being a long, long history. This isn't new. And is often ignored.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 27/09/2025

Saturday morning, new book.

A photo of a coffee and a copy of Gabrielle Zevin's 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow'

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 25/09/2025

I think I've found the social media buttons on this machine.

A photo of a telecommunications machine with a button labelled 'Manual Shut Down'

A photo of a telecommunications machine with a row of coloured lights, and a dial labelled 'Non Urgent'

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 24/09/2025

A novel way to extend summer.

A photo of a rooftop garden in Lisbon. In the foreground is a rooftop with couches and recliners, on decking and astroturf.
In the background is the bay of the river Tagus.

A photo of the rooftop garden, with decking and loungers.

A photo of 'Our Man in Havana' being held. Behind, is a small round, white marble table with a can of Coca-Cola.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 10/09/2025

That's very kind of you, Amazon. Are you suggesting you're going to buy one for me as a present?

A notification from Amazon that reads "Recommended for you: We thought you'd like a Nintendo Switch."

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 09/09/2025

One thing that will never fail to amuse me is the occasional quirk by which BBC News & Sport links, when shared here, only display the first few characters of the standfirst, completely changing the meaning of the headline. For example...

A screenshot of a BBC News article as shown in a social share on Bluesky. The headline reads "BBC chief Tim Davie says no-one is irreplaceable after scandals", but the standfirst, only partially rendered, undermines the headline by stating "Tim Davie tells MPs he is"

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 30/08/2025

Reading about @hiddendoor.co whilst listening to @hantohoncombat.bsky.social featuring @hmason.bsky.social and the story structure geek in me, having dabbled with structured plot beats & point-at-able story world elements, *really* wants to know more about this.