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Doug Belshaw

Personal blog · dougbelshaw.com/blog · on HN as dajbelshawcareerproductivity

Doug Belshaw's personal blog at dougbelshaw.com covers career and productivity. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2014

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dajbelshaw · 365 karma · member since 2013

I'm an independent consultant and co-founder of an action lab. Formerly: Mozilla, Moodle, founder of a worker-owned co-op. Wrote doctoral thesis on digital literacies. Mastodon: social.coop/@dajbelshaw I live in Northumberland, England with my wife and two teenagers. More at https://dougbelshaw.com

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  1. Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-28

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  1. OK, well I wrote my doctoral thesis* on digital literacies, so this is a hot topic for me as a parent of an almost 15 year-old boy and almost 11 year-old girl. TL;DR: we're way stricter than other parents I know both in the UK and other western countries. For example: we allow them WhatsApp, but no other social media apps on their phone (including YouTube). Devices automatically switch on at 08:00 and off at 20:00.…

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    on “Ask HN: Tech-savvy parents, what are the gadget rules for your kids?”
  2. Submitted Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Why I’m ditching Evernote for Simplenote (and Notational Velocity) as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted What I learned from turning my ‘Out of Office’ auto-replies on for a month as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why I just deleted all 77.5k tweets I’ve sent out over the last 10 years as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Open Badges is now on the plateau of productivity as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Why I’ve just closed my LinkedIn account as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Learning Through Frustration (2020) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Context collection, not context collapse as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Bonfire’s latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Unauditible algorithms are the enemy of social media users as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Decentralised technologies mean censorship-resistant websites as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted 3 things I learned during my time at Mozilla as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted 3 reasons I’ve decided to resurrect my LinkedIn account as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How do you explain the web to your kids? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted FirefoxOS v2.0 is possibly the easiest-to-use smartphone I’ve experienced as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Bad Parenting (or, On The Meditative Nature of Screens) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted 3 things I do to work more productively throughout the day as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted The web is the platform (or, the perils of esoteric setups) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Domains, Decentralisation, and DNS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Thinking about a Fediverse instance focused on fitness and exercise as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Eink.link, my new side project as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Emoji triplets could help trust and identity on decentralised social networks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted What a Post-Persona Landscape Means for Open Badges as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted HOWTO: Trello Kanban as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted HOWTO: Ditch Gmail for self-hosted webmail as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Software with shareholders (or, the menace of private public spaces) as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Open Education and the Open Web (Mozilla discussion) as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted The Web Literacy Standard is dead (long live the Web Literacy Map) as a story · 1 points

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