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Paul Clarke

Personal blog · paulclarke.com/honestlyrealculturedesign

Paul Clarke's personal blog at paulclarke.com covers culture and design. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5HN people?
2010–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The blog has a personal post titled "I am an Uber survivor" and a 2010 commentary on the UK government's open data launch. One commenter linked the second as a useful analysis of that release.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Someone called Godfrey Elfwick claimed to have written the Guardian article as a spoof, although on closer investigation it seems there's no solid proof. That said, it reads like perfect satire, I can't believe it's genuine. I recall a few similar instances over the years but I can't find links to all of them. Not sure if I can find an exact fit for an anonymous story made up to smear someone. The accusations of chi…

    Comment linking /honestlyreal/2012/10/for-whom-the-bell-trolls/

    on “I am an Uber survivor”
  2. Submitted The Mother of All Photoshoots (2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. benwerd · 2010-01-21Recommends
    It's huge. I just wish they hadn't released the data under Crown Copyright, and that they'd remained impartial rather than sticking a great big Twitter advertisement on the side. This post is a great analysis in my opinion: http://paulclarke.com/honestlyreal/2010/01/welcoming-data-go...

    Comment linking /honestlyreal/2010/01/welcoming-data-gov-uk/

    on “Tim Berners-Lee unveils government data project”
  4. Submitted On risk and health-and-safety culture as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Moment of impact as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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