Paul Rissen
@r4isstatic.com
Lead Product Manager for Platforms @ Which?
A geek about metadata, narrative, hyperlinks and technology.
Wrote 'Experiment-Driven Product Development'.
Personal, professional & nonsense posting here. Apologies in advance.
paulrissen.com
A geek about metadata, narrative, hyperlinks and technology.
Wrote 'Experiment-Driven Product Development'.
Personal, professional & nonsense posting here. Apologies in advance.
paulrissen.com
Pinned
posting updates like it's 2005 all over again
Right then, I've managed to wrestle DNS etc and will now be posting old style status updates* from time to time at @status.r4isstatic.com
Follow there, if you'd like.
*as per bsky.app/profile/r4is...
Follow there, if you'd like.
*as per bsky.app/profile/r4is...
Looks like @niemanlab.org are publishing their 2026 predictions. My immediate favourite is by @dmitryshishkin.bsky.social: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/no-m...
No more loose taxonomies or dirty data
"If your taxonomy labels everything simply as 'video' or 'analysis,' you're rendering critical data points invisible."
www.niemanlab.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Looks like @niemanlab.org are publishing their 2026 predictions. My immediate favourite is by @dmitryshishkin.bsky.social: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/no-m...
Reposted by Paul Rissen
just discovering how to play the main hook from Depeche Mode's 'Just Can't Get Enough'
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
just discovering how to play the main hook from Depeche Mode's 'Just Can't Get Enough'
My most-used words in 2025 were:
1. "find" (18×)
2. "story" (17×)
3. "thinking" (15×)
4. "least" (12×)
5. "those" (11×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
1. "find" (18×)
2. "story" (17×)
3. "thinking" (15×)
4. "least" (12×)
5. "those" (11×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My most-used words in 2025 were:
1. "find" (18×)
2. "story" (17×)
3. "thinking" (15×)
4. "least" (12×)
5. "those" (11×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
1. "find" (18×)
2. "story" (17×)
3. "thinking" (15×)
4. "least" (12×)
5. "those" (11×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
Reposted by Paul Rissen
contemplating doing a seminar or something on "semantic REST", which is a reasonable way to characterize how i've been designing senseatlas.net (or more accurately intertwingler.net)
if i were to put one together, is that something people would be interested in?
if i were to put one together, is that something people would be interested in?
Sense Atlas
Sense Atlas is an organizational cartography kit. It helps you collaborate to build maps of projects, policies, and organizational knowledge, to support situation awareness and comprehension among people working together to achieve common goals.
senseatlas.net
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
contemplating doing a seminar or something on "semantic REST", which is a reasonable way to characterize how i've been designing senseatlas.net (or more accurately intertwingler.net)
if i were to put one together, is that something people would be interested in?
if i were to put one together, is that something people would be interested in?
Reposted by Paul Rissen
Can anyone recommend any Chief Product Officer or similar, that has worked in the healthcare or education space and have experience growing a product from scratch? We’re looking for someone special to join our board that cares deeply about users - any recommendations or ideas appreciated ❤️
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Can anyone recommend any Chief Product Officer or similar, that has worked in the healthcare or education space and have experience growing a product from scratch? We’re looking for someone special to join our board that cares deeply about users - any recommendations or ideas appreciated ❤️
This is fascinating, and also similar to the work @jacquilough.bsky.social, myself and others were looking at whilst at the BBC - before we took it to news, we developed models that accounted for sources, perspectives, provenance with comparisons of evidence for points of view.
This week's post on my substack: On a fascinating idea to try to ground LLMs in — if not truth, at least in sourcing — and what that could mean for journalism and public interesting information. Plus, structured journalism.
restructurednews.substack.com/p/the-facts-...
restructurednews.substack.com/p/the-facts-...
The Facts of Life
How does an LLM know if something is true?
restructurednews.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is fascinating, and also similar to the work @jacquilough.bsky.social, myself and others were looking at whilst at the BBC - before we took it to news, we developed models that accounted for sources, perspectives, provenance with comparisons of evidence for points of view.
I love this explanation and approach to story information design: store.steampowered.com/news/app/398... (from the upcoming game 'Stop the Press!'
store.steampowered.com/app/3989650/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3989650/...
Stop the Press! - Dev Update #9: Story Design - Steam News
An exploration of the underlying story design behind Stop the Press!
store.steampowered.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I love this explanation and approach to story information design: store.steampowered.com/news/app/398... (from the upcoming game 'Stop the Press!'
store.steampowered.com/app/3989650/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3989650/...
Right then, I've managed to wrestle DNS etc and will now be posting old style status updates* from time to time at @status.r4isstatic.com
Follow there, if you'd like.
*as per bsky.app/profile/r4is...
Follow there, if you'd like.
*as per bsky.app/profile/r4is...
posting updates like it's 2005 all over again
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Right then, I've managed to wrestle DNS etc and will now be posting old style status updates* from time to time at @status.r4isstatic.com
Follow there, if you'd like.
*as per bsky.app/profile/r4is...
Follow there, if you'd like.
*as per bsky.app/profile/r4is...
This close to having a status update account set up - but my other account has a load of followers I can't currently see. Halp! How do I see them and prune what are probably spam accounts?
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This close to having a status update account set up - but my other account has a load of followers I can't currently see. Halp! How do I see them and prune what are probably spam accounts?
propogating DNS records, reticulating splines, drinking a single espresso and going grocery shopping.
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
propogating DNS records, reticulating splines, drinking a single espresso and going grocery shopping.
now trying to work out subdomains etc so I can set up a separate account for this kind of thing
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
now trying to work out subdomains etc so I can set up a separate account for this kind of thing
Trying out an old school status update
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Trying out an old school status update
Ons of the most frustrating things about working around technology, is seeing all the brilliant slightly home brew things that people with more knowledge of, and access to, the lower levels of the Web/Internet stack, can make, trying to fiddle around/replicate that, and failing completely.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Ons of the most frustrating things about working around technology, is seeing all the brilliant slightly home brew things that people with more knowledge of, and access to, the lower levels of the Web/Internet stack, can make, trying to fiddle around/replicate that, and failing completely.
Continuously watching videos about the HiChord as coping mechanism until mine arrives
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Continuously watching videos about the HiChord as coping mechanism until mine arrives
I know I missed the anniversary, but my, *this* is how to do an anniversary video. Never been bettered, really www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hRy...
The Day of the Doctor | 50 year trailer | #SaveTheDay | Doctor Who
YouTube video by Doctor Who
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I know I missed the anniversary, but my, *this* is how to do an anniversary video. Never been bettered, really www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hRy...
Very much in favour of this dame.is/writing/blog...
Why I started posting like it's the 2000s again - dame.is
In November of 2007, Facebook made a tiny change to its user interface that would massively influence what we know of today as a 'post' on social media. What was that change?
dame.is
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Very much in favour of this dame.is/writing/blog...
Now or Never Now
All Comes Crashing
Gimme Sympathy
Help I'm Alive
Monster Hospital
Artificial Nocturne
Youth Without Youth
Synthetica
Grow Up and Blow Away
London Halflife
Combat Baby
Almost certainly my favourite (not in any order) Metric songs, in case anyone was wondering.
All Comes Crashing
Gimme Sympathy
Help I'm Alive
Monster Hospital
Artificial Nocturne
Youth Without Youth
Synthetica
Grow Up and Blow Away
London Halflife
Combat Baby
Almost certainly my favourite (not in any order) Metric songs, in case anyone was wondering.
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Now or Never Now
All Comes Crashing
Gimme Sympathy
Help I'm Alive
Monster Hospital
Artificial Nocturne
Youth Without Youth
Synthetica
Grow Up and Blow Away
London Halflife
Combat Baby
Almost certainly my favourite (not in any order) Metric songs, in case anyone was wondering.
All Comes Crashing
Gimme Sympathy
Help I'm Alive
Monster Hospital
Artificial Nocturne
Youth Without Youth
Synthetica
Grow Up and Blow Away
London Halflife
Combat Baby
Almost certainly my favourite (not in any order) Metric songs, in case anyone was wondering.
Reposted by Paul Rissen
xylophone sound
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
xylophone sound
Yes, but also, *clearly* the simplest explanation is that James Bond is a Timelord from the planet Gallifrey.
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Yes, but also, *clearly* the simplest explanation is that James Bond is a Timelord from the planet Gallifrey.
Low energy Saturday. An adventure is needed, soon.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Low energy Saturday. An adventure is needed, soon.
"It feels more and more like the expectation that social media users have is for other social media users is not sharing their thinking out loud or thinking in progress, but declaring positions with which one argues or agrees."
I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how so much of the interaction I feel like I'm witnessing is oriented around users correcting one another.
www.hbcompass.io/breathe-just...
www.hbcompass.io/breathe-just...
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"It feels more and more like the expectation that social media users have is for other social media users is not sharing their thinking out loud or thinking in progress, but declaring positions with which one argues or agrees."
I was today years old when I found out that Exile Vilify, by The National, is not longer available on streaming services 😢
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I was today years old when I found out that Exile Vilify, by The National, is not longer available on streaming services 😢
Everything old is new again
www.jenitennison.com/2009/02/01/y...
smethur.st/posts/34518552
Machine readable data, content negotiation, RSS, JSON, RDF... it's all still relevant, in some ways.
www.jenitennison.com/2009/02/01/y...
smethur.st/posts/34518552
Machine readable data, content negotiation, RSS, JSON, RDF... it's all still relevant, in some ways.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Everything old is new again
www.jenitennison.com/2009/02/01/y...
smethur.st/posts/34518552
Machine readable data, content negotiation, RSS, JSON, RDF... it's all still relevant, in some ways.
www.jenitennison.com/2009/02/01/y...
smethur.st/posts/34518552
Machine readable data, content negotiation, RSS, JSON, RDF... it's all still relevant, in some ways.
Signs up. I'm @r4isstatic on there, as you'd expect.
Let’s scrobble again, like we did last summer i.airbuds.fm/russell.davi...
Tap to see my listening activity
see what Russell Davies is playing. on your homescreen.
i.airbuds.fm
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Signs up. I'm @r4isstatic on there, as you'd expect.