01 // Currently in production
An audio-only essay podcast from the frontier of digital culture. Written, recorded and edited by me since 2018.
permanentlymoved.online
A long-running audio essay show about digital culture, internet culture, and the changing shape of the web.
The show explores internet culture, artificial intelligence, worldrunning, and the shifting tides of social media — life lived online in the shadow of the stack, and what all of that does to the way we live and think.
Regularly in the iTunes Top 100 personal journal charts in countries around the world, and once at number one.
02 // Two eras of the show
One show, two very different shapes. The first run was a stopwatch; the second takes its time.
Exactly 301 Seconds
For its first run, Permanently Moved was a weekly essay show exactly 301 seconds long. Five minutes and one second, every week, for three hundred and one episodes.
Any given episode might explore an aspect of the internet and how it changes us; stories about long-dead saints and why they matter; or the existence of a wild crisp conspiracy in the heart of UK supermarkets.
Tightly scripted, yet nakedly transparent about the creative process. A small, sharp thing you could finish before the kettle boiled.
The Long Way Round
The show has changed pace and scale. It is now a quarterly release: longer-form, and more willing to take the long way round.
Episodes are still tightly written, but with more space for detours, context, and the odd obsession to fully unfold.
Each new episode arrives alongside Start Select Reset, its print companion — an essay in the post four times a year, with an introduction and afterword that don’t exist in the audio.
03 // In the charts
A small independent audio essay show, surprisingly well travelled.
In January 2020 Permanently Moved broke into the iTunes UK Top 50 Personal Journal podcasts chart for the first time; only 43 places behind 301’s bête noire Desert Island Discs.
It has since appeared in the Top 50 podcast charts in countries including Brazil, South Africa, and Sweden. In January 2023 it reached #1 in Personal Journals in Iceland — a small but very pleasing moment for an independent audio essay podcast.
04 // Newest episode
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EPISODE #303INTERNET OPERATOR
Social media as theatre: a long-form audio essay about puppets, profiles, avatars, AI, and how identity is animated online.
05 // Every episode
The full archive, newest first. More than three hundred episodes since 2018.
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EPISODE #2241Stock Take | 2241
Be aware, podcasting, blogging etc is a very different experience of social media than using big platforms. Firstly, you have to pay.
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EPISODE #2240The Internet Means Send AND Receive | 2240
Here’s my hot take: If you only download, only consume the Internet and never upload. You’re doing it wrong.
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EPISODE #2239Metaverse: As Good a Word as Any | 2239
In the twilight age of Web 2, Metaverse is as good a word as any for people who wish to re-imagine the future of…
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EPISODE #223810 Tips for Leaving Twitter | 2238
You are leaving a place that has done immense damage to our society and culture. You and I both share in that complicity
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EPISODE #2237The Doing | 2237
The biggest problem a creative person faces is that between ‘The Dream’ and ‘The Having Done’ is ‘The Doing’.
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EPISODE #2236My World of Books | 2236
Amazon clear cut the hunting grounds and e-Bay destroyed the sport. But the hunt, and thrill of the chase still remains.
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EPISODE #2235Mickey in the Metaverse | 2235
As a symbol of the copyright regime of the 20thC. A permissive Mickey in the metaverse seems like an interesting experiment to try.
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EPISODE #2234The Funeral | 2234
The 21 century has finally arrived in Britain with the passing of a crown. The Carolingian age has begun in the kingdom.
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EPISODE #2233Permanently Moved | 2233
I’m Back! After the longest break from ‘the practice’ since 2019. I must admit, sitting down today to make this show filled me with…
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EPISODE #2232Episode 200 | 2232
I can’t believe I’ve made 200 of these. One of the things I haven’t yet thought about, is how do I know when I’m done?
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EPISODE #2231New Cultural Technologies | 2231
The invention of ML tools is as significant as the printing press. These technologies will derive the creative practice & economy of the 21stC
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EPISODE #2230How to Train Your Algorithm | 2230
We need control over what we see and how we see it. Every app should have a lab rat’s guide to taking over the experiment.
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EPISODE #222910 Tips For Creating Online | 2229
After 4 years and nearly 200 podcast episodes, here’s 10 tips for creating online in 2022
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EPISODE #2228Pinball Wizard | 2228
Pinball Wizard is the name for a 1970’s cyborg. People who first entered a world inside a machine and ‘touched’ the metaverse.
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EPISODE #2227Crisp Conspiracy | 2227
Just as everyone at home with their cups of tea is thinking that Real McCoy’s aren’t as good as they used to be. BAM…
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EPISODE #2226Evenly Distributed | 2226
In 1974 on the PLATO mainframe system there was a 32-player 3D networked first person space flight simulation game.
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EPISODE #2225Navigation Styles | 2225
A world has to allow players to change their play style as they learn more about themselves in the context of the world.
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EPISODE #2224Win Condition | 2224
The ultimate victory condition in the most popular online worlds right now is to be left alone.
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EPISODE #2223Computing Books | 2223
I realised I knew very little about the history of computing. Here’s two books I read recently correcting my ignorance.
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EPISODE #2222Brainworms | 2222
‘Someone has brainworms’, is a recognition that an individual is behaving in a way not congruent with dominant cultural logics.
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EPISODE #2221True Story | 2221
Today’s episode is a true story. Recorded in a very noisy pub just after my mate started telling us about what happened to him…
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EPISODE #2220Metaverse as Medium | 2220
Why I think the metaverse is important, MUDs, the web as 30 year long distraction, and why worlding worlds means shaping reality.
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EPISODE #2219Post Normal | 2219
New Zine, Post Normal Fiction, A Brief History of Modernity, and our need to explore what’s beyond or after it.
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EPISODE #2218Marriage in the Metaverse | 2218
8th May 1996, 26 years ago tomorrow. Tomas Landhaus and Janka Stanhope were married in the metaverse. Plus my chapter in the new book…