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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ShowBrands Are VInfluencers Now? | 2117
If you think brands twitter accounts bantering online is insufferable and weird, just wait till you see what’s coming next.
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EPISODE #2116Have a Nice Day | 2116
The phrase ‘Have a Nice Day’ is not generally used in the United Kingdom due to its perceived insincerity. Besides it’s bad for your…
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EPISODE #2115Create Something (Every Week) | 2115
Create something every week. Maybe I made an episode about repetition and rhythm in the end anyway?
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EPISODE #2114Kennings & Orbit Words | 2114
Reject the social media literalism that flattens ideas with a label or a name.Let’s dance around the edges of ideas to know them better.
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EPISODE #2113Sounds Like Home | 2113
Back on the chalk, the characteristics of sounds around my family home have remained the same as if time has flowed around them.
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EPISODE #2112Conductors and Coordination | 2112
Coordination online, Soviet Moscow’s First Symphonic Ensemble, Sacred Harp, Gershwin, The Baton, Wands and Alister Crowley.
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EPISODE #2111The Puppets in the Drama House | 2111
I just read a book about Tholpavakoothu. A traditional form of folk shadow puppetry performing the Ramayana practiced in Kerala, South India.
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EPISODE #2110The Kraken in the Social Seas | 2110
Taking your eye off social media even for a moment reveals a greater danger. Deep down in the dark lies the Kraken of the…
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EPISODE #2109The Phones I’ve Known | 2109
Short reviews of all 10 of the mobile phones I’ve owned and used since I got my first phone in the year 2000.
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EPISODE #2108Will it Fit? But Is It News? | 2108
The new COD game is over 500GBs and may not fit on a base model PS4. Shouldn’t this be like … news or something?
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EPISODE #2107Solarpunk, Stacktivism and Cold Texas | 2107
The Texas disaster has all the elements of a Solarpunk story.
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EPISODE #2106A Dormant Brand Powered Down | 2106
“Zoom cat filter lawyer passes torch to upside-down budget zordon” and corporate twitter accounts are like Gundams?
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EPISODE #2105The Political Voice as Demonstrated by the Councillors of Handforth | 2105
The Handforth incident reveals an important element of the British or more specially – the English – psyche. The Political Voice.
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EPISODE #2104All Your Shorts Are Bestonk to Us | 2104
The simple explanation of the Gamestonks debacle is a user behaviour that sits at the heart of the internet’s psyche – The Raid.
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EPISODE #2103Thinking Out Loud | 2103
Maybe ideas don’t come fully formed, instead they are a sequence of ideas that pour out of you one after another in a cascading…
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EPISODE #2102Recent Reading | 2102
Some recent books I’ve read and enjoyed that haven’t been grimdark.
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EPISODE #2101In The Archipelago | 2101
Imagine being on a boat, looking out over the waves, waiting for the future to appear over the horizon.
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EPISODE #2049OffCuts | 2049
A rundown of some of the episodes and topics of 301 Permanently Moved that could have, but didn’t get made this year.
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EPISODE #2048NanoWrimOver | 2048
Lessons learnt from participating in this years NanoWriMo, and thoughts on staying with a creative moment for as long as possible.
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EPISODE #2047The Weather On Social Media | 2047
On the internet, Everything happens so much. But you don’t need to stand out in the rain to know it’s raining.
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EPISODE #2046Conduits To A King | 2046
A brief overview of the use of puppets in the 18th century Royal Court of Myanmar
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EPISODE #2045Rooms As UX Metaphor | 2045
The Interactive Fiction metaphor of ‘rooms’ as applied to chat room UX.
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EPISODE #2044NanoWriMo | 2044
How NanoWriMo helped me come to terms with my dyslexia and to put one word after another.