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Two audiences now: the bifurcation the web and how this site looks to address this.
Writing
Essays and notes on product, technology and AI — and the transformation that happens where they meet: how it's changing the way we think, lead and work.
AI Provenance on rafeblandford.com
Every post here carries a label saying how it was made — written by me, with AI, or AI-authored. Why that pattern matters, and how I draw the lines.
Lessons in AI Adoption
The UK Government's AI Adoption Plan for the creative industries: eight strong recommendations, an eye-catching stat, and what to take from them.
Screen Time + Digital Wellbeing Score
I wanted to know whether my digital life was actually healthy, not just how many hours I'd racked up — so I built a digital wellbeing score into RafeOS.
Notes from SXSW London 2026
Notes from SXSW London 2026: redesign before technology, the reinvention window, and a greater-than-usual ambiguity around the AI hot-topics.
BIMA 100 Tech & AI Pioneer
Named in the BIMA 100 2026, AI & Tech Pioneers category — recognition for cross-discipline product and transformation work at Digitas UK.
Running a Personal Server Without Thinking About It
The question that matters for a personal server: what happens when you stop paying attention? The monitoring and maintenance stack that answers it.
Preserving Flickr Archive with a Data Lifeboat
Two decades of press events, device launches and MWC show floors live in my Flickr archive. How I preserved it with a Data Lifeboat.
old.rafeblandford.com
My early-2000s landing page — Symbian, N-Gage, Jaiku, Ovi and some rightly-mocked icons — preserved for posterity at old.rafeblandford.com.
Building Author Authority for a preserved website
How do you establish E-E-A-T for a site that's no longer publishing? Making two decades of credentialed authorship visible to search engines.
Adding Schema.org to 145k Static Pages
Adding structured data is a template change on a live CMS. On 145,000 static HTML files from a CMS that no longer exists, it's a different problem.
What Google Search Console actually tells you (and what to do about it)
A day after cutting over DNS for the archive sites, Search Console had opinions. Setting up programmatic access and working through what it flagged.
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Occasional pieces on product, technology and AI — and how they actually play out in practice.