One of the things that I learned at Bert's London workshop, back in the now dim and distant past, was the importance of setting yourself assignments when you're doing non-paid, personal, playing-around-and-learning-things work.

So, I need some assignments for the new year. Now, because I know that you're a twisted and inventive lot, I figured that you might be able to come up with some (it's not as if I'm not going to be coming up with some of my own; I just thought it'd be fun to crowdsource this a bit).

If you feel like suggesting an assignment to me you can do it in one of several ways:

• Leave a comment here
• Email me at blog [AT] grahambinns.com
• Contact me on identi.ca (@gmb) or Twitter (@codedragon)

Note: When I say "assignments" I'm talking about made-up, not-for-real, things-that-I-can-play-with assignments; nothing serious. I'm not accepting commissions here.

I'll post the best ideas here at some point in the future, assuming that there are some.

I've always loved the functionality of Tumblr. In fact, I have an account there, though I've never used it. I wonder if I should add its functionality to Frabjous. Or, perhaps better still, I could use the Frabjous RemoteFeeds architecture to allow Tumblr accounts to be aggregated into a Frabjous blog. Hmm.

This is now bug 421618.

Jeremy Cowart is today's guest blogger over at Scott Kelby's blog, where he posted this:

This is a brilliant idea. I'm thinking about how it could work in the Lancaster area - if you're a Lancaster photographer and you have any thoughts about how we could make this work (or if you've already started setting this up and you want an extra pair of hands) then leave a comment or email me at blog [AT] grahambinns.com.