Dan Thornton

@danthornton.net

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Self-employed writer, marketer and SEO for 20+ years, avid sim racer. Interests: sci-fi, motorcycling, classic cars, film, freelancing, tech, music and playing guitar. Co-founder: Digital People in Peterborough / Peterborough STEM Festival

My Chemical Romance, Wembley July 11th, 2026
A tree looking quite ambivalent about having a photo taken
Dan in a blue and orange Renault Clio Cup car trying not to crash into anyone...
A bad photo of a Little Egret taken with a potato phone...
A squirrel climbing a tree
A desk in the communications section of Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
You're entering a long dark tunnel...
A very average photo of some squirrels chasing each other around a tree. I missed them about 4 out of 5 attempts as they ran around it...
Kenickie At The Club
A pillbox near the coast in Lincolnshire
Dan Thornton presenting on how sim racing blends virtual and real motorsport at DPiP September 2025
Screenshot of Typepad, which is shutting down in September 2025
A graph showing things
Dan and Andy making slime to promote Peterborough STEM Festival 2025 on October 18 at ARU
Colourised edited photo of Cockham Wood fort on the shore of the River Medway in Kent
A crow near some water
A view from a bridge at Ferry Meadows, Peterborough
I was never a huge user of music-based social networking/dating site Tastebuds fm, but seeing 10+ year old sites close feels different in the AI era...
A pillbox in a field near Peterborough
River Welland towards Peakirk, near Peterborough
Byways sign with a cuddly toy strapped to it.
Cows in a field
Water through the trees at Hinchingbrooke Country Park
Dan Thornton presenting on SEO at the April 2025 DPiP Meetup
Flyer advertising some old bloke with an out of date photo who will be whittering on about SEO for a bit...
F1 film with Sonny Hayes testing the Lotus 102
Optimisey speaking at the March 2025 Digital People in Peterborough Meetup
Team ORD BMW M4 GT3 at Bathurst
Pair of Team ORD Audi RS3 LMS cars in iRacing
Touring Car sim racing
Team ORD sim racing in VW Jettas on iRacing
Digital People in Peterborough February 2025 meetup with Liam O'Connor presenting...
Screenshout taken from SnowRunner of an International Scout at the top of a mountain
Film poster for Condorman
ZX Spectrum 48K, NES, Binatone
Loake Chatsworth Chelsea Boots in Brown
Imposter syndrome can be really weird and annoying sometimes, especially when it tries to undermine decades of experience and accomplishments...
After being poorly for a short while, it's taken me absolutely ages to crawl out from the email avalanche that built up. But as I cleared out my inboxes to a manageable level, it's made me think about information overload, creativity and AI...
A slightly belated celebration of the return of Peterborough STEM Festival in 2024 https://danthornton.net/2024/10/the-glorious-return-of-peterborough-stem-festival-2024/
Train tracks in Peterborough
A horse. Which I think is called Bumbles
An old man in a gokart trying to remember which pedal makes it go faster
What I read, heard, watched and played in March 2024, along with a couple of motorsport-related days out...
Spent a very happy Sunday stood in a field in Norfolk watching motorcycles with my son.