Digital by Default

Asides

  • The Long Nose

    Technologies have a long nose. Before the big break-out moment, before the hits arrive and everyone notices it’s happened, there’s a long nose of precedent and people who got there first. Someone was working on it at MIT or PARC and the Victorians did something very similar with telegrams and horses. Russell Davies, Jan 14,…

  • Internet archive law changes

    Came across this via Twitter this morning – http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2013/11/spluh-spluh-splutter-goes-the.html A couple of ‘highlights’; The 2013 regulations said the UK Web Archive would be available only to people who visited a “Legal Deposit” like the British Library in person and sat at one of its terminals. Any pleb with ideas above his station knows not just…

  • Code for America: Fixing Procurement

    Interesting series of posts over on the Code for America blog about ‘fixing procurement‘. Some of the terminology might be different but I think anyone working in the UK public sector will recognise  the issues discussed. Related just this week the G-Cloud, the UKs own attempt to solve some of the procurement problems, won an award…

  • Mozilla MOOC

    I have been studiously avoiding MOOCs since the hype kicked in but am going to give the Mozilla #teachtheweb course a go and see if I can carve out a bit of time to get my practical web skills up to something less humiliating! You can learn about the course on the HiveNYC site or…

  • Hawaii stynamic

    The new Hawaii.gov website looks amazing but it is under the hood where it is really impressive – not a dissimilar approach to GDS.  It is becoming clear that this kind of in-house development based on a suite of standardised open source tools rather than a big CMS is growing in popularity and certainly seems…