Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 10 Jobs I found interesting this week

    12th December 2015 Digital Service Managers x3 (Office for National Statistics)Newport or Fareham Head of Digital (BBC Academy) Birmingham Head of Digital (Alzheimer’s Society) London Strategy Director (Blue State Digital) London Data Analyst (FutureLearn) London Ximbio Product Manager (Cancer Research) London Product Manager (UKTI) London, Cardiff or Sheffield Head of Digital Services (Forest Enterprise Scotland) Edinburgh Service Manager (Passport Office)…

  • The Magnificent Seven: My Favourite NEW TV shows of 2015

    There were a lot of returning shows this year that probably deserve a mention if I was writing about my favourite shows full stop — Justified went out on a high, Sons of Anarchy redeemed itself a bit, the Flash is even more full of ‘Silver Age’ fun than ever, Game of Thrones continued to be an…

  • The Pig strikes back

    While I understand where it comes from there is nothing I dislike more than the current trend in and around digital government to dismiss (and dismiss is totally the right word for how it comes across) any web project as; Lipstick on a pig. When Dave Briggs, someone I’ve known for years and mainly agree…

  • API Days

    In my last post I at least tried to make the case for; Publish for humans, all of the humans. But don’t forget the machines. This time I’m going to talk a little bit about what we might get from those machines — because I’m not convinced it is always what people are expecting. While it can…

  • Show your workings: a digital statistical publication

    Russell has written a post that touches on some of his thinking about what a ‘digital white paper’ might look like and in doing so draws attention to Bret Victor’s tour de force of a ‘longread’ about climate change. The real brilliance of the work by Victor is that not only is it wonderfully interactive…