Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • A hobbyist hacker, spreadsheet warrior & an API advocate walked in to a pub…

    ..and they all tell the bar staff they can’t pour a pint. That is basically the life of being a data publisher at the moment. Leigh has written a great post about ‘Who is the intended audience for open data?’ where he articulates some of the problems and clashes of cultures better than I could…

  • Going viral: the digitalisation of our iconic institutions

    Like most people of a certain vintage in a digital-ish profession I went through a stage where Techcrunch was my bible and I desperately wanted to be a part of a successful startup. In the end I spent a year at a [not] successful example and learned loads — not least that it wasn’t the world for…

  • What If…? The proposed ‘Office for Students’ was treated like a start-up* from day one

    Last week the ‘Higher Education Green Paper’ was released for consultation. You can read a useful summary over on Times Higher and a whole bunch of useful analysis at WonkHE (with my former colleague David Kernohan contributing some great stuff.) Now I don’t really have anything to say about the paper itself (other than the…

  • The Book of GDS (and beyond)

    A couple of tweets this week led to me buying ‘The Book of OpenStreetmap’ — a collection of interviews from founding contributors to OSM by the original founder Steve Coast. It is an interesting read but I found it even more interesting for reasons outside of the content. I really want to write a book. Not for…

  • 10 job vacancies I found interesting this week

    1 November 2015 Director of DigitalGovernment Digital ServiceLondon Portfolio Manager(s)Open Knowledge FoundationRemote Senior Programme Manager (Digital Education Programme)NestaLondon Innovation ExecutiveOrdnance SurveySouthampton Head of DigitalNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Digital Product ManagerTfLLondon Digital DirectorThe National ArchivesLondon Digital Product DesignerFuturelearnLondon User ResearcherCo-operative Group DigitalManchester Senior Digital Product ManagerIOP PublishingBristol