Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 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…

  • 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…