Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Trivial tech vs Civic Tech

    I used to love reading blogs like Techcrunch,Mashable and the Next Web. Anything really that was covering the next big web startup. I was fascinated with tales of tech entrepreneurs starting world changing ideas in garages and dorm rooms. I don’t really know when that changed but it did. I started to find the things…

  • Rules of Engagement

    I’m working on a pretty big project at the moment – it is still relatively early days but I can already see it has the capacity to become pretty all consuming. This is a draft of some ideas I have for some ‘principles’ for the project – I don’t think there is anything controversial or…

  • Bristol ❤ Austin

    weird IS wonderful It is not uncommon to come across articles espousing this place or that as the next ‘Silicon Valley’. Over the years I seem to recall Silicon roundabouts, fens, forests, alleys and even, locally, a Silicon Gorge. Certainly in Bristol it is something that comes up every 12 months or so. The city…

  • 101 Dry Days.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/46378751@N02/12527828845/ I like a beer. That is pretty well established if you have ever met me. I look like a bloke who likes a beer (and a takeaway.) I have no airs and graces when it comes to beer. I enjoy real ales, craft beers and more than the occasional Heineken. In fact I dislike…

  • Javascript journalism

    At the Data Storytelling event that I helped organise last week (the presentations are available if you missed it) the closing speaker, Martin Stable who is head of the Financial Times interactive news team, used the term ‘javascript journalism’ to describe the kind of outputs that combine journalistic storytelling and web applications (including data visualisations).…