Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • A healthier Healthcare.gov

    I remain fascinated with all the Healthcare.Gov stuff from the US. I am not sure the failure of a web project has ever been higher profile and the speed of recovery from IT disaster to success story was/is simply remarkable. This article about the ‘trauma team’ of geek volunteers brought in to save the day…

  • Transformer

    A few people have noticed I have updated my LinkedIn profile with a new job title. Now given my career history I can understand that people might jump to the conclusion that I have changed jobs *again* but the reality is this is more of an evolution of what I have been doing since I…

  • A — Z of @jukesie

    https://secure.flickr.com/photos/8944205@N02/2779045098/ I saw a tag on Twitter — #AZApril — with people linking to blogposts. I didn’t really follow it up though to start with but it gave me what I thought was a fun idea (until I started) of doing a kind of personal A-Z of influences and interests Buzzfeed ‘listicle’ style ☺ So this post is loosely…

  • Remembering Googlezon (EPIC 2014)

    Back in 2004 Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson released a video that looked to predict the future of digital. In fact it looked forward a decade – focusing on March 2014! It was titled EPIC 2014 but most people referred to it as the GoogleZon video. In those days before Twitter the video still managed…

  • The tyranny of the side project

    I don’t know why I do it. I don’t have the time and god knows I don’t have the energy. I have a fulfilling, if difficult, job and a pretty soul sucking commute. I have friends, a sizeable comic book addiction and an awful lot of US TV to watch. ..and yet. Time after time…