Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Bristol Beyond..

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/40722386@N04/6079919414 ..BS1 & BS8 This entirely beautiful video is doing the rounds a bit on social media at the moment. It is the result of months of work from the artist behind it and showcases Bristol wonderfully. Sort of. Related to this was the news that the ‘Sunday Times’ had voted Bristol the best place to…

  • The MySociety review of Parliament online

    This afternoon Parliament published the review MySociety produced about the Parliament online services. It is an interesting document,not least because for a large percentage of it you could spend a couple of minutes with ‘find and replace’ and it could be talking about ONS – in places it is so on point for us that…

  • Learning the value of agile

    Somewhat amusingly in the week that there seemed to be something of a backlash against ‘agile’ development methodologies I embarked on a programme of study towards the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Agile starting with a 2 day intro course and then followed up with 10 weeks of work-based coaching and weekly study groups. There are…

  • [ideadump] Web of Words conference

    This is an occasional series of posts where I just brain dump the ideas for side projects I really want to do but never seem to find the time to see through due to inconvenient things like the day job. Of all the weird and wonderful things the web provides the thing I am, and…

  • WEB XXV

    So today was the 25th anniversary of when Sir Tim wrote the first draft of the proposal that would lead to the birth of the ‘world wide web’. There has been plenty of coverage today about his call for a ‘bill of rights‘ to protect the freedom and independence of the web. It is noticeable…