Author: Matt Jukes

  • Inside the IA mindset

    This morning I braved the gale force winds and driving rain (seriously) and headed in to Bristol city centre to attend the World IA Day event that Nomensa were putting on. I was lucky enough to win a freebie ticket on Twitter yesterday and if I’m honest until then it hadn’t been an event I…

  • Social media solace

    I find myself writing about social media a lot at the moment and I just wanted to acknowledge that. It is something I’ve shied away from a bit in recent times as it has become less and less a part of my daily work responsibilities. Also in recent years I’d begun to despair a little…

  • Different strokes for different folks

    In my ’principles’ I talk a little about not ’crossing the streams’ and as that happened a little this week after my (very) little mention on the Guardian website I thought I’d expand on what that means to me. On Twitter (and to a lesser extent G+ and Linkedin) I basically reflect the tone of…

  • Buzzfeedification

    I’m not going to lie until very recently I was pretty dismissive of Buzzfeed and its peers. I saw it is as dumbing down online news and playing in to the hands of all those critics who say the web trivialises issues. Also as someone who has zero empathy for animals the kitten stuff didn’t…

  • Personal privacy progress

    About six months ago I wrote a post about the steps online I was going to take post the initial PRISM revelations. I thought I would revisit it quickly and just see where I am now. At the time I said; In place at the moment I use; – Ghostery – to block tracking tools…