Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 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…

  • 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…