Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Jelly Aardvark

      I’m going to be careful not to be dismissive of Jelly if only because last time some of the Twitter founders launched something new I thought it sounded pretty dull and would never find an audience and now Medium seems to be growing like a weed (I was right about Branch though I think!).…

  • Open Data Inspiration

    Next week I am lucky enough to be spending a couple of days training with the Open Data Institute team (assuming the ‘never-ending storm’ doesn’t intervene). We are doing an in-house, slightly custom version of the ‘Open Data in Practice‘ course that the ODI offer and I’m looking forward spending a couple of days concentrating…

  • 2013 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many…

  • My 2013 in 15 links

    It is that time of year again – there is no escape from my entirely self indulgent review of the year! This time I am cheating a bit though and am just pointing to a collection of things I wrote this year which I think pretty much sums up my year…for better or worse. TL;DR…

  • The Long Nose

    Technologies have a long nose. Before the big break-out moment, before the hits arrive and everyone notices it’s happened, there’s a long nose of precedent and people who got there first. Someone was working on it at MIT or PARC and the Victorians did something very similar with telegrams and horses. Russell Davies, Jan 14,…