Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Vergaderziekte: meeting sickness

      I have been told that the Germans have a word for everything but it is the Dutch who have come up with the word that sums up the reality for my working life these days I think. Vergaderziekte: meeting sickness. At some point I think you end up attending so many of them that (a)…

  • Digital by default discussions: Amber Thomas

    I’ve known Amber for quite a few years now – we first bumped in to each other while she was at Becta (some meeting about the NLN – a programme that Becta ended in ’05 to put it in perspective) but by then she was already a veteran of JISC. A few years later I…

  • Six of the best: 312 weeks blogging on WordPress

    So I’ve just realised that I have missed my six year anniversary of this blog (well the original incarnation of this blog anyway) so I have been reminiscing a little. I started my first WordPress blog (after playing around with both Typepad and Blogger but not getting anywhere) on the original alpha of the Jisc…

  • 52: Week Nineteen

      Kind of an intense week to make up for skiving with my bad tooth last week I guess. Monday and Tuesday I was in London for a whole host of meetings – mainly with Cabinet Office/GDS but a few other folk as well. I stayed in Pimlico for two nights which also meant getting…

  • dConstruct ’13

    Last year was the first time I attended dConstruct and at a time when I was feeling particularly drained and despondent about my career choices it gave me a shot in the arm that at least kept me going until Christmas – which was pretty amazing considering where I was mentally at the time. I…