Author: Matt Jukes

  • Easy Like Sunday Morning (Football)

    I was 10 years old the first time I played organised football on a Sunday morning. Long before the advent of smaller pitches and goalmouths for children I played on full sized pitches barely able to see the cross bar let alone touch it and I was lucky to clear the penalty area with my…

  • Three links – August 18

    The Difference Between Infographics And Their Simpler Cousins I like this article mainly because I have been talking about the difference between ‘infographics’ and ‘posters’ (in the academic sense I am familiar with) since I started at the day job. I agree with the author that arguing over the definitions is pointless (and frustrating) but…

  • Confessions of a comic book geek

    I don’t remember my first comic. The likelihood seems to be it would have been ‘Rupert the Bear’ of all things. I know I was soon getting the Beano on a weekly basis in lieu of pocket money and graduated to Victor (where Alf Tupper was my hero) pretty quickly after that. Some of my…

  • 52: Week Sixteen

    Whoa that was a week. Pretty worn out and the return of the infection in my wisdom tooth so writing this before the pain killers kick in. Monday I ran our first ‘digital day’ – a blatant rip off from my friends over at the Department of Business 🙂 The idea was to offer up…

  • The wonderful world of Webtrends…

    I have spent the last day and a half taking part in a rather compressed training course explaining the intricacies of the Webtrends web analytics tool. When I started out working on the web backs in the mists of time (1998ish) Webtrends were already the major player in the pretty new market for web analytics…