Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • The Medium is the message

    Fifty weeks after initially signing up to Medium I was finally invited to actually contribute some writing to it. Initially I was actually quite honoured as invites had been like gold-dust up until then. Then I looked at Twitter and realised the flood gates had opened and I was anything but special. I wanted to…

  • 52: Week Seventeen

    Lots of meetings this week but it was one of those rare occasions when for the most part they seemed useful and interesting. This amazing occurrence happened the same week I learned that Vergaderziekte means “meeting sickness” in Dutch which I think I have suffered from more than once in the past but maybe this…

  • 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…