Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 52: Week Fifteen

    Only two days in the office this week and most of them were in meetings or more interviews. Recruitment remains blooming exhausting it has to be said – also seemingly never ending. Spent a lot of time fleshing out the milestones for the various work streams I have responsibility for – its still all a…

  • Being Briztolian

    Photo by @gothick  Recently a blogpost did the rounds locally and achieved the rare thing of finding favour both with my Facebook and Twitter circles (over on Google+ people were still watching the tumbleweeds blow by.) The piece was called Bristol, give me a signal and was a poetic journey through one (young? student? hipster?) perspective…

  • Three of a kind [040813]

    The return of Kathy Sierra In 2007 Kathy Sierra essentially stopped speaking in public, writing her blog and generally contributing online. This was due to a campaign of appalling abuse that including death threats and her home address being made public amongst other things. In late July Sierra returned to blogging just as the Twitter…

  • 52: Week Fourteen

    Another season ticket purchased so thats another month committed to 🙂 This week was exhausting – I interviewed a total of eight people over 3 days with no interview lasting less than an hour and the paperwork and deliberating pretty much matching the interview timings! I don’t know how I would have coped without the…

  • Loyal to the network?

    Emer Coleman, late of GDS, has written a particularly insightful post over at Computer Weekly talking about ‘How to lead when change is the new normal‘. While I disagree with a lot of her ‘web kids‘ premise for the same reasons I dismiss the ‘digital native‘ concept .. [as someone born some time post 1980…