Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Three of a kind [300613]

    Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire This is a great article/profile on Jimmy Wales. I am a big fan of Wikipedia and I pay my membership to Wikimedia UK each year to stay involved. The relationship between Wales and Wikipedia itself has always fascinated me though – it is a pretty unique dynamic and…

  • Govcamp goes big?

    There was a bit of a burst of energy on the #ukgc14 tag on Twitter this week – six months or so before the event is actually expected. James Cattell has jumped in to the driving seat as organiser for the event as Steph has stepped back as his efforts to move from small to…

  • 52: Week Nine

    Tonight I renewed my season ticket for the second time so that makes it two full months. Time flies. It really has been one hell of an induction so far. The people are great, the challenges are pretty immense and the spotlight is intimidating. This week was the first proper ONS week that my more…

  • A Web Management Wake

    Last night I attended a strange kind of conference after-party. It was in fact more like an after party (or a wake) for an organisation. After almost two decades of service to HE geeks (especially of the library and web variety) UKOLN is soon to shut its doors and as a consequence of that this…

  • Open for business

    So over at the day job we continue to get put through the ringer a little bit. The latest media moment was from City AM (a strange article that had some completely valid points amongst some very strange observations.) Since I started I have been determined that we would work in the open and that…