Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Mozilla Science Lab lives!

    Ever since I saw this job ad back in November I have been waiting to see where Mozilla went with this idea of a science outreach arm to join the great work happening around education and open journalism. Despite not having a scientific bone in my body (well apart from a liking for the fictional…

  • Three of a kind [160613]

    Auto-Forwarding Carousels and Accordions Annoy Users and Reduce Visibility This is an article from January that has popped up a couple of times in my stream recently. After I mistakenly accused the Jisc website of having a carousel I was reminded of it again. The tide does seem to be turning against this feature on…

  • Folla back

    At an event I was at this week a couple of times it was mentioned that the imbalance between ‘following’ and ‘follower’ counts on Twitter in public sector and government accounts demonstrated a lack of engagement and ‘listening’ on their behalf. Superficially I can see the basis of this thinking but the reality is it…

  • 52: Week Seven

    Blooming heck seven weeks. Seven! Still feels like day one in a lot of ways. I spent this week away from Newport – 3 days in Titchfield and a day in London for Citizen 2013 (working from home today). I’ve been (way) under the weather all week so it wasn’t really a great time to…

  • Better blogging bureau

    I’m breaking the cardinal rule and blogging about blogging. As you may have noticed (if you are one of the half dozen people to read this blog) I have recently been ramping up my output. I recently read an interview with Cory Doctorow where he reiterated the old advice about ‘writing every day’ and I’m…