Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • He who is contented is rich – Laozi

    Sorry about the quote its a bit of a red herring as this isn’t going to be a treatise on Taoism 🙂 After a little more than two and a half years (which is a pretty long time in Jukesie-years) I will be moving on from my current role in a couple of months and…

  • Having a hiatus

    After 420 blogposts over five and a bit years I have decided to take an indefinite hiatus from this blog. I’m sure I’ll be back and maybe sooner than I am currently expecting but for now I am going to try something a little different… …though not that different. I’m still going to be blogging – just…

  • 2012 – a self-indulgent review of the year!

    Time for my annual self indulgent review of the year. This is the 4th year I’ve done this – 2009 was pretty horrible then things picked up over 2010 and 2011. Unfortunately at least work wise this year has been a bit of a step back. For the first time since about 2004 I feel…

  • Twitter time travel

    Unlike some of my peers I never bothered making any kind of backup of my Twitter activity. I’ve treated it as something disposable for the most part – with anything with staying power surfacing elsewhere (usually here on this blog.) That said curiosity got the better of me and when Twitter offered the chance to download…

  • Crowdfunding a Conference?

    An email conversation with Gez Smith reminded me of something today that has been rattling around in the back of my head for a while. Since Kickstarter launched in the UK I’ve had this vague idea about whether it could be used to take some of the risk out of organising some kind of event.…