Author: Matt Jukes

  • The Casserole crowd

    Every now and again a new web service comes along that just chimes with me and reinforces my long held belief that the web is a force for good despite all the evidence to the contrary. Kiva, FixMyStreet and Patient Opinion have been responsible for these kind of moments for me in the past and…

  • Kiitos Helsinki

    Helsinki feels like home so far – bit cold, pretty damp and sitting waiting for a bus 🙂 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on Linkedin Share by email Matt Jukes Mon, Sep 17 2012 11:30:27 ReplyRetweetFavorite 0 likes  ·  0 comments Seems to be free wifi everywhere…

  • Doing dConstruct

    After trying and failing to get tickets for the previous 2 years I have finally made it to dConstruct in sunny Brighton. Its slightly hard to describe dconstruct as an event. In theory its a web event…but no one really talks about the web. It most resembles a full day of the talks I would…

  • 2007 – a year of social media mania

    In early summer 2007 I spent a month traveling across America with a bunch of complete strangers. It was an amazing experience and one I think I’ll always look back fondly upon. The funny thing is it clearly had some kind of effect on me and I returned with some kind of social media mania…

  • Three of a kind [4]

    Why your news site should never automatically open external links in a new window Martin Belam is making this case for news sites but I think it is true of just about every website out there and certainly every website I have ever been involved in. It is also true that I have had to…