Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • G-Cloud and the end of the #unacceptable

    This talk from Chris Chant, who is leading the Governments G-Cloud initiative, has been around a few weeks now (and has even spawned its own #unacceptable hashtag) but it remains a powerful indictment of the state of IT in the public sector and from a personal point of view it could almost be talking about…

  • Reflections on #mozfest

    This weekend past in a building resembling a Borg cube (landed next to a 50’s flying saucer) a remarkable group of people from all corners of the globe came together to celebrate what it means to be a ‘web maker’. This was the second Mozilla Festival (though it has had a bit of a rebrand…

  • Exploring the Storyverse – Checking out Small Demons

    I followed a link from Twitter (via @danbri I think) at some point over the weekend to a new website – pretty much just based on the ‘strapline’; Welcome to the Storyverse. Small Demons is an interesting (and very beautiful) website that aims pull out all those ‘real world’ details from your favourite novels and…

  • First Four Follow Fridays #ff

    Follow Friday has been around on Twitter since the early days but I have never really bothered – in fact I can’t remember ever taking part (but there is every chance I did once or twice in the early days I guess.) That said I have been realising again recently how much I lean on…

  • GDS on the hunt for Product Managers

    OK lets be honest someone at GDS is having some kind of laugh with me and planting subliminal messages or something. Just a few days after my writing a post saying I wanted to identify some training opportunities to focus more on being a public sector Product Manager (and almost exactly a year since I…