Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Experiencing Enterprise

    Over the years I have watched my share of Star Trek (you are shocked I can tell!) and my favourite episodes were always the alternative universe episodes -Spock with a goatee, rebel Sisko etc. Yesterday I was reading the Gartner report on Web Content Management systems aimed at ’enterprise’ clients (there is the first tenuous…

  • SAMO© homepages

    In the late 70s before he became the darling of the Manhattan art-world Jean-Michel Basquiat was painting graffiti around NYC using the tag SAMO© – this stood for ‘same old shit’ and it is one of those little factoids that have always stuck with me. Over the last couple of weeks I have looked at…

  • Exploring the e-essay

    I spend *alot* of time on public transport – usually longer than scheduled due to the involvement of First Group in my journies – and one of the things I have noticed (and it has been hard to miss) is the rise and rise of the Kindle. On the train to London particularly it isn’t…

  • Five year plan (or not!)

    Once upon a time, many moons ago I was asked a question in a job interview ‘Where do you see your career in five years?’. Now it was more than five years ago and I can safely say I failed to meet the answer I gave (though I came close at one point) but the…

  • 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…