Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Col Needham at the Festival of Ideas [#foiimdb]

    It is safe to say I’m a fan of IMDb.com. Not only does it combine two of my favourite things – movies & technology (well three really these days with all the TV coverage!) but it is also a company born in Bristol (albeit by a Manc!) that has genuine worldwide impact. It has always…

  • The new (digital) guvnor

    The new Executive Director of Digital Efficiency and Reform Group, Cabinet Office was announced today and it has caused quite a positive ripple in my corner of the Twitter-sphere. Mike Bracken, most recently the Digital Development Director at the Guardian, has been appointed and if his online contributions and the words of colleagues are anything…

  • Mailcamp musings

    Mailcamp was an interesting idea and I really think Steph came up with a winner. Email doesn’t exactly get a lot of love at Barcamps etc and it is often dismissed as being old fashioned – especially when compared to the holy grail of social media ;). That said it still has a vital role…

  • Alphagov in Action

    So sometime yesterday evening the Alphagov ‘experimental prototype’ was released into the wild and this morning my Twitter stream is full of buzz about it – which in the main seems positive. Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to a site preview and opportunity to meet some of the team so I…

  • Open Educationy Jobs at Mozilla

    At the moment there are a couple of great looking jobs being advertised by Mozilla that I thought I’d just highlight as there is a chance they might be of interest to readers of this blog (or at least friends/colleagues of readers of this blog!).. Both positions are ‘Product Managers’ (but don’t get too hung…