Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • The @nytimes ‘human voice’ experiment

    The New York Times has embarked on something of an ‘experiment’ this week. They have uncoupled their RSS feeds from their Twitter account so no more automated posting and instead have replaced it with two ‘social media editors’ selecting and writing the tweets and also contributing to the conversation in the stream. This article gives…

  • 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…