Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Drumbeat 2011 – Media, Freedom and the Web

    Alongside landing my job with the MRC probably my best experience last year (at least relevant to this blog) was my involvement as a blogger and conference attendee at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona. I met a whole heap of interesting people and had a great time exploring Barcelona for the first time as…

  • Watching the Wikipedians

    I spent a few hours yesterday at Bristol University listening to a few members of Wikimedia UK (and Alex making a guest appearance from DC) give some extremely helpful insights into the world of Wikipedia (and some of its related projects.) While I’ve never been an active editor of Wikipedia I have followed the project…

  • WordPress Woo(hoo!)

    I think it is pretty well established at this point that I am a fan of WordPress. It has become my go to solution for all manner of projects in the last couple of years and while a number of my illustrious developer & designer associates have rather fallen out with it I’ll admit that…

  • Getting to Grips with Google Analytics

    I’ve been using Google Analytics on various websites I’ve worked on since..well since before it was Google Analytics (GA).  I actually was a paying customer of Urchin before GOOG swallowed them up back in 2005.  Before then I’d mainly been using WebTrends and I think AWStats (though that might have come later?) and while I…

  • The MySociety Masters in Public Technology Idea..

    Tom Steinberg from MySociety has posted an idea today about the need for a Masters (or equivalent) in Public Technology. I think it is a really interesting post and I agree with about 90% of it. The bit I don’t agree with is the focus on software engineers – probably because I’m not one! I…