Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • The Coming of the X-Net

    So the Digital Economy Bill was passed last night. Despite a well organised and well supported online campaign the majority of MPs simply did not engage in the debate and passed the bill with very little understanding of the potential damage it is going to do to the ‘real’ digital economy (not the backwards looking…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 7/33

    Weeknote 6/33 was a no-show as I was on annual leave that week and while I could write an update on vodka, champagne and Erdinger consumption and Twestival attendance it probably is inappropriate for this format. Week 7/33 inevitably consisted of a fair bit of catching up. As I have mentioned before JISC is a…

  • BERG, Popular Science+ and the coming of the iPad

    A few months ago BERG released a video that displayed their vision of how a magazine might work on the then mythical Apple Tablet. Called Mag+ it was very much a ‘concept’ video and I guess I wasn’t alone in thinking it had as much chance as being a reality as some of those concept…

  • Wordle of 1000 days of Twitter

    Today is my 1000th day on Twitter officially. In reality there were probably 100 days or so at the beginning where I barely used it and couldn’t quite grasp the point. Still it feels like a landmark nonetheless so I have banged out a quick wordcloud of my tweets thanks to Tweetstats and Wordle. I…

  • Ada Lovelace Day: Kathy Sierra

    It’s Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science, and I’ve taken the pledge to write about a female heroine of science or technology. I am lucky enough to work in an organisation that is filled with intelligent, technologically minded women. JISC and…