Author: Matt Jukes

  • The Negative zone..

    OK it has been pointed out to me by one or two people that my blog post yesterday might have been a little bit negative! I’m not going to pretend I haven’t been frustrated by elements of my new role but things are slowly improving and its just a case of trying to get in…

  • Brave New World? Not really…

    Its becoming increasingly apparent to me that I have been living and, more importantly, working in some kind of bubble for the last couple of years.  The great leaps forward in the web that I saw happening around me were actually an illusion and they had failed to take hold in the wider public conciousness…

  • More eGov ramblings..

    No sooner had I finished mulling over the implications of the Power of Information report I wrote about earlier in the week when I came across another eGov/Web 2.0 article – this time from Richard MacManus at the Read/WriteWeb blog (based on a couple of Gartner reports). In this case it is very much a…

  • By the Power of Greysk…ooops Information

    During the summer a pretty radical (well for the government) paper was published called The Power of Information.  Brian Kelly recently wrote about it on his blog and it reminded me I had been carrying it around with me since I left JISC!  It took a hard look at government information over the web and…

  • New job – week 2..

    Well life at my new job at HEFCE has certainly been eye-opening. As far as working environments go it couldn’t be much more different than I’m used to and the fact that I had to have a member of IT install Firefox for me after getting permission as it is not supported technology and it…