Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • YO! Netflix Raps

    What I’ve been watching recently I swear some Netflix exec is doing penance for inflicting ‘The Get Down’ on the world (I’m only bitter because I was so excited for it) as the last month or so there has been a steady stream of what I guess someone at the BBC would call ‘urban’ content…it has…

  • Internet of Public Service Jobs: 08/04/2018

    ‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, data and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. [01] Digital & Technology — Customer Experience ManagerWellcomeLondon£68,000 — £69,000Closing date: 18/04/2018 [02] User ResearcherScottish GovernmentEdinburgh£28,033 — £32,130Closing date: 01/05/2018 [03] Commissioning Transformation LeadGovernment Digital ServiceLondon£48,480 — £60,484Closing date: 22/04/2018 [04]…

  • Year of the Dog: Notes from ‘Spring Equinox’ (Chunfen)

    I turned 45 last week. Forty-Effing-Five. It was a slightly strange one to be honest. I’m not great with birthdays — for someone a little too prone to self reflection and melancholy they can be a bit of a trigger — but really this year should have been different. Physically I doubt I have been this good since my…

  • ‘This thing of ours’ isn’t JUST about people..

    Like many of us in ‘this thing of ours’ I am prone to making statements like — digital is all about people. In fact here is a picture of me standing in front of a massive screen saying something similar: Now I stand by this but sometimes I worry I mean something different when I say this…

  • A company ‘of the web’ not just ‘on the web’..?

    I know I’m not using the ‘of the web..’ idea correctly here — though I suspect there aren’t that many of us around who remember people at the Guardian espousing that principle that led to me using it a lot at the ONS. The thing is I find myself in a — for me — pretty rare situation career wise. I…