Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • Innovate or sigh: are ‘labs’ helpful?

    The ONS was in the news again recently and while the website got away unscathed for a change it didn’t make for comfortable reading. The criticism from Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury select committee, follows on from the initial findings of the Bean Review into Economic Statistics which while even handed was itself…

  • The Hello, World! of open data development

    As part of the Bristol is Open initiative the Council has released an API providing access to all manner of local transport data including live bus times. Given the complexity of the public transport environment in the city this is no mean feat and the team should be applauded. The thing is though does the…

  • Premature exasperation

    The last 48 hours my Twitter stream has been all a flutter about two things — the expansion of Twitter character limit to 10,000 which is significant inflation from the existing 140 and the next iPhone replacing the standard headphone something with some thing more Apple shaped and non-standard. Honestly I’m not much of a fan of…

  • Interesting conferences in 2016

    I’m looking around for conferences that fit my interests — so basically civic tech / digital government / product management / service design / blogging (do people still do blogging events?) At this point I’m game for anything — unconference, hackday, symposium or traditional conference and location isn’t a factor as I’m open to travel for the right event.…

  • Phone freak

    I decided a little while ago that I was going to get a new phone for the new year so I have been doing a little research. I don’t actually work my phones that hard — I don’t use many apps(1), rarely take photos and hardly ever make calls but I do have a few specific requirements;…