Digital by Default

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  • The Magnificent Seven: My Favourite NEW TV shows of 2015

    There were a lot of returning shows this year that probably deserve a mention if I was writing about my favourite shows full stop — Justified went out on a high, Sons of Anarchy redeemed itself a bit, the Flash is even more full of ‘Silver Age’ fun than ever, Game of Thrones continued to be an…

  • The Pig strikes back

    While I understand where it comes from there is nothing I dislike more than the current trend in and around digital government to dismiss (and dismiss is totally the right word for how it comes across) any web project as; Lipstick on a pig. When Dave Briggs, someone I’ve known for years and mainly agree…

  • What If…? The proposed ‘Office for Students’ was treated like a start-up* from day one

    Last week the ‘Higher Education Green Paper’ was released for consultation. You can read a useful summary over on Times Higher and a whole bunch of useful analysis at WonkHE (with my former colleague David Kernohan contributing some great stuff.) Now I don’t really have anything to say about the paper itself (other than the…

  • The Book of GDS (and beyond)

    A couple of tweets this week led to me buying ‘The Book of OpenStreetmap’ — a collection of interviews from founding contributors to OSM by the original founder Steve Coast. It is an interesting read but I found it even more interesting for reasons outside of the content. I really want to write a book. Not for…

  • 10 job vacancies I found interesting this week

    1 November 2015 Director of DigitalGovernment Digital ServiceLondon Portfolio Manager(s)Open Knowledge FoundationRemote Senior Programme Manager (Digital Education Programme)NestaLondon Innovation ExecutiveOrdnance SurveySouthampton Head of DigitalNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Digital Product ManagerTfLLondon Digital DirectorThe National ArchivesLondon Digital Product DesignerFuturelearnLondon User ResearcherCo-operative Group DigitalManchester Senior Digital Product ManagerIOP PublishingBristol