Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • The Famous Five: my top five NEW comic collections released in 2015

    A quick browse of my shelfs and a check on release dates and I have come up with a top five new collections for 2015. Lots of other great books are still going strong — Saga, East is West, Velvet, Southern Bastards, The Wicked and the Divine, Uber, Lazarus, Black Science, Deadly Class, Daredevil, Elephantmen, Ms Marvel…

  • 10 Jobs I found interesting this week

    12th December 2015 Digital Service Managers x3 (Office for National Statistics)Newport or Fareham Head of Digital (BBC Academy) Birmingham Head of Digital (Alzheimer’s Society) London Strategy Director (Blue State Digital) London Data Analyst (FutureLearn) London Ximbio Product Manager (Cancer Research) London Product Manager (UKTI) London, Cardiff or Sheffield Head of Digital Services (Forest Enterprise Scotland) Edinburgh Service Manager (Passport Office)…

  • 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…