Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • The Medium is the message

    Fifty weeks after initially signing up to Medium I was finally invited to actually contribute some writing to it. Initially I was actually quite honoured as invites had been like gold-dust up until then. Then I looked at Twitter and realised the flood gates had opened and I was anything but special. I wanted to…

  • Loyal to the network?

    Emer Coleman, late of GDS, has written a particularly insightful post over at Computer Weekly talking about ‘How to lead when change is the new normal‘. While I disagree with a lot of her ‘web kids‘ premise for the same reasons I dismiss the ‘digital native‘ concept .. [as someone born some time post 1980…

  • Self Service (Design)

    For most of this year I have been coming across the term ‘service design’ time and again and to be honest never really knew with any certainty the detail of what was behind it but due to the context of where I read it I kind of created my own definition. The frequency of mentions…

  • 99 Problems but a tweet ain’t one

    This was an interesting week to be a geek and a Jay-Z fan. Not only did he release his new album Magna Carta…Holy Grail (the artwork for which was available as a preview at Salisbury Cathedral) but he also got involved in a couple of stories of more interest to the tech blogs than the…

  • 30/30

    So this post is my 30th post in June. Only one of which (my poll) was obvious filler though one or two of them were a bit less than works of literary excellence! [Well to be honest this one is a bit of a make weight as well!] I found the discipline of writing almost…