Category: thoughts
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I’ve been trying to get this quote right from memory for a bit and have just given in and Wikipedia’d it. Apparently it is from George Santayana. It has been on my mind for a few days. At the talk I gave last week at #somesw I made the case that the whole world of…
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The Exemptions
This afternoon I attended the Government ‘Heads of Digital Communications’ meet-up for the first time. Hosted by Tim Lloyd at BIS it was a nice change of pace from my recent meetings – I am less and less digital ‘communications’ these days and increasingly something a bit undefined but broader and more strategic (maybe…). There…
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The Excess of Email
This post was inspired by the growing exasperation with email from a former boss who seems close to tracking down and inflicting harm on the creator of Outlook365 (you know who you are!). It got me thinking about my own situation. I have surrendered and accepted defeat in my long war with email. After years…
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A digital person working in government
Yesterday evening I finally got around to watching the talk Neil Williams gave at the Dare conference a couple of weeks ago. If you work in digital in the public or higher education sectors (and probably other sectors as well – I’m pretty sure it will resonate with my friends in the museum sector) then…
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Six of the best: 312 weeks blogging on WordPress
So I’ve just realised that I have missed my six year anniversary of this blog (well the original incarnation of this blog anyway) so I have been reminiscing a little. I started my first WordPress blog (after playing around with both Typepad and Blogger but not getting anywhere) on the original alpha of the Jisc…
