Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Folla back

    At an event I was at this week a couple of times it was mentioned that the imbalance between ‘following’ and ‘follower’ counts on Twitter in public sector and government accounts demonstrated a lack of engagement and ‘listening’ on their behalf. Superficially I can see the basis of this thinking but the reality is it…

  • Better blogging bureau

    I’m breaking the cardinal rule and blogging about blogging. As you may have noticed (if you are one of the half dozen people to read this blog) I have recently been ramping up my output. I recently read an interview with Cory Doctorow where he reiterated the old advice about ‘writing every day’ and I’m…

  • Metadata misrepresented?

    One of the few funny things to come out of the PRISM scandal is the extent to which the term ‘metadata’ has suddenly become mainstream. For me it has been a case of being too close to something to even realise it was geeky. From my days contemplating a career in librarianship, to my early…

  • Jisc 4.0 (I think)

    Jisc (no longer the Joint Information Systems Committe…just Jisc) launched their new website today. The organisation has been going through a programme of pretty extensive (traumatic?) change over the last 18 months or so with much of that coming to a head in the last few months. I’m not going to touch on that –…

  • Post PRISM

    I came across a couple of interesting posts this morning about personal online privacy in a post-PRISM world. http://benrmatthews.com/2013/06/my-privacy-plan/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1g0nzx/after_the_reading_countless_posts_complaining/ To be honest I’m not really sure how effective any of this stuff would be – like the whistleblower Edward Snowden himself suggests the likelihood is that the security/intelligence services are way past this sort…