Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Frying pan…meet fire

    I don’t mind a challenge. In fact professionally it is safe to say I seek them out. The simple fact I made a conscious decision to try and carve out a career as a digital strategist in the public sector was (pre-GDS) a pretty major challenge in of itself. But…but… sometimes I miss stacking shelves…

  • The un-newspaper

      I recently made a pitch to run another Govcamp style event and got the offer of some funding from the UKGovCamp grant programme and have been looking into running that later this year, especially as I’ll be organising my ‘brown bag’ talks at work as well, but while I was doing the research for…

  • Commuting kit

    Because nobody demanded it here is a pic of my current day to day commuting kit. Its no wonder I have neck and shoulder pain! Not shown is the 6lb, 5 year old Dell laptop I tote around on a not quite daily basis (it requires me to be psyched up – for non work…

  • Happy 10th Birthday WordPress

    Apparently 10 years ago today the first release of WordPress was let loose on the world. It is now the most popular web publishing tool in the world by a looooonnnnggg way – not bad for a small, trans-Atlantic open source project. My career has been pretty entangled with WordPress during that decade – I…

  • Ghost writing

    I’ve been ‘umming and ahhing’ about it for a while but yesterday I finally got around to backing Ghost on Kickstarter. For those of you that aren’t aware of it Ghost is aiming to be; An open source blogging platform which makes writing pleasurable and publishing simple. The basic premise is that WordPress has become…