Category: thoughts
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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 –…
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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…
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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…
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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…
