Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • The ‘unacceptable’ cost of a website

    While not at the scale of the notorious Birmingham City Council web project from ’09 the revelation via FOI website What Do They Know today that the Bristol City Council website cost £700k plus includes a £90k annual support contract has kicked up a bit of a kerfuffle in my Twitter stream. The project to rebuild the…

  • Nexus4 the win?

    Despite my travails with my Nexus7 (that blog post still accounts for most of my traffic!) I took the leap and ordered a Nexus4 as soon as it was released. In fact I ordered it on my Nexus7 while shivering on a platform at Bristol Parkway station which was  a neat join up I thought…

  • Director, Webmaking Science Lab at the Mozilla Foundation

    I don’t usually link to job opportunities on here – I usually save that for Twitter – but I am ready to declare this as *THE* vacancy of 2012! Help the amazing Mozilla Foundation spread their ‘webmaking’ message to the science community, run hack days, write blogposts, meet amazing people and travel the world 🙂…

  • Digital Thirst: Process

    Of the 4Ps I mentioned in my original post this is actually the one that I am finding hardest to define and articulate. Most of my thoughts are about what doesn’t or hasn’t worked rather than a way forward and I am trying to avoid that. Alot of this seems to bleed into the idea…

  • Digital Thirst : People

    I think it is easy to get into a state of mind where technology becomes the be all and end all of any digital strategy. The new CMS is going to make everything better….or Twitter is….or that iPhone app you are working on. The reality is though that when push comes to shove it all…