Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Digital Thirst

    [the title is a bit of a joke at my own expense – I can’t pronounce ‘th’ sounds so thirst and first sound the same when I speak!] Like ‘digital by default’ the term ‘digital first’ has become pretty popular shorthand for a particular kind of organisation shift in recent years. The first time I…

  • The Casserole crowd

    Every now and again a new web service comes along that just chimes with me and reinforces my long held belief that the web is a force for good despite all the evidence to the contrary. Kiva, FixMyStreet and Patient Opinion have been responsible for these kind of moments for me in the past and…

  • Doing dConstruct

    After trying and failing to get tickets for the previous 2 years I have finally made it to dConstruct in sunny Brighton. Its slightly hard to describe dconstruct as an event. In theory its a web event…but no one really talks about the web. It most resembles a full day of the talks I would…

  • 2007 – a year of social media mania

    In early summer 2007 I spent a month traveling across America with a bunch of complete strangers. It was an amazing experience and one I think I’ll always look back fondly upon. The funny thing is it clearly had some kind of effect on me and I returned with some kind of social media mania…

  • Three of a kind [4]

    Why your news site should never automatically open external links in a new window Martin Belam is making this case for news sites but I think it is true of just about every website out there and certainly every website I have ever been involved in. It is also true that I have had to…