Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Mulling the CMS Myth

    Thanks to either someone on my Twitter feed or on my Google Reader I discovered a new blog this week that really chimes with alot of my thinking recently. Called the CMS Myth it is a blog that really seeks to make a single point; When it comes to web content management success, it’s not…

  • Talking #teacamp : social media guidelines

    Yesterday I finally managed to attend a #teacamp [original] in London – just weeks before the launch of the West Country version I thought was a good idea (in a moment of madness I fear). As you can see from the pic below it was a pretty massive turnout and as such slightly different than…

  • Is ‘Agile’ important?

    I’ve linked to this on Twitter but I just wanted to comment on it here. Bob Marshall has written this brilliant post titled Agile Development Doesn’t Work and I think it is a must read for anyone in web development (especially on the management side). It can be summed up with its introductory statement; Q:…

  • Considering the case against WYSIWYG

    Thanks to the power of Twitter I was recently pointed to this article by Rachel Andrew , who amongst other things is one of the founders of the lightweight CMS Perch, titled Your WYSIWYG Editor sucks. It riffs on a couple of topics that I have seen come up a few times recently and have…

  • My Internet (sorta like Bens)

    Ben Terrett, who amongst other things is Head of Design at the Government Digital Service, linked to a blogpost he wrote in 2008 recently titled ‘My Internet‘. It struck a bit of a chord with me – especially as so little has changed in those three years and how much I agree with. Numbers 1…