Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • The Coming of the Cookie Monster

    OK in all liklihood this post won’t make a lick of sense. That is not entirely my fault as I’m trying to make sense of something that seems more than a little crazy. Tomorrow (May 26th 2011) the revised Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations come into force in the United Kingdom, bringing us into line…

  • The @nytimes ‘human voice’ experiment

    The New York Times has embarked on something of an ‘experiment’ this week. They have uncoupled their RSS feeds from their Twitter account so no more automated posting and instead have replaced it with two ‘social media editors’ selecting and writing the tweets and also contributing to the conversation in the stream. This article gives…

  • Open Educationy Jobs at Mozilla

    At the moment there are a couple of great looking jobs being advertised by Mozilla that I thought I’d just highlight as there is a chance they might be of interest to readers of this blog (or at least friends/colleagues of readers of this blog!).. Both positions are ‘Product Managers’ (but don’t get too hung…

  • Web Made Comics

    This is my (ill thought out) idea for an activity at Mozilla Drumbeat: Media Freedom and the Web Start with Scott McCloud and his Infinite Canvas ideas and various musings from Warren Ellis mix in some of that hacker powered Mozilla magic that made the Web Made Movies lab such a hit at the first…

  • The times they are a-changing

    This is going to be one of those ‘when I were a lad’ style posts 🙂 Back when I first started doing this webby thing, in the days when even IE6 was a distant dream (well a couple of years away anyhow) and FrontPage was the (*cough*) ‘CMS’ of choice most in-house web folk found…