Category: thoughts
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WordPress Woo(hoo!)
I think it is pretty well established at this point that I am a fan of WordPress. It has become my go to solution for all manner of projects in the last couple of years and while a number of my illustrious developer & designer associates have rather fallen out with it I’ll admit that…
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The MySociety Masters in Public Technology Idea..
Tom Steinberg from MySociety has posted an idea today about the need for a Masters (or equivalent) in Public Technology. I think it is a really interesting post and I agree with about 90% of it. The bit I don’t agree with is the focus on software engineers – probably because I’m not one! I…
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Outsourcing Web Teams?
During my seven hour train journey back from Scotland last week I had plenty of time to catch up on my reading and one thing I spotted got the gears turning in my head in a manner that was perhaps neither constructive nor positive :) However a few days have passed and I can now…
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Feedback from Facebook Fasting..
So as I wrote about on New Years day https://digitalbydefault.com/2011/01/01/farewell-to-facebook/ I decided to take a month off from Facebook. The biggest reason if I’m honest was just to see if I could! I’ve always been a heavy user of both Facebook and Twitter and since getting an iPhone my time on both had increased even…
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Loving the Little Wins
2011 has started pretty well it has to be said. As I have mentioned before #bebettr went off with barely a hitch and Eventstreams is picking up momentum (though my role is negligible there!) and it turned out the waves of positivity I felt about my new job before Christmas were not an illusion I…