Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Tumblr-tastic

    Have just been spending a bit of time playing with a couple of new(ish) features for Tumblr that make it an evening more amazing product and certainly making it a major contender with WordPress for the casual blogger. The Submit (I think this has been available for a while) and new Ask features add some…

  • Quick! To the Matt Phone..

    I just had a strange but quite amusing realisation today was the first time I had used the landline telephone in my flat in more than three years! I couldn’t even find the phone to start with and had to follow the phone line from the wall socket to track it down. I only maintain…

  • Considering being Cooperative

    I have long had the inkling of an idea that a co-op would be an interesting model to use in setting up a social web business of some kind.  According to the International Cooperative Alliance a co-op is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and…

  • Reviving the Brizzlecamp idea

    So yesterday I was in my standard January 1st mood (not helped by a storming hangover it has to be said) and I wrote my review of 2009 while in not the best state of mind.  That said when I re-read the post today there wasn’t much about it that I would change despite feeling…

  • 2009 – The Year I Was Sent to Coventry

    This time last year I wrote a bit of a review of the year that had just passed and was happy enough with what I wrote to promise myself I’d do it again so here I am.  2009 however was not a year I particularly want to dwell on.  Certainly from a professional point of…