Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Interesting elsewhere: Bring on the Bots

    Here are a few links to things that have sparked my interest recently. More and more I find myself drawn to ideas and technologies that are about making data truly human-readable – but in some kind of of automated, artificially (not very) intelligent way. I’ve written about the ‘robo-reporting‘ and my thoughts on ‘conversational interfaces‘…

  • Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

    There was a time when it seemed like this was a staple of every interview anyone attended. It seems to have, thankfully, gone out of style now but once upon a time it was the go-to question. My standard answer back then was that I wanted to be Head of Web/Online/Digital for a major university.…

  • Extrovert vs Introvert User Interfaces

    Extrovert vs Introvert User Interfaces

    Yesterday I watched the pilot for the new TV series based on the Minority Report movie (don’t ask how). It has some nice sci-fi touches and is nicely tied to the movie but on the whole was pretty much just another future cop procedural not unlike ‘Almost Human’ – can’t see it lasting to be…

  • The Internet of Public Service – a talk idea

    The Internet of Public Service – a talk idea

      I’m giving a talk at (R)evolution in September and I’ve decided to try something new and a bit different from my usual talk about working at ONS and doing the digital thing in the civil service. Though I imagine that will get referenced. Last year I wrote this post about the idea of the…

  • Learning about open leadership

    Learning about open leadership

    My favourite principle from GDS is the tenth; Make things open – it makes things better  Some might suggest I embraced this concept before GDS were a twinkle in Martha’s eye 🙂 It was something I encouraged at Jisc setting up their blog network and back in the mists of time I remember Joss Winn…