You might have noticed over the last few Sundays I have been playing around a little with the hashtag #jukesiejobs over on Twitter and elsewhere. Basically after all my recent experiences trying to recruit for ONS and the constant difficulty we have had in getting on eye-balls on the job ads* I have been wondering…

[I’ve been trying this surfing metaphor a lot lately to try and explain the idea that the kind of work I am doing – and the perceived success of some of it – is less to do with me or even my team and more to do with a change in conditions that allowed these…

  Try as I might I can’t muster any enthusiasm for the whole ‘internet of things’ movement. I can acknowledge that there are likely benefits in it somewhere but most of the ‘smart home’ stuff I’ve read about to date sends me straight to snooze mode. On the other hand I find myself increasingly excited…

  A major preoccupation of my day job is finding out ways to provide as much data as possible in open, reusable formats. In fact probably the only other thing that occupies more of my cognitive activity is the challenge of the user experience of getting people to that data. As we start to make…