Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • A ‘Remote’ review

    ‘Remote‘ the new book by the team from 37 Signals is an interesting thing. In some ways it feels like the first ‘mobile first’ book I have ever read. The format – a series of short essays (barely more than blog posts) loosely stitched together into themed chapters seems perfectly targeted at people snatching a…

  • The Quantified Footy Club

    This is one of those occasions when I think I have a half decent idea but no real way of making it happen nor of validating it. So I am just throwing it out here to see what people think! I love football. Not the stuff on Sky Sports but the kind that takes place…

  • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

    I’ve been trying to get this quote right from memory for a bit and have just given in and Wikipedia’d it. Apparently it is from George Santayana. It has been on my mind for a few days. At the talk I gave last week at #somesw I made the case that the whole world of…

  • The Exemptions

    This afternoon I attended the Government ‘Heads of Digital Communications’ meet-up for the first time. Hosted by Tim Lloyd at BIS it was a nice change of pace from my recent meetings – I am less and less digital ‘communications’ these days and increasingly something a bit undefined but broader and more strategic (maybe…). There…

  • The Excess of Email

    This post was inspired by the growing exasperation with email from a former boss who seems close to tracking down and inflicting harm on the creator of Outlook365 (you know who you are!). It got me thinking about my own situation. I have surrendered and accepted defeat in my long war with email. After years…