Category: thoughts
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Trivial tech vs Civic Tech
I used to love reading blogs like Techcrunch,Mashable and the Next Web. Anything really that was covering the next big web startup. I was fascinated with tales of tech entrepreneurs starting world changing ideas in garages and dorm rooms. I don’t really know when that changed but it did. I started to find the things…
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Javascript journalism
At the Data Storytelling event that I helped organise last week (the presentations are available if you missed it) the closing speaker, Martin Stable who is head of the Financial Times interactive news team, used the term ‘javascript journalism’ to describe the kind of outputs that combine journalistic storytelling and web applications (including data visualisations).…
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Bristol: A City of Service?
I spotted a job ad a couple of weeks ago for a ‘Chief Service Officer‘ for Bristol City Council. It wasn’t a job title I had come across before so I followed the link to the Nesta page about the Cities of Service programme and read with interest about its roots as an initiative from…
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WEB XXV
So today was the 25th anniversary of when Sir Tim wrote the first draft of the proposal that would lead to the birth of the ‘world wide web’. There has been plenty of coverage today about his call for a ‘bill of rights‘ to protect the freedom and independence of the web. It is noticeable…
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My 2013 in 15 links
It is that time of year again – there is no escape from my entirely self indulgent review of the year! This time I am cheating a bit though and am just pointing to a collection of things I wrote this year which I think pretty much sums up my year…for better or worse. TL;DR…
