Digital by Default

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  • Brown bagging it..

    The idea of a ‘brown bag’ talk/seminar seems like a particularly American thing – I mean we don’t really ‘brown bag’ it here in the UK, its all about the ‘packed lunch’ 🙂 Nonetheless from US academia via startups and global web companies the idea has even reached the dark corner of the Civil Service…

  • Code for America: Fixing Procurement

    Interesting series of posts over on the Code for America blog about ‘fixing procurement‘. Some of the terminology might be different but I think anyone working in the UK public sector will recognise  the issues discussed. Related just this week the G-Cloud, the UKs own attempt to solve some of the procurement problems, won an award…

  • Facts are Sacred by Simon Rogers

    Simon Rogers starts his book with a quote from C.P.Scott, first editor of the [Manchester] Guardian, from 1921; “Comment is free, but facts are sacred.” It is safe to say I have mainly been on the ‘comment’ side of that equation as far as how it relates to the web (particularly when you consider the…

  • 52: Week Two

    So to coin a phrase ‘that was the week that was’. Week two had the distinct benefit of being a little shorter due to a much needed and unusually lovely Bank Holiday. Tuesday I was back to sunny Titchfield. It is a train journey that takes you (slowly) through some truly stunning bits of the…

  • He who is contented is rich – Laozi

    Sorry about the quote its a bit of a red herring as this isn’t going to be a treatise on Taoism 🙂 After a little more than two and a half years (which is a pretty long time in Jukesie-years) I will be moving on from my current role in a couple of months and…