Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Open Data Inspiration

    Next week I am lucky enough to be spending a couple of days training with the Open Data Institute team (assuming the ‘never-ending storm’ doesn’t intervene). We are doing an in-house, slightly custom version of the ‘Open Data in Practice‘ course that the ODI offer and I’m looking forward spending a couple of days concentrating…

  • Ampp3d in action

    Following on from the very successful, Buzzfeed a-like, Us vs Th3m Trinity Mirror has launched another startup style web product with Martin Belam heading things up during the initial stages (anyway I think that is the case – I’m assuming like with Us vs Th3m he is there to get things started, build an audience…

  • Homepage ‘heroes’

    We all know that less and less visitors come in via our homepages and actually those years of rows over what should get priority on the old /index.html page are [slowly] coming to an end. All that said they are still a great way to set the tone for a site and also for someone…

  • The Infographic Superhighway

    [re-posted from the ONS Digital Publishing blog]   One of the first things that struck me when I joined the ONS back in May was the organisational obsession with the concept of the ‘infographic‘. They had found almost universal support amongst our statistical teams as a format for improving the communication of our outputs and…

  • Vergaderziekte: meeting sickness

      I have been told that the Germans have a word for everything but it is the Dutch who have come up with the word that sums up the reality for my working life these days I think. Vergaderziekte: meeting sickness. At some point I think you end up attending so many of them that (a)…