Digital by Default

Digital by Default

#nolife couch potato-ing 21–23 July

Ozark This is the latest original show from Netflix. Well when I say original I mean desperate to be the new Breaking Bad. With more than a little Justified thrown in for good measure. Don’t let that put you off though — they are hardly bad influences and the cast led by Jason Bateman and Laura Linney…

July 23, 2017
The Gov(tech)ernor

So these days I am apparently in the business of GovTech. People write reports on it and create lists about it. It is thing. Funnily enough six months ago when I was working in government technology I never heard anyone refer to #govtech (on this side of the Atlantic anyway) but here we are. It…

July 21, 2017
2017 ambitions 2nd quarterly report card

On New Years Eve I published a list of ambitions for the year. Here is the second report of my progress. Here is the first one. WRITE THE BOOK– 3000 words per month Not even trying any more. Totally given up. If I do decide to try and write something more significant than blogposts I…

July 16, 2017
Update 2: Web of Words conference

86 people responded to my survey about running a conference about blogging, newsletters and the ‘web of words’. Would have like to get 100 but not a bad response all told. 67 people said they would be interested in this sort of event, 13 gave a firm maybe and 7 said they wouldn’t be interested…

July 16, 2017
Internet of Public Service Jobs — 16/07/17

‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, data and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Sign up for it as an email every Sunday afternoon! [01] Digital Workplace LeaderThanet District Council [02] Head of Digital ServicesPlanning InspectorateBristol [03]…

July 16, 2017