Digital by Default

Digital by Default

The Famous Five: my top five NEW comic collections released in 2015

A quick browse of my shelfs and a check on release dates and I have come up with a top five new collections for 2015. Lots of other great books are still going strong — Saga, East is West, Velvet, Southern Bastards, The Wicked and the Divine, Uber, Lazarus, Black Science, Deadly Class, Daredevil, Elephantmen, Ms Marvel…

December 12, 2015
10 Jobs I found interesting this week

12th December 2015 Digital Service Managers x3 (Office for National Statistics)Newport or Fareham Head of Digital (BBC Academy) Birmingham Head of Digital (Alzheimer’s Society) London Strategy Director (Blue State Digital) London Data Analyst (FutureLearn) London Ximbio Product Manager (Cancer Research) London Product Manager (UKTI) London, Cardiff or Sheffield Head of Digital Services (Forest Enterprise Scotland) Edinburgh Service Manager (Passport Office)…

December 12, 2015
The Magnificent Seven: My Favourite NEW TV shows of 2015

There were a lot of returning shows this year that probably deserve a mention if I was writing about my favourite shows full stop — Justified went out on a high, Sons of Anarchy redeemed itself a bit, the Flash is even more full of ‘Silver Age’ fun than ever, Game of Thrones continued to be an…

December 10, 2015
The Pig strikes back

While I understand where it comes from there is nothing I dislike more than the current trend in and around digital government to dismiss (and dismiss is totally the right word for how it comes across) any web project as; Lipstick on a pig. When Dave Briggs, someone I’ve known for years and mainly agree…

December 4, 2015
API Days

In my last post I at least tried to make the case for; Publish for humans, all of the humans. But don’t forget the machines. This time I’m going to talk a little bit about what we might get from those machines — because I’m not convinced it is always what people are expecting. While it can…

November 29, 2015