Digital by Default

Books I loved ‘Marvel Comics: The Untold Story’ which is a gossipy history of the second greatest comic book publisher and was especially interesting in its portrayal of Stan Lee. I also really enjoyed ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ which really gave an insight in to the inner workings of…

While I don’t really have New Year resolutions I have got in the habit of giving myself some loose objectives looking at the year ahead. No targets or unrealistic objectives — I don’t join gyms for example! Last year I probably managed about half the things on the list and substituted a couple of the others for…

Venice Beach — May 2014 I know it is a bit self-indulgent but I find these review posts helpful and it isn’t really like anybody reads anything I write. So the first thing I should say is I am ending a year at the same place as I started it organisation wise — makes a change! I do have a…

..at least not at old Government websites. There was an interesting debate online last week for anybody interested in digital government and particularly the work of the ‘Government Digital Service’. Chris Cook, an editor on Newsnight and formerly at the Financial Times, wrote an article on the BBC website that lambasted the work of GDS…