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101 Dry Days.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/46378751@N02/12527828845/ I like a beer. That is pretty well established if you have ever met me. I look like a bloke who likes a beer (and a takeaway.) I have no airs and graces when it comes to beer. I enjoy real ales, craft beers and more than the occasional Heineken. In fact I dislike…
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Javascript journalism
At the Data Storytelling event that I helped organise last week (the presentations are available if you missed it) the closing speaker, Martin Stable who is head of the Financial Times interactive news team, used the term ‘javascript journalism’ to describe the kind of outputs that combine journalistic storytelling and web applications (including data visualisations).…
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Approval for agile projects becoming more agile?
Unless you work in a particular corner of Government digital/IT then this won’t be very exciting but if, like me, you are toiling away in that specific corner then Friday was a ‘red-letter day’! The new guidance from Treasury (with a major dollop of GDS influence) about the process & procedures for getting approval and…
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Bristol: A City of Service?
I spotted a job ad a couple of weeks ago for a ‘Chief Service Officer‘ for Bristol City Council. It wasn’t a job title I had come across before so I followed the link to the Nesta page about the Cities of Service programme and read with interest about its roots as an initiative from…
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Geeks in Government
There was an interesting piece in the Financial Times on Friday. Titled “Let’s get geeks into government” it tells the story of Brett Goldstein, formerly the IT Director of OpenTable, who in recent years has become well known in digital government circles for his work with the City of Chicago on various data driven projects-…
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