Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Buzzfeedification

I’m not going to lie until very recently I was pretty dismissive of Buzzfeed and its peers. I saw it is as dumbing down online news and playing in to the hands of all those critics who say the web trivialises issues. Also as someone who has zero empathy for animals the kitten stuff didn’t…

February 8, 2014
Personal privacy progress

About six months ago I wrote a post about the steps online I was going to take post the initial PRISM revelations. I thought I would revisit it quickly and just see where I am now. At the time I said; In place at the moment I use; – Ghostery – to block tracking tools…

February 2, 2014
Social Media Principles in Practice

I’ve been a reasonably heavy user of social media pretty much from day one. I was an early advocate of using it as a comms channel, in the workplace and have written various guidelines, policies and strategies about how best to make use of it. The funny thing is that over the years I have…

January 31, 2014
The Pyriten Age of TV

Ignite Cardiff — January 29th 2014 This is what my talk was supposed to say — god knows what I did end up babbling about ☺ Depending on what you read you’ll be told it is a Golden Age. Not of philosophy, science or art. No. It is a golden age of television. It started with HBO and the rise of…

January 29, 2014
#ukgc14 Corridor conferencing

So yesterday was the latest instalment of the Govcamp story. From humble(ish) beginnings it had grown to a point it found a home at the heart of London political establishment. City Hall. There is no doubt that this was a lovely venue. A pain in the arse to get to from Paddington but lovely nonetheless.…

January 26, 2014