Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Generosity

I never fail to be amazed by the acts of generosity that my corner of Twitter is capable of. Whether it be with their time, knowledge, support or actual cash they often go to great lengths to reassure my faith in human nature (something the mainstream media seems intent on destroying). I wonder if this…

January 15, 2014
Mobile misery

I got my first Nexus4 in late November 2012. I managed to destroy it by dropping it on a subway grate in Long Island City, New York. I received my replacement (which was actually an upgrade to the 16gb version) on the 16th April 2013. I destroyed that phone on Friday 10th January 2014. Dropped…

January 12, 2014
Jelly Aardvark

I’m going to be careful not to be dismissive of Jelly if only because last time some of the Twitter founders launched something new I thought it sounded pretty dull and would never find an audience and now Medium seems to be growing like a weed (I was right about Branch though I think!).…

January 12, 2014
Open Data Inspiration

Next week I am lucky enough to be spending a couple of days training with the Open Data Institute team (assuming the ‘never-ending storm’ doesn’t intervene). We are doing an in-house, slightly custom version of the ‘Open Data in Practice‘ course that the ODI offer and I’m looking forward spending a couple of days concentrating…

January 4, 2014
2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many…

December 31, 2013