Digital by Default

Digital by Default

My 2013 in 15 links

It is that time of year again – there is no escape from my entirely self indulgent review of the year! This time I am cheating a bit though and am just pointing to a collection of things I wrote this year which I think pretty much sums up my year…for better or worse. TL;DR…

December 28, 2013
The Long Nose

Technologies have a long nose. Before the big break-out moment, before the hits arrive and everyone notices it’s happened, there’s a long nose of precedent and people who got there first. Someone was working on it at MIT or PARC and the Victorians did something very similar with telegrams and horses. Russell Davies, Jan 14,…

December 18, 2013
[Customer] Service Design

Once you get past the FuturLOLogist job at Jisc (which I still maintain is a role full of interesting possibilities despite the silly title and baggage surrounding Jisc these days) I actually think one of the other advertised roles has even greater potential to do interesting things with. The ‘Director of Customer Services‘ post is…

December 18, 2013
Fight the future

Yesterday evening I came across a couple of job ads from Jisc and one in particular was interesting for quite a few reasons. Let us get the obvious out of the way first. The job title. It is dreadful. Futurologist. What the hell? I guess the term ‘futurist’, which god knows is bad enough, was…

December 17, 2013
Web of Words as a Service

I’ve been playing around with this idea for an email newsletter type of thing (as that just seems to be the thing to do these days!). The basic premise of the idea is one important or influential article that has shaped the way we think about the web and digital space sent in full once…

December 15, 2013