Digital by Default

Digital by Default

52: Week Twenty Five

Had a pretty good week it has to be said. I’d go as far as to give it a ‘green’ status 🙂 Monday was the latest phase of my plan to have Wikipedia integrate anywhere I work (see previous infiltration plans succeeding here). John Cummings came in and gave a training session to a few…

October 19, 2013
A Thankyou Note for Ada Lovelace Day

Today is Ada Lovelace Day – you can learn more about the day and person at findingada.com. The tl;dr version though is that its a day to celebrate the achievements of women in science and technology. The usual format in the blog posts celebrating the day is to pick a woman who inspired you and…

October 15, 2013
PASC lives: Open data & statistics

One of the (many) new experiences I am encountering in this job is the scrutiny of the ‘Public Administration Select Committee (PASC)’. According to its Twitter bio PASC is; “..a cross-party group of MPs appointed by the House of Commons to scrutinise the Government.” At least in part the focus of my job has been…

October 13, 2013
Flatline: The launch of Healthcare.gov

The ‘launch’ of the Healthcare.gov in the US has been interesting to watch. Well in the way that sometimes people can’t help but want to see the aftermath of a car crash! Perhaps the most high profile website launch I’ve ever seen in the .gov space it is the face of ‘Obamacare‘ – a policy…

October 12, 2013
52: Week Twenty Four

Was on the road this week – two days down in Titchfield and a day in London as well as a day working from home in Bristol. Spent a lot of time speaking and thinking about search again this week. We currently have a number of search related projects working in parallel – basically we…

October 12, 2013