Digital by Default

Digital by Default

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[I’m re-posting this from the ONS Digital Publishing blog] One of the goals for the new Digital publishing team here at the ONS is to build our in-house capability for digital work. We have a separate division here that handles the development and web operations side of things so for now it is…

July 10, 2013
Three of a kind [070713]

Lockdown Great bit of writing from Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper. It reminds me of the post from Anil Dash ‘The web we lost‘ and I’m not sure there is much greater praise I could offer at the moment. Marco rails at the way Google has treated RSS and how they have damaged the promise…

July 7, 2013
52: Week Ten

Ten weeks – in some ways it still seems like 10 days and in others 10 months. It is safe to say that this has been the most challenging induction period to a role I’ve ever had (and as my readers know – I’ve had my share!) I’m not sure just how much the job…

July 6, 2013
30/30

So this post is my 30th post in June. Only one of which (my poll) was obvious filler though one or two of them were a bit less than works of literary excellence! [Well to be honest this one is a bit of a make weight as well!] I found the discipline of writing almost…

June 30, 2013
Three of a kind [300613]

Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire This is a great article/profile on Jimmy Wales. I am a big fan of Wikipedia and I pay my membership to Wikimedia UK each year to stay involved. The relationship between Wales and Wikipedia itself has always fascinated me though – it is a pretty unique dynamic and…

June 30, 2013