Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Govcamp goes big?

There was a bit of a burst of energy on the #ukgc14 tag on Twitter this week – six months or so before the event is actually expected. James Cattell has jumped in to the driving seat as organiser for the event as Steph has stepped back as his efforts to move from small to…

June 29, 2013
52: Week Nine

Tonight I renewed my season ticket for the second time so that makes it two full months. Time flies. It really has been one hell of an induction so far. The people are great, the challenges are pretty immense and the spotlight is intimidating. This week was the first proper ONS week that my more…

June 28, 2013
A Web Management Wake

Last night I attended a strange kind of conference after-party. It was in fact more like an after party (or a wake) for an organisation. After almost two decades of service to HE geeks (especially of the library and web variety) UKOLN is soon to shut its doors and as a consequence of that this…

June 28, 2013
Open for business

So over at the day job we continue to get put through the ringer a little bit. The latest media moment was from City AM (a strange article that had some completely valid points amongst some very strange observations.) Since I started I have been determined that we would work in the open and that…

June 26, 2013
The RSS Roundabout

I think it might have been Mr Briggs who recently said on Twitter something like “if nothing else Google closing Reader has reinvigorated the RSS market”. Sounds like something he might say smart chap that he is. I have probably used Google Reader more than any web service other than Twitter and Gmail. It has…

June 25, 2013