Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Why I am (still) not learning to code..

Over the last couple of years it has become de rigueur for all and sundry (at least in my corner of the world) to announce that they are going to learn to code. They sign up for Codeacademy or one of the many other online tools and beaver away learning basic Javascript, Python or some…

June 18, 2013
Evernote ever after

I tried Evernote for the first time in the summer of 2010. It was getting a lot of hype and some people I knew and respected were big fans so I signed up but could never really get in to it. Then when I started at the current job two things changed – 1) I…

June 17, 2013
Mozilla Science Lab lives!

Ever since I saw this job ad back in November I have been waiting to see where Mozilla went with this idea of a science outreach arm to join the great work happening around education and open journalism. Despite not having a scientific bone in my body (well apart from a liking for the fictional…

June 16, 2013
Three of a kind [160613]

Auto-Forwarding Carousels and Accordions Annoy Users and Reduce Visibility This is an article from January that has popped up a couple of times in my stream recently. After I mistakenly accused the Jisc website of having a carousel I was reminded of it again. The tide does seem to be turning against this feature on…

June 16, 2013
Folla back

At an event I was at this week a couple of times it was mentioned that the imbalance between ‘following’ and ‘follower’ counts on Twitter in public sector and government accounts demonstrated a lack of engagement and ‘listening’ on their behalf. Superficially I can see the basis of this thinking but the reality is it…

June 14, 2013