Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Metadata misrepresented?

One of the few funny things to come out of the PRISM scandal is the extent to which the term ‘metadata’ has suddenly become mainstream. For me it has been a case of being too close to something to even realise it was geeky. From my days contemplating a career in librarianship, to my early…

June 13, 2013
Jisc 4.0 (I think)

Jisc (no longer the Joint Information Systems Committe…just Jisc) launched their new website today. The organisation has been going through a programme of pretty extensive (traumatic?) change over the last 18 months or so with much of that coming to a head in the last few months. I’m not going to touch on that –…

June 12, 2013
A being in search of meaning

The guys at GDS have blogged today about the work they are undertaking in improving their internal search. This is of particular interest to me as very recently an eminent economist/journalist stated that the ONS search “was like Google on an acid trip“. This may be somewhat harsh but it is safe to say that…

June 11, 2013
Post PRISM

I came across a couple of interesting posts this morning about personal online privacy in a post-PRISM world. http://benrmatthews.com/2013/06/my-privacy-plan/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1g0nzx/after_the_reading_countless_posts_complaining/ To be honest I’m not really sure how effective any of this stuff would be – like the whistleblower Edward Snowden himself suggests the likelihood is that the security/intelligence services are way past this sort…

June 10, 2013
Three of a kind [090613]

What If The Product Is The Service Is The Marketing? Great post from Emer Coleman (recently of GDS) about the changing face of ‘marketing and communications’ in this digital world of ours. I particularly liked this line “if you’re relevant and have standing in the conversation, then things like press releases become pretty irrelevant.” The…

June 9, 2013