Digital by Default

Digital by Default

52: Week Seven

Blooming heck seven weeks. Seven! Still feels like day one in a lot of ways. I spent this week away from Newport – 3 days in Titchfield and a day in London for Citizen 2013 (working from home today). I’ve been (way) under the weather all week so it wasn’t really a great time to…

June 14, 2013
Better blogging bureau

I’m breaking the cardinal rule and blogging about blogging. As you may have noticed (if you are one of the half dozen people to read this blog) I have recently been ramping up my output. I recently read an interview with Cory Doctorow where he reiterated the old advice about ‘writing every day’ and I’m…

June 14, 2013
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