Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Having a hiatus

After 420 blogposts over five and a bit years I have decided to take an indefinite hiatus from this blog. I’m sure I’ll be back and maybe sooner than I am currently expecting but for now I am going to try something a little different… …though not that different. I’m still going to be blogging – just…

December 31, 2012
2012 – a self-indulgent review of the year!

Time for my annual self indulgent review of the year. This is the 4th year I’ve done this – 2009 was pretty horrible then things picked up over 2010 and 2011. Unfortunately at least work wise this year has been a bit of a step back. For the first time since about 2004 I feel…

December 28, 2012
Twitter time travel

Unlike some of my peers I never bothered making any kind of backup of my Twitter activity. I’ve treated it as something disposable for the most part – with anything with staying power surfacing elsewhere (usually here on this blog.) That said curiosity got the better of me and when Twitter offered the chance to download…

December 20, 2012
Crowdfunding a Conference?

An email conversation with Gez Smith reminded me of something today that has been rattling around in the back of my head for a while. Since Kickstarter launched in the UK I’ve had this vague idea about whether it could be used to take some of the risk out of organising some kind of event.…

December 18, 2012
The ‘unacceptable’ cost of a website

While not at the scale of the notorious Birmingham City Council web project from ’09 the revelation via FOI website What Do They Know today that the Bristol City Council website cost £700k plus includes a £90k annual support contract has kicked up a bit of a kerfuffle in my Twitter stream. The project to rebuild the…

December 17, 2012