Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Three of a kind [3]

Klouchebag will die soon. Here’s why. Tom Scott has a gift for making fun web ‘things’ that get a lot of attention. He also speaks a great deal of sense. This post is the best thing I have read about the latest strategic changes that Twitter are implementing. It is a clear and pragmatic response…

August 19, 2012
Three of a kind (2)

How to Focus and Stay Productive When You’re Expected to Always Be Available and Managing Email Realistically I’m cheating a bit here as this is a 2-4-1 🙂 I have never really been a fan of all the ‘productivity porn’ thats out there and particularly dislike the cult of GTD and ‘inbox zero’. That said…

August 13, 2012
My Twitter Olympics

I wasn’t particularly excited about the Olympics. It seemed so London-centric and the insane concessions to sponsors pretty much disgusted me. While I am a fan of a fair few sports the Olympics has never really been something I engaged with so I fully expected to give it a bit of a wide berth and…

August 5, 2012
Three of a kind

Three things I came across this week and found interesting enough to share 🙂 Guess – there are services like BuiltWith and extensions like Chrome Sniffer that will tell you the frameworks, libraries etc that make up a website but Guess is particularly focused on identifying what, if any, content management system is publishing the…

August 5, 2012
‘Harder, opaquer, slower’

OK I’m less than convinced that ‘opaquer’ is really a word but you get the point 🙂 When you visit the latest iteration of GOVUK one of the first things you see is the strapline ‘Simpler, clearer, faster’. I like it. Alot. It nicely sums up what GDS are trying to achieve and just generally…

July 31, 2012