Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Specialist or generalist? Digital comms in 2012

Ann Kempster kicked off a really interesting debate over on her blog this week with a post titled And or neither nor: press and digital in 2012 [to be fair the title is the only clumsy bit of the piece!]. The post and the comments [so nice to see comments really being used to expand on…

June 13, 2012
Late to the ‘Lean’ Party

As is my tradition at this point I was reading the latest Wired magazine while sat on the floor of a crowded train coming back from London. Usually I skim through the articles while trying not to get stood on by stressed commuters and just identify which order I’ll end up reading the longer pieces.…

June 3, 2012
Open Gov Summit #opengovsum

This morning I dragged my weary self to the bus stop at 06.15 to get the 07.01 train to London – for some of you I realise this seems like no major achievement – however for me it was something of a miracle! The reason behnd this early start was the Open Government Summit (organised…

May 30, 2012
GOV.US – the cousins catching up :)

Last week the Whitehouse released their digital strategy “Digital Government – Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People“. It is an interesting document (and nice to see it being released as a Twitter Bootstrap powered HTML5 site rather than just another PDF!). Both O’Reilly and Code for America have covered the…

May 28, 2012
Cookies climb down?

It seems that the ICO, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that the constant barrage of complaints from just about everyone involved in the web industry about the new Cookie law might well contain a kernel of truth. As such less than 48 hours before the law was/is due to be enforced they have made…

May 26, 2012