Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Exploring the e-essay

I spend *alot* of time on public transport – usually longer than scheduled due to the involvement of First Group in my journies – and one of the things I have noticed (and it has been hard to miss) is the rise and rise of the Kindle. On the train to London particularly it isn’t…

November 28, 2011
Five year plan (or not!)

Once upon a time, many moons ago I was asked a question in a job interview ‘Where do you see your career in five years?’. Now it was more than five years ago and I can safely say I failed to meet the answer I gave (though I came close at one point) but the…

November 21, 2011
G-Cloud and the end of the #unacceptable

This talk from Chris Chant, who is leading the Governments G-Cloud initiative, has been around a few weeks now (and has even spawned its own #unacceptable hashtag) but it remains a powerful indictment of the state of IT in the public sector and from a personal point of view it could almost be talking about…

November 16, 2011
Reflections on #mozfest

This weekend past in a building resembling a Borg cube (landed next to a 50’s flying saucer) a remarkable group of people from all corners of the globe came together to celebrate what it means to be a ‘web maker’. This was the second Mozilla Festival (though it has had a bit of a rebrand…

November 8, 2011
Exploring the Storyverse – Checking out Small Demons

I followed a link from Twitter (via @danbri I think) at some point over the weekend to a new website – pretty much just based on the ‘strapline’; Welcome to the Storyverse. Small Demons is an interesting (and very beautiful) website that aims pull out all those ‘real world’ details from your favourite novels and…

October 30, 2011