Digital by Default

Digital by Default

The Coming of the Cookie Monster

OK in all liklihood this post won’t make a lick of sense. That is not entirely my fault as I’m trying to make sense of something that seems more than a little crazy. Tomorrow (May 26th 2011) the revised Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations come into force in the United Kingdom, bringing us into line…

May 25, 2011
The @nytimes ‘human voice’ experiment

The New York Times has embarked on something of an ‘experiment’ this week. They have uncoupled their RSS feeds from their Twitter account so no more automated posting and instead have replaced it with two ‘social media editors’ selecting and writing the tweets and also contributing to the conversation in the stream. This article gives…

May 24, 2011
Col Needham at the Festival of Ideas [#foiimdb]

It is safe to say I’m a fan of IMDb.com. Not only does it combine two of my favourite things – movies & technology (well three really these days with all the TV coverage!) but it is also a company born in Bristol (albeit by a Manc!) that has genuine worldwide impact. It has always…

May 22, 2011
The new (digital) guvnor

The new Executive Director of Digital Efficiency and Reform Group, Cabinet Office was announced today and it has caused quite a positive ripple in my corner of the Twitter-sphere. Mike Bracken, most recently the Digital Development Director at the Guardian, has been appointed and if his online contributions and the words of colleagues are anything…

May 20, 2011
Mailcamp musings

Mailcamp was an interesting idea and I really think Steph came up with a winner. Email doesn’t exactly get a lot of love at Barcamps etc and it is often dismissed as being old fashioned – especially when compared to the holy grail of social media ;). That said it still has a vital role…

May 13, 2011