Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Watching the Wikipedians

I spent a few hours yesterday at Bristol University listening to a few members of Wikimedia UK (and Alex making a guest appearance from DC) give some extremely helpful insights into the world of Wikipedia (and some of its related projects.) While I’ve never been an active editor of Wikipedia I have followed the project…

March 20, 2011
WordPress Woo(hoo!)

I think it is pretty well established at this point that I am a fan of WordPress. It has become my go to solution for all manner of projects in the last couple of years and while a number of my illustrious developer & designer associates have rather fallen out with it I’ll admit that…

March 10, 2011
Getting to Grips with Google Analytics

I’ve been using Google Analytics on various websites I’ve worked on since..well since before it was Google Analytics (GA). I actually was a paying customer of Urchin before GOOG swallowed them up back in 2005. Before then I’d mainly been using WebTrends and I think AWStats (though that might have come later?) and while I…

March 6, 2011
The MySociety Masters in Public Technology Idea..

Tom Steinberg from MySociety has posted an idea today about the need for a Masters (or equivalent) in Public Technology. I think it is a really interesting post and I agree with about 90% of it. The bit I don’t agree with is the focus on software engineers – probably because I’m not one! I…

February 27, 2011
Outsourcing Web Teams?

During my seven hour train journey back from Scotland last week I had plenty of time to catch up on my reading and one thing I spotted got the gears turning in my head in a manner that was perhaps neither constructive nor positive 🙂 However a few days have passed and I can now…

February 27, 2011