I find this stuff so you don’t have to: On IBM, OpenStack and Chef: an interview Intelligent Impact: Evaluating an open data capacity building with voluntary sector organisations WordPress.tv: Understanding the WordPress Dashboard Tony Hall’s biggest test as BBC director general is to create a digital future Tony Hall’s biggest test as BBC director generalRead… Read more »
Do you use an outliner? Have you even heard of them? An outline is a load of text, organised into a hierarchy. It looks like a bulleted list, with content at various levels, but proper ones do a bit more than that. You can use Microsoft Word to make an outline, but dedicated tools areRead… Read more »
Overall, I’m quite pleased with the response to this conversation about the web we lost because one of my central points is that the arrogance and insularity of the old-guard, conventional wisdom creators of social media, including myself, was one of the primary reasons we lost some important values of the early social web. SeeingRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: How can local authorities achieve smart cities? Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Androids Designed Around People stop talking about jobs How to delete your digital life How to delete your digital life Online Courses or Long Form Journalism? Communicating How the World Works…Read… Read more »
Well worth listening or watching this talk from Dan Gillmor: Once, personal technology and the Internet meant that we didn’t need permission to compute, communicate and innovate. Now, governments and tech companies are systematically restricting our liberties, and creating an online surveillance state. In many cases, however, we’re letting it happen, by trading freedom forRead… Read more »
Do you need a digital engagement strategy to get it right? Perhaps you don’t, but it can’t not help, surely. Start with a vision. What do we want to achieve? Where do we want to end up? Pick an arbitrary date in the future – say 2015 – and imagine how you’d like things toRead… Read more »
Ryan Holiday writes in Our Regressive Web: We’re regressing because we’re so focused on the new that we forgot the importance of the old. The tech press is too busy chattering about other “innovations” like retargeting, paywalls, native advertising. Except those changes are at the margins—at best. And because of that distraction or lack ofRead… Read more »
These days, I write pretty much everything in plain text. This is driven by two main things: Annoyance Paranoia How I write pretty much anything of any length (blog posts, reports, proposals, longer emails) is to write them in a text editor – I’ve settled on WriteRoom – using the Markdown markup language. I thenRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: A new intranet for DCLG (with more big savings) Mobile = inclusive, but not inclusion TEACAKE: How to run your own brewcamp In which I put my faith in humans The deal Goodreads should’ve struck (hint: it wasn’t with Amazon) Bitcoin: How An Unregulated, Decentralized VirtualRead… Read more »
As always, I am trying to be helpful. No, really! I am. So, here’s a new thing. Every so often I will answer some questions put to me by visitors to this blog. All you have to do is ask a question, about a topic big or small, in the comments below. Then, once IRead… Read more »