Daily note for 22 December 2023
Substack’s Nazi problem seems to be getting a lot of attention at the moment. It’s a weird one for me, because I just don’t see it. It was a bit like that for me on Twitter as well, lots of…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Month December 2023
Daily note for 21 December 2023
Am playing around a bit with Feedland, Dave Winer’s newish RSS aggregating thing. I like how it is all public, so anyone can see the feeds I subscribe to and what is in them. Am enjoying the desktop app feel…
On what we should call the folk who engage with local public services
Bit of an old chestnut, this, that I referred to in another post and I have been mulling on for a while. User feels a bit techie, a bit too transactional, and sometimes like somebody who indulges in illicit substances.…
Daily note for 18 December 2023
I’m barely posting any links into Raindrop. I just like linking to them here, on my blog. But I worry they get lost. Not that I ever seem to look for them. I newslettered. Some nice bits in Matt Mullenweg’s…
Daily note for 17 December 2023
Lovely bit of LocalGov blogging: Nature’s Genius: Service Innovation through Biomimicry. This is a great story, about the wonder that was Yahoo Pipes, beautifully told… and now I am really interested in Retool, so I guess it did its job…
Daily note for 14 December 2023
Not been looking forward to today really. I have to go to see a foot specialist about an ulcerated wound on the balls of my right foot. It’ll be good to start getting it sorted, but it involves going somewhere…
WordPress and email
I’ve been moving a few of the sites that I manage away from a simple shared hosting arrangement onto something a bit more proper, with Steph’s advice (this blog, being incredibly simple albeit with a fairly hefty archive going back…
Daily note for 13 December 2023
Lloyd mentions how he likes writing the date at the top of his daily posts, as it reminds him of school. It does me too, on these posts, but also on the daily notes that I write more religiously using…
Drafting the ‘so what?’ of the digital quality model
A bit of feedback from the recent call about the Local Government Digital Quality Model call was that the materials really need to sell the ‘so what’ around all of this. I think there are 2 things here: so what…
Daily note for 1 December 2023
Really impressive what Sarah and her team at Swindon are achieving. Just goes to show what can happen when people are given just a little scope for experimentation. Been tempted by a Remarkable e-ink notepad for ages, but always felt…