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…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
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…
Daily note for 27 November 2023
Miserable day here, weather wise. Very cold and very wet. Sort of weather than makes me want to hibernate! I newslettered for the first time in a while. Lots of lovely people replied to say it doesn’t matter if I…
Chunks, anchors and textcasting
Lloyd is experimenting with adding anchor links to the chunks of text that make up his daily note style blog posts. It’s an interesting thing to do, and is very reminiscent of the way Dave Winer structures his blogging. Lloyd…
Daily note for 22 November 2023
Raindrop is very good for social bookmarking it turns out. Mine are here. As well as Neilly Neil’s welcome return to blogging, Lloyd is also publishing stuff on a more regular basis. This can only be a good thing. Tuesday’s…