Dave

“Why I no longer believe in Content Design” I wrote a quick and snarky post about Cipfa’s recent report about blockchain: “Why does PDF content persist when it sucks so much, and how can you get rid of…

A 17 minute video on web accessibility. Lovely! An explainer from some clever people about AI and public services: “Dear Alt-Twitter Designers: It’s about the network!” “How common platforms deliver brilliant digital services” Some intresting points…

How did I not know about this? Emulated Macs going back to the original, all in the browser: Fairly pointless, but amazing. “How to play Mundane Superhero” – looks a fun way to kick off workshops etc. “Council…

This is an extremely important thread for anyone wanting to understand the financial pressures felt across local government (and no, it’s not related to solar farms…) Following on from my post about where we are with digital and technology…

Not published one of these for a while. Newsletter went out yesterday, with a long article I wrote at the weekend about the local digital declaration and where things are at: Some great, addictive little browser games in here:…

I sent a newsletter – “Maybe the real design tool was all the conversation we had along the way” Am consistently impressed with dxw’s blogging. Always authentic, always helpful. Very rarely sales-y. Last weekend we started watching the…

My piece about single customer accounts seems to have gone down quite well in most parts. My focus in the last year has mostly been on people and capability stuff, and before that on some of the trickier IT problems…

I wrote about why I don’t think single user accounts are a good thing for local councils: – also sent as a newsletter Matt ‘Jukesie’ Jukes is looking for work. You should hire him! I keep seeing…

Delighted to see another local gov blog launching today! Some lovely stuff in here: Maddening but brilliant, like a reverse Tetris:

Another newsletter went out today: “Teaching agility, not Agile™” Ooooooh: “Open Working 101” Daughter was telling me this morning about dog and cat based ASMR videos, and I said I really don’t think that was what TBL…

It was our son’s graduation yesterday. So proud! But also, how did that happen? I’m so old! On Saturday we watched the new Indiana Jones film. Very silly of course but it did capture some of the fun of the…

Said this a few time this week – you can do amazing work with a good team, good culture, plenty of enthusiasm and terrible tech. With great tech and rubbish everything else, not so much. Have made it onto Bluesky,…

Another newsletter went out this morning: ClassicPress is WordPress like it used to be For years I lived in Evernote. This by Harry McCracken captures some of what made it great I knew vaguely of Vivian Stanshall,…

I just can’t help myself. It’s like a sickness Episode 2 of our daughter Jade’s podcast is out. It’s all about the job of being a social media manager at an agency. It’s good! “Here is how platforms…

Just published my newsletter – a few opinions and a lot of links (and the usual photo of a daft dog) “Reviewing the Local Digital Declaration 5 years on: Update on the discovery project” On reflection, my honest…

A decision I made when I took my current gig at Lambeth was just to do 4 days a week, so I had a day a week to pootle about doing other things. The first of those days is today…

This is a lovely piece by Giles Turnbull and I will be first in the queue for the book when it emerges! “I created Clippy”: I’ve signed up for and downloaded Threads. I don’t like the lack of a…

New newsletter out today, which I have switched to Substack. It does feel like building personal networks through things like email might be the answer to the breakdown of more public social media like Twitter etc Anyway, I would…