Daily note for 6 July 2023
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…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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Daily note for 5 July 2023
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…
Daily note for 4 July 2023
Whenever Catherine Howe posts, it’s usually a good idea to read it: More Twitter woes: “So where are we all supposed to go now?” This is a good and challenging read on what even is an online…
The latest ridiculous behaviour from Twitter seems to genuinely be sending the site into a death spiral, which saddens me in a lot of ways. I’ve been on there since the early days, and I’ve built a reasonably sized following…
Daily note for 3 July 2023
First day in my new job over. Am enjoying the feeling of getting to know my new surroundings, and using that new job motivation to start various balls rolling. Jukesie on ‘minimum viable unconference’ “Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied…
Keeping on keeping on
Quick job update from me: after a fantastic year doing digital culture and capability stuff at Brum, it’s time for me to move on. Next up, I will be supporting Amanda Stevens at Lambeth with digital in social care, as…
Daily note for 1 July 2023
Our daughter Jade has launched a podcast with her friend at work. We are super proud of her, and you should definitely check it out and subscribe if you’re interested in what’s up with social media these days I…
Daily note for 28 June 2023
Mark O’Neill on AI I sent out an email newsletter yesterday, just containing some of the links I have been sharing in these notes recently. I’m nopt altogether happy using TinyLetter for it, but not sure I can really justify…
Daily note for 27 June 2023
I’m trying a tweak to the way I write these notes, in that I have switched from using Obsidian to Simplenote. Main reason for this is that Simplenote has apps across Windows, MacOS and iOS and syncs across them all…
Daily note for 22 June 2023
"Why I quit my job at Google to work in local government" The blog post that ‘invented’ hashtags: "Transforming Service Delivery in the Public Sector" (largely US based)