Dave

Busy couple of days, hence no notes until today. "Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge" via Coté. "Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon" Emily Webber has published The Team…

I love markdown but using it for presentations might be pushing it a bit "Why did Usenet fail?" Log into twitter. Ooh! Notifications. 5 tweets in a row from someone called Elon Musk who I don’t follow. Log…

A pleasant walk along the drain at lunchtime. Merlin enjoyed having a swim and a sprint. “Redbridge Council launches digital housing repairs service” I spend most of my working day using a Windows all-in-one desktop thing, and less time…

2 cracking posts from dxw on what service designers get up to during the beta phase of a project (there’s a link at the bottom to part 2) Videos from the 2022 Service Design in Gov conference: Fab…

Am going to try this note without bullets, just to see how that goes. Feedback welcome! I’ve deleted all the social media apps from my phone as an experiment. Cote has done a daynote: “We Need to Rethink ‘Digital’…

I’m playing again on Mastodon, mostly because Twitter is starting to feel more broken than ever. I’m not altogether happy about it, mind. I think a big part of it is that all the things that Mastodon wants to fix…

I’ve been busy getting married! and also being ill Saturday was amazing, beautiful weather, a nice simple ceremony and then a party with many of our favourite people. Am a very happy and contented man right now However I then…

It’s really annoying when ctrl-k doesn’t work as a shortcut to insert a link somewhere It’s the agile mindset that matters for local government (by me) Two wonderful bit of work (and blogging) by Essex Learning, More…