Dave

Teignbridge Council are looking for a Head of Digital https://jobs.teignbridge.gov.uk/itlivetdc_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=9431212Ag3&WVID=4966600DE4&LANG=USA There’s a QR code scanner app built into iOS?! Not That Kind of Open: Essex County Council hosted "a generative AI Hackathon" Am really enjoying the Tech…

“Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?” On similar lines: “Bluesky Has Problems” I suspect Twitter will sort itself out before any of these others things manage to take off. This seems interesting: (Background: )

Happy Bloomsday! A fairly sensible take on AI stuff from dxw Can’t work out if this is a good idea or not "Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts,…

"Strive for alignment rather than aiming for universal agreement" "Multi-Cloud, Still an Actual Thing after All These Years" "Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy" (Those last two both via Coté ) Am enjoying Spellcaster, a podcast…

"Some blogging myths" I published a thing on LinkedIn about why councils (etc) should take digital culture and skills seriously, if they want their transformation projects to succeed: "The next phase of technology-driven transformation is data. Are you…

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…