Dave

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"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)

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…

I don’t do so well in this heat. I’m really enjoying an Apple Music playlist, Living the Library – fairly quiet, mostly instrumental ‘electronic’ music. Good to work to. Interesting point made by Brandon on Software Defined Talk, that I…

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…