Daily note for 5 June 2023

I love markdown but using it for presentations might be pushing it a bit https://ia.net/presenter "Why did Usenet fail?" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/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 out again. …and on that note, "Twitter Briefly Pretended To Take A Stand Against Hate, … Keep reading

Daily note for 2nd June 2023

A pleasant walk along the drain at lunchtime. Merlin enjoyed having a swim and a sprint. “Redbridge Council launches digital housing repairs service” https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/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 on a Macbook. I use way more web based stuff in Windows, and way more … Keep reading

Daily note for 1 June 2023

2 cracking posts from dxw on what service designers get up to during the beta phase of a project https://www.dxw.com/2023/05/what-do-service-designers-do-in-the-beta-phase-of-a-project-part-1/ (there’s a link at the bottom to part 2) Videos from the 2022 Service Design in Gov conference: https://govservicedesign.net/videos Fab stuff from Polly Thompson on helping "colleagues (who aren’t interested in tech) understand the health … Keep reading

Daily note for 31 May 2023

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: https://cote.io/2023/05/30/day-note.html “We Need to Rethink ‘Digital’ in Most Public Services” – I am really not sure what this article is suggesting? … Keep reading

Thoughts on blogging formats

I spent way too much time thinking about this stuff. My recent playing around with the daily note format, plus tinkering with Mastodon etc, and following the exploits of Dave Winer and others on their blogs, has made me start to think a bit more about how I would really like my blogging to work … Keep reading