LINK: “From USENET to Facebook: The second time as farce”
Facebook repeats the pattern of USENET, this time as farce. As a no-holds-barred Wild West sort of social network, USENET was filled with everything we rightly complain about today. Original:
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
LINK: “Blogging is most certainly not dead”
Social media is as compelling as ever, but people are increasingly souring on the surveillance state Skinner boxes like Facebook and Twitter. Decentralized media like blogs and newsletters are looking better and better these days… Original:
LINK: “OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong”
By the time OLPC officially launched in 2007, the “green machine” — once a breakout star of the 21st-century educational technology scene — was a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits-all American solution to complex global problems. But more…
Six themes for a good local government digital strategy
I recently went through the rather painful process of applying for a senior digital transformation role in local government and not getting it. I might write in more detail at some point about it all, but right now I am…
LINK: “Broken words and why they matter”
Digital – as a word – is broken. We have slapped it onto the front of two many old world applications in an attempt to normalise and ‘make safe’ new concepts that at this point saying something is digital is…
LINK: “#LocalDigitalSkills – making digital inclusion happen, together”
… we want there to be Local Digital Skills Partnerships all over the country. Original:
LINK: “Kick-off for the essex.gov.uk project”
To help us understand the ‘as is’ in more detail we’ve gathered insights from available data and call centre staff, tested how easy it is for users to find things on the site and identified some key gaps in understanding…
LINK: “10 steps for digital success [from] Hertfordshire County Council”
You want people to use your digital service. You want best value for money when you buy or build new digital services. Here are 10 steps to success. Original:
Bitcoin and blockchain explained
Nice, funny video that might just help a few folk understand this stuff:
Be your own best customer to advance your transformation
One thing that has been taking up quite a bit of my attention lately is how, in the real world, an organisation can do the kind or big picture, strategic transformation that’s almost certainly needed whilst making progress on what…