Publishing stuff
One of the things I love about the internet most is the fact that it puts the power to publish into the hands of pretty much anybody. There are many ways of doing it these days, whether by using a…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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Five for Friday (26/5/17)
Five more nourishing morsels I’ve spotted this week: LocalGovCamp is back this September in Bristol. Find out more and sign up for the ticket lottery here. The Disappearing Computer – Walt Mossberg’s last column is a great read on the future…
Five for Friday (19/5/17)
Five more nuggets of interest I’ve spotted this week: Jessica Lessin built a business to prove information doesn’t have to be free – great podcast about the different models emerging for journalism online. The Information is a great site, by the…
Five for Friday
Am going to try and get a quick link roundup post out every Friday if I can, pointing out some interesting stuff I’ve seen during the week. Management is not about asking people to do stuff – really interesting article…
Six principles for good local government technology
As part of the work putting together a Technology Strategy (think IT + digital) for my current employer, I came up with six principles of good technology. The idea is that each of these principles must be met by any…
Maybe tomorrow I think I’ll settle down
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? It’s hard when thinking about the things we do to scratch out a living not to recall Larkin’s words about the manner in which work can dominate our lives.…
What I use 2016 edition
Here’s an update on the kit and software I’m using on a daily basis, just in case it’s of use. My main computer is an 11” Macbook Air. It has the i7 processor and 8gb of RAM and is the…
My newsletter is back
A quick note to say that this weekend I wrote up a newsletter for the first time since late 2014. I scheduled it to be published earlier today. If you’d like to see what was in it, you can read…
Anti-patterns of behaviour in big organisations
Michael Coté has written an excellent post describing seven anti-patterns of behaviour in big organisations. Number six is a particularly egregious crime, in my view: Pay people to ignore them — BigCo’s love hiring new employees, paying them well, and then rarely listening…
Worthing Library hack
Very briefly, West Sussex County Council and FutureGov are hacking the library in Worthing next month. I’ve written a bit about it on the Adur and Worthing Councils digital blog, in case you’re interested.