š®āšØ Coming up for air
It’s been nearly 6 months since I last posted here, and I have been really quiet on the likes of LinkedIn and Bluesky too. If I am honest doesn’t feel like months, this year has just raced past. What’s beenā¦
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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š„ļø Join the Change Makers ā every month, online!
My good friend Carl Haggerty and I are really pleased to be kicking off a new monthly thing ā The Change Makers. The first one is on Tuesday, 28th January 2025 at 11am and you can sign up for itā¦
š Daily Note: December 18, 2024
Ed Zitron: The people running the majority of internet services have used a combination of monopolies and a cartel-like commitment to growth-at-all-costs thinking to make war with the user, turning the customer into something between a lab rat and anā¦
š Daily Note: December 13, 2024
Dave Rogers answers the question Just what is āTest and Learnā? # – micropost 22849 Lloyd writes up his experienceĀ of new, location based social network thing Mozi. Just like itās 2008 all over again! # – micropost 22865 Anything thatā¦
š Daily Note: December 12, 2024
It looks like – thanks to some heavy debugging and re-developing from Steph – the new way of creating the Daily Notes is working! I’ll write up the thinking about it and how it works shortly. # – micropost 22785ā¦
š Daily Note: December 11, 2024
Digitisation, politicisation and the civil service by Martha Lane Fox: Todayās reality is clear: digital skills are no longer optional extras. Data analysis, digital service design, agile project management, let alone the nuance needed in understanding new AI tools, haveā¦
š Daily Note: December 10, 2024
Am testing a new way of doing my daily blogging. I’ve created a custom post type in WordPress, called ‘microposts’. This way, each of my ‘paragraphs‘ exist as separate items. For example, here is the permalink for this particular micropost.ā¦
š Daily note for 26 November 2024
My new shed, sorry,Ā home officeĀ is coming along nicely. It’s quite big! # Transforming the DBT Intranetā¬ – where DBT = ‘Department for Business and Trade’. # Visualising Government as a Platformā¬ – by Ben Welby. # Getting into service designā¬,ā¦
š”Ā How the Institute of Digital Public Services could get started
A lot of people seemed to like the idea of the ‘Institute of Digital Public Services’ (IDPS) – admittedly a few didn’t, but not enough to convince me it isn’t an idea worth pursuing! How on earth to get somethingā¦
š Daily note for 22 November 2024
Whoops, forgot to hit publish on Friday. # Another kerr-azy week of having too much to do and too little time and energy to do it. # A short post I put up on LinkedIn (and published here and onā¦