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An online notebook
I have rehosted this blog, which seems to have worked ok. Well, if you’re reading this, it must have! One side effect is that anyone subscribed to the RSS feed may well have suddenly received a bunch of old posts…
(Previously published on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.) In the LGA’s recently published white paper on the future of local government, there’s a very interesting line about digital. Just the one line, admittedly, but I think it is fair to say that it is doing…
I sent out a newsletter today, which featured some links that I’ve pasted below for posterity. However I’ve realised that I’ve written a few pieces on LinkedIn etc that I haven’t also published here, so will sort that out in…
(Previously published on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.) Following on from previous posts during the Great Local GDS Flurry from a few weeks ago (has everyone else moved on? Well I haven’t!), I thought I would follow up on one…
I sent out a newsletter today and included these links at the bottom. Popping them here for posterity…
This is a re-publish of a thing that went on LinkedIn, my newsletter, and the Digital Leaders newsletter. I’ve backdated the published date on this post to reflect this. Summary: all this tech called ‘AI’ is genuinely exciting. But the…
This started off as a daily not for Monday, and has been sat in draft all week as I add more and more to it… Had a proper chance to watch this and read about it – “Place-Based Public Service…
Remember my course! It might be really helpful for you or a colleague! Excellent podcast about what Iran is up to these days. Giles thinks learning materials in organisations ought to be better quality, and of course he is right.…
I’ve made a little video about making better decisions about digital work – basically governance but, like, not rubbish: You can download the slides, if you like. Also: please book on my course if you’d like to join me in…
I am running a 6 week online course about making a success of digital in your organisation. You can find out more and book on the SensibleTech website. Neil Lawrence’s GovCamp write up (Medium, meh). AI, data, and public services…
A minor innovation in these daily notes – pulling out the occasional quote from some of the links, and then using a horizontal line to provide some separation. Also using the lines to make it clear when a multiple-paragraph comment…
In a conversation today I got to reference the chicken and pig analogy around project managers, which is something I haven’t done in ages. I was differentiating between those project mangers without domain knowledge who coordinate, document, follow up on…
This from Dai Vaughan is really excellent on how technology failures keep damaging people’s lives, and how frustrating it is that the answers to this problem are well known, but unevenly implemented. Mike Bracken’s take on Horizon. Still noodling on…
A slow start to the year, blogging wise, been getting other stuff up straight. So here’s a bunch of things I’ve spotted during the last few days or so… The delightful people at Lincoln Council are hiring a Web /…
Substack’s Nazi problem seems to be getting a lot of attention at the moment. It’s a weird one for me, because I just don’t see it. It was a bit like that for me on Twitter as well, lots of…
Am playing around a bit with Feedland, Dave Winer’s newish RSS aggregating thing. I like how it is all public, so anyone can see the feeds I subscribe to and what is in them. Am enjoying the desktop app feel…
Bit of an old chestnut, this, that I referred to in another post and I have been mulling on for a while. User feels a bit techie, a bit too transactional, and sometimes like somebody who indulges in illicit substances.…
I’m barely posting any links into Raindrop. I just like linking to them here, on my blog. But I worry they get lost. Not that I ever seem to look for them. I newslettered. Some nice bits in Matt Mullenweg’s…
Lovely bit of LocalGov blogging: Nature’s Genius: Service Innovation through Biomimicry. This is a great story, about the wonder that was Yahoo Pipes, beautifully told… and now I am really interested in Retool, so I guess it did its job…
Not been looking forward to today really. I have to go to see a foot specialist about an ulcerated wound on the balls of my right foot. It’ll be good to start getting it sorted, but it involves going somewhere…