Daily notes

Busy couple of days, hence no notes until today. "Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge" https://www.are.na/ via Coté. "Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon" https://www.fastcompany.com/90901113/inside-snopes-the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-an-internet-icon Emily Webber has published The Team Onion Book, which describes "a model to keep teams small, break down silos and create … Keep reading

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

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

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

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